Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-05
SPORTING NOTES.

Tom Riley won his battel with Tom
Kinsley at Havre, Mont, few days
ago, with a clean knockout blow admin.
istered in the fifth round.
The Seattle high school baseball
team is now in Pennsylvania, and is
still winning games.
Arrangements are being made for
a boxing exhibition between Maurice
Thompson of Butte, Mont, and Perry
Queenan of Wallace, at Burke.
Walter Johnson, the famous boy
pitcher Of the Weiser baseball team
of the Idaho State league, has signed
with the American league club of
Washington, d. c., and will leave for
that place July Is. Johnson's record
as pitcher is without a parallel in
baseball history. He has pitched rs
innings without a run being scored
against him and has struck out 166
men in SO innings. The Weiser team
has played seven straight shutout
games and have made SO runs while
their opponents have made but 5, a
phenomenal record.
Harvard was victorius against Yale
in the final contest for university base
ball honors at the Polo grounds Satur-
day. The crimson beat the blue by
score of 7 to 2. The game was played
in a rainstorm.
Miss May Sutton of California in the
all-England lawn tennis championship
games at Wimbledon Saturday beat
Miss Morton, 20.
At Milwaukee, Wis, Packy McFar-
land, the Chicago lightweight, defeated
Charles Neary Of Milwaukee in a 10
round bout.
The spite" fight, Jimmy Britt YER
sus Battling Nelson, will not be held
on the night of July a soriginally
planned to kill the Burns-Squires card
of July 4. The promoters of the for
mer bout have decided that vengeance |
on the head of James Coffroth might |
be more expensive than they can af- |
ford for the present. The fight will |
now be held July 81.
In the all-England tennis champion
ship games at Wimbledon Norman E. |
Brookes, Australian, beat Karl Behr,
American, by 80, after the most ex-
citing match of the championship Sc
les. The scores were GA, 20, 3-6, 81.
Miss Sutton of California beat Miss
-owther, GA, GA.
Jack brennan has been signed again
~ Manager Shredder of the Tacoma
cam
Harvard won the freshman eight by
me and half lengths and Yale the
'arsity four-oared race by about 10
engths on the morning tide on the
Thames river, and the result confirmed
Coming with the great
'ictory Of Yale varsity eight the day
before, the win of the four was a
ource of qualification to Yale men and
n evidence of the efficiency of Coach
Aennedy's training. 1t was an easy h
ace for the blue to win, while the
freshmen race was a hard one for ;
ale to lose and CORRESPONDENCE a tri-
mph for the Cambridge youngsters.
Seattle has traded Sits, shortstop,
or Bruyette, shortstop on the Butte
cam. He will report on Sunday.
The greatest running race meeting
yer held in Spokane is predicted for
he two weeks program offered at the
Interstate fair by Ed Getchell, one of !
he most prominent figures in Cali
ornia racing and veteran trainer of ,
nore than a score of years on the
cast.
S. f. Edge, the London automobilist,
Tho Friday started to drive 60-horse
over car around the new Brookland ,
ement motor track at an average s
peed of 60 miles an hour for "a hours. s
ompleted it at 6 o'clock Saturday, s
eating all endurance records. He
overed 1000 miles in IA hours 81 min ,
ties and Is seconds. At the 10Th hour
e had completed 1903 miles, or 612 +
lilies better than the record. At the
nd of "a hours his total distance Gov 9
red was 1851 miles 131 yards. Edge 6
roke the motor record. He not only II
arried out his declared intention of 9
irving an average of 60 miles an hour II
Or "a hours, but he added another six
lilies an hour to it. At times Edge {
cached 70 miles an hour. He was in
plendid condition when he finished. ,
Pitcher Klinkhammer, who was re-
BASED by Spokane a week ago. has
Igned with Nampa, Idaho.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS. .