Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
BILLIARD MATCH
FOR TITLE FEATURES
SPORTS THIS week

ciated Press)-One champione Of
sport win defend his title in the first
full week of 1926--a week trimming
with important events. Football, hoe.
key. golf, skating, billiards, boxing,
basketball-all offer interesting pro-
grams.
Edouard Iroremans, one of Eu.
ropes very few title holders, risks
his recently gained 1872 balkline bill
lard crown in a match with Jake
Schaefer, former champion, starting
In Chicago tomorrow night. Eric
Hagenlacher of Germany will meet
the winner Of this match sometime in
March.
Two championships in boxing will
be at stake within the next two
months-in the middleweight and
welterweight divisions. Mickey
Walker. welter champion, faces Tom
my Milligan of Scotland on January
% and on February 26 Harry Greb
Of Pittsburgh, long leader among the
middleweights, will encounter the
outstanding contender. in the opinion
of the New York state athletic COM
mission, Tiger Flowers Of Atlanta,
Ga.
Tex Richard, New York promoter,
in his predictions for 1925 forecasts
that Greb will lose his title some time
within the next twelve months and
. that Walker will retain his. Many of
the predictions made by Richard
year ago came true.
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William G. Fownes, Jr., of Pitts
, burgh, will become president Of the
| United States Golf Association at the
| annual session In Chicago Saturday,
which will follow two meetings Of the
green's section.
An enthusiastic golfer and father"
of the Oakmont course over which the
/ last amateur championship was play
ed, Fownes is expected to put the an
cient game into even greater stride.
| He is former amateur champion
and is expected to captain the 1925
Walker cup team in its invasion OF
England.
Prospects are for retention Of the
! present ball at this years meeting,
! leaving the experts another season In
which to test air currents. hitting
power and other considerations said
| to have eliminated the brassie as q
| worthy weapon. Conditions are 80
different on the courses of England
where the mistS are heavy and the
winds numerous that an international
/ agreement on size and weight of the
ball may be far away.
The Canadian Hockey invasion
continues with McGill and Queens
Universities playing in New York this
week., McGill, which defeated Har-
ward Saturday, will encounter Yale
tomorrow night and Williams College
and Queens will cross sticks Tuesday.
A professional contest Wednesday
between New YDrk and Boston of the
| National Hockey League, will COM
plete six successive days of ice COM
petition of the Madison Square Gar
F. den surface.
Football, criticized and praised dur.
ing the meetings of the Coaches AS
ISOLATION and the National Collegiate
Athletic Federation the past week,
/ appears to be safe for another fall at
| least. Declaring of war between the
coaching professionals and the play
| ing type featured the coaches ses-
sion. He who in any way is con-
nected with the professional game in
the future will find no hands extend
ed by the coaches.
Pennsylvania defeated Yale in the
| first contest of the Eastern Intercol-
| legiate Basketball League played Fri
day. Only two games are scheduled
for the coming six days. Princeton
M eetipp Colilrbia and Yale facing
Princeton Saturday night.