Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-08-07
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

Dan Patch will go but one or two, I
If any, exhibition miles during the
harness racing season.
The San Francisco team won to
in a wonderful 20-inning ball game
from Portland at Portland Sunday
Nearly every college in the Pacific
northwest will be compelled to secure
new coaches for the track teams next
year.
Mike Schreck and Jack Johnson, the
colored heavyweight, have been match
ed to box 20 rounds in London, Octo-
Der 10.
1t is rumored that Oscar Bandciin
of Sand Point, the fast outfelder and
heavy hitter with Butte last year, may |
come to Spokane for the rest of the
home series.
Owen keenan,, probably the only
man who could pitch equally well with
either hand, is now living peacefully
at Pittsburg, where he is musician
in dance orchestra.
A. r. Dickson, the quiet manager
Of the Vancouver team, was formerly
a successful grain merchant at Water
vile He has shown rare skill in han
ding the great Vancouver team.
H. E. Walker, the South African
i Splinter, who recently won the 100
meter run in the Olympic games at
London, started Saturday in the 100
yard dash in the Glasgow, Scotland
rangers sports and ran the distance
in 9-4-5 seconds.
Baseball fans who have looked up
/ the records declare that Pitcher Frank
r Hosp of Los Angeles holds an abso-
, lutely unique and unparalleled posi-
ton in organized baseball, having
forced in five runs in the fourth inning
o of Sundays game without allowing
= a single hit.
The Spokane ball team seems to be
n lacking that concerted action, that
beautiful team work, which marked
= the play so forcibly at the start OF
-. rather during the middle of the sea
son. Now it is every man for himself
and the best man is he who can out
:, shine the other.
Il After an absence of 20 years, Mrs
y Mary Frances Ronalds of London
u widow of Pierre Lorillard Ronalds
d famous whip and father of coaching
in America, has arrived in New York
,e She will remain in this country tw'
y, months. Mrs Ronalds is called tn,
I
to Stanley Ketchell knocked out Hug
tn Kelley at San Francisco recently il
the third round of their fight. Ketchel
IN fights a 20-round contest with 10
ne Thomas of San Francisco the night Q
st August IS. On Labor day next Ketcf
IT, ell will fight Billy Papke, before tn
b. Jeffreys Athletic club, Los Angeles.
will be a 25-round event.
"A That there will be hard fight owe
tic the Seattle baseball franchise this ia
w seems assured. 1t is reported frol
a Portland that a man by the name {
oo Baker a prominent capitalist of s.
attic, is now in Portland relative
getting the franchise away from Du
'rs dale and the Northwestern league an
on transfer ring it to the Coast league.
Gu Americas supremacy in track an
ia' field athletics must now stand for Sc
10 eral more years. The recent Olymp
7"i games have done wonders toward e
tightening the world in regard to tt
ar ability of the American athletes al
M. despite the arpenter-Hallswelle inc
tor dent the Americans have earned tit
ON of being square, straight sportsmen,
cal title which the English athletes ha'
put surely not upheld as they should th
year.
B. Frank Gotch announces, after
of had given wrestling exhibition
the Houston, Texas, recently, that
dio would retire. He says that he is
len a class by himself and that there a
the no more champions for him to &C
the ouer. He figures that he had 5ett
quit now while he is young al
wealthy rather than go. on like TIC
Nv Jenkins and few others, who mt
VIZ wrestle in their old age. Gotch h
'"' a respectable bank account and a [
,or farm in Iowa.
me The American athletes, who we
emf. victorious in the Olympic games, ga
ton cred further honors Saturday art
noon at Dublin, Ireland, where tn
met and defeated the picked athlet
last of the Irish Amateur Athletic assoc
re- a., covan events out of a total