Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-06-29
SPORTING NOTES.

, of the season easily won the $4,000
! Tidal stakes, mile and quarter, al
| Sheepshead Bay Saturday.
| Freddy Weeks, who, a year and 6
half ago was fighting preliminaries
has pulled up another notch towards
the featherweight championship by de
featlng deciseively Jimmy Walsh OF
Boston in 10 rounds at Denver re-
Gently.
Tim Hurley, who recently fought q
20-round draw with Nick Burley at
Mulan, Idaho, has been matched to
meet Jack Curley of Seattle at North
Yakima on July 4,
Tom Kinsley, who also fought 20
round draw with Nick Burley, has been
matched with Tom Reilly of Seattle
for a 2O-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 McCloskey's National
league team. McCloskey gave $4,000
for Burnett.
Dad Brown. manager of the Aber-
deem team, slipped one over on the ill-
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 a 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 Oldfeld drove a mile against
time in 5215 seconds Saturday in Port
land, and a mile in competition in one
minute flat. Both are worlds records.
The race season is over at Oakland,
Cal
The King County Fair association is
now simply waiting for June 20 to open
the greatest thoroughbred race meet
ing ever given at the Meadows. The
best stables that have raced in Cali
fcrnia are either already quartered at
the track, are now en- route, or soon
will be.
d. A. Sullivan of Butte has gone to
Spokane with the intention of locating
there. Mr.. Sullivan is an athlete of
great prowess, having represented
in the Olympic games at
Athens in the middleweight worlds
wrestling championships and in the
pentathalon games there.
Joe Cans, the lightweight champion,
and Jimmy Gardner, the clever pugi-
list of Lowell, Mass, will probably be
matched to meet in a finish fight at
Goldfeld, New, on the afternoon of
July 4.
Moscow won the third and deciding
game in the series of games played at
Elberton last week for a 5000 purse.
Four athletes from the Olympic club
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at the track meet of the P. N. A. held
at Seattle Saturday afternoon before
1000 spectators. In practically every
event in which they entered, the south
erners carried off the hOnors.
They had been counting on winning
the big event of the day, the Marathon
race for 10 miles, but Nelson, who
wore the colors of the New York Ath-
letic club and holds the international
championship, was defeated by Chan
Ter of Vancouver in magnificent con-
test. The course was rough and the
little Englishman set the pace for the
first 10 miles, when Chambers steady
stride began to tell and he started to
overhaul Nelson.
AT the eleventh mile they were neck
and neck and seesawed for another
stretch when the Vancouver runner
steadily crept ahead and at the finish
he was fresh and about 600 yards In
the lead. Nelson was we'll spent when
he arrived. Lou King of the Irish
American Athletic association Of San
Francisco took third and Johnson of
Victoria finished fourth.
Con" Struthers, newly elected man.
ager OF the Vancouver baseball club,
took hold of the team Sunday.
Dan Kelly hurt his leg in practice
and was limping and unable to COM
pete, thus greatly weakening the Multi
nomah aggregation, which had been
expected to capture the big meet.
Five northwest records were broken.
Bantz of S. A. C. took the 56-pound
weight, at % feet inches. WEIGH of
Spokane did the mile in 4:40 AS. Gil
more of San Francisco threw the shot
45 feet and threequarters Of an inch
and Zacharias of Multnomah threw the
16-pound hammer 149 feet 1912 inches
Glarner did the $50 in 1902 1-5.
The Score:
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