Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-30
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| Abe Attell has signed up with Jack
| Gleason for a twenty-round battle with
| Owen Moran in San Francisco for Au-
| gust.
Hamline defeated North Dakota uni
vcrsity by a total score of 81 to So The
records made were unusually good in all
events.
The st. Paul Driving Club has opened
the season and races will be held every
Wednesday afternoon until the middle of
October.
At Louisville, The Minks, carrying 11a
pounds, travelled mile and one-siSteenth
in ! ;43 40, which equals the track rec
ord at Churchill Downs.
Tourenne. with Musgrave up and back
ed from IL to / to to at the close,
easily won the Cosmopolitan Handicap,
JIG miles, at Belmont Park.
Barney Oldfeld has made his last au-
tomobile race, so he says. Oldfeld has
obtained employment as a chauffeur for
banker.
Jockey V. Powers is the leading rider
at the Downs this spring. He has piloted
10 winners across the wire, was placed
times and landed CT his mounts in
third place.
Charges that Huff, the crack Grinnell
sprinter, is professional and has com
peted for money in foot races will be
made TO the authorities at Grinnell by
the University Of Illinois.
The story that the American Baseball
Association will invade Chicago and east
ern cities next year has been revived. II
is said that st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Kansas City will lose their teams.
The fastest wrestling match ever seen
on mat in Duluth occurred when Young
Miller, the st. Paul welterweight, wres-
tied two and one-half hours with Otto
Suffer Of Cleveland without fall.
James T. Sheckard, left fielder Of the
Chicago National League baseball team.
was seriously injured when a bottle OF
ammonia exploded before his face. His
left eye may be permanently blinded.
Sir Thomas Upton declares that he
will never again challenge for the Amer
ica's cup unless the New York Yacht Club
alters its rules SO that be can bring
serviceabIe sea boat across the Atlantic.
James Y. Chalmers, who was one OF
the present holders Of the national bowl
ing championship in the two-men event,
he having won that title with Harry
Kiene as a partner at Cincinnati last
February died in Chicago recently.
A rank outsider. Sgnorietta, owned by
r. GinistreIli, and quoted in the betting
at 100 to / against, defeated all the Amer
Jean, British and French cracks and cap
tured the English Derby stakes, valued st
1880 and the greatest prize Of the turf
world. The Italian horse simply caDtered
home from the hot fayorites by two
lengths.
The twenty-ifth renewal of the Aus
tria tr0tting Derby, worth $1,000, at
Vienna. proved TO be a great disappoint-
ment TO the American drivers. who had
what locked 10 be the best winning can
didates for the richest event Of the Aus
trian turf.
The syndicate which is arranging for
the visit to Australia of Tommy Burns.
the heavyweight pugiiist, has deposited
$4,000 to bind the match between Burns
and Lang, the Australian boxer. The
fight is TO take place at Sydney in Az
gust. The syndicate also has the option
OF arranging two additional fights for
$500 each.
At Louisville FIVE horses .ell at the
last jump in a steeplechase, and there
vas a wild uproar from tho taEd, as il
seemed as IL some Of the jd1seys might
be badly hurt Jockey Morrison, who
rode Magic, was jumped on and badly
injured. The other boys rolled out Of the
way and escaped
Michigan win be welcomed back into
the conference college athletic group with
rejoicing IL the Ann Arbor authorities
viii reconsider their opinion Of the big
eight rules and return on the old basis.
according TO statements made By William
Scott Bond. the University Of Chicago
member Of the conference graduate conr
piftee.