The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 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.
Itaac 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 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 viii ex-
shaded roads and canyons. The race
wilt 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.
era public has been strong and, were it
not for lack of jurisdiction over the Isle
of Man, the local government board, Of
which John Burns is president, undoubt-
eddy would have prohibited the contest.
Ruth Dillon, 4-year-old Sidney Dillon
trolter, owned by Sterling II. Holt of
indianapolis, and driven by Willard San
ders. surprised $4,000 race goers at Co
lumbus by winning all three heats of the
Hoster-Columbus stake, valued at $1O,-
900. Ruth was nowhere in the batting,
being overlooked almost entirely and sell
ias at $40 in pools of 500. Spanish
Queen was the first choice, while there
was a heavy play on Aquin.
Jerry T.. the chestnut gelding by Ar
got Wilkes. driven by Cox, captured the
big end of the $1,000 purse hung up for
the 2 :13 pace by st. Paul business men
for st. Paul day at the Minnesota fair.
AZ 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
beating by Citation, but the Illinois
mare had to set the worlds record to do
it, Her heats in > :O1X and 2 :O3, fol-
lowed by Hedgewood Boy in 2:02H, are
the fastest two ever paced by mare in
a race.
Alleging that Battling Nelson would
have been physically unable to meet Joe
Cana i'm the ring on July 4, if it had not
bt-tu lOl HIS ctiNiNtS do a. phf otidits III.
Ben Apple of San Francisco has fled a
suit Tor $50. He says this fee il due
from the lightweight champion OF the
worl;,.
Whether TO allow open practice this
year is the question which is both.~ing
the University of Iowa football coaches
at tie 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.
II. the free-for-al race for the Ameri-
can championship at the national motor
boat carnival on the Hudson, e. j.
Schlreders Dixie III. and ]. III. Hoadley's
Den were the only starters. The Dixie
III. von the race easily, defeating the
Den IL minutes = seconds The course
was triangular of ten miles, covered three
times-thirty miles in ALL The Dixie
III. covered the course in GO minutes 81
secolds, or 1895 miles an hour.
A meeting of the presidents of the
jockey club racing in Ontario and Que
bee uns 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.