Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-17

Dodd Clothing Co. vs.. Union Iron Wks.
Bradley Engineering Team vs.. Cubs
| The Vancouver team, known last sea-
son as the Canucks, is seeking a new
nickname this year.
Preliminary steps have been taken
for meeting between Jack Johnson,
the negro heavyweight, and Tommy
Burns.
Frank Erne, at one time lightweight
champion, won a close 10-round deci-
sion over Curley Watson in Paris re-
Gently.
France Chance, manager of the Chi
cago Cubs, champion baseball players
of the world, is admitted as one of the
finest baseball generals in the bust
ness
The 60-day race meet to be given at
Butte this summer will start June 81
and close September 4, and $4,000
will be given away In stakes and
purses. Starter Murray will again Off
ciate
The Lewiston high school track and
field team won signal victory Satur-
day over the Charleston high school
and varsity props, the local athletes
securing "a points, props SIS and
Charleston g.
Abe Attell is slated to meet Eddie
Kelly near Seattle on April 20 and is
also matched to meet Brooklyn"
Tommy Sullivan late this month in
San Francisco so that one of the dates
will have to be cancelled.
Jack Monroe, the former Butte
miner and who got such reputation
through his fiuke with Jeffries, only
to prove soft mark later in a regular
fight, is reported to have valuable
mining property at Cobalt, which
makes him the richest pugilist in the
world.
The benefit for Chris Won der Abe
in st. Louis recently netted the vet
eran owner and manager of the st.
Louis team $4,000. Charles Comiskey,
manager of the Chicago Americans,
purchased box for the game and paid
$500 for it. Others paid sums ranging
from $25 to $50.
Fred Creel got the decision over Bob
Larson; Heinie Ritter had it on Wal
ter Foley so that the referee stopped
1t in the second round; Bloom and
Mcpherson fought four fierce rounds
to draw; the Raeger-Binger mill was
stopped in the second, Raeger having
the best of the going, and Curley Co.
han lost to Art St German on a foul
in the second. This sums up the
smoker of the S. A. A. c. Friday night
at Spokane.
Jay Gould successfully defended his
title for the third year as national
champion of court tennis at the New
York Racquet and Tennis club Satur-
day. His opponent in the challenge
round was Eustace H. Miles Of Lon
don, whom Gould beat last year at the
Queens club, London, in the challenge
round Of the British court tennis cham
pionship. Gould won the match by
three sets ito one-19 games to is. The
scores were: 6-2, Ga, Is, 6-3.
| San Francisco.-Packey Mcfarland,
the Chicago lightweight, made short
work of Jimmy Britt in their SEIZED
uled 20-round contest Saturday after
noon. Britt was sent to the floor three
times in the sixth and last round by
powerful right swings on the point
of the jaw. He took the count of nine
twice, and after the timekeeper had
counted five Britt's father jumped into
the ring and waved Mcfarland away.
1t was practically clear knockout.
Mcfarland outclassed Britt from start
to finish.
| Portland, Ore.-Forest Smithson,
Saturday, running under the colors of
the M. A. A. c., broke the worlds re.
ord in the 5O-yard hurdle in the an
nual track meet between the Univer.
sity of Oregon, Oregon Agricultural
college and Multnomah Amateur Ath
letic club. Smithson's time was Is
seconds. Smithson, in running off the
regular 50-yard high hurdle event. tied
the worlds record of As seconds.
special event was then arranged be
tween him and Eberle Kuykendall Of
the University of Oregon, in which
Smithson made his wonderful perform
ance. The contest was fully sane
toned. Oregon won the meet by TAX
ing as points, agricultural college 81
and Multnomah II.
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