Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-01
BRIEF SPORTING NOTES.
Baseball Season at Hsnd-Butte and
Helena Not In Leaoue

Baseball Season at Hsnd-Butte and
Helena Not In League.
The next good fight in San Fran
cisco is to be on the 2sth. between
Jack Johnson and Marvin Hart, heavy.
weights.
]. H. Scott. a San Francisco bicycle
enthusiast, has just completed a 200
mile bicycle trip from Fairbanks
Alaska, en- route to the coast.
Jack Monroe. the Butte miner who
went against Champion Jim Jeffrles
has been located at last in Birming-
ham, Ala. Monroe has taken up
wrestling as a side issue.
Baltimore.-After less than a
minutes fighting in the second round
Young Peter Jackson knocked out
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, and lost
the decision by doing it on a foul.
Four clubs will constitute the Pa
clfic National league this season. This
was decided by the action of Butte
and Helena in Withdrawing from the
field through a failure to raise the
necessary capital.
ole Marsh, the Belingham wrestler,
has signed an agreement to meet
Indian" Two Feathers in Spokane in.
stead of d. A. Mcmillan. who threw
the Indian at the Spokane recently.
The men are to go on for a side bet
Of $3.50 and the entire receipts of the
house.
Richmond, Va-The six day BIZ
cycle contest here ended in a victory
for Eddie Root of New York, Gus
Lawson second and Nat Butler third.
The last mile was made in 1859. The
total time of riding was 1O1a hours.
The total distance was 235 miles II
laps. The distance made in two hours
of riding was 43 miles nine laps.
At the last meeting of the Pacific
National league. held at Salt Lake. a
schedule was adopted for the coming
season. Two series of games will be
played, the first series opening April
26, with Salt Lake at Spokane and
Ogden at Boise. The first series will
close July g. and the second series
will open July 10, closing September
II. Five games a week will be played.
The winners of the two series will play
post season series for the champion
ship.
Billy Nolan, formerly of Butte. is
believed to have made few remarks
in San Francisco last week that will
Nelson, whom Nolan is managing, and
James Britt Nolan is reputed to have
said that Willie Britt, manager for
James Britt. wanted Nelson to agree
to go on with Britt and lie down. Both
the Britts are branding Nolan as a
faker, gambler and other bad things
Because of the talk, Frisco sports say
the mill between Britt and Nelson will
take place.
MeCarthy-Mellody Go.
Honey" Melody and Jerry Nc
Carthy have agreed to 20 round fight
before the Spokane Amateur Athletic
club on April IS.
Following the announcement of Nc
Carthy on the day he returned to
Spokane from the Butte fight with Mel
lody that he wanted another chance
at the latter. il has been a foregone
conclusion that the two fighters would
again come together.
Eddie Quinn and Sol Mayer of the
committee on sports were chiefly in
strumental in planning for the mill.
The bout is to be pulled Off in the
gymnasium of the club.
BY agreement the men are to weigh
144 pounds at o'clock on the day of
the bout Marquis of Queensbury
rules are to govern. The conditions.
even to the number of rounds, that
governed the Butte mixup are to rule
in Spokane At Butte Mccarthy
lasted well as long as he kept the
crouching position in fighting tactics
but when he came out of the crouch
Melody put him to the bad, the count
being taken in the 18th round. Non
residents Of Spokane can secure re
served seats for the fight by writing
Eddie Quinn. care the athletic club.