Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-21
SPORTING NOTES.

Max Hensler Of Prosser, Wash, ex-
professional, captured the grand Pa
cific coast handicap shoot at Spokane.
After rs minutes actual wrestling,
Charles Delivuk defeated Ludwig Lief
son, young miner from the Standard
mine, at Wallace recently. The match
was for 500 side, and the condi-
tons were that Delivuk was to throw
Llefson twice in an hour at catch-as-
catch-can style.
Jack Johnson, the colored heavy
weight, fought Sailor Burke at Bridge
port, Conn. The fight was of six
rounds and the colored man, who out
weighed the sailor, landed some ter
rife blows, flooring his man several
times. Burke weighed 165 and John
son 1856.
London-Sir Thomas Upton will
send challenge for Americas cup.
Sir Thomas admitted that the Royal
Irish Yacht club was challenging IN
his behalf. 1t is learned that Fife
would be asked to design Sir Thomas
Lipton's challenger If he is not al
ready at work on the model Of the
Shamrock w., for that is to be the
name Of the new yacht.
Bill A. is dead. The old thorough
bred, who appeared on the tracks of
New York as a year old and was
later brought west and made the cir
cult of the Pacific northwest for
years.
A heart-breaking muff of a fly ball
from Cartwright's bat by Left Fielder
Suess of Spokane, a clean steal of
third base by the Butte captain, and
pretty. single into right center field
by Sits gave Butte the first, last and
winning run of the most spectacular,
the longest, and perhaps the cleanest
game of professional league baseball
ever played in Spokane. 1t lasted 16
full innings.
During the st. Louis-Detroit Ameri-
can league baseball game Sunday I'm
pire Evans was struck on the head by
soda water bottle in the hands OF
a spectator and was seriously in
jured. His recovery is doubtful
Lew Buchholz of North Yakima will
meet Joe Heinrich on the mat this fall
for purse of from 500 to $780,
1t will be 70-footer with which Sir
Thomas Upton will try for the Ameri-
cas- cup next August
Russ Hall, the manager of the Butte
team, says he will be back in the game
again next year.
Manager George Shredder of the Ia
coma team has signed George Engle
pitcher who helped Portland win
the pennant in 1901, to finish the sea
son for Tacoma.
Terry McKune, shortstop, and Dave
Rowan, first base, of the Spokane
League team have been sold. McKune
goes to st. Paul and Rowan to ST
Louis.
Big Meet at New York.
Many athletes who figured in the in
ternational track and field games al
jamestown were among the compete
tors in the fall games for the New
York Athletic club at Travers Island
Saturday.
Ralph Rose of the Olympic club,
San Francisco. was the most promi
nent figure in the field events, as he
made several new worlds records in
throwing weights at jamestown.
In the regular event with the 16-
pound shot, Rose sent the missile AZ
feet IL inches. His first record was
with the S-pound shot, which he sent
out for 81 feet inches, beating M. K
Sheridan's world record by feet
His other figures were 12-pound shot,
SIS feet II ga inches; 14-pound, 81 feet
6 3-S inches; 1S-pound, 43 feet 9 IL
inches; 2S-pound shot, "a feet inches,
all new marks.
With the 24-pound shot he failed by
a quarter of an inch to equal his own
record of 3S feet 2 ga inches. Forest
Smithson of the Multnomah A. G. of
Oregon won the high hurdle race hand
lily in 16 seconds from scratch, but he
was beaten over the low by Langdon
of the Irish American Athletic club,
to whom the western runner was CON
ceding 10 points.
j. M. Simpson, manager of the Uni
versity of Idaho football team, has
completed arrangements for practical
ly all the big games to be played by
the university on the gridiron this
fall. The big game of the season is
to be played at Moscow November s,
when the state college comes over for
the annual contest.