Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-06-15
SPORTING SNAP SHOTS.

ship intercollegiate boat race on Lake
Washington near Seattle Saturday, de-
! feating Stanford by two and one-half
lengths. Washington's time was 23
minutes and 3S seconds, and Stanford's
was 3d.: 54. Both crews got off at the
firing of the starters gun. Washing
ton took the lead at the very begin
ming and was never headed.
Mike (Twin) Sullivan can have a
match with Joe Thomas by saying the
word
Herbert w. Kerrigan, the well
known Portland, Ore, athlete, was ac-
cidentally shot in the leg while en-
gagged in target practice recently. The
ball, which was a %, lodged in the
bone, necessitating an operation.
Harper, the crack shortstop on the
Seattle team has been awarded to
Edmonton in the Twilight league.
1t was announced at the University
of Chicago Saturday that the univer-
sity baseball team had been suspended
from all participation in intercollegiate
baseball and that Coach Dickinson had
been dismissed. The charges are
made that Chicago, in the game with
the University of Minnesota the day
before, which was won by the latter
team, played one man in centerfield
and had another man bat for him
throughout the game.
Working true to indicated form, the
track and field team of the University
of Illinois won the western intercolle
giate championship at Marshall Field
Saturday afternoon. The victory was
by a narrow margin, Illinois scoring
81 points while Chicago finished with
29A.
The members of the Whitman col
lege track and baseball teams have re-
this years track team, who, is without
a doubt, one of the best all-around
point winners in the northwest, and
Captain Walter Crown of the baseball
team.
Clarence Edmunson, Idaho's crack
runner, who won the half-mile run in
the triangular college meet at Seattle
Decoration day, has consented to run
for the Spokane Amateur Athletic club
in the annual meet of the Pacific
Northwest Amateur Athletic associa-
ton at Seattle June %.
RUDE Waddell is characterized as
pitcher with $4,000 arm and beer
check hear
Jack Monro, ex-pug, is reported to
be getting rich in the Ontario CO.
bait mines
ND m, ffxr,0 no m
pion jockey, who was temporarily sus-
pended in the spring for an alleged bad
ride on the notorious bush horse,
Aaron j., has been reinstated by the
stewards of the California Jockey
club, after an investigation which
completely exonerated the former
chief idol
Miss May G. Sutton is now taking
her third trip abroad in the pursuit
of honors on the tennis courts of the
British isles.
One of the pugilistic questions at
present agitating the fight fans is:
Where on earth is the welterweight
title?
At recent meeting of the faculty Of
Whitman college at Walla Walla that
institution became a member of the
Pacific Northwest association, a
branch of the Amateur Athletic asso-
ciation
Football New. Rules.
Two changes In the football rules
for the coming season have been
adopted by the intercollegiate foot
| ball rules committee.
The first rule provides that in the
case of forward pass, the player must
be at least yard back from the line
when the play is begun. This rule
was adopted to remove the ambiguity
of the old rule as to whether the
players were on the lend of the scrim-
mage line or behind the line.
The other rule provides that for
ward pass crossing the goal line on
bound or rolling, whether before
or after being legally touched, shall
count as a touchback to the defenders
Of that goal.
The name of the new official provid-
ed for at the last meeting has been
changed from field umpire" to field
judge" to prevent confusion.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Northwestern LEAGUE.