Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-10-13
SPORTING NEWS.

SearChlight New, is to vie with Col
field in having a championship pug
listic contest decided within its DO
ders. Preparations are under way fl
matching either Burns and O'Brien c
Brit and Cans for a finish contest o
Railroad day, on which date will b
celebrated the completion of the raj
way to this place. Jack Linke of Lo
Angeles will manage the fight, fo
which Searchlight will pledge purs
of $4,000.
The Spokane high school footba
team won it's first hard game of th
season Saturday at Occur d'Alene, d,
feating the high school aggregation {
the lake city, to O. in a holly col
tested game.
An important question has sprun.
up at Berkeley. Cal. That is whethe
or not the Rugby game will receive
the support of the students. From the
present outlook the spirit of the stu.
dents is l,kewarm. The game has
progressed rapidly in point of skill
and the students have been given a
good idea of the game which has been
odopted for this fall. But comment is
varied as to the success of Rugby.
Mordecai Brown, the greatest, on
this seasons form, of all the Chicago
pitchers, has practically won the flag
for the Cubs by his matchless work.
His latest achievement was to take
two of the games won by Chicago
from New York in the recent series.
The football outlook at the Univer-
sity of Washington is not so encourag
ing this fall as it was last, notwith-
standing the fact that there are over
30 in the practice squad every day.
The thing lacking is old men who have
played on the varsity before. Up to
the present time there have been only
four of last years men in the practice
squad.
The University of Montana is to be
included in the big track and field
meet at Seattle next season.
Robert Cary, the great Spokane
sprinter who made Dan Kelly break
the worlds amateur record to beat
him in the 10G-yard dash, is now at
Yale and is trying for the Yale fresh
man team. Cary played end on the
University of Montana team and is a
good man.
Jack Sullivan, who mas been match
maker for the Everett (Wash.) Ath-
letic club for the past eight months,
has left for San Francisco to make
arrangements for the meeting of Per
cy Cove and frankie Neill at the
Colma club.
The Long-Thompson boxing contest
will be held in the pavilion at Medical
Lake, October 30. The men will box
Is rounds with the privilege of con-
tinuing it to 20 if no decision is reach
ed in the meanwhile. The weight will
be 1873 pounds at o'clock.
Charles Allard of Poison, Mont. is
the winner of the $500 Interstate re-
| lay race which was finished Saturday
afternoon at Spokane Interstate fair
Allard's time for the 20 mile run, two
miles a day, was 47:06. H. G.. Smith
of Endicott, Wash, was second, just
four seconds behind Allard. Third
money went to A. e. Stowell, also OF
Endicott, Wash, last years relay win
ner. and fourth to Anasta Jim of the
Flathead Indian reservation.
| The baseball season of both major
| leagues for 1906 ended Sunday witt
games at Chicago, st. Louis and Gin
cInnati For the first time since the
| two big leagues have been organized
both championships have come to the
same city. The Chicago Nationa
| league team won the first honors II
that organization easily. Taking The
| lead early in June and holding it tt
the end, it established a new major
league record for the number of game:
won. OF the 1853 games played by the
team, lie were victories, the previou'
best record in this respect having
been held by the New York club in thu
same league.
In the American league club the Chi
cago team upset all calculations b.
winning the pennant The contest wa
York team being within striking dis
lance of the leaders until October
when a six inning defeat at Philadel
phia put them out of the running. Al
equally hard struggle for second plac
was not decided until two days late
when Chicago defeated Cleveland an
took away the Ohio clubs last chanc
to overhaul New York.
The fourth and fifth teams, Phila
delphia and St. Louis, were With
hailing distance ,-.roughout the sea
son, Philadelphia, in fact, leading tn
league on three separate occasions
the last time no later than August
Washington and Boston were tai
enders throughout. In the Nationa
; league. outside of Chicago's work, tn
J chief feature of the season was tn
= hard struggle for second place b'
tween New York and tIttsburg.