Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-06-13
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

1t has been decided to disband the
Palouse Giants for the season.
Salt Lake City.-The track team OF
the University of Utah won from
Stanford university by a score of 81
to SO at Cummings field recently.
Moscow, Idaho-The University of
Idaho shut out the Washington State
college baseball team, to 0, Satur-
day, Burley, Idaho's pitcher, proving
invincibie
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 25 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
20 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
der 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
in the annual hill-climbing meet on
Giant Despair course of Wilkesbarre
Tokio.-The baseball teams of the
American naval squadron have been
playing a series of matches with the
Japanese universities. an excellent
feeling prevailing on both sides. The
Japs have been winning most of the
games.
Boston, Mass.-Taking the lead at
the start and gradually drawing ahead
the Harvard eight-oared crew won the |
annual race with Cornell over a mile |
and seven-eighths course. The Grim
son crew finished a dozen boat lengths |
ahead. Time-Harvard, 1O:47; Cor
nell, 11:24.
stroyed the clubhouse and building of |
the Spokane Country club in Mantle |
Park, Spokane, the open interclub |
championship tennis tournament, |
which had been scheduled TO open |
there this week, has been indefinitely |
postponed.
Philadelphia, Pa.-Under weather
conditions that were about as bad as
could be imagined for a track meet
the stout-hearted athletes Of Cornell /
university Saturday on Franklin field |
won the intercollegiate championship. /
the premier college athletic event Of
the year, by margin Of AZ points
The total points scored by the Itha-
cans We're "a. Pennsylvania was sec
ond, with 2955; Yale third with p;
Harvard fourth, with 171z, and Dart
mouth fifth, with H. Michigan and
SwarthmOre each made six points
Princeton and Columbia made four
each and Syracuse three.
LOnd0n.-The British balloon Val
kyrie, owner, Mr. Pollock, won the
great international race from Hur
lingham 10 Burchett's Green, three /
miles west Of Maidenhead, a distance /
of 81 miles. recently Thirty-One bal
looms representing I'VE nations, were
la the race, which was sailed under
the auspices Of the Federation Aero
nautiQue internatOnale, aud The event /
was che biggest thing ip the history
VI aer0pautics.
Seattle. Wash.-Ihe University Of /
Oregon TACK team had 40 dimculfy
lp winning the Triangular meet De-
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