Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-06-29
SPORTING NOTES.
The Ritzville baseball team has dis

The Ritzville baseball team has di
banded.
Peter Pan, the champion 3-year-ol
of the season. easily won the SIS, 90
Tidal stakes, mile and a quarter, 9
Sheepshead Bay Saturday.
Freddy Weeks, who. year and
half ago was Sighting preliminaries
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 BurIey a
Mullan, Idaho, has been matched t,
meet Jack Curley of Seattle at Nortl
Yakima on July 4.
Tom Kinsley, who also fought a 20
round draw with Nick Burnley, has beer
matched with Tom Reilly of Seattl,
for 20-round boxing exhibition, t.
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 Abers
deem team, slipped one over on the in.
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.
Con" Struthers, newly elected man
ager Of the Vancouver baseball club.
took hold of the team Sunday.
The first trial heat for the selection
OF challenger for the new interna-
tional yacht racing Alexandra CUP pre-
sented by Lieutenant Governor Duns-
muir of British Columbia was held re-
Gently in Seattle and was won by the
Spirit.
Barney Oldfeld drove a mile against
time in 527a seconds Saturday in Port
land, and 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
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
will be.
d. A. Sullivan of Butte has gone to
Spokane with the intention of locating
here. Mr.. Sullivan is an athlete of
'reat prowess, having represented
in the Olympic games at
Athens in the middleweight worlds
wrestling championships and in the
'entathalon games there.
Joe Cans, the lightweight champion.
nd Jimmy Gardner, the clever pugi- |
lst OF Lowell, Mass, will probably be |
matched to meet in a finish fight at |
ioldfeld, New, on the afternoon of |
uly 4.
Moscow won the third and deciding
anne in the series of games played at
'lberton last week for a 5000 purse.
-Four athletes from the Olympic club
San Francisco carried off the honors
the track meet OF the P. N. A. held
Seattle Saturday afternoon before
600 spectators. In practically every
vent in which they entered, the south
rners carried off the honors.
They had been counting on winning
ne big event Of the day, the Marathon
ace for Is miles, but Nelson, who
'ore the colors of the New York Ath-
'tic club and holds the international
championship, was defeated by Chan
II OF Vancouver in magnificent con-
est. The course was rough and the
tile Englishman set the pace for the
rst 10 miles, when Chambers steady
tride began to tell and he started to
verhaul Nelson.
At the eleventh mile they were neck
nd neck and seesawed for another
Fretch when the Vancouver runner
teadily crept ahead and at the finish
Q was fresh and about 600 yards in
he lead. Nelson was well spent when
e arrived. Lou King of the Irish
merican Athletic association OF San
Francisco took third and Johnson of
ictoria finished fourth.
Dan Kelly hurt his leg in practice
nd was limping and unable to COM
etc, thus greatly weakening the Multi
omah aggregation, which had been
Kpected to capture the big meet.
Five northwest records were broken.
anti Of s. A. G. took the 56-pound
eight, at % feet inches, WEIGH of
pokane did the mile in 4:40 As. Gil
lore OF San Francisco threw the shot +
feet and threequarters of an inch
nd Zacharias of Multnomah threw the