Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-06-28
SPORTING NOTES.
The Ritzville baseball team has dil

refer ran, the champion o-yedr-Oi
Of the season, easily won the $500
Tidal stakes, mile and a quarter, g
Sheepshead Bay Saturday.
Freddy Weeks, who, a year and
half ago was fighting preliminariei
has pulled up another notch toward
the featherweight championship by dc
} feating deciseively Jimmy Walsh o
Boston in 10 rounds at Denver re
Gently.
Tim Hurley, who recently fought
20-round draw with Nick Burley a
Mullan, Idaho, has been matched t,
meet Jack Curley of Seattle at Nortf
Yakima on July 4.
Tom Kinsley, who also fought 20
round draw with Nick Burley, has beer
matched with Tom Reilly of Seattle
for a 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 McCloskeys 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.
The first trial heat for the selection
of 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 Oldf1eld drove a mile against
line in 521s seconds Saturday in Port
and, and a mile in competition in one
minute flat. Both are worlds records.
The race season is over at Oakland,
Jal.
The King County Fair association is
low simply waiting for June 29 to open
he greatest thoroughbred race meet
ng ever given at the Meadows. The
est stables that have raced in Cali
Ornia are either already quartered at
he track, are now en- route, or soon +
ill be.
ID. A. Sullivan OF Butte has gone to
pokane with the intention of locating
here. Mr.. Sullivan is an athlete of I
reat prowess, having represented
merica in the Olympic games at !
thens In the middleweight worlds q
resting championships and in the G
games there.
Joe Cans, the lightweight champion.
i'd Jimmy Gardner, the clever pugi-
st Of Lowell, Mass, will probably be v
atched to meet in a finish fight at a
oldneld, New, on the afternoon of
lily 4. p
MOSCOW won the third and deciding u
'me In the series Of games played at Il
ioerton last week for 5000 purse. n
-Four athletes from the Olympic club 5
San Francisco carried off the honors IL
the track meet of the P. N. A. held CT
Seattle Saturday afternoon before d.
'OO spectators. In practically every "
ent In which they entered, the south
ners carried off the honors. ST
Ihey had been counting on winning s.
big event of the day, the Marathon u
ce Tor 10 miles, but Nelson, who e'
IRE the colors of the New York Ath-
lc club and holds the international b
ampionship, was defeated by Chan NJ
OF vancouver in a magnificent con- 81
u. The course was rough and the
Tie Englishman set the pace for the
Sc 10 miles, when Chambers steady ye
'ide began to tell and he started to Gu
erhaul Nelson. ce
At the eleventh mile thew were necl, WI
neck and seesawed for another M
etch when the Vancouver runner
adily crept ahead and at the finish da
was fresh and about 600 yards in ry
lead. Nelson was well spent whom re
arrived. Lou King of the Irish We
lerican Athletic association OF San trt
'ncisco took third and Johnson of tn
'toria finished fourth. MI
oan Kelly hurt his leg In practice an
was limping and unable to COM an
e. thus greatly weakening the Multi fal
nah aggregation, which had been sit
,ected to capture the big meet
I've northwest records were broken. nut
i.1 Vi D. A. q. took the 56-pound pe'
gnt' at 2S feet inches. WEIGH of on
kane did the mile in 4:4O As. Gil SHE
re or San Francisco threw the shot otf
rect and threequarters of an inch yet
zacharias of Multnomah threw the Wa
'ound hammer 14s feet 1Oh inches. {
rner did the $50 in 1902 LIS. ele
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