Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
SPORTING NOTES.


New baseball rules: "A ball inten-
tionally discolored by a player shall be
substituted by new ball. and the Of
fender fined S." "A sacrifice hit shall
be credited to a batsman who hits a
fly ball that is caught but results in a
run being scored.
Vic Holm, the old star pitcher of
the Fairbanks Morse team in the Spo-
kane city league last season, has
signed a contract with George Shree-
der of the Tacoma baseball club.
The wrestler, Gotch, generally steps
on the mat weighing between 210 and
300
At Bakersfield, Cal, Friday, Kid
Scaler of Spokane gained another de-
cision over Billy Snailham of San
Francisco after 20 rounds of rugged
fighting
James J. Corbett, ex-champion pugil-
list of the world, refereed the fight at
Spokane last week and gave the de-
cision to Fred Creel over Louis Orsie.
J. f. Curtis of The Dalles, Ore, won
his forty-fourth consecutive victory in
wrestling contests when he succeeded
in throwing j. p. Bonner of Troy five
times in SO minutes and 35 seconds
before a large crowd at Moscow.
At Palouse Lou Bucholtzz won the
handicap wrestling match in which
he agreed to throw Bagley three times
in an hour The falls were won in
"a, II and IA minutes, respectively,
Lieutenant John Jacob Astor, a son
of William Waldorf Astor, recently
won the racquet championship of the
British army by defeating Captain
Luther of the Yorkshire Light Infantry
by a score of 3 to 2.
At Honolulu F. Mackenzie, Kane
haha schoolboy, won the Hawaiian
championship meet Saturday He won
the so yards in Is seconds, defeat
ing En- Sue, the Chinese athlete. He
won the 100 yards in 10 is and the
broad jump at q feet inches.
Benny Henderson, the former Port
land pitcher; Doc Moskiman, the
former Oakland pitcher, and Bill Mo-
Rarity, last years third baseman of
san Francisco, have signed contracts
with Stockton in the California State
outlaw league.
At Baltimore George Hacken-
schmidt, the Russian wrestler, failed
in his undertaking to throw Gus
Schoenlin in Is minutes. Schoenlin
weighed ia pounds against the Rus
slams 20S.
The Stanford track team Saturday
defeated the University of Southern
California athletes by a score of 104
to IS.
Anxious to get bigger slice of the
money taken in at the gate than they
receive by being merely semi-profes
SIGNALS, lacrosse players in British
Columbia are now wrestling with the
question of the ACCESSIBILITY of theil
becoming out-and- ut professionals
and playing the game on salary.
After 10 rounds of the dirtiest kline
of fighting, Billy Ross of Centralia
Wash, was awarded the decision re
Gently over Barney Mullin. Ross Sc
cured the decision after he had DELHI
erately thrown Mullin to the floor
when the latter refused to get up
Victor McLagen, the referee, counted
him out.
Bell, the outfielder who. played sucl
grand ball for Butte last season, il
making a hit with Clark Griffith o
the New York Americans.
At Dexter park, in Chicago, on tn
night of April 3. George Hacken
schmidt, the world-renowned wrestler
will contest 70 the worlds champion
ship title with Frank Gotch, the Amer
lean champion. The men will wrestl
to finish, the winner gaining tw
) falls out of three and carrying off tn
lions share of the $4,000, besides
large side bet and the championshi
title.