Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-05-03
SPORTING NOTES.


Sutton met defeat at the hands of N.
w. Niles Saturday at New York.
At Berkeley, Cal. Saturday Nelson,
the English runner and former holder
of the coast record in the five mile,
lowered his own time and that of
Baird of the Olympia club. Time, 26
minutes % seconds.
The second annual interscholastic
track and field meet held under the
auspices of Whitman college at Walla
Walla Thursday and Friday nights of
this week, finds over 25 high schools
promising to send athletes and orators.
The detailed accounts of the Mel
lody-Sullivan fight at Los Angeles
last week give the Boston boy credit
for putting up logged fight against
a more clever boxer. Melody, accord
ing to the accounts, never had a chance
after the real fighting began, spending
the time rushing Sullivan into clinches.
The third and deciding contest of the
il Intercollegiate baseball games between
Stanford university and the University
Of California was won by the Stanford
team, which already had taken a game.
Bill Squires is foxy. No rushing
into a fight right off the reel for him.
He has posted $4,000 to meet the win
ner of the Burns-O'Brien go. That
means he will have time to pick up
some easy money by the exhibition
route.
Young John L. Sullivan at least has
a popular name. He is fwelter-
weight who will be managed by
Johnny Mack.
guy In a recent game he sent up
three substitute batters in the ninth
and two of them got hits.
Freddy Weeks lately defeated Grov-
er Hays at Philadelphia in six rounds.
Hays is the youngster who, until he
tangled up with Weeks, was whipping
all the boys around the east
The lid is off in Chicago and three
battles have been arranged there for
Young Corgett. He will meet Maurice
Savers, Benny Yanger and another
rot yet matched. Corbett is a dead
one but he still puts up an interesting
fight.
At Pullman Friday the Washington
State college won the field meete from
the University of Montana by 80 points
to 81.
Nick Altrock was the first White
SoX twirler to get a shutout He
turned the trick against ST. Louis.
The strain of managing the Pitts
burg Pirates has made Fred Clark
20 pounds lighter than when he only
played ball, according to Fred him
self.
Unless several members of the Uni.
versity of Washington baseball team
Immediately forsake the practice Of
chewing tobacco and quit breaking
training rules by staying up late at
night needlessly, all of the games con-
tracted for by the manager will be
cancelled, preventing special tours
around the sound and the tour in
Guiding the eastern part of this state
and part of Idaho, all suits will be
called in and no more attempts will
be made to put a varsity team in the
! field, states a west side report
In spite of contrary weather, snow
and high winds, the field meet of the
Whitman county high schools was
pulled off Saturday morning in a sue
cessful manner in Colfax
Seattle won a IL inning contest
from Butte Friday.
| Only the fact that he was in superb
condition enabled young Erne to get
the better of young Corbett in a six
round bout in Philadelphia Sunday
night. To many at the ringside it seem
ed that the conqueror of Terrible
Terry McGovern had come back into
| his own.