Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-02-28
SPORTING NOTES.


20-round draw at Bakersfield, Cal,
recently.
By his recent victory Ketchell is
practically the undisputed middle
weight champion.
Harold Reed of Portland, now at
Stanford, recently ran a 100" in 10
fat and "220' in % AS.
"As far as real sport is concerned,
walking is away ahead of automobile
ing or any other kind of travel" says
Read Holiday of New York.
Packy mcfarland won decision
over Freddie Walsh in a 10-round go at
Milwaukee recently. The fighting was
fast and furious all through.
Wee Coyle and Mullen Of the Seattle
high school may be barred from ath-
letics at the Seattle high school for
having played on teams with profess
SIGNALS.
Schaefer won the finals in the 1871
billiard match with Cutler, the final
score being 1900 to 1924. The contest
has been in progress for a week at
Philadelphia.
The hockey game between Rossland
and Nelson, scheduled to take place at
Grand Forks yesterday, did not occur,
Rossland refusing to play at any place
other than Rossland.
liver Lawson, the Chicago Swede, re-
peated his recent triumph at Kansas
City by winning the six-day race at
the Park Square Coliseum track. last
week from fast field of riders.
The worlds single SOULS champion
ship will be rowed at Waganui, New
zealond, this week, by William Webb
of Waganui and Richard Tressender
of Newcastel, New South Wales.
Jack O'Brien, the Walla Walla base
ball promoter, thinks that he will
make go of the league there. He has
applications for franchises from a
number of Inland Empire cities.
tPug" Bennett of the Seattle team
in the Pacific Coast league in 1905 and
1906, has affixed his signature to
Seattle contract, and the face of Man
ager d. q. Dugdale is wreathed in
smiles.
Quincy A. Shaw of Boston, Mass,
has regained the title as national
racket champion at the tennis and
racket club by defeating his clubmate,
P. d. Haughtin, the 1906 champion,
in three out of five sets.
An effort is being made to organize
a baseball league among the towns in
the Wenatchee valley, consisting of
Wenatchee, Leavenworth, Cashmere,
Waterville, and the promoters may go
as far east as Harrington.
For the first time in it's history the
city of Cranbrook has been included
In regular racing circuit and will |
have two days sport with the ponies |
May 20 and 20, according to the ar
engagements made by the Western Cir
cult of Canada
George Elinor, owner of the st. Paul
baseball team, has sold Joseph Sug-
den, catcher, and Louis Nordyke, first |
baseman, to the Vancouver baseball
team of the Northwestern league. |
Both players came to st. Paul from |
the st. Louis American league.
One of the largest crowds seen at
the Emeryville track turned out to /
the running of the California |
Derby, the classic event for the 3-year- |
Did division. There was not much of |
q contest in the event of the day,
however. In the betting Meelick al
ways ruled favorite and won easily.
While North Yakima racing men
may be making desperate attempts to
give Sherlock Holmes, the Spokane
PAGER, 2:06 record and take away
ais eligibility for 2;07 class, the Spo-
Kane owner, Fred s. Shaft, is entirely
lnconcerned in the matter and says it
S nothing to him whether or not the
lorse gets credit for 2:06.
Cathleen Pope, the 1O-year-old
ancy skater recently gave a private
exhibition on the ice at New York.
der audience was a distinguished
'roup of the Four Hundred, including
drs, Astor, Mrs. Brokaw, Mrs. Stuy-
-esant Fish and Mrs. Harry Paine
Whitney Cathleen is an amateur.
nd skates merely for love of the
port
The committees of the athletic clubs
ave decided that under the present
circumstances it, is impossible to ac-
ept the challenge sent by the Inter
ollegiate Association of Amateur
lthletes of America for an interna-
lonal track and field meeting between
cams representing the universities
nd colleges of the United States and
hose of Great Britain, to follow the
olympic games in London next sum
Ter.
ketchell Whips Sullivan.
Colma Arena, Colma, Cal.-Young t
.etchell, the Grand Rapids (Mich.) q
made short work of
like (Twin) Sullivan Saturday after. 6
DON in their scheduled 25-round bat 6
e. The end came after but one min '
te and IS seconds fighting in the
rst round.