Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-06-28
SPORTING NOTES.


banded.
Peter Pan, the champion 3-year-old
of the season, easily won the $4,000
Tidal stakes, mile and quarter, at
Sheepshead Bay Saturday.
Freddy Weeks, who, year and a
half ago was fighting preliminaries
has pulled up another notch towards
the featherweight championship by de
feating deciseively Jimmy Walsh Of
Boston in 10 rounds at Denver re
Gently.
Tim Hurley who recently fought &
20-round draw with Nick Burley al
Mullan, Idaho, has been matched t.
meet Jack Curley Of Seattle at Nortf
Yakima on July 4.
Perry Queenan is training for {
match with Maurice Thompson o.
Butte, to be fought at Missoula OF
July T.
Tom Kinsley, who also fought 20
round draw with Nick Burley, has beer
matched with Tom Reilly of Seattle
for a 20-round boxing exhibition, tc
take place at Havre, Mont.
Jack Burnett of the Tacoma team
has gone to st. Louis, where he will
play with John McCloskey's National
league team McCloskey gave $2,50C
for Burnett.
Dad Brown, manager Of the Aber
deem team, slipped one over on the lit
terstate commerce commission. Be,
fore the new rate law went into effect
and the railroads knocked out special
rates, Dad bought transportation for
three long trips for his team. The en-
terprise saved him about $3.50.
Rugby is again the game at Stan
ford.
Con" Struthers, newly elected man
ager of the Vancouver baseball club,
took hold of the team Sunday.
The first trial heat for the selection
of challenger for the new interna-
tional yacht racing Alexandra cup pre-
scented by Lieutenant Governor Duns-
muir of British Columbia was held re-
Gently in Seattle and was won by the
Spirit.
Barney Oldfield drove a mile against
time in 527a seconds Saturday in Port
land, and mile in competition in one
minute flat. Both are worlds records.
The race season is over at Oakland,
Cal
The King County Fair association is
now simply waiting for June 20 to open
the greatest thoroughbred race meet
iD0 ovn,. rriuop Of +bo NToo5ouyc Tho
best stables that have raced in Cali
fornia are either already quartered at
the track, are now en- route, or soon
will be.
D. A. Sullivan of Butte has gone to
Spokane with the intention of locating
there. Mr.. Sullivan is an athlete of
great prowess, having represented
America in the Olympic games at
Athens in the middleweight worlds
championships and in the
Dentathalon games there.
Joe Cans, the lightweight champion
md Jimmy Gardner, the clever pugi-
list of Lowell Mass, will probably be
to meet in a finish fight at
1oldfeld, New, on the afternoon of
July 4.
Moscow won the third and deciding
game in the series Of games played at
llberton last week for a 5000 purse.
-Four athletes from the Olympic club
If San Francisco carried off the honors
1t the track meet of the p. N. A. held
It Seattle Saturday afternoon before
1000 spectators. In practically every
event in which they entered, the south
,rners carried off the honors.
They had been counting on winning
he big event of the day the Marathon
ace for Is miles, but Nelson, who
wore the colors of the New York Atha
etic club and holds the international
was defeated by Chan
er of Vancouver in a magnificent con-
est. The course was rough and the
title Englishman set the pace for the
irst 10 miles, when Chambers steady
stride began to tell and he started to
overhaul Nelson.
At the eleventh mile they were neck
md neck and seesawed for another
stretch when the Vancouver runner
steadily crept ahead and at the finish
lie was fresh and about 600 yards in
he lead. Nelson was we'll spent when
le arrived Lou King of the Irish
American Athletic association of San
Francisco took third and Johnson of
Victoria finished fourth.
Dan Kelly hurt his leg in practice
and was limping and unable to com
pete, thus greatly weakening the Multi
nomah aggregation, which had been
expected to capture the big meet.
Five northwest records were broken.
Bantz of S. A. G. took the 56-pound
weight, at % feet inches, Welch of
Spokane did the mile in 4:40 AS. Gil
more of San Francisco threw the shot
As feet and threequarters of an inch
and Zacharias of Multnomah threw the
l6-pound hammer 149 feet 1917 inches.
did the $50 in 1902 LIS.
The Score:
olympic ------------------ 80 l-S
Cpoff1n % 10