Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1907-07-03
SPORTING NOTES.

ago, with clean knockout blow admin
istered in the fifth round.
The Seattle high school baseball
team is now in Pennsylvania, and is
still winning games.
Arrangements are being made for
a boxing exhibition between Maurice
Thompson of Butte, Mont, and Perry
Queenan of Wallace, at Burke.
Walter Johnson, the famous boy
pitcher of the Weiser baseball team
of the Idaho State league, has signed
with the American league club of
Washington, D. c., and will leave for
that place July Is. Johnson's record
as pitcher is without a parallel in
baseball history. He has pitched Is
innings without a run being scored
against him and has struck out 166
men in SO innings. The Weiser team
has played seven straight shutout
games and have made SO runs while
their opponents have made but 5,
phenomenal record.
Harvard was victorius against Yale
in the final contest for university base
ball honors at the Polo grounds Satur-
day. The crimson beat the blue by
score of to 2. The game was played
in rainstorm.
Miss May Sutton of California in the
lallEngland lawn tennis championship
games at Wimbledon Saturday beat
Miss Morton, 20.
At Milwaukee, Wis, Packy McFar-
land, the Chicago lightweight, defeated
Charles Neary of Milwaukee in a 10
round bout.
The spite" fight, Jimmy Britt ver-
sus Battling Nelson, will not be held
on the night Of July 3 a soriginally
planned to kill the Burns-Squires card
of July 4. The promoters of the for
mer bout have decided that vengeance
on the head of James Coffroth might
be more expensive than they can af-
ford for the present. The fight viii!
now be held July 81.
In the all-England tennis champion
ship games at Wimbledon Norman E.
Brookes, Australian, beat Karl Behr,
American, by 80, after the most ex-
citing match Of the championship Sc
ries. The scores were Ga, 2-6, So, 81.
Miss Sutton of California beat Miss
Lowther, Ga, Ga.
Harvard won the freshman eight by
one and half lengths and Yale the
varsity four-oared race by about 10
lengths on the morning tide on the
Thames river, and the result confirmed
predictions. Coming with the great
victory Of a>Yale varsity eight the day
before, the win Of the four was
source of qualification to Yale men and
an evidence of the efficiency Of Coach
Kennedy's training. 1t was an easy
race for the blue to win, while the
freshmen race was a hard one for
Yale to lose and correspondingly tri-
umph for the Cambridge youngsters.
Seattle has traded Sits, shortstop,
for Bruyette, shortstop on the Butte
team. He will report on Sunday.
Jack brennan has been signed again
by Manager Shredder of the Tacoma
team.
The greatest running race meeting
ever held in Spokane is predicted for
the two weeks program offered at the
Interstate fair by Ed Getchell, one of
the most prominent figures in Cali
fornia racing and veteran trainer of
more than a score Of years on the
coast.
Dugdale will strengthen his Seattle
outfield by the addition of left fielder,
Howell, who arrived this morning from
st. Paul.
s. F. Edge, the London automobilist,
who Friday started to drive 60-horse
power car around the new Brookland
cement motor track at an average
speed of 60 miles an hour for "a hours,
completed it at o'clock Saturday,
beating all endurance records. He
covered 1000 miles in IA hours 81 min
utes and Is seconds. At the 18th hour
he had completed 1858 miles, or 612
miles better than the record. At the
end Of "a hours his total distance COW
cred was 1851 miles 131 yards. Edge
broke the motor record. He not only
carried out his declared intention of
driving an average of go miles an hour
for "a hours, but he added another six
miles an hour to it. At times Edge
reached u miles an hour. He was in
splendid condition when he finished.
Charles (Mike) Golden, known
throughout the west as q trainer of
trotting horses and Of pugilists, died
Sunday in hospital at Seattle after
lingering illness. Golden was trainer
of the late Jack Dempsey. After the
"Nonpareil's" retirement from the
ring Golden turned his attention to
the ponies and gained recognition as
the trainer of the famous Maud 8. He
came here four years ago and has been
employed in various capacities in con-
nection with race meets.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.