Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-03-30
spoRTlNe NOTES.
,aseban for colfax is an assured

Burns defeated Charlie Neary on
points.
Frank Gutch shows ne is still in the
wrestling game by defeating John
Rooney at Chicago.
Abe Attell and Benny Solomon
have been maucLed to fight at Los
Angeles late in May.
Freddie Weeks has gone to Phil
adelphia and will try to get on in
some Of the six round bouts.
Beals and Irving Wright, American
tennis team, was defeated at Nice re-
Gently by Wilin and Decugis.
jim Jeffries the elephantine re.
tired heavy champion, has completed
arrangements to 90 to Europe in June.
Three days of great sport, includ.
ing baseball and racing, are cast for
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at
Washtucna
Louie Long has issued a challenge
to fight the winner of the Scaler-Har-
rison fight, which has been set for
March 80 at Sprague, Wash.
Steps are being taken by a few OF
the Medical Lake baseball sports to
organize a baseball team for this sea.
sen.
Palouse City, in keeping with it's
record of the past two years, will
again have a ball team in the field
this year.
The game warden of Walla Walla
county has made application for 20
600 trout to plant in the streams of
that county.
Jay Gould of New York retained his
title as court tennis champion of
America by recently defeating Joshua
Crane, Jr., of Boston.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, has been
appointed second assistant manager
of the Harvard university crew by
the athletic committee
Chinn and Forsyth's colt Mont
gomery, the favorite, won the $4,000
Crescent City derby Saturday with a
length to spare at New Orleans.
Winners of the Junior Ten Eyck
prizes at Yale are Joseph w. Muir.
ply, Brooklyn, first prize; w. w.
WynKoop, Tacoma, seconL prize.
The Washington State college base
ball team won in the 10th inning at
Charleston when Bud Jones knocked a
home run with the bases full. The
score up to the 10th was 1 to /.
Cheney normal school girls won
the basketball game Friday night |
from the Spokane high school by to
4. The victory makes the Cheney |
maids champions of the season.
There will be an athletic tourna-
ment at Waterville the Goth and 9th |
of April. The high schools of Wen.
atchee, Chelan and Waterville will !
take part.
Marvin Hart, the Louisville slug
ger, has Joined the ranks of those
who are rejuvenated at Hot Springs |
He put Harry Rogers out in the sec
ond round of a 20 round go.
What promises to be the premier |
sporting event to take place in the |
Occur d'Alenes in many months is a |
boxing contest between Tim Hurley |
of Pennsylvania and Nick Burley OF |
California and Alaska, scheduled to
take place at Mullan, Idaho, April 2.
The second annual tournament of |
the Inland Volunteer Fireman's asso- |
citation will be held in Cheney May |
Fl and %, and the teams from
Cheney, Wilbur, Medical Lake Daven-
port, Harrington, Sprague and Ritz
vile have already signified their in
tention of participating.
indications point very strongly to-
ward great success in carrying out the
plans the interscholastic committee
has made in arranging the big track
meet, which will be pulled off on the
Washington State college athletic
field at Pullman May 10-11. Assur-
aLces have been received from nearly
80 high schools in the state that they
will probably send one or more ath-
letes.
st. Louisa worlds and an Ameri-
can indoor record were broken re-
Gently at the dual acquatic meet be-
tween the Missouri Athletic club and
Illinois university. A. M. Goestling,
NJ. A. c., reduced the American rec
ord for the back stroke for 100 yards
two seconds, doing the distance in
1:17 rs, while L. Z. Swatck of Illinois,
in the same event, clipped one second
off the worlds 50-yard record. Time,
"a %.
LondOn,-Steyens of Yale won the
hammer throw in the Oxford Cam
bridge meet recently, distance 1876
feet 8 inches. Young of South Da-
kota won the high jump, feet s IL
inches. Oxford won the contest by
1-2 points to l IL points. The
American Rhodes scholars took three
firsts, the long and high jumps, in
which Young repeated his victory of
1896, and the hammer throw, while
Schutt, on Cornell, was third in the
half mile run. Cambridge only took
the hurdles. The 100 yard dash was
tie.
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