Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-08-31
SPORTING NOTES.

Jabez Cross, an Omaha sporting
man. has put in a bid for the Cans
Britt fight. offering $4,000 for the
go.
Con Struthers has resigned the man
agement of Vancouver to manage Jack
O'Keefe, prize fighter. Bill Hurley is
at the head of the team.
It is reported from Berlin that Reiff,
the American jockey, has been en-
gagged to ride for a prominent German
turfman at a salary of $4,000.
Tommy Burns, who became a heavy
among the heavies by knocking out
Bill Squires, is getting into shape for
his coming battle with Jack Johnson.
Tommy Doyle, the young twirler
who has been with the Tigers since
the opening of the season, has been
traded to Vancouver for Pitcher
Franklin.
Rossland and Trail, B. c., cricket
teams played cricket at the park
across the Columbia river from Trail
Saturday afternoon. The game was
won by Rossland by a score of Sc to
10.
Higginbotham. the tall Aberdeen
twirler, is the leagues leading twirl-
err Away up in the list, however, is
found the name of Harry Rush, the
Spokane schoolboy, with the Seattle
team.
Jack Johnson, the negro giant who
whipped Bob Fitzsimmons, is now
training for a Aground battle with
Tommy Burns for the championship
of the world. The negro is a power
full human engine.
BY riding the winners of six races,
the entire card at Churchill Downs,
Louisville, June 5, 1907, James Lee,
the negro rider under contract to Je-
rome B. Respess of Cincinnati, estab-
lished a worlds record.
Eddie Householder, the Aberdeen
right fielder, keeps up his terrific hit
ting streak. his great work at Butte
putting him far and away to the front
OF the Northwestern league percent
age column. His figure is 1891 at this
date.
The Washington state trapshooting
tournament to have been held in Wal
la Walla the last of this month has
been transferred to Spokane. and wi'
this year be a one-day affair, follow.
ing the big Pacific coast handicap
shoot. The date for it will be Friday,
September 10.
President Griffin of the Aberdeen
baseball club says the season prom
Uses to be a financial success, and there
is every reason to believe that a ball
team will be maintained in the North
west league for some time to come
He says the management is entirely
satisfied with this seasons work of
the team and its income.
Fielding averages Of the Northwest
ern league leave some clue as to why
the Aberdeen and Tacoma teams are
so far in the front. In batting these
two teams are not showing any better
on paper than the other teams of the
league but in fielding they are certain
ly practically in a class nv themselves
! Al,vrdvvu players lead in four differ
ent positions and Tacomans lead in
two. In almost every instance the
Tacoma or Aberdeen player is far vi
in the list as compared with the play
ers of other teams in his position.
Wild Bill Donovan, the leading
pitcher of the American league this
season, is much interested in the
work of Walter Johnson, the phenom
email young pitcher now with the
Washington club. During a recent
game in Washington Donovan
watched JOhnson's every move ant
then had this to say: ut is no won
der to me that Johnson pitched So in
nings without allowing a run ant
struck out 166 men in IL games up in
Idaho. 1t is only wonderful to me
that he did not strike out every one
of those bushers up there. He has
remarkable speed and a great shoof
on his fast ball, and to tell you the
truth, he is the best raw pitcher
have ever seen. If nothing happens
to that fellow he will be a greater pitch
er in two years than Mathewson ever
dared to be. Mark that prediction
Look at that build. His arms are al
most twice as long as those of an or
binary man, and he is we'll built from
head to foot. Nineteen years old
Well, I guess that fellow won't i'm