The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-06-28
SPORTING NOTES.

The Ritzville baseball team has dis
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, a 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 a
2O-round draw with Nick Burley at
Mullan, Idaho, has been matched to
meet Jack Curley Of Seattle at North
Yakima on July 4.
Tom Kinsley, who also fought 20
round draw with Nick Burley, has been
matched with Tom Reilly Of Seattle
for 20-round boxing exhibition, to
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 $4,000
for Burnett.
Dad Brown, manager Of the Aber-
deem team, slipped one over on the III.
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 a 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.
Perry Queenan is training for a
match with Maurice Thompson OF
Butte, to be fought at Missoula on
July 4.
Barney Oldfeld drove mile against
time in 521a 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
ing ever given at the Meadows. The
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
wrestling championships and in the
pentathalon games there.
Joe Cans, the lightweight champion,
and Jimmy Gardner, the clever pugi'
list of Lowell, Mass, will probably be
matched to meet in a finish fight al
Goldfield, New, on the afternoon Of
July 4.
| Moscow won the third and deciding
game in the series Of games played al
Elberton last week for 5000 purse
Four athletes from the Olympic club
of San Francisco carried off the honors
at the track meet of the P. N. A. held
at Seattle Saturday afternoon before
1000 spectators. In practically every
event in which they entered, the south
erners carried off the honors.
They had been counting on winning
the big event of the day, the Marathon
race for Is miles, but Nelson, who
wore the colors of the New York Ath
letic club and holds the internationa
championship, was defeated by Chan
Ter Of Vancouver in magnificent con
ltest. The course was rough and thu
little Englishman set the pace for thu
first 10 miles, when Chambers stead!
stride began to tell and he started tt
overhaul Nelson.
! At the eleventh mile they we're necl
and neck and seesawed for anothe
lstretch when the Vancouver rune
steadily crept ahead and at the finisl
he was fresh and about 600 yards II
the lead. Nelson was well spent whel
he arrived. Lou King of the Irish
American Athletic association OF Sal
Francisco took third and Johnson o
Victoria finished fourth.
Dan Kelly hurt his leg in practic
and was limping and unable to com
pete, thus greatly weakening the Null
nomah aggregation, which had bee
expected to capture the big meet.
Five northwest records were broker
Bantz of s. A. G. took the 56-poun
weight, at 20 feet 5 inches, WEIGH @
Spokane did the mile in 4:40 As. Gil
more of San Francisco threw the she
As feet and threequarters of an inc
and Zacharias of Multnomah threw tn
16-pound hammer 149 feet 10h inche.
Glarner did the $50 in 2:02 1-5.
The Score:
; Olympic SO l.
Seattle 80 l.
IMultnomah 80
Spokane 25 1.
vancouver IL