Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-10-12
SPORTING NOTeS

The big relay race at the Spokane
Interstate fair is over and as seemed
apparent after the first few days of
riding Joe Pickell came out the win
ner.
The American Motor League is form
ing a Washington division and well
known automobilists are being select
ed in different parts of the state to
serve as the first state boards of Off
GERS.
Percy Cove, the human bedslat,"
who started his fighting career in the
amateur bouts around Seattle, was
licked in three rounds by Teddy Pep
pers in st. Joseph, Mo-, short time
ago.
In a contest with sensational fea-
lures the Seattle high school team
held the heavier eleven of the Uni
versity of Washington to a tie on
the gu" campus Saturday. After 50
minutes of the most exciting kind of
playing the score was 0 to 0. 1t was
virtually a victory for the high school
team, for the varsity men confidently
expected to win by three or four touch
downs.
Brighton Beach-Amid the cheers of
$4,000 spectators Salvidere, the heav-
lily played favorite, won the Brighton
cup and $4,000 by head in a terrific
drive with Running Water second and
Ballot, an added starter, third.
Syracuse held Yale down to two
touchdowns and a goal Saturday, the
second touchdown was due to a bad
pass by the Syracuse center.
The Spokane high school football
team scored as good as a victory over
the University of Idaho at Moscow,
when, in two Commute halves. it held
the husky aggregation of coliegians
down to no score, the final result being
Idaho 0, Spokane high school O.
Washington State college defeated
the Cheney normal school in the most
One-sided game ever played on the
Pullman grounds Saturday, by the
score of 46 to O.
Harvard was victorious in the sin
giles and Harvard and Princeton re
naming to fight it out in the doubles
was the result of Saturdays play in
the Intercollegiate championship lawn
tennis tournament on the court of the
Merton Cricket club at Haverford. By
securing all four places in the semi
finals, Harvard is assured the posses
sion of the singles championship for
this year.
Details of the worlds championship
series between the Chicago club, win
ner of the National league pennant
and the Detroit team, pennant win
ners in the American league have
been arranged. The schedule of
games follows: Tuesday, Oct. 8, at
Chicago; Wednesday, Oct. 8, at Chi
cagO; Thursday, Oct 10, at Detroit;
Friday, Oct. II, at Detroit Saturday,
Oct. II, at Detroit; Sunday, Oct. 10,
at Chicago.
The double bill of the semi-profes-
fessional championship of the north
west between the Portland Tri-City
leaguers and the Spokane City leag-
uers drew capacity crowd Saturday
and produced two intensely interest
ing battles. The l.. S. Frakes team
the Portland champions, were victor
ious in the first, beating the Cubs. the
Spokane champions, in II innings, 4
to 3. Fairbanks-Morse, which lost
Saturday to the Frakes, won the Sec
ond game of the afternoon in six
innings, 4 to 2, the game being called
on account of darkness.
Thomas Bertram, 20 years old, of
Altoona, Pa, suffered injuries during
football game Sunday that caused
his death. He was kicked in the head
during the scrimmage.
Salt Lake, Utah.-Eugene NJ.
Bourne, 13 years old, who died here
Sunday, is the first victim of football
this season. He received a blow on
the head in a game
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