The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-07
SPORTS.
NEWS AND NOTES, OF SPORT.

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Four of the American league clubs
this season have Jones in the line
Charley with Washington, Fielder
with Chicago, Tom with ST. Louis and
Davy with Detroit.
The second amateur target tourna-
ment of the Mississippi-D Delta Trap
Shooters league is scheduled to begin
at Vicksburg tomorrow and continue
three days.
Pop" shriver, the veteran catcher
and manager of the champion Wheel
ing team Of. the Central league, says
that he is good for ten years. more
service behind the plate.
The track team of the University of
Chicago engages in its first outdoor
meet of the season today, going against
the University of Illinois team at
Champaign.
This is the date set for the second
annual Marathon race under the aus
pices Of the Missouri A. &C. of st.
Louis. In 1904 the first Marthon run
was held in St Louis in connection
with the Olympic games. at the ex-
position and was won by Thomas ].
Hicks of Cambridge. Last year Joseph
Forshaw. who is now aboard with the
American Olympic team, won the
event. covering the 40 kilometres in
3 hours and Is minutes.
Tho fronk teams Of nhioS EIto 70 ,,ni-
versity and Indiana University are
scheduled to engage in annual meet to-
day at Bloomington.
Both the st. Louis league teams
are working hard to keep out of the
cellar this year and from present in
dications they will succeed in keep
ing above ground.
The tennis season for 1906 starts to-
day when the crack teams of Harvard,
Yale-and Columbia line up for the in
terscholastic tournament.
-Rube Whddell has set the strike
out record for the season by tanning
10 of the Boston Americans.
The Baltimore team played several
of the Virginia league clubs: this spring
and ran into some mighty good ball
playing, which indicates that Jake
Wells is at the head of a high class
minor league this season.
The fifth annual meet Of the Yale
interscholastic track games takes jlace
on Yales field today. About one hun
dred schools have entered and the out
look is bright for successful meet.
Ace Steward has made q nice start
with his jackson, Miss, bunch and is
going to make hard tussle to land
the flag in the Cotton States league.
Billy Earle of Vicksburg says that the
first name OF the jackson manager is
. high card, but he will have to show.
Large scores are scarce in baseball
nowadays but the Bostoii Americans
had two in one week to their credit
One IL to 0 game with Philadelphia
and score of 10 to against Washing
ton established the. seasons record.
The Pittsburg and Chicago Nationals
are playing nice bali. Gut It is doubt
full If they can overtake the Giants
{ 1t looks as If the New Workers get
farther away every day.
Maloney is playing as, well for
Brooklyn as Sheckhard for Chicago.
The former made seven hits in ten
games, the latter five hits in nine
games. Maloney has been covering a
world of ground for Brooklyn in CEN
tenfield and throwing as we'll as
Sheckhard ever did.
That was a great joke on the part of
President Charlie Murphy to send to
each of hfs newspaper friends an an
nual pass marked No. 1. The boys
are all on now, and they are not say
ing thing about Charles brightness
The printers who have to economic
space in setting up the box scores of
the whitesox's games are abbreviating
. Outfielder Hemphill's bulk name to
like to have him give the opposing
pitchers.
Lajoie has received a letter from
Billy Lusk, in which the Yale baseball
coach and the famous New Haven
chicken fancier asks if he shall report
to Cleveland on July 1, when his con-
tract with Yale expires. AS Lush has
already received instructions from the
club officials Lajoie will ignore the let
ter. ISL
The Cincinnati club has protested
the game played in Chicago April Is,
on the ground that extra bases were
given Chicago runners in the sixth in
ming by Umpire tombstone when the
ball did not go into the crowd, but was
stopped by Outfielder Odwell against
the ropes. This decision resulted in
the loss of the game by Cincinnati
1t is interesting to note that very
few-of the Home teams" in the North
won their opening games, while the
Southern baseball clubs that opened
at home were nearly all successful. In
the National league New York was the
only home team that won and in the
Eastern league Providence was the
only winner. In the American associa-
ton two home. teams, Louisville and
Toledo, were successful. On the other
hand, every home team in the Southern
league won its first game. while In
the South Atlantic and Cotton state
leagues there were two teams that
won on the home grounds. ii.
RIGHTS OF SETTLERS.
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