Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-06-29
SPORTING NOTES.

Tidal stakes, mile and quarter, at
Sheepshead Bay Saturday.
Freddy Weeks, who. a year and
half ago was fighting preliminaries,
has pulled up another notch towards
the featherweight championship by de-
feating deciseively Jimmy Walsh of
Boston in 10 rounds at Denver re-
Gently.
Tim Hurley, who recently fought a
20-round draw with Nick Burley at
Mullan, Idaho, has been matched to
meet Jack Curley of Seattle at North
Yakima on July a.
| Tom Kinsley, who also fought 20
round draw with Nick Burnley, has been
matched with Tom Reilly of Seattle
for a 20-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 lit
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-
tterprise 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 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 mile against
time in 521a 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
lfornia are either already quartered at
the track, are now en- route, or soon
Twill be.
| D. A. Sullivan of Butte has gone to
lSpokane with the intention of locating
there. Mr.. Sullivan is an athlete OF
great prowess, having represented
America in the Olympic games al
Athens in the middleweight worlds
wrestling championships and in the
lpentathalon games there.
Joe Cans. the lightweight champion
and Jimmy Gardner, the clever pugi
list of Lowell, Mass, will probably be
matched to meet in finish fight al
Goldheld, New, on the afternoon o.
b July 4.
Moscow won the third and deciding
game in the series of games played a.
Elberton last week for a 5000 purse
Four athletes from the Olympic clul
} of San Francisco carried off the honor:
at the track meet of the p. N. A. helC
at Seattle Saturday afternoon before
= 900 spectators. In practically ever!
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 Is miles, but Nelson, wit
wore the colors of the New York Ath
letic club and holds the internationa
+ championship, was defeated by Chan
t Ter Of Vancouver in a magnificent con
test. The course was rough and tn
2 little Englishman set the pace for tn
3 first 10 miles, when Chambers stead
. stride began to tell and he started t
: overhaul Nelson.
+ At the eleventh mile they we're nee
t and neck and seesawed. for anothe
stretch when the Vancouver rune
steadily crept ahead and at the finis
he was fresh and about 600 yards 1
the lead. Nelson was well spent whe
he arrived. Lou King of the Irisl
l American Athletic association of Sa
Francisco took third and Johnson c
Victoria finished fourth.
Ian nelly nuIl HIS leS III pIdCliS
y and was limping and unable to con
n pete, thus greatly weakening the Null
nomah aggregation, which had bee
d expected to capture the big meet.
e Five northwest records were broker
& Bantz of S. A. c. took the 56-poun
d weight, at 2S feet inches, WEIGH {
! Spokane did the mile in 4:40 AS. CT
Q more of San Francisco threw the she
As feet and threequarters of an inc
and Zacharias of Multnomah threw tn
16-pound hammer 149 feet 1O1s inche
Glarner did the $50 in 1902 1-5.
The Score:
4 Olympic ---- SO 1
Seattle 80 1
q Multnomah 80
" Spokane 25 1