Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-08-30
SPORTING NOTES.


Britt fight, offering $4,000 for 91 II.
60
Con Struthers has resigned The ~.
agement of Vancouver to MANAGE 1a1,
O'Keefe, prize fighter. Bill HuFler q
at the head of the team.
It is reported from Berlin that po,s
the American jockey, has been -
gagged to ride for a prominent Germar
turfman at salary of $4,000
Tommy Burns, who became a baoru
among the heavies by KNOCKING ~.
Bill Squires, is getting into shane fos
his coming battle with Jack Johnson
Tommy Doyle, the young twirlo.
who has been with the Tigers sinca
the opening of the season, has baen
traded to Vancouver for Pitcber
Franklin.
Rossland and Trail, B. c., cricket
teams played cricket at the part
across the Columbia river from Trail
Saturday afternoon. The game was
won by Rossland by score of Sc to
10.
Higginbotham, the tall Aberdeen
twirler, is the leagues leading twirL
er. Away up in the list, however. il
found the name of Harry Rush. the
Spokane schoolboy, with the Seattle
| team.
Jack Johnson, the negro giant who
whipped Bob Fitzsimmons, is now
training for a Aground battle with
Tommy Burns for the championships
Of the world. The negro is a power.
full human engine.
By riding the winners of six races
the entire card at Churchill Downs
Louisville, June 5, 1907, James Lee
the negro rider under contract to Je
rome B. Respess of Cincinnati, estab
lished a worlds record.
Eddie Householder, the Aberdeen
right fielder, keeps up his terrific hit
ting streak, his great work at Butte
putting him far and away to the front
of the Northwestern league percent
age column. His figure is 1861 at this
date.
The Washington state trapshooting
tournament to have been held in Wal
la Walla the last of this month has
been transferred to Spokane, and will
this year be one-day affair, follow.
ing the big Pacific coast handicap
shoot. The date for it will be Friday
September 10.
President Griffin of the Aberdeen
baseball club says the season prom.
Uses to be a financial success, and there
is every reason to believe that ball
team will be maintained in the North.
west league for some time to come
He says the management is entirely
satisfied with this seasons work Of
the team and it's income.
Fielding averages of the Northwest
ern league leave some clue as to why
the Aberdeen and Tacoma teams are
so far in the front. In batting these
two teams are not showing any better
on paper than the other teams of the
league but in fielding they are certain.
ly practically in a class by themselves,
Aberdeen players lead in four differ
ent positions and Tacomans lead p
two. In almost every instance the
Tacoma or Aberdeen player is far up
III the list as compared with the play
ers of other teams in his position.
Wild Bill Donovan, the leading
pitcher of the American league this
season, is much interested in the
work of Walter Johnson, the phenon
email young pitcher now with the
Washington club. During recent
game in Washington Donovan
watched Johnson's every move, and
then had this to say; at is no won
der to me. that Johnson pitched So ID
nings without allowing a run ana
struck out 166 men in II games up u
Idaho. It is only wonderful to me
that he did not strike out every ons
of those bushers up there. He nas
remarkable speed and a great shoo'
on his fast ball, and to tell you ns
truth, he is the best raw pitcher
have ever seen. If nothing happen
to that fellow he will be a greater pllcp
er in two years than Mathewson e'sl
dared to be. Mark that predicuuI
Look at that build. His arms are
most twice as long as those OF an VI
binary man, and he is we'll built HUN
head to foot. Nineteen years ou
Well, l guess that fellow wont IN
prove within a year or two"