The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-07
SPORTING SNAP SHOTS.

Wellington won ne UlB
hin intercollegiate boat race on Lake
W-asbington near Seattle Saturday, ue.
sastiDq stanford by two and one-han
i1Igtbs W~ashington's time was 70
~H,,prtes and 50 seconds, and Stanford
,-as 92.54. Both crews got of at the
erine Of the starters gun. WashIns-
ton took the lead at the very begin
ring and was headed.
Mike CTwin) Sullivan can have a
match with Joe Thomas by saying the
word.
Herbert w. Kerrigan, the wen
known Portland, Ore, athlete. was &C
~cidentally shot in the leg while en-
Gagged in target practice recently. Inc
hall which was a %, lodged IN the
hone. necessitating an operation.
Harper, the crack shortstop on the
Seattle team, has been awarded 10
lEdmonton in the Twilight league.
II was announced at the University
of Chicago Saturday that the unlVer-
sitv baseball team had been suspended
from all participation in intercollegiate
baseball and that Coach Dickinson mad
lbasn 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 ce~nterneld
and had another man bat for MIN
/ throughout the game.
Working true to indicated form. the
track and field team Of the University
of Illinois won the western i%ntercolle-
eiate championship at Marshall Field
| saturday afternoon. The victory was
bv a narrow margin, Illinois scoring
Ig1 points while Chicago finished with
29is. a.,
The members of the Whitman col
Ilege track and baseball teams have re
elected Captain George Philbrook OF
this years track team, who, is without
la doubt. one of the best a~ll-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 clut
in the annual meet of the Pacific
Northwest Amateur Athletic associa
ton at Seattle June %.
Rube Waddell is characterized as
pitcher with a $4,000 arm and a beef
check hear.
Jack Monro, ex-pug. is reported tc
be getting rich in the Ontario co
bait mines.
Eugene Hildebrand, one-time cham
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 e~xonerated 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 a
present a~gitating the fight fans is:
Where on earth is the welterweight
title?
At a recent meeting of the faculty Of
Whitman college at Walla Walla that
Institution became a member of the
Pacific Northwest association, {
branch of the Amateur Athletic asso
citation.
Football New Rules.
Two changes in the football rules
for the coming season have beer
adopted by the intercollegiate foot
ball rules committee.
The first rule provides that in th'
case of a forward pass, the player mus
be at least a yard back from the lint
when the play is begun. This rul'
was adopted to remove the ambiguit!
of the old rule as to whether tn,
players we're on the end of the scrim
mage line or behind the line.
The other rule provides that a for
ward pass crossing the goal line OIL
a bound or rolling. whether befor,
or after being legally touched. shall
count as a touchback to the defender.
Of that goal.
The name Of the new official proyid
ed for at the last meeting has beel
changed from field umpire" to "felt
judge" to prevent confusion.