Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-09-20
SPORTING NOTES.

PAOlSSSloudi, captured the grand IA
cifc coast handicap shoot at Spokane.
! After rs minutes actual wrestling,
Charles Delivuk defeated Ludwig Lief
son, young miner from the Standard
mine, at Wallace recently. The match
was for 500 a side, and the condi-
tions were that Delivuk was to throw
Liefson twice in an hour at eatch-as-
catch-can style.
Jack Johnson, the colored heavy
weight, fought Sailor Burke at Bridge
port, Conn. The fight was of six
rounds and the colored man, who out
weighed the sailor, landed some ter
rife blows, flooring his man several
times. Burke weighed 1875 and John
son 1885,
London-Sir Thomas Upton will
send challenge for Americas cup.
Sir Thomas admitted that the Royal
Irish Yacht club was challenging in
his behalf. 1t is learned that Fifo
would be asked to design Sir Thomas
Lipton's challenger if he is not al
ready at work on the model of the
Shamrock w., for that is to be the
name of the new yacht.
Bill A. is dead! The old thorough
bred, who appeared on the tracks of
New York as 2 year old and was
later brought west and made the cir.
cult of the Pacific northwest for
years.
A heart-breaking muff of fly ball
from Cartwright's bat by Left Fielder
Suess of Spokane, a clean steal of
third base by the Butte captain, and
pretty single into right center field
by SITS gave Butte the first, last and
winning run of the most spectacular,
the longest, and perhaps the cleanest
game of professional league baseball
ever played in Spokane. 1t lasted 16
full innings
During the ST. Louis-Detroit Ameri-
can league baseball game Sunday I'm
pire Evans was struck on the head by
soda water bottle in the hands of
spectator and was seriously in
jured. His recovery is doubtful.
Lew Buchholz of North Yakima will
meet Joe Heinrich on the mat this fall
for a purse of from $100 to $500.
II will be a 70.footer with which Sir
Thomas Upton will try for the Ameri-
cas- cup next August.
Russ Hall, the manager of the Butte
team, says he will be back in the game
again-neXt year.
Manager George Shredder of the Ia
coma team has signed George Engle
a pitcher who helped Portland win
the pennant in 1901, to finish the sea,
son for Tacoma.
Terry McKune, shortstop, and Dave
Rowan, first base, of the Spokane
League team have been sold. McKune
goes to st. Paul and Rowan to st
Louis.
Big Meet at New York.
Many athletes who figured in the in
ternational track and field games al
jamestown were among the competi
tors in the fall games for the New
York Athletic club at Travers Islant
Saturday.
Ralph Rose of the Olympic club
San Francisco, was the most promi
; nent figure in the field events as hC
made several new worlds records il
throwing weights at jamestown.
In the regular event with the 16
pound shot, Rose sent the missile 4!
: feet 5 IL inches. His first record was
+ with the S-pound shot, which he sen
: out for 67 feet inches, beating M. K
Sheridans world record by feet.
His other figures were 12-pound shot
7 55 feet II "a inches; 14-pound, 81 fee
i 9-8 inches; 18-pound 43 feet 9 Il
: inches; 28-pound shot, "a feet inches
+ all new marks.
With the 24-pound shot he failed b!
o quarter of an inch to equal his owl
record of 80 feet 2 ga inches. Fores
y Smithson of the Multnomah A. G. o
e Oregon won the high hurdle race hand
/ lily in 16 seconds from scratch, but h
Il was beaten over the low by Langdol
/ of the Irish American Athletic club
l. to whom the western runner was con
I ceding 10 points.
]. M. Simpson, manager of the Uni
versity of Idaho football team, hal
completed arrangements for practical
ly all the big games to be played b!
the university on the gridiron thi
e fall. The big game of the season il
s to be played at Moscow November
o when the state college comes over TO
the annual contest.