Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-05-03
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, 20
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 Mel.
lody-sulliyan fight at Los Angeles
last week give the Boston boy credit
for putting up a logged fight against
a more clever boxer. Melody, accord
ing 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
Intercollegiate 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-O'Brien go. That
means he will have time to pick up
some easy money by the exhibition
route.
Young John L. Sullivan at least has
popular name. He is a 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 for
Young Corgett. He will meet Maurice
Savers, Benny Yanger and another
rot yet matched. Corbett is a. dead
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 80 points
to 27.
Nick Altrock was the first White
Sox twirler to get shutout. He
the trick against st. Louis.
The strain of managing the Pitts
burg Pirates has made Fred Clark |
20 pounds lighter than when he only |
played ball, according to Fred him
self.
Tony Ross, Newcastle, Pa, has
been selected as Mike Schrecks next
victim. The bout comes off at Day
ton, Ohio, May 8.
Unless several members of the UNI.
rersity of Washington baseball team
forsake the practice of
chewing tobacco and quit breaking
rules by staying up late at
light needlessly, all of the games con-
.racted for by the manager will be
preventing special tours
around the sound and the tour in
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md part of Idaho, all suits will be
'alled in and no more attempts will
'e made to put varsity team in the
ield, states a west side report.
In spite of contrary weather, snow 1
md high winds, the field meet of the i
county high schools was
'ulled off Saturday morning in a sue
essful manner in Colfax.
Seattle won II inning contest !
rom Butte Friday. {
Only the fact that he was in superb t
ondition enabled young Erne to get l
he better of young Corbett in a six
ound bout in Philadelphia Sunday t
light. To many at the ringside it seem /
d that the cOnqueror of Terrible" {
'erry McGovern had come back into /
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