Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-06-15

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Henry Olmstead, formerly of NIilwau-
kee, now of Columbus. leads the associa-
ton pitchers The leaders are:
Club-Pitcher. PC
Columbus, Olmstead " 1873
St Paul. Chech. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .769
indianapolis Fisher .. III
Minneapolis, Ford ................. IA
Toledo. Lundblom Observation-Disclosures. .667
Louisville Campbell Observation-Disclosures. .642
Milwaukee. Strickett .............. .625
Kansas City, Isbell Observation-Disclosures. .54J
For the twenty-three days the Column
bus team has played at home the at
tendance in that city has been 1895.
During that same period the attendance
III all the other cities in the association
combined was III, 400. That is showing
Columbus TO be away better than any
city IN the circuit.
The Indiana university won the west.
ern collegiate athletic championship Sat
urday at St. Louis. The scores of the
colleges represented in the meet follow:
Indiana university 81: Leland Stanford
University of California. 81: Purdue
University of Indiana. II; University of
Colorado. 10; University of Missouri. 10;
Washington University of St. Louis. A.
In the 120-yard high hurdle L. Shideler
of Indiana university beat the worlds
record of - 1-5 seconds by one-fifth of
n second but as there We're only two
official timers. the time made by Shideler
will not be officially recognized as new
record.
Lewis institute of Chicago won the
University of Chcago's third annual in
tercholastic meet at Marshall field last
! Sot of
won the meet last year also. East Diyi-
| sion of Milwaukee was second with 10
points, Hyde Park third with IA, and
Fond du Lac fourth with 10. The cup
for the best individual work was won by
| Gerry Williamson of East Division, Mil
waukee. who took thirteen points, first
in the shot put and hammer respectively,
! and third in the discus H0genson Of
Lewis. who won the individual honors
last year. gave the Milwaukee man
hard fight, getting total of twelve
points, with firsts in the dashes and third
in the broad jump. Another remarkable
| individual performance was that of Fred
! Dana Of Fond du Lac who got first III
the half mile and the one mile runs IN
fast time. Dana is the boy who won
the distance events at the interscholastic
meet at Madison on June 4. Prof. Stage
was much impressed with the boys run
ming and will make an effort to land him
for the Maroon team. The following
schools had five points and under: East
Des Moines, 5; Oskaloosa. >; Nashville.
kee, 3; Oak Park, 3: Oxford, 3; River
side, 3; GAINESVILLE 3; Calumet 3; r. L.
Crane, 2 Bloomington, 2: independence,
| Iowa, =; {. H. s., 2: Petersburg, ,: ).
ID. Milwaukee. 1; Ann Arbor. 1 Engle
wood, j; Racine, /; Lake View, l.
Ed Geers, the veteran Of the grand
circuit, left his winter quarters at Mem
| phis Sunday for Columbus, o., where
he will continue training operations with
has large string Of PAGERS and trotters
for summer struggles. More than TWEEN
ty head were included in the shipment.
Jake Schaefer of Milwaukee won the
! billiard match at Paris in an exciting
finish with break of SO, defeating Cure,
who, when wanting but II was kissed off.
The highest runs were: Schaefer, 149;
Cure, 146 Schaefer made a remarkable
finish, Cure having had big lead Thurs
day.
The Haverford college cricket team of
Philadelphia has sailed for Liverpool
The team will make an S000-mile tour
this summer, playing the elevens of all
the important schools in England.
Clarence Currie, the Appleton boy who
! pitched for st. Louis last season. is doing
! good work for the Toronto club of the
| Eastern league. He has been the win
ming pitcher for the Canadians and is
also batting at a fast clip.
Monte Cross. the clever shortstop of
the Philadelphia Athletics, seems to be
falling off i'll his fielding and the chances
are that he will not be with Connie Mack
many more seasons. He is hitting the
| ball as well as ever, however.
Mike Donlin has been suspended by
President Pulliam for period of three
days for getting into an argument with
| Umpire tombstone.
Robert E. Berryhill of Chicago will be
| selected to manage the Evansville Cen
| trail league team. He was signed early
| in the season to play third base for Ev-
| ansville, but was released last week.
Merle Adkins of Beloit. who pitched
for Duffy's Western lea que club, and
also for New York during a part of a
| season, is holding the Baltimore team up
pretty we'll i'll the race. Merle has been
| pitching good ball and is up among the
| leaders.
| Louis Heilbroner, formerly of the ST.
/ Louis National team, has signed as bust
| ness manager of the Grand Rapids Cen