Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-28

Lille tAO OlAidoSh was hSPA
IN the cinder paths for quite few
FEARS and the team made a good
showing in the State meets at Bow
loin and Maine as well as taking a
Iual meet from Skowhegan II. S.
~ very wide margin. Kent's Hill
vas the only team that defeated Co
3urn. on Libby field in dual meet,
by a very close score.
Coach Haines will devote his en-
tire time to baseball this spring and
Is very fortunate in getting Jack
Berry, a senior at Colby college, to
do the tutoring. Berry is a runner
Of no mean ability and has partici-
pated in the b. A. A. games both
before he came to Colby and since
he has been a student of Mike
Ryan. Jack" ran on the Colby
cross country teams and relay teams
and has proven himself a distance
runner as well as a relay man and
sprinter. This is not Berry's first
attempt at coaching as he has the
honor of being coach of the Maine
State Prep school champs in cross
country last fall and it was at the
Waterville prep that he accomplish
ed this. He deserves a lot CT credit
for turning out a championship
team as all of his material was green
and only one, Captain Hap" Wood,
ever ran q race before. With such
a coach and the stuff she has this
season. Coburn should produce a
crack team.
Only two of the five who received
letters last year graduated. They
were George MittlesGorf, who is
now in Colby and one Of the best
sprinters in the country, and Harold
Wescott now at Boston University.
The other three, Adams, Wood and
c Hardy. are back this year.
Captain Smiles" Adams made his
first appearance in field events last
year and the lengthy Coburnite
made big name for himself as he
won the shot put and took second
honors in the high jump at the Uni
versity of Maine meet. At Bowdoin
he grabbed off the silver medal in
the high jump and was third in the
shot put. In the dual meet with
Skowhegan II. S. he collected Is
points. taking first in all three of
his events, the high jump. shot put
and discus. In the Kent's Hill meet
he took second in the discus and
shot put and cleared the horizontal
bar at feet inches. Besides be-
ing n star track man. Captain
Smiles" is a good football player,
playing tackle at Coburn for the
face "Smiles' is one of the fore
most centers in New England but
was out of the Coburn lineup this
season as he has been sick at his
home In Adams, Mass. nearly all of
the winter term but will be able to
do his tricks this spring.
1t was thought for awhile this
winter that Hap" Wood of Oak
land. Me-, would be an entire loss
to the track team this spring as he,
like Captain Adams. was out most
of the winter with Illness. Hap"
who is very game lad. announced
the other day that he was feeling
great and would be able to take his
place in the $50 yard run. as well as
the mile grind. Wood made his
first showing last spring when he
came in second in his first race at
the Bowdoin indoor meet. In the
latter part of the year he gained
recognition as q fast runner in the
mile and half mile run. At the Uni
versity of Maine meet he placed sec
ond in the mile and third in the
half. In the Skowhegan dual he
ran away with the $50 and beat Foss
In the mile taking the gold medal
The Kent's Hill meet saw Wood
in second place in the half and as
usual he copied the mile with great
east. Last fall when he returned to
school he was elected captain of the
cross country team and led his team
on to the state championship and
placing first in all the races. Hop"
is but II Junior al Coburn and will
be OF value to the school before he
gets his sheep&lIin. His CROSS coun-
try teammates reelected him to cap
tain the next years team. Tracn and
sports. although he plays some bas-
ketball.
The other vet is Charlie" Hardy
Of Smithtield, Maine. Last year was
"Charlie's' first year on the cinders
and he showed up well in the 44O
yard dash and made the best of them
step in the hurdles. Hardy ran third
man of the cross country team and
has made many great Improvements
since last year. 1t sure will be well
to watch this lad travel in the quar-
ter this spring.
New timber is very plentiful in all
departments and some experienced
men will wear the stripes. Among
the most noticed of these Is "Dibby"
DeVeau of football and hockey fame.
DeVeau halls from Lexington,
Mass, and attended Mercerberg
Academy last year. While at Mer-
cerberg he made name for him.
self In the weights. the hammer be-
ing his speciality, while he also puts
the shot at fair distance. other
weight men besides Adams and De.
Veau are Tim" Leary OF Arlington.
Mass, who has had some exper ence
also plays football and hockey.
Vaughn Lowell, the giant from the
Maine lumber districts will make his
first attempt in the heaving line and
IL he losses weights the way he
plays football and basketball, he will
surely be q fance buster. Young
Bob" Lancaster, who comes from
Kineo, is another likely lad to try
his luck in the weights as we'll as the
sprints.
The pole vault. which was a minus
quantity with the Coburnites last
year will be well filled this spring,
as James Woods of Waterville while
in school in Penn State last year
cleared the bar at 10 feet and will
make the Pine Tree State lads hustle
to equal his distance. Sparkle"
Romeo of Dexter and Albert Larsen
of >Waterville are out after Woods
crown and he will find stiff opposi-
ton.
The distance and middle distance
runners will do battle for places on
the team as there will be about a
dozen out for the honors, the most
neralded are Tim Ryan. Lawrence,
Mass, Clausin Hadiey, Waterville
Norman Williams Canaan Alfred