The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-02
COPPER COUNTRY
TO TRY RICOCHET
Minneapolis Game Will Be Intro
duced in Peninsula
Sports Booming.
Special to The journal.

Special to The Journal.
Calumet, Mich, April 2.-Ricochet lacrosse
and hockey will be introduced in northern Mich
igan during the spring and summer. j. 4. Me-
Namara manager of the Amphidrome rink at
Houghton and Manager Thompson OF the Pales..
ira at Calumet, will endeayor to organize
league composed of teams III the two Soos,
Houghton, Calumet and possibly other places.
It promises to be an immensely popular sport
In the north country this season.
In addition to the other sports in the copper
country this season. there Is going 10 De
/ regularly organized crickete2eague. J. Haldone
Edwards of Dollar Bay, anSfdent crlcketer, mas
been asked by the various independent clubs to
cali meeting for the purpose Of perfect1ng the
organization, and will can q meeting soon, s III
the copper country, but never under league re-
strictions. There clubs at Trimountain, Tam,
arack, Atlantic, Quincy, Kearsarge, Calumet ana
other places and the league should be success
( from the start Under league organization the
game will grow in popular favor.
Houghton county curriers' announce that they
will celebrate the close of the most success1ui
season which the game has enjoyed IN tae cop,
per country with banquet the night OF Aprh
IL All the curriers' of the county Will be pres
emit The season just closed has done more 1or
the game than any in the past, ana the curriers'
snort one Of the most common in this section.
It is a game in which man never geE TOO
old to play. Curling at the two soos was more
active during the winter than for many seasons
Ski Still Played.
Is Ski racing continues in the iron country towns
while the snow lasts. few days ago boys
race was pulled off at Ishpeming. Considering
the slippery condition of the road the boys made
very good time, the course being covered pS
Fine Salene, a lad less than 10 years old, II
fifty two minutes He was ninth to start ano
showed good speed, passing most OF the boys
who started ahead Of him, and took first prize
The basketball game between the 1shpem1ne
and L'Anse high school teams at 1shpem1ng wa:
the best ever seen there. Ishpem1ng won, score
"a to a. Each team has won one game, ana
deciding contest probably will be played a
Champion.
: The L'Anse high-school basketball team defeat
ed the high-school team OF Champion by tn
score Of 80 to Is. LAnse has eight victories
to its credit
The Calumet and Houghton h1gh-school hocke!
] teams each defeated the team from the Duluth
high school. The games were holly contested
and there was considerable rough work.
] The field and track meet Of the Upper PENN
sula Interscholastic Athletic association will b
held at Ishpeming May 80, and will be partici
pated in by eight teams, representing h1g
schools at Calumet, Hancock, 1shpemtng, Mar
auette, Negaunee, Escanaba, Sault Ste. Mari
and Menominee. Possibly another team will b
entered from the Menominee iron range. TIL
feature of the meet will be the contest for tn
congressman H. O. Young cup, emblematic o
the peninsula championship. The cup was wo
by Calumet last year. The trophy de
stroyed by the fire which burned the high-schoc
building, but another cup will replace it.