Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-10-09
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.


Jane Davis at Baltimore recently.
When the Chicago Cubs returned to
Chicago Shortsop Joe Tinker was
served with a warrant charging assault
and battery.
Charlie Swain, the former big cen
ter fielder for the Spokane Indians, now
playing with Butte, was married in
Seattle recently.
A new world g record discus throw
of 14O feet 81 inches was made by Mar
tin Sheridan of the Irish-American Ath-
letic club at New York Sunday. The
former record was 1879 feet IL inches.
Charles W. Murphy, the owner of the
Chicago National league baseball team,
recently offered $4,000 for Christy
Mathewson, the crack pitcher Of the
New Yorks. John T. Brush and John
T. McGraw spurned the offer.
Bill Miner, the big end who was at
the Washington State college last year
and for a number of years preceding
that time, has left Pullman and en-
rolled with the University of Montana
at Missoula, where he will play on the
football team.
Many reports are circulating that
hunters are abusing the privilege of
quail hunting by killing great numbers
of them because they are 30 tame from
being left SO long unframed. 1t is prob
able that the sportsmen 8 association
will take action to prevent the extine-
ton of the birds.
The ownership of the Spokane North
western league franchise and baseball
team has passed from the hands of the
Spokane Recreation company, which
has controlled it since July, 1905, to
Joseph E. Cohn, vice president of the
Kirkwood Distillery company. The sale
price is announced officially as $1,000,
$4,000 for the franchise and $4,000 for
the reserve rights to the players.
Sidney C. Hatch, one of the members
of the American Marathon team at
London, defeated Albert Corey in a
long distance match at Chicago. Corey
was forced to quit in the eighteenth
mile because a nail came through his
shoe. He stopped for a few moments
and then ran on barefooted, but Hatch
had gained half mile and he decided
to stop. Hatch covered the IL miles
in 2:36:34. The men were to have run
30 miles.
Saturday Football Games.
Chicago.-Chieago overwhelmed Pur-
due by score of 80 to 0.
Minnesota football rooters got a Sc
we're jolt when the Gophers were held
to 6-to.O score by the Lawrence uni
versity eleven.
Omaha, Neb.-Creighton university
opened its football season at Vinton
park, shutting out Highland Park col
lege of Des Msines, 26 to O.
Boston.-The light but agile eleven
of the University of Maine left the
stadium well content at having held
Harvard to a score of 16 to 0.
Portland, Ore.--Football scores: At
Forest Grove-Pacife university 90
Portland academy O. At Portland (soc-
cer) Multnomah 3, Columbias 0.
st. Louis.-Cochem g st. Louis uni.
versity football team was played to a
standstin during the first half of the
game with the Rolla school of mines
Final score, 40.
Old style football of the steam roller
type had its innings at Recreation park
North Central high school and Houston
school battled fiercely for two Commute
halves to tie, to 5.
Philadelphia.-Making two touch.
downs in the first 10 minutes of play
Pennsylvania did herself proud when
she simply swept the strong Buckness
team off its feet, 16 to 0.
Spokane.-The Spokane high school
football team, almost universally re-
garded by football critics of the north
west last year as the most remarkable
machine that northwest interseholastic
football ever knew, started off its 1905
season with score of 81 to against
the North Yakima high school.