Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-05-11
SPORTING NOTES.

Skilful as was her work, Miss May
Sutton met defeat at the hands of N.
W. Niles Saturday at New York.
At Berkeley, Cal, Saturday Nelson,
the English runner and former holder
of the coast record in the five mile,
lowered his own time and that of
Baird of the Olympia club. Time, 26
minutes % seconds.
The second annual interscholastic
track and field meet held under the
auspices of Whitman college at Walla
Walla Thursday and Friday nights of
this week, finds over 25 high schools
promising to send athletes and orators.
The detailed accounts of the Mol
lCdy-Sullivan fight at Los Angeles
last week give the Boston boy credit
for putting up logged fight against
more clever boxer Melody, accord
ling to the accounts, never had chance
after the real fighting began, spending
the time rushing Sullivan into clinches.
The third and deciding contest of the
II tercollegiate baseball games between
Stanford university and the University
of California was won by the Stanford
team, which already had taken a game
Bill Squires is foxy. No rushing
into fight right off the reel for him.
He has posted $4,000 to meet the win
ner of the Burns-OBrien go. That
means he will have time to pick up
some easy money by the exhibition
route
Young John L. Sullivan at least has
| a popular name He is welter-
weight who will be managed by
Johnny Mack.
guy. In a recent game he sent up
three substitute batters in the ninth.
and two of them got hits.
Freddy Weeks lately defeated Grow
er Hays at Philadelphia in six rounds
Hays is the youngster who, until he
tangled up with Weeks, was whipping
all the boys around the east.
The lid is off in Chicago and three
battles have been arranged there fol
Young Corgett. He will meet Maurice
Savers, Benny Yanger and another
rot yet matched. Corbett is a deat
one, but he still puts up an interesting
| fight.
At Pullman Friday the washington
State college won the field meete from
the University of Montana by SO points
to 27.
Nick Altrock was the first Whit
Sox twirler to get shutout. HI
turned the trick against st. Louis.
The strain of managing the Pitts
, burg Pirates has made Fred Clarl
20 pounds lighter than when he onl
~ Etrnd m
! self.
Unless several members of the I'm
, versity of Washington baseball tear
> Immediately forsake the practice c
y chewing tobacco and quit breakin
training rules by staying up late a
q night needlessly, all of the games col
tracted for by the manager will b
cancelled, preventing special tour
around the sound and the tour il
! Guiding the eastern part of this stat
n and part of Idaho, all suits will b
v called in and no more attempts wi
f be made to put varsity team in tn
r field, states west side report.
In spite of contrary weather, sno'
a and high winds, the field meet of tn
Whitman county high schools wa
!. pulled off Saturday morning in SUI
= cesSful manner in COlfaX.
l. Seattle won a IL inning conte'
n from Butte Friday.
# Only the fact that he was in super
condition enabled young Erne to g
the better of young Corbett in a 81
round bout in Philadelphia Sunds
night. To many at the ringside it seeI
20 ed that the conqueror of Terrible
Terry McGovern had come back in
N his own.
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= STANDING OF THE CLUBS.