Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-05-25
SPORTING NOTES.

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a possible 165. Tacoma surprised
herself by getting second place in the
meet. Spokane was fifth.
New York.-The first play of the
American challenging lawn tennis
team upon grass courts was held last
week at Ardsley-on-Huds Beals C..
Wright and Karl II. Behr met H. Fl.
Hackett and f. B. Alexander and were
defeated 60, $40, 6-3, 6-2.
Annapolis-The midshipmen of the
first eight won the two-mile boat race
here with the Columbia varsity crew
by length and a half. Official time:
Navy, 1898 AS; Columbia, 1898 As.
Princeton, N. Y.-Princeton defeat
ed Columbia in a dual track meet here
by the score Of GO to "a.
st. Louis, Mo.-Frank Gotch won the
first two falls in his match with
| Charles Olsen. 1t took Gotch 40 IL
minutes to win the first fall and 50
minutes to win the second.
New Haven, Conn.-Much glory
came to Yale athletes Saturday after
noon to compensate for the loss to
Harvard of the fifteenth annual dual
games which were held on the Yale
field, the final results in which were
55 1-2 points for the crimson to As IL
for the blue
w. r. Dray of Yale broke the worlds
pole vault record made a year ago by
Samse of the University of Indiana, by
clearing the bar at II feet 5 IL inches,
while Captain J. w. Marshall of the
Yale team, broke the dual high jump
record of feet 5-S inch, made 1 years
ago, by clearing the bar at feet IL
inches.
Wardner, Idaho.-John Bell and DR.
Fred Harris are reported to have bond
ed the Brooklyn group of claims on
Pine Creek for $4,000. The present
owners are Thomas Jones and Thomas
Jenkins of Moscow. A 60-foot drift
tunnel shows some high-grade galena,
but in other respects comparatively
little development work has been done.
Parke Wilson has been fired. The
Vancouver management, tired of losing
game after game, and urged on by
that the only thing to do was to put
new man in charge, and Parke was
handed the blue envelope. Charley
McIntire was appointed to lead the
team.
San Francisco.-E, d. Lee, a colored
horseman, and his horses, Signsworth
and Grace Marie, have been ruled on
the turf by the stewards of the New
California Jockey club, who allege that
they have positive evidence that he
has been tampering with jockeys.
Missoula, Mont.-Amid great cheer
ing the fourth annual state inter
scholastic meet came to an end being
won by Flathead county, and Denny of
the same county winning the indi
vidual cup Missoula, with practically
but one man, won second place to the
great satisfaction of the majority OF
the other schools of the state. No less
than 1000 persons attended the days
events all the stores and public offices
closing for the entire afternoon. Denny
of Flathead was a wonder. as was
Dinsmore for Missoula. Horn of Ana
conda, who has held the individual
cup for two years, showed up in very
poor form, winning but two points. The
final results were as follows Flat
head &c, Missoula 70, Great Falls 16,
Fergus IA, Teton 10, Butte II, Ana
conda 8, Helena s, Gallatin 5, Broad
water T.
Kelly equaled the worlds record for
the 220-yard dash on a curved track
and Mckinney raised the shotput rec
ord for the Pacific Coast from 40 feet
6 IL inches to As feet II IL inches.
Oregon totaled "a points to w. S. C.'s
SO points.
The Spokane Amateur Athletic club
will send track team to Seattle to
compete in the annual P. N A. meet
held under the auspices of the Seattle
Athletic club in the latter part of
June.
Eugene. Ore.-Three records were
broken in the meet between the 9th
letes of the University of Oregon and
the huskies from the Washington State
college at Pullman, Wash. George Hug
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mer throw record, by making a cast
of lac feet 1-3 inches.
The greatest athlete developed in
the last 10 years is undoubtedly Lee
]. Talbot, the young Mercersburg, Pa,
academy weight thrower, who, though
only 10 years of age, has already shat
tered the worlds 12-pound hammer
record with a toss of 205 feet 10 ga
inches. set new worlds scholastic fig
ures for the 12-pound shot at SO feet
"a inches, and defeated the best col
lege men of the east and west in
throwing the 16-pound hammer, the
standard for college and amateur com
petition. His record in this event is
1853 feet IL inches. Talbot lacking
several years of legal age, stands 6
feet IL inches in height and weighs