The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-07-05
SPORTING NOTES.

Tom Riley won his battel with Tom
Kinsley at Havre, Mont, few days
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
Iof 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 a pitcher is without a parallel in
baseball history. He has pitched rs
innings without run being scored
against him and has struck out 166
men in 80 innings. The Weiser team
has played seven straight shutout
games and have made SO runs while
their opponents have made but 5, a
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 a
score of Z to 2. The game was played
in rainstorm.
Miss May Sutton of California in the
all-England 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 10
round bout.
The spite" fight, Jimmy Britt YER
sus Battling Nelson, will not be held
on the night of July 3 soriginally
lplanned to kill the Burns-Squires card
of July 4. The promoters of the for
lmer 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 will
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, &c, SO, 6-1
Miss Sutton of California beat Mis-!
, Lowther, Ga, Ga.
! Jack brennan has been signed agail
, by Manager Shredder of the Tacom;
team.
n Harvard won the freshman eight b.
one and a half lengths and Yale tn
I varsity four-oared race by about 1
! lengths on the morning tide on tn
, Thames river, and the result confirme
predictions. Coming with the grea
victory of a Yale varsity eight the da
before, the win of the four was
. source of qualification to Yale men an
an evidence of the efficiency of Coac
Kennedy's training. It was an cas-
race for the blue to win, while tn
v freshmen race was a hard one 70
Yale to lose and CORRESPONDENCE tr
!. umph for the Cambridge youngsters.
: Seattle has traded Sits, shortstol
:. for Bruyette, shortstop on the Butt
team. He will report on Sunday.
!. The greatest running race meetin
n ever held in Spokane is predicted fc
J. the two weeks program offered at tn
i. Interstate fair by Ed Getchell, one {
;. the most prominent figures in Cal
n fornia racing and veteran trainer {
a more than a score of years on tn
coast.
q S. F. Edge, the London automobiles
n who Friday started to drive 60-hors
!. power car around the new Brooklan
cement motor track at an averag
" speed of 60 miles an hour for "a hours
!. completed it at 6 o'clock Saturda.
, beating all endurance records. H
4 covered 1000 miles in IA hours 81 mil
). utes and Is seconds. At the 18th hou
4 he had completed 1858 miles, or 81
> miles better than the record. At til
!, end Of "a hours his total distance CO.
cred was 1851 miles 131 yards. Edg
broke the motor record. He not onl
carried out his declared intention {
driving an average of 60 miles an hot
:, for "a hours, but he added another 81
" miles an hour to it. At times Edg
reached 72 miles an hour. He was
=, splendid condition when he finishe'
l. Pitcher Klinkhammer, who was r
leased by Spokane week ago, ha
n signed with Nampa, Idaho.
E. STANDING OF THE CLUBS.