Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-06-19
LATE SPORTING EVENTS.

Danbury, Conn.-W R. Dray of Yale
established a new worlds
.ecord for the pole vault, clearing the
BAR at IL feet 9 ga inches.
The st. Paul baseball team is the |
only team in the world that can boast
Of an Indian battery. In Pitcher Louis
LIE Roy and Catcher Jack Meyers the
Saints have two full-blooded Indian
players.
T. G. (Van) Cook has been ap-
pointed umpire in the Spokane city
league by President w. F. Conner. Mr..
Cook is by no means new with the
indicator, having umpired in the troll
ley league last year, as well as having
taken charge of numerous college and
high school games in both the east
and west.
Palouse is to have a carnival of
sports on July and A. The Pa
louise giants are to be reorganiZed
for the occasion, and series of ball
games will take place. Alpha Cox,
the old Whitman star athlete, was in
the city this week, and announced
that Palouse would be a mighty live
place on that occasion. A number of
track end field events are also to be
pulled off on the days of celebration,
and some handsome prizes are to be
hung up.
Before a great crowd the Yale base
ball nine Saturday afternoon defeated
Princeton, 8 to 2.
George Siler, famous as boxer,
referee and authority on pugilism, died
in Chicago at 1920 Saturday night of
heart failure, following stroke which
he suffered more than week ago.
Paris.-Tommy Burns, the American
heavyweight claimant, and Bill
Squires, the Australian, fought eight
rounds here Saturday night before
Burns finally concluded to end the at
fair with a solar plexus punch that
floored Squires.
1t is expected that arrangements
will be completed this week whereby
the Columbia Basin league will be or
ganized. The league will be composed
of six and possibl seven towns in the
valley. Mesa, Kennewick, Connell
White Bluffs and Cunningham are al
in line.
Refusing to return indictments
against the members of the Mobile
New Orleans and Montgomery team
for playing baseball on Sunday in vic
lation of the state law, the grand jur.
adjourned.
The victory of A. G. Gilbert of Yalt
in breaking the world spole vaultinl
record Saturday, by IL feet "a inch
es, gives Oregon three athletes will
, worlds records-Gilbert, Forest Smith
son and Dan Kelly.
Ella Christianson of Muskegon i
credited with the record of IL second
in 100 yard dash.
There have been few greater rae
horses in the United States thai
james R. Keene's Colin. Last'year thi
great race horse won 10 straight vic
tories, valued at $250,00.
: Alumni of the Tacoma high schoo
Saturday collected $4,000 for the con
pletion of the high school stadium bt
, fore the first of next September.
is planned to build $4,000 field b
, subscriptions from the alumni of tn
} high school and Tacoma business mel
: Twenty-Five events will make u
the championships at the Olympi
J games from July 10 to July 26.
: The recent death of Riley Grammar
the noted turf plunger, at RawhidC
New, whert he had gone in the hop
, of replenishing his depleted excheque
through the medium of big gamblin
( house, recalls the fact that many c
his wagers on the turf were the mos
/ sensational in the history of racing
a When he was in the heydey of his CT
5 reer he thought nothing of maxim
e $4,000 and $4,000 bets, but of lat
n years he had been what is commonl
| known in sporting circles as a ''piker
l. Many moneyed men backed him, BIT
q his luck had gone back on him an
. he could not again climb to the top.
The balls used this season lack tn
A old gloss. Under the new rules pitcl
ers are prohibited from soiling ne
Z balls by rubbing them in the dirt c
on the grass. The balls were disco
A ored for two reasons. One was I
! blind the batters and the other to r,
q move the high polish so the ball coul
I. be gripped tighter and therefor
r curved better With the manufacture
n furnishing unglossed balls the pitcl
I. ers can work to better advantage.