Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
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The Royal Canadian Yacht Club has
decided to challenge for the Canada cup,
now held by the Rochester, \. Y, Yacht
Club, the race to take place in 1909.
Isaac o. Weir, who as Ike Weir the
Belfast spider" won the featherweight
boxing championship of the world twenty
years ago, is dead at Somerville, Mass.
Arrangements for a Marathon race, the
first to be held on the Pacific coast, have
been made by the Century Athletic Club.
The course of twenty-five miles will ex-
tend from Fruitdale to Haywards over
shaded roads and canyons. The race
will probably be run Thanksgiving day.
The Royal Automobile Club race on the
Isle of Man, which was won by w. Wat
son. probably will be the last to be run
on a public highway in Great Britain.
Opposition to it on the part of the gen
eral public has been strong and, were 1t
not for lack of jurisdiction over the Isle
of Man, the local government board, of
which John Burns is president, undoubt-
edly would have prohibited the contest.
Ruth Dillon, 4-year-old Sidney Dillon
trotter, owned by Sterling R. Holt of
ders, surprised $4,000 race goers at Co
lumbus by winning all three heats of the
Hoster-C Columbus stake, valued at S1O,-
900. Ruth was nowhere in the betting
being overlooked almost entirely and sell
ing at SO in pools of $225. Spanish
Queen was the first choice, while there
was heavy play on Aquin.
Jerry B., the chestnut gelding by Ar
got Wilkes, driven by Cox, captured the
big end of the $1,000 purse hung up for
the 2 10 pace by st. Paul business men
for st. Paul day at the Minnesota fair
At Columbus, Ohio, Hedgewood Boy.
so strong a favorite for the free-for-all
pace in the grand circuit card that he was
barred in the first heat betting, was given
a beating by Citation, but the Illinois
mare had to set the worlds record to do
it. Her heats in 2 :01& and 2 03, fol-
lowed by Hedgewood Boy in :02A are
the fastest two ever paced by mare in
a race.
Alleging that Battling Nelson would
have been physically unable to meet Joe
Cans in the ring on July 4, if it had not
been for his services as a physician, DR..
Ben Apple of San Francisco has filed
suit for $3.50. He says this fee is due
from the lightweight champion of the
world.
Whether to allow open practice this
year is the question which is bothering
the University of Iowa football coaches
at the present time. The abolishing of
secret practice will increase the interest
OF the student body and Coaches Catlin
and Griffith are seriously considering the
change.
In the free-for-all race for the Ameri-
can championship at the national motor
boat carnival on the Hudson, E. J.
Schroeder's Dixie II. and J. II. Hoadley's
Den were the only starters. The Dixie
II. won the race easily, defeating the
Den Il minutes s seconds. The course
was triangular, OF ten miles, covered three
times-thirty miles in all. The Dixie
II. covered the course in &c minutes 81
seconds, or 1895 miles an hour.
A meeting of the presidents of the
Jockey club racing in Ontario and Que
bee was held in Toronto. From this meet
ing will develop the Canadian Racing As
ISOLATION, which body will assume con-
troll, of the turf in the Dominion.