Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-11-01
SPORTING NOTES.

tied on the field Whitman had won,
IA to 5.
Dutch" Altman, the Spokane third
baseman during the past season, has
been drafted by the Oakland club OF
the Pacific Coast league.
Grover Cleveland Fuller, erstwhile
premier jockey, the boy who a year
ago told New York Judge that he had
spent $3.50, 900 in two years and who
recently turned up in Seattle when
an old story was printed about him,
now occupies cell in the Seattle city
jail. He was arrested as a common
thief. Whether the charge Will be
proved against him is a question.
The Seattle high school football
team and the Spokane high school
football team will lock horns on the
Spokane field Saturday afternoon, No
vember Q, in what promises to be the
biggest interscholastic football con-
test ever played in the Falls city.
Among those who are looking long
ingly at the Vancouver situation, which
promises to be open to new manage
ment next year, is Bob Brown. the
skipper of the Aberdeen club last sea-
son. Brown is favorite in Vancouver
and, having demonstrated his ability as
a manager by winning the pennant in
the season which has just closed, he
would be more than acceptable to the
British Columbia city fans.
Manager Frank Chance of the Chica-
go Cubs may land a utility outhelder
for his worlds champions before next
season opens. The player in question
is Johnny Kane, formerly of Seattle,
but now with the Cincinnati Reds.
Shad Civilian, the nervy Pittsburg
gambler, has at last come into his own
on backing teams in the National
league. He returned from Detroit with
$4,000 won on the Chicago-Detroit Sc
ries for the worlds championship. To
win this it was necessary for Civilian
to wager $4,000 and most of his bets
were made in the Auditorium Annex at
Chicago the evening before the series
started.
1t is reported from Tacoma that one
of the biggest race tracks in the north
west is to be erected in that city, land
for the purpose having already been
secured.
The Lewiston high school football
team has been disbanded because of
objections offered by the parents of
some of the star players of the aggre-
cation.
Ithaca N. UT was a sadder and
tanner tiger that dragged his badly
twisted tail off Percy field at the close
of the Princeton-C Cornell game the
score of which was to in favor of
the Ithacans.
Spokane, Wash.-On a field inches
deep with thick, finely powdered dust,
Spokane high school won a hard fought
game with Blair Business college, IL
to 0, scoring two touchdowns in two 20
minute halves.
New Haven, Conn.-Without being
compelled to disclose any trick plays,
Yale had no trouble overwhelming
Villa Nova, As to 0.
Bellingham, Wash.-The two Spo-
kane representatives of the Washing
ton State Sportsmen's association won
high honors in an interstate shooting
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highest average was made by e. j.
Chingren, who broke total of 391 out
of AIS targets shot, an average of ex.
actly 80 per cent. Second place was
divided between Barclay and H. Junk
er, Seattle. The highest average was
made by R. F. Steinke, Spokane, who
hit 3S1 targets.
Seattle. Wash.-The Chemawa In.
dams we're completely at the mercy
of the University of Washington in
the game played Saturday, the 'U'
men winning by a 40-to-0 score.
The suit recently brought by James
Hickey against the Mullan Qdaho)
Baseball association, for the recovery
of $3.50 wages said to be due to him
as a pitcher, has been compromised
by the payment of $500, and has beer
dismissed by mutual stipulation from
the district court.
Bert Hall, the Tacoma lad who
pitched for the Tyees against the Tig
ers recently, has been signed by Mix,
Lynch to play with the big team mex
season.
Saturday Football Games.
Corvallis, Ore.-In one of the best
played football games of the season
here the Oregon Agricultural colleg
team defeated the Whitworth colleg
team of Tacoma by the close score O
to 0.
Pullman, Wash.-Coach John Bende
is out for the record Of Hurry Up
Yost and his famous Michigan team O
a few seasons ago, and has set his ey
on 400 points for the season. OnI
half Of the games have beeen playe,
SC far, and w. S. c. now has 241 to
for her opponents. Saturday Afternoon
they had little difficulty in piling up