Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-22
KAY JAY
SPORT
CHAT

Bill Howell, former Cony track and
football star, is going great guns for
Catholic University in Washington
this season. Bill is holding down
the tackle berth.
The management of the Biddeford
High school football team was in
touch with Coach Pierce this morn
ing and tried to arrange for Eddie"
to bring his team down to Biddeford
as Thanksgiving attraction. While
Cony has a full out Of town sched-
ule and will probably be unable 10
play this game, fans in the city
wouldn't mind seeing the Red and
game. The season officially closes
for Cony on Armistice day with q
game to be played in Old Town.
A team like Biddeford would be a
great drawing card for a Thanksgiv-
ing attraction and would without
doubt draw large crowd. Inc
Bangor, Lewiston, Morse. Gardiner
and Old Town games all took, or will
take, place out of town and as
result local fans get but little chance
to look over what is rated as one
of the snappiest teams turned out
by Cony in recent ySars. the col
lege schedules close early this sea-
son and would not take many cash
customers from any game winch
Cony might arrange for that date.
".r;nmie~ Comedian will handle
the Cony basketball squad again this
wear. The team which was develop
ed under Jimmie" last season. while
not always a winner, was one OF the
fastest teams in the State and their
style of handling the ball was the
subject of unlimited praise and ad-
miration from everyone who saw
them. With most of the veterans
back and ready to step into harness
at the first call highly successful
season is predicted for the Cony
basketeers this winter.
The hockey squad will be under
the capable direction OF Coacn
Pierce. While many of the veterans
in The school graduated last June and
prospects are not too promising. rams
who remember what the coach mas
done with green football team thiS
year see no cause for worrying.
Al quarter past four yesterday
there were Just 10 football men on the
Cony field for practice. The continued
absence from practice means one OF
two things. 1t means that the squad
is losing interest in the game or that
the team has reached the stage of per-
lection where it is no longer necessa-
Nv to practice. Coach Pierce's task OF
keeping UP a winning eleven isn't help
ed any by failure to appear at prac.
tice. The Belfast team Is, or should
be. comparatively easy victim 1or
the Cony eleven, but the coach stressed
the fact that when announcing ms
lineup he would take into consideration
lust how faithfully each man had ap-
peared for practice. Judging from
this the surest way Of seeing the
whole game from the bench is to dodge
practice for the rest of the week.
An enterprising merchant in WASH
ington gave an overcoat from the Wo-
runabo factories to each Washington
player making homer in the WORLDS
series. Goslin, Harris, Judge. BlueGe'
Rice, Jeanes and Zachary all were pre-
scented with coats this year although
Ali of them didn't homer" The donor
evidently thought that the boys would
need them to Withstand the biting re-
marks. made by Ban johnson at the
close Of the series.
The Maine Track and Field Associa-
ton will meet at the Dewitt Hotel IN
Lewiston Friday. The officials VIII
meet to make arrangements for the
18th annual cross-country run to be
staged before the Maine game
at Orono the seventh of November.
Bowdoin will not enter team for this
run and for the first time since 1912
the race will be three-cornered.
The fight season will officially open
for this city some time during the
first week in November. Harry Sears
is in communication with Johnny
Harko, Lou Lambert, Larry Walsh,
Bud Fisher and q host Of other good
boxers who are anxious to fight under
the banner Of the popular promoter,
and Harry stated that the best
wouldn't be any. too good for his
shows. Fans who remember the classy
fights he put on last winter and the
fairness Of the promoter in putting
everything on as advertised will be on
hand to make the first show finan-
cial success the first week in Novem-
Der.