Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-05
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

@~~~A~O
the University of Utah won from
Stanford university by a score of Ga
to SO at Cummings field recently.
Moscow, Idaho-The University of
Idaho shut out the Washington State
college baseball team, to 0, Satur-
day. Burnley, Idaho's pitcher, proving
invincible.
New Haven, Conn.-After having
beaten both Princeton and Columbia,
Yale tennis experts went down to de-
feat Saturday, the Crimson players
winning by a score of to 4.
Denver, Col.-E. Lynn Matthewson
won the Rocky Mountain endurance
race of motor cars north of the city re-
Gently, running 800 miles in eight |
hours % minutes SO seconds.
New York.-Greeted by the enthu-
siastic cheers of tens of thousands OF
racegoers, Colin, the great son of Com
mando, won the valuable Belmont
stake at Belmont park Saturday.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Freddie Welsh
of England was given the decision
over Phil Brock of Cleveland, after
25 rounds of hard fighting before the
Jeffries Athletic club at Vernon re-
Gently
Memphis, Tenn.-Nelson Whitney of
New Orleans won the southern golf
championship on the links of the
Country club here, defeating H. Chan
dler Egan of Louisville, four up and
three to play.
Terry McKune, for two years the
crack shortstop of the Spokane team,
; who was last fall sold to the st. Paul
team of the American association, has
been bought by d. e. Dugdale, man
ager of the Seattle club.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.-The Chadwick so
horsepower automobile, driven by
William Houpt, smashed the record
for the course in the free-for-all class
2 in the annual hill-climbing meet on
i Giant Despair course of Wilkesbarre
S Tokio.-The baseball teams of the
/. American naval squadron have beer
e playing a series of matches with the
n Japanese universities, an excellen
feeling prevailing on both sides. Thu
Japs have been winning most of thu
games.
G BOSJOu, MASS. clhlh5 tAC 1900 -
a the start and gradually drawing ahea
b. the Harvard eight-oared crew won tn
e annual race with Cornell over a mil
d. and seven-eighths course. The erin
S. son crew finished a dozen boat length
f. ahead. Time-Harvard, 10:47; Co
nell, 11:24.
On account of the fire which d.
stroyed the clubhouse and building
at the Spokane Country club in Manii
ut Park, Spokane, the open interclu
lis championship tennis tournament
wv which had been scheduled to ope
there this week, has been indefinite
ng postponed.
ut Philadelphia, Pa.-Under wealth
er. conditions that were about as bad
IN could be imagined for track NEE
the stout-hearted athletes of Corne
AL university Saturday on Franklin fie
Ill won the intercollegiate championshl
nd the premier college athletic event
the year, by margin of Az points.
an The total points scored by the It'll
nm cans were "a. Pennsylvania was 81
he ond. with 29h; Yale third, with
os+ Harvard fourth, with 17h, and Da
I'd mouth fifth, with II. Michigan a
e. Swarthmore each made six poin
~ Princeton and Columbia made &c
49, each and Syracuse three.
10 London.-The British balloon V
~ kyrie, owner, Mr.. Pollock, won
.H great international race from H
noS bingham to Burchett's Green, thu
Sou miles west of Maidenhead, distar
of 81 miles, recently. Thirty-one
'l'n looms, representing five nations, w
lne in the race, which was sailed uni
Ine the auspices of the Federation Ae
pre- nautique internationale, and the ev
the was the biggest thing in the hist
of aeronautics.
Seattle, Wash.-The University
Oregon track team had no dif1cl
in winning the triangular meet
ays tween the university teams of Oree
Washington and Idaho, and piled
K. total of Ga points, against 80
Vic nexed by Idaho, which finished
in ond. The University of Washing
over team finished badly, with 70 pol
no Edmundson was the star of
Do meet, winning first in the mile, q
cave ter, half and won the relay race
ends his college by a wonderful sprint I
t is Williams, the fast man running
of Washington.
haw The Tacoma team leads the Nc
main | u,aS+a,r Iaapra Chicago the Matte