Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
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South Dakota university won her sec
ond football game from Huron colleg
by score of II to 0. The game wa.
played at Vermillion.
In the auto races at the Montana Stat
fair, Blaim's white steamer made fiv,
miles in minutes II seconds on an or
binary circular mile track.
At Aqueduct track, New York, Ber
Ban, carrying top weight, 115 pounds
easily won the Woodmere stakes, selling
at seven furlongs, the feature.
Frank Mount Pleasant, formerly of the
Carlisle Indian football team, will play
quarterback on the Dickinson College
eleven. He is junior at Dickinson.
At the Brockton (Mass.) fair, George
G. and Major Delmar were sent on trial
heats against time in an effort to break
the track record of 2 :11H Neither was
successful, but Major Delmar, in his trial
made the mile on the half-mile track in
PIP fiat.
Lillian R., owned by David Shaw of
Cleveland, made her first race start OF
the year at Columbus, and astonished the
grand circuit talent by showing speed
enough to beat Margaret O., the favorite
To do this, Lillian r. had to take a rec
ord of OH.
English Featherweight Champion Mo-
ran was too clever for Eddie Hanlon at
San Francisco in their twenty-round
bout. Hanlon, who had an advantage of
about eight pounds in weight, showed
some of his old-time cleverness, however,
and stayed the limit with the little Eng
lishman, the latter being awarded the de-
cision on points.
An usher this year at the Boston Amer
lean League grounds, a first baseman
with the New York Americans next sea-
son-that is the rise of Daniel A. Barry,
19-year-old Office boy who has been
signed by Arthur Irwin, scout of the New
York Americans. Barry is said to be a
natural player and Irwin says he has
found a second Hal Chase.
As RUDE Waddell, the big ball tosser.
left a theater in St Louis the other night
he saw Detective John Finan engaged in
desperate fight with Edward Burnett, of
st. Louis. Rube quickly put both of the
combatants to sleep and then took them
to a hospital.
The faculty of Wisconsin University
Law School decided that Ewald Stiehm,
the crack Wisconsin center rush. could
not take a special examination to clear
up deficiencies incurred by his leaving
summer school without taking examina-
tons. This means Stiehm is ineligible to
play football this season.
The fight against pools on New York
tracks is costing horse owners and race
promoters a lot of money. Purses have
been cut down as low as $500. and at
that it is estimated that Dwyer lost 49,
GOO on the weeks racing he promoted at
Aqueduct.
As evidence of the impetus given pro-
fessional baseball by the close races for
the remnants. Secretary John Farrell of
the National Association of Professional
Baseball Leagues says that he has been
literally swamped with purchase money
for drafting players for next season.
Nearly $4,000 was received the first day
for drafting players.
Fifteen high-cIass yearlings sent over
to England by James r. Keene were auc-
toned at Newmarket for an aggregate of
s14,360. The best price obtained was
3d. $50 for a chestnut colt by Disguise Ii.
-Doret Flower.
Another big baseball war, involving the |
,ntire American League, is imminent. |
Players on the Washington and Chicago |
American League clubs. which are threat |
med with a heavy fine for playing exhibit |
ion games in Chicago with the Logan |
Squares and Gunthers as opponents, have
sserted they will leave organized base
ALI before they pay. The Minneapolis
cam is threatened with similar punish
nent for the same ofense.