Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-05-04
SPORTING NOTES.


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
al rules against such tactics.
Joe Pearson, for two years captain
of the S. A. A. c. track team and the
champion sprinter 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 i'll 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
T. nObartv tbo holden 30 tLo .;ooIo.
defeated A. w. Gore by to 0. Doherty
thus retained the title Miss D. X.
Douglass, as the challenger, beat Miss
Lane, the holder in the women's
singles, by to 0.
Kid Parker and Indian Joe Gregg
have been matched to fight 20 rounds
before the Rossland, B. c., Athletic
club about May 18. The weight limit
has been set at 1876 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 parE
at Spokane this year will be Friday
when women will be admitted to the
grounds and grandstand free o.
charge.
In the last game of the Portland
Los Angeles series at Los Angeles
Cal, Sunday evening, the visitors los
to the home team, 8 to 0, by rushing
from the field to catch a train in thu
last half of the eighth inning, whel
the score stood to 4 in favor o
Portland Manager Morley announce,
that the Los Angeles club stands dis
banded for the season.
Spokane took the first game o
the Northwestern league season o
1906 from Butte at Recreation par
last Saturday afternoon. The coun
was 6 to 4, the suspicious starter taxi
ing place in the presence of a larg
crowd of ball hungry fans. The wes
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, il
which Washington State college @
Pullman, Wash. land the University O
Montana were the competitors, wa
won by the Montana team. The fina
count of the points made by al
athletes winning places in the event
shows that Coach Schule's men wO
by II points over Washington, tn
figures standing 81 to Fl.
The first interscholastic track an
field meet ever held in Cheney too
place Saturday afternoon on the MOI
NAL campus between Davenport hig
school, Medical Lake high school an
Cheney state normal school. DaveI
port won the meet, with a total of 6
points; Cheney took second plac
with 48 points; and Medical LAX
secured 10 points. The weather wa
ideal, but the track was in poor col
dition and fast time was out of tn
question.
The Yakima Valley Baseball leagu
which started with six clubs thre
weeks ago and has played a series an
half of games has been reduced t
four clubs, Prosser and North Yakim
having withdrawn their teams.
Jim MOrley's word is good in Sea
tie. He has made the statement tha
after May 20 there would be n
Pacific Coast league, and the manager
in Seattle are willing to help hil
make good his statement.
STANDING OF THE BALL TEAMS
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