The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-03
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] SPORTS OF THE DAY
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BIG GRIST OF
WORLDS SPORT
The Athletic Season in it's
Height-Records ST Il
Being Broken.

| ST. Louis IL, Chicago g.
| Pittsburg 5, St. Louis l.
st. Louis Il, Chicago 5.
Cincinnati 10, Chicago 9.
Philadelphia 5, Boston g.
Pittsburg 4, Cincinnati o.
| ST. Louis 10, Pittsburg f.
| Philadelphia 9, Brooklyn g.
| Shamrock II has been launched
The Constitution will be launched on
May 9Th.
| The City and Suburban handicap of
1000 sovereigns, for three~year-olds
was won by Australian Star, from
| field of fifteen horses. Amurath was
second and Alverest third.
| The Abbott and Cresceus are matched
| for a $4,000 purse, TO be raced for at
| Brighton Beach early in August.
| David Maggie. the well known English
| turfman, has purchased twelve-acre
place in San Diego. owned by w. o.
| Bowen
| The Great Metropolitan stakes run at
EPSON, England, was won by Evarit
with Johnny Reiff in the saddle. The
| Great Surrey handicap of $1,000, was
won by La Lune
| Billy Smith, the American pugilist
who was knocked out by Jack Roberts
Of England, died from injuries sus-
tanned in the fight.
| Casper Leon won from Jack Madden
on a foul.
| The Gardner McGovern fight was to
have taken place last Tuesday in San
Francisco.
Jeffries and Rubin will fight for the
| heavyweight championship of the
world in San Francisco, in July or Au-
gust
Jack Roberts. of England knocked
out Billy Smith, the American, in eight
rounds. The fight was for the nine
stone championship of England Smith
/ was taken from the ring unconscious
and may die.
Benny Yanger, the -.Titon Flasher"
| OF Chicago, fought twenty-round
draw with Johnny Ritchey. of st.
Louis
Over one hundred thousand people
Witnessed the final for the English AS
ISOLATION football cup The contestants
were Sheffield United and Tottenham
Hotspurs. The latter is London
club. and it is twenty years since
London club figured in the final Sixty
| thousand provincials came to London
| to witness the game. The result was
draw, two all.
| The Chicago League team of the
Illinois Bowling Association establish
erage of s93 for three games.
| The football coaching at Stanford
next fall will be done by Dr. Alfred
| Spalding. George Mcmillan and Stew
art w. Cotton.
Major" Taylor, the American short
1
European cracks in France.
| The international shooting match
will take place in London in July. The
Americans viii shoot against English,
| Scotch and Irish teams.
/ Spencer Gollan, the New Zealand
amateur, and Tom Sullivan and Geo.
Towns, English professionals, sculled
/ 104 miles, from Oxford to Putney, on
the Thames, in Is hours IS minutes,
thus breaking the record.
Nowroulah, the Bulgarian wrestler.
easily defeated Charles Wittmer, of
Cincinnati.
A six-day heel-and-toe contest for
the championship of the world, COM
mences in Indianapolis on the 5th in
stant.
California defeated Stanford in the
inter collegiate tennis meet by score
| of 80.
Harry vardon was defeated in Lon
don. by ]. Taylor. the open golf cham
pion.
Burton Downing at San Jose, broke
| the worlds one-hah mile amateur rec
ord of O:59 rs. He rode in SO seconds
fiat
In relay race between Berkeley and
Oakland high schools, the latter cover
ed the mile in 8 minutes % seconds,
breaking the State academic record by
2 2-5 seconds.
After the regular trials in the inter-
! collegiate hammer throwing, Plaw
threw for a record from nine-foot
circle, and tossed the sixteen-pound
ball III feet inches, which is a worlds
record.
Cooley, of Oakland, and Powell, of
Berkeley. cleared the bar at feet 10A
inches, and increased by one inch the
intercollegiate running high jump rec
| ord
| PIaw, California's hammer thrower.
| put the shot ~ feet ~ inches, increas-
record j
l inch.
Service of California, ran the mile
in 4:o3 as, reducing the inter collegiate
record by three-fifths of second.
Zschokke, Stanford's new distance
walker lowered the intercollegiate
record for the mile walk to minutes
AS seconds, a reduction of Is 3-5 sec
onds.
In the Berkeley-Stanford contest,
Cadogan ran the 100 yards in 10 sec
onds. clipping one-fifth Of a second or
the intercollegiate record He also
ran the 300 yards in % 3-5 seconds, low
ering the intercollegiate record by
three-fifths of second.
The University of California defeated
Stanford in the annual games by 50 to
3d. By so doing. Berkeley won the ath-
letic championship for the ninth con-
secutive time. Stanford's score was
the poorest in the history of these con-
tests.
The international chess games end
ed in draw. England and America
each scored five points.
Tom O'Rourke says he is prepared TO
offer a purse larger than the one OF
$4,000 hung up by the San Francisco
Athletic Club for the Jeffries-R uhiln
fight, and that he viii guarantee to
pull the fight off in the vicinity OF
Greater New York.