Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-06-05
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Moscow, Idaho-The University of
Idaho shut out the Washington State
college baseball team, to 0, Satur-
day. Burley, Idaho's pitcher, proving
invincible.
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
25 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
dler 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 dozen boat lengths
ahead Time-Harvard, 10:47; Cor
nell, 11:24.
The total points scored by the Itha-
cans were "a. Pennsylvania was sec
ond, with 291a; Yale third, with %;
Harvard fourth, with 171a, and Dart
mouth fifth, with II. Michigan and
Swarthmore each made six points
Princeton and Columbia made four
each and Syracuse three.
On account of the fire which dc.
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.
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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.
London.-The British balloon Val
kyrie, owner, Mr.. Pollock, won the
great international race from Hur.
bingham to Burchett's Green, three
niles west of Maidenhead, a distance
{ 81 miles, recently. Thirty-one bal
looms, representing five nations, were
in the race, which was sailed under
the auspices of the Federation Aero
nautique International, and the event
was the biggest thing in the history
of aeronautics.
Seattle, Wash.-The University of
Oregon track team had no difficulty
in winning the triangular meet be-
tween the university teams of Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, and piled up
total of GA points, against 35 an
neXed by Idaho, which finished sec.
ond. The University of Washington
team finished badly, with % points.
Edmundson was the star of the
meet, winning first in the mile, quar-
ter, half and won the relay race for
his college by a wonderful sprint from
Williams, the fast man running for
Washington.
The Tacoma team leads the NORTH
western league Chicago the National,
Detroit the American, Los Angeles the
Pacific Coast league, and Bradley En-.
gineering Company team in Spokane
City league. June the Bradleys play
the Skaters and the Cubs play Dodd
Clothing company at Natatorium park.
Spokane. First game, p. m.
The Asotin (Wash.) Gun club held a
shoot Decoration day to compete for a
$40 silver cup offered by the members
of the club. The cup was won by j.
R. Glover. On the first Friday in June
a $40 rifle will be offered by Sam Sar.
egnt
Ed Moon, Spokane's strong man, has
issued a challenge to Henry Adams of
Seattle and agrees to throw the latter
three falls in an hour for a side bet of
500.
Admiral Sperry at Frisco.