Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-03-29
SPORTING NOTES.

At Milwaukee recently Jimmy
Burns defeated Charlie Neary on
points.
Frank Gotch shows he is still in the
wrestling game by defeating John
Rooney at Chicago.
Abe Attell and Benny Solomon
have been malcAed to fight at Los
Angeles late in May.
Freddie Weeks has gone to Phil
adelphia and will try to get on in
some of the six round bouts.
Beals and Irving Wright, American
tennis team, was defeated at Nice re-
Gently by Willin and Decugis.
Jim Jeffries, the elephantine re-
tired heavy champion, has completed
arrangements to &c to Europe in June.
Three days of great sport, includ-
ing baseball and racing, are cast for
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at
Washtucna.
Louie Long has issued a challenge
to fight the winner of the Scaler-Har-
rison fight, which has been set for
March 80 at Sprague, Wash.
Steps are being taken by few OF
organize baseball team for this sea-
sen.
Palouse City, in keeping with it's
record of the past two years, will
again have a ball team in the field
this year.
The game warden of Walla Walla
county has made application for 20
900 trout to plant in the streams of
that county.
Jay Gould of New York retained his
title as court tennis champion of
America by recently defeating Joshua
Crane, Jr., of Boston.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has been
appointed second assistant manager
of the Harvard university crew by
the athletic committee.
Chinn and Forsyth's colt Mont.
gomery, the favorite, won the $4,000
Crescent City derby Saturday with a
length to spare at New Orleans.
Winners of the Junior Ten EycB
prizes at Yale are Joseph w. Muir
ply, Brooklyn, first prize; W. w
WynKoop, Tacoma, seconc prize.
The Washington State college base
ball team won in the 10th inning a
Charleston when Bud Jones knocked &
home run with the bases full. The
score up to the 10th was / to 1.
Cheney normal school girls won
the basketball game Friday nigh
from the Spokane high school by t
4. The victory makes the Chene.
, maids champions of the season.
There will be an athletic tourna
,, ment at Waterville the 26th and 27tl
of April. The high schools of Wen
: atchee, Chelan and Waterville will
take part.
Marvin Hart, the Louisville slug
ger, has Joined the ranks of thos
> who are rejuvenated at Hot Springs
He put Harry Rogers out in the sec
ond round of 20 round go.
What promises to be the premie
: sporting event to take place in tn
. Occur d'Alenes in many months is
boxing contest between Tim Hurle
: of Pennsylvania and Nick Burley O
, California and Alaska, scheduled t
: take place at Mullan, Idaho, April 2.
The second annual tournament O
: the Inland Volunteer Fireman's asso
:, citation will be held in Cheney Ma
81 and %, and the teams iron
Cheney, Wilbur Medical Lake, Daven
!, port, Harrington, Sprague and Ritz
vile have already signifed their in
: tention of participating.
> Indications point very strongly to
ward great success in carrying out tn
plans the interscholastic committee
: las made in arranging the big tract
meet, which will be pulled off on tn
Washington State college athlete
field at Pullman May 10-11 Assur
aBces have been received from nearl.
80 high schools in the state that the.
ill probably send one or more ath
{ letes.
st. Louisa worlds and an Ameri
can indoor record were broken re
Gently at the dual Aquatic meet be
tween the Missouri Athletic club an,
Illinois university. A. NJ. Goestling
NJ. A. c., reduced the American rec
u ord for the back stroke for 100 yard
i two seconds, doing the distance il
D. 1:17 rs, while E. P. Swatck of Illinois
in the same event, clipped one secon
off the worlds 50-yard record. Time
IA rs.
>. London,-SteYens of Yale won tn
n hammer throw in the Oxford-Cam
! bridge meet recently, distance 10
r feet inches. Young of South Ds
A kota won the high jump, 5 feet l.
!. inches. Oxford won the contest b
: IL points to 1 IL points. Tn
% American Rhodes scholars took thre
firsts, the long and high jumps, i
!. which Young repeated his victory {
i. 1896, and the hammer throw, Will
n Schutt, on Cornell, was third in tn