The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-11-06
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

Diamonds valued at more than $1,000,
and cash amounting to about SO, were
taken from the person OF kaIph L.
Dodd. the well known young Spokane
umpire. BY two desperate young high
waymen.
Butte is going to hand the North
western league a little ultimatum. 1t
is to be "give US baseball without Russ
Hall or give us no baseball at all.
The Western association sold the
! baseball franchises of the Topeka and
I Wichita clubs to the Western league for
the sum Of $4,000 at their annual meet
ing last week. The Western league will
now have eight clubs instead of six in
its circuit.
Ralph RAIDER, last years fullback on
the state college eleven, and one of the
best known football players in the
northwest, has been selected as as
sistant coach to help Coach Rheinschild
in turning out a team this year.
Manager William Murray of the Phil
a delphia National league club has de-
MED the report that the Cleveland club
had offered him $4,000 to manage the
blues for five years.
Johnny Evers, the second baseman of
the world s champion Chicago Ma
~tionals, will be married this week at his
home in Troy, n. Y, to Miss Helen
Ftzgibbons of the same city.
Ty Cobb has about decided to listen
to pleas from Mrs. Cobb TO spend their
winter in Georgia rather than on the
baseball tour to Japan with the barn
stormers.
Thirteen members of the Cincinnati
baseball club have gone to Cuba, where
they will play the leading clubs of the
Cuban league.
Chicago took a long step toward the
western football championship Satur-
day, when the Maroon eleven played the
much-touted Minnesota team of its feet
and won, % to o.
At Lexington, KY, Cadet G. Cooke
Ferbe of Norfolk, Va, died Saturday of
conclusion of the brain, due to an in
jury in a game of football between
Virginia Military institute and Roanoke
college played recently. The score at
the end of the first half stood; Virginia
Military institute 81, Roanoke college
0. The second half was not played.
Saturday game at Moscow between
Idaho and Oregon is believed TO set an
absolutely unique record in modern foot
ball. 1t is not on record, for teams of
any prominence at least, that a defeated
team should score 81 points in a regula-
tion contest of two 3O-minute halves.
Several years ago Kansas defeated Ne
braska SO to 20, Benedict, for Nebraska,
scoring four goals from the field, but
it is believed that 81 is a new record
for a beaten team. Final score, p
to 27.
New Haven, COMFY a score Of 40
to 0, Yale defeated the Massachusetts
Agricultural college.
Texas offers $4,000 for the interna-
tional balloon races, and the south
western %aeronauts and those interested
in aerial navigation are hopeful of
bringing the meeting to Texas.
Spokane.-Lincoln high school of Sc.
attic, a new factor in northwest inter
scholastic football, dashed the hopes of
the Spokane South Central high school
eleven for the 1908 championship by a
10-to-5 victory.
Nearly 1000 persons attended the re
eeption rendered "Gy" Young by the
people Of Tuscarawas county at Canal
Dover, Ohio, the other day. A feature
was a ball game, which was won by
oung's team, 4 to l. A club of which
"Cy' has been a member for Is years
gave him a solid silver cup with ebony
case, engraved with the names of mem.
hers of the club, a picture of Young and
the date. A banquet was given by the
fans.
Z. E. Smathers, former owner of
runners and record breaking t~rotters
and PAGERS, says that no inducements
could be offered him to reenter either
branch of the turf game.
On the steamer Minneapolis, sailing
from New York for London, a second
consignment of well-known race horses
are being taken to England and the
continent. At the head Of the consign.
ment is Fair Play, owned by August
Belmont, and, with the exception of
Colin and colt, the best 3-year-old of
the season. Mr.. Belmont s famous stall.
lion, Octagon, and II brood mare are
also on the ship. Fair Plav will start
in a number of important races in Eng
land.