The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-28
SPORTING NOTES.
The Ritzviile baseball team has dis

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Sheepshead Bay Saturday.
Freddy Weeks, who, a year n a
half ago was fighting preliminarles'
has pulled up another notch a
the featherweight championship by De
feating deciseively Jimmy Walsh OF
Roston in 10 rounds at Denver re-
Gently.
Tim Hurley, who recently fought a
2O-round draw with Nick Burnley at
MulIan, Idaho, has been matched 10
meet Jack Curley of Seattle at North
Yakima on July 4.
Tom Kinsley. who also fought a 20
round draw with Nick Burley, has been
matched with Tom Reilly of Seattle
for a 20-round boxing exhibition 10
take place at Havre, Mont.
Jack Burnett Of the Tacoma team
has gone t 0 st. Louis, where he WIZ
play with John McClOskey's National
league team. McCloskey gave S2,5OO
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 me
and the railroads knocked out special
rates. Dad bought transportation for
three long trips for his team. The en-
terprise 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 e 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 a mile against
time in 52H seconds Saturday in Port
land. and a mile in competition in one
minute flat. Both are worlds records
The a C season is rel 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 Call
| fCrnia are either already quaTtered a.
the track, are now en route, or soor
will be.
D. A. Sullivan of Butte has gone tt
| Spokane with the intention of locating
there. Mr.. Sullivan is an athlete o
lgreat prowess, having represented
America in the Olympic games a
Athens in the middleweight worlds
wrestling championships and in tn
pentathalon games there.
Joe Cans, the lightweight champion
and Jimmy Gardner, the clever pug
list of Lowell, Mass, will probably b
matched to meet in a finish fight a
G|oldfeld, New, on the afternoon c
July 4.
Moscow won the third and decidin
game in the series of games played a
Elberton last week for a 5000 purse
Four athletes from the Olympic clu
of San Francisco carried off the honor
at the track meet of the P. N. A. hel
at Seattle Saturday afternoon befor
2 900 spectators. In practically ever
event in which they entered, the soutl
erners carried off the honors.
: They had been counting on winnin
, the big event of the day, the Maratho
race for Is miles, but Nelson, WI
t wore the colors of the New York At
: letic club and holds the information
b championship, was defeated by Cha
t Ter Of Vancouver in a magnificent co
test. The course was rough and II
little E%nglishman set the pace for Il
e first 10 miles, when Chambers stead
3 stride began to tell and he started
overhaul Nelson.
At the eleventh mile they we're nee
and neck and seesawed for anoth'
stretch when the Vancouver rum
steadily crept ahead and at the finiI
he was fresh and about 900 yards
the lead. Nelson was well spent VIII
he arrived. Lou King of the Iris
American Athletic association OF s.
Francisco took third and Johnson
Victoria finished fourth.
II Dan Kelly hurt his leg In practi
and was limping and unable to co
n pete, thus greatly weakening the Mu
nomah aggregation, which had be
d expected to capture the big meet.
20 Five northwest records were broke
X Bantz of S. A. c.. took the 56-pou
ID weight, at % feet 5 inches. WEIGH
d. Spokane did the mile in 4:40 As. G
tie more of San Francisco threw the 81
As feet and threequarters of an in
and Zacharias of Multnomah threw t
16-pound hammer 149 feet 101A inch
Glarner did the $50 in 1902 LIS.
The Score:
q Olympic 80
oedllle %
q Multnomah 81