Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-07
SCHOoLbOYS TO
RACE AT ELM CITY
THIS MORNING

Especial to the kennebec JournaD
waterville, Me-, Nov. 6-The Col
! by schoolboy cross country course
will be the scene on Saturday morn
ing Of a battle for the Maine Inter-
scholastic Cross Country Champion
ship. Seven schools have sent teams
and the competition should be very
keen.
The race will be run under the
rules of the Maine intercollegiate
/, Track and Field Association. Each
school is allowed to enter II men
but only seven of these can compete,
with the first five counting in the
team score. The other two men to
finish will be counted in the final
scoring for positions but only the
first five on each team will be fig
ured into the team score. The team
with the lowest score Will be de-
clared the winner.
The course is three miles long and
includes one hard hill and about 2Oo
yards of ploughed ground. The rest
; of it is over level fields and ROADS.
Sand Pit Hill is about one mile from
the starting line which is on the
cinder track at Seavern's Field. The
finish is also on the track.
The competitors have arrived ana
this afternoon most of the teams
walked over the course in order to
become familiar with it. They
found it staked out and tagged but
also discovered that King j. Piuvl-
us had worked off an old grudge oy
making the course heavy and turning
the ploughed ground into stretch
OF mud.
I,asf years winner and the winner
of both previous championships are
on hand to win again but there are
several of the former competitors
who have brought unusually strong
teams. Lee Academy. the present
champion. has sent team up with
four of last years men present ana
should be strong contenders. They
are the favorites to win but Edward
Little high of Auburn, winners OF
the first two championships, is flg-
ured by many to take the race.
Coburn Classical Institute has the
hest team in the history OF cross
country at that school as has Wat
erville high. Both of these schools
will furnish the others plenty OF
comnetition. Waterville high mas
) nracticed over the Colby course Tor
some time and Coach MacLeary
should start a team with the adyan-
tage of being thoroughly familiar
with the course.
Hebron Academy, New gloucester
High, and Scarboro High are tne
other contenders and not mqch -
! known about their abilities. HEBRON
has lost two races, one by four points
and the other by single counter.
81 Scarboro has sent a good team 10
. the meet before and should be well
REPRESENTED. New Gloucester Is a
new conner to the race and may be
the surprise of the meet. AThe men
entered are as follows:
Scarboro High School: Chester
Seaman, Robert Laidlaw. Erwin
woodland, Stanley Marmon. Gerald
Pillsbury, Richard Aver, James Law
Ter, and Ernest Bowley.
y Edward Little High of Auburn;
Fred Atwood. Owen Taylor, A. L.
savage. william Herman, George
Dick, Louis Burgess, Keith Graham,
C. Penley, and Herbert Bowden.
Coburn Classical Institute Of Wa
terville: Brainard Hardy, Leslie
Spaulding, Alfred Coombs, Carleton
Towle. Reginald Rood, Burill Smell,
Gerald Dennison, Francis Shea.
Waterville High School: Walter
Sleeper, Chester Taylor, Murray Ad-
ans, Russell Morrison, Henry Bon
sail, John Parkin, e. Cunning, s.
Grant, P. Fotter, T. Wiltshire.
Hebron Academy: Alexander
standish, Frank Arnold Bowen, Reg
inald Harmon, Donald Robertson,
Donald F. Davis, John MCGOWAN,
Charles Parmalee, Edward Charles
Shea, Cedric Loring Arnold, Frank
Anderson, Charles Hardy.
Lee Academy, Lee, Maine: Vinton
Thurlow, Midison Haskell. Ralph
Wetherbee, Ormond Lowell, Stuart
Jones, Elgin Lowell, Leo Taylor
Kenneth Thurlow, and Harry Rich
ardson.
New Gloucester High School: Ben
jamin Small, Vernon Hodgkins, Le-
roy Hodgkins, Raymond McIntire
Perley Jones, and Alton Barker.