The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-05-04
SPORTING NOTES.

With q total OF 81 points, maze Dy
two men, 20 by George Rouse and
eight by Ray Marsdon, the senior A
class won the interclass track meet Of
the Spokane high school.
President Lucas has issued an open
letter to the baseball players in the
Northwestern league asking them to
refrain from rowdy conduct on the
ball field, and stating that the league
umpires will see to the enforcement of
a.. rules against such tactics.
Joe Pearson, for two years captain
OF the S. A. A. c. track team and the
champion Splinter of the northwest,
has resigned his position as captain
Of the club team and will not run in
the P. N. A. meet this coming June.
The Reach regulation baseball has
been adopted as official by the
Northwestern league and will be
used in all of the games this season.
Matt ]. Stanley. manager of the
Spokane Indians, is one of the best
known ball players in this section of
the country.
The continued success of the Ameri-
can athletes in the Olympic games is
causing some ill feeling among the
Greeks although on the whole an ex-
cellent temper has been displayed by
the competitors and spectators.
The championship rounds in the
covered courts tennis were played off
at the Queens club, London. Hugh
l.. Doherty, the holder of the singles,
defeated A. w. Gore by to 0. Doherty
thus retained the title. Miss D. K.
Douglass, as the challenger, beat Miss
singles, by to o.
Kid Parker and Indian Joe Gregg
have been matched to fight 20 rounds
before the Rossland, B. c., Athletic
club about May IS. The weight limit
has been set at 1875 pounds.
Frank Gotch, the wrestler, Satur-
day night won the international
heavy weight tournament which has
been held all winter in Canada, the
finals being contested at Buffalo, N
Y. Fifty wrestlers of all natiOnalities
participated.
Ladies' day at Recreation ball park
at Spokane this year will be Friday,
when women will be admitted to the
grounds and grandstand free of
charge.
In the last game Of the Portland
Los Angeles series at Los Angeles,
Cal, Sunday evening, the visitors lost
to the home team, to o. by rushing
from the field to catch a train in the
last half of the eighth inning, when
the score stood to 4 in favor of
Portland. Manager Morley announced
that the Los Angeles club stands dis
banded for the season.
Spokane took the first game of
the Northwestern league season of
1906 from Butte at Recreation park
last Saturday afternoon. The count
was to 4. the suspicious starter TAX
ing place in the presence of a large
crowd of ball hungry fans. The wea-
Their was ideal, the car service good,
the crowd happy and the game fine.
The dual track meet held in Mis-
soula, Mont, Saturday afternoon, in
which Washington State college of
Pullman Wash, and the University of
Montana were the competitors, was
won by the Montana team. The final
count of the points made by all
athletes winning places in the events
shows that Coach Schule's men won
by II points over Washington, the
figures standing 62 to FL.
The first interscholastic track and
field meet ever held in Cheney took
place Saturday afternoon on the nor
NAL campus between Davenport high
school, Medical Lake high school and
Cheney state normal school, Daven-
port won the meet, with a total of IS
points; Cheney took second place
with 4S points; and Medical Lake
secured 10 points. The weather was
ideal, but the track was in poor con-
dition and fast time was out of the
question
The Yakima Valley Baseball league
which started with six clubs three
weeks ago and has played a series and
a half of games has been reduced to
four clubs, Prosser and North Yakima
having withdrawn their teams.
Jim Morley's word is good in Seat
tie. He has made the statement that
after May 20 there would be no
Pacific Coast league, and the managers
in Seattle are willing to help him
make good his statement.