Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-02-28
SPORTING NOTES.

BY his recent victory Ketchell is
practically the undisputed middle
weight champion.
Harold Reed of Portland, now at
Stanford, recently ran 100" in 10
fat and a 1920" in % AS.
"As far as real sport is concerned,
walking is away ahead of AUTOMOBILE
ing or any other kind of travel says
Read Holiday of New York.
Packy mcfarland won a decision
over Freddie Walsh in a 10-round go at
Milwaukee recently. The nghting was
fast and furious all through.
Wee Coyle and Mullen of the Seattle
high school may be barred from ath-
letics at the Seattle high school for
having played on teams with profess
SIGNALS.
Schaefer won the finals in the 1871
billiard match with Cutler, the final
score being 1900 to 1924. The contest
has been in progress for a week at
Philadelphia.
The hockey game between Rossland
and Nelson, scheduled to take place at
Grand Forks yesterday, did not occur,
Rossland refusing to play at any place
other than Rossland.
liver Lawson, the Chicago Swede, re-
peated his recent triumph at Kansas
City by winning the six-day race at
the Park Square Coliseum track last
week from fast field of riders.
The worlds single SOULS champion
ship will be rowed at Waganui, New
Zealond, this week, by William Webb
of Waganui and Richard Tressender
of Newcastel, New South Wales.
Jack O'Brien, the Walla Walla base
ball promoter, thinks that he will
make go of the league there. He has
applications Cor franchises from a
number of Inland Empire cities.
Pug" Bennett of the Seattle team
in the Pacific Coast league in 1905 and
1906, has affixed his signature to a
Seattle contract, and the face of Man
ager ID. e. Dugdale is wreathed in
smiles.
Quincy A. Shaw of Boston, Mass,
has regained the title as national
racket champion at the tennis and
racket club by defeating his clubmate,
P. d. Haughtin, the 1906 champion,
in three out of five sets.
An effort is being made to organize |
baseball league among the towns in |
the Wenatchee valley, consisting of |
Wenatchee, Leavenworth, Cashmere,
Waterville, and the promoters may go |
as far east as Harrington.
For the first time in its history the |
city of Cranbrook has been included |
in a regular racing circuit and will
have two days sport with the ponies |
May % and 20, according to the ar
engagements made by the Western Cir
cult of Canada.
George Elinor, owner of the st. Paul
baseball team has sold Joseph Sug-
den, catcher, and Louis Nordyke, first
Daseman, to the Vancouver baseball
team of the Northwestern league.
Both players came to st. Paul from
the st. Louis American league.
One of the largest crowds seen at
the Emeryville track turned out to
witness the running Of the California
Derby, the classic event for the 3-year-
old division. There was not much of
contest in the event of the dav
however. In the betting Meelick al
ways ruled favorite and won easily
While North Yakima racing men
may be making desperate ATTEMPTS TO
give Sherlock Holmes, the Spokane
PAGER, 2:06 record and take awav
MS eligibility for 2:O7 class. the Spo-
kane owner, Fred S. Shaft. is entirely
unconcerned in the matter and saws if
is nothing to him whether or not the
morse gets credit for 2:O6.
Cathleen Pope, the 1O-vear.old
fancy skater, recently gave a nrivata
exhibition on the ice at New York
Tier audience was a distinguished
group of the Four Hundred. including
Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Brokaw, Mrs. Stuv.
vesant Fish and Mrs. Harry Paine
whitney. Cathleen is an amateur
ana skates merely for love of the
sport. INC
Inc committees of the athletic clubs
nave decided that under the present
circumstances it is impossible m 40
'ept The challenge sent by the Tntar-
,oiiegiate Association of Amateur
Athletes of America for an inferno.
lohal track and field meeting between {
cams representing the universities
ina colleges of the United States and
nose OF Great Britain, to follow the I
olympic games in Tc-5o.. S [