Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-02
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In basket ball Wisconsin gave the Ne
braskans drubbing at Madison, the final
score being 43 to 4.
Joe Cans, the negro lightweight cham
pion, has been sued for divorce by his
wife, Madge Cans, in Baltimore.
At Lafayette, Ind, the University of
Minnesota basket ball team defeated the
Purdue quint by a score of "a to %.
Grinnell college won the Iowa basket
ball championship from the State uni
versity, 33 to IA, on the Grinnell floor.
The Wisconsin University football team
has decided to play no game with Iowa
this year, but Iowa will probably play
Minnesota.
Playing his last championship game,
Jake Schaefer, the veteran billiardst, re-
tanned his title to the ISL championship
by defeating Willie Hoppe 500 to 423, in
Chicago.
Because he dashed Graphite with bull
whip until the horses legs bled, Vincent
Smith, assistant starter at the Emery
vile track, Oakland, has been arrested
for cruelty to animals.
III. J. Handy of the Illinois Athletic
Club established a worlds record for
swimming seventy-f,e yards with the
back stroke by covering the distance in
"a 2-5 seconds at Madison Square Gar
den, New York.
Columbia university rowing authorities
will spend over $1,000 in the mainte-
nance and care of their varsity eight,
four-oared and freshman crews this year,
and the season consists of but three i'm
portant regattas.
The United States naval academy boat
crew has sustained loss through the
injury to Midshipman Archibald T. Dong
las, who broke a rib in a wrestling con-
test recently. He was the strongest man
in the academy.
Promise of purse of $4,000 for his
appearance in the ring Labor Day, in a
long distance battle with Jack Johnson,
will pass unheeded, declared Champion
Jim Jeffries, who said he would not re-
enter the ring for any purse.
Duke of Milan won the Undine stake
for 2-year-olds at Oakland, Lee Ruse sec
ond and Mozart third. They are all Cali
fornia youngsters.
Tony Faust's stake victory made it vir-
tually certain that S. G. Hildreth would
lead the list of winning owners at Emery
vile to the end of the season.
At Omaha Frank Gotch, American
champion wrestler, won from Harry
Bransfeld in two straight. The first was
won with a toe hold in IS minutes 40
seconds, and the second with a hammer
lock in 10 minutes % seconds. Sandy
Griswold was referee.
Emmanuel Cedrino, driving a sixty
horsepower Italian car, won the 100
mile auto race for the Minneapolis cup in
no minutes and 20 seconds over the Or
mond Beach course in Florida. This is
81 minutes and 40 seconds slower than
the record made by Clifford carp in 1906.
At meeting of Wisconsin college pres
ents in Beloit, a permanent athletic
conference was effected and code of
fifteen rules was agreed upon to govern
intercollegiate athletics. The tendency OF
the new rules is to raise the scholarship
qualifications of athletes and then bar
professionalism. Professional coaches are
allowed.
At Los Angeles, Cal, Jewell, placed
at 200 to /, shocked the bookies by win
ming from a field of IA. One bookmaker
is known to have paid two tickets cali
ing for 81 600 to s. each and to have lost
$1,000 more on scattering bets. Other
bookies. are said to have suffered equally
heavy losses.
Nut Breaker, a trotter valued at $780,
600. and with a record of 2:O9A in an
eight heat race, was found dead at New
Haven, Conn, where his owner, Joseph
Kuhmyer, lives. Death is alleged to have
been due to muriatic poisoning, admins
tered through the tube which was insert
ed in the trotter's throat some time ago
to do duty in place Of defective trachea.