Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-13
JACK MACEE CONFIDENT THAT
b0WDOIN WILL REPEAT TODAY
AT maine INTERCOLLEGIATE
Especial to Kennebec JournaD

for Saturdays big event, Coach Jack
Magee feels confident that Bow
dom will repeat the victory of last
year. The most partisan dope adj
vanced SO far has been far from I'M
favorable to the White cohorts. and
any Bowdoin man at all is ready to
let the world in on the fact that
Johnny Magee has reared some lit
tie bunch Of cindermen this year.
This announcement does not come
Unexpectedly, as the great majority
of last years points was won by
men in the three lower classes. Only
two of those have gone out of the
running and the rest are in better
shape than ever, with new men to
take the places of those who grad
uated and were obliged to leave the
squad for various reasons. The
biggest freshman class in the his
terry of the college brought with it its
quota of tracksters, and while not so
many of them are jewels of the first
water, the general ability they dis
play makes them good bets for the
filling in positions on the score card.
It is this fact more than any other
that makes the Bowdoin supporters
feel so confident of another success.
The Bowdoin team has a good per-
centage of the stars, even the plan
cts of the state athletic heavens, but
they cannot do all the work, and the
Corners are ready to step in for the
~ Il ~
no, t the fives that tumble ito the
fortunate few who are good enough
to make first places.
In Francis Bishop, the tall lean
winner Of the pole vault champion
ship last year, the White has one of
it's best bets. Bishop broke the state
record last year at eleven feet eight,
and at the Brown meet last Saturday
he barely missed clearing the twelve
foot mark. With him in this event
are ranged his brother, Harvey, and
Jim Dcmmons. both good vaulters
and one almost sure to place. The
next luminary in order is the mighty
Tootell, chief of the Bowdoin weight
beavers. Many of the sport writer's
seem to have been trying to throw
q scare into this rugged cOllegian by
citing his difficulty in keeping with
in the circle, but the big boy has
shown that even with his poorer
throws he is able to beat his near
est rival for state hoEors by numer-
Gus feet. His ability is not confined
to the stringed ball, but he is for
midable contender for first honors in
the discus event. and probable
point winner in the shot put Mason
and Wagg in the hammer throw are
both crack performers, while Charles
and Parsons can make things hum
when they grasp the loaded plate.
Charles, a big strapplnS freshman,
has been showing them all things in
the shot put. His record is the
highest of any cntrant in the meet
as he has Il foot over Names chief
contender, and his nearest rival, Co.
hen. Should Cohen be barred, as IS
quite possible, Bowdoin should have
a nibble at six or eight points in this
event. In the high jump Charley
Philbrook, winner of the event at
the meeting last year, is in his best
fornY and should soar over the bar
rier for another win this year. "A.
Small and Horace Hildreth seem
eligible. to cop one of the other
places in the event. So much for the
field events.
When the judges and spectators
start to try picking out who's who
in the tumble of legs that makes up
the 40 yard spin, it won't take long
to pick out a 1.-THE pair we'll in the
fore, supporting a blond youth in the
Bowdon colors. That is Don Ma
son. His phenomenal speed on the
boards turned out to be a worthy
criterion for his performance on the
cindcr path, IS he was able TO snow
even the formidable Forstall OF
Brown clean pair Of heels at the
meet of last week. Ability of that
sort will give the Bates prodigy,
Archibald, the run of his life to draw
the blue ribbon in his event AID TO
this ability in the quarter the TACT
that Don is a premier in the ~ ana
YOU get the total-a dangerous man.
There is a good bit of doubt as TO
whether or not Captain Ted Hunt
the Braintree speed demon, Will COM
pete in the quarter, which he won
last year. If he and Steve Palmer
both start with Mason, there will be
fireworks a-plenty. Those who saw
the event in the Bowdoin mud last
year Will not soon forget the CLASS
that the two Bowdoin runners dls-
played in beating the much touted
Hep Pratt of Maine.
Captain Hunts position is in the
half, however we'll he may perform
at the shorter distance. He has the
speed and endurance combination
that is indispensable in a half-mller,
and his performance against Nutter
of Brown gives evidence of the fact
that he is still the same old f1GhtlnS
Ted, rather the better in the game
for a years experience. Along win
his superb physical qualifications
Hunt has the head of real runner.
His generalship is OF the first ofder'
the kind that doesn't leave all the
responsibility to the legs ana tue
lungs, but knows how to use those
chief factors in just the way thaC
will make them count for the most.
Glenn Butler is the Bowdoln hope
in the short sprint and to a greater
or less extent in the 220. he mas
been clocking fast time and mas
victorious record behind him that
augurs well for his future perform
ance. With Small, Palmer and Mason
to keep him company. Butler steps In
a very snappy speed cluster. Ihat
he is now in fine condition is SHOWN
hv the fact that he was in ON a