The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-09
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

Toe Cans was married to Miss Martha
lane 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, no"
nlaving with Butte, was married IN
Seattle recently.
A new world g record discus throw
of 40 feet 5K inches was made by Mar
tin Sheridan of the Irish-American Ath-
Ietie club at New York Sunday. The
former record was 139 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. MeGraw 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 so tame from
being left so long unframed. 1t rs prob
able that the sportsmen's 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 Z. Coin, vice president of the
Kirkwood Distillery company. The sale
price is announced officially as 1880,
$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 a mile and he decided
to stop. Hatch covered the II miles
in 2:36:34. The men were to have run
30 miles.
Saturday Football Games
Chicago.-Chicago overwhelmed Pur
due by a score of 80 to o.
New Haven, Conn.-Playing the game
of their lives, the Syracuse football
team lost to Yale by the score of 6 to o
Minnesota football rooters got a Sc
we're jolt when the Gophers were held
to a 6-to-O score by the Lawrence uni
versity eleven.
Omaha, Neb.-Creighton university
opened its football season at Vintor
park, shutting out Highland Park col
lege of Des Msines, 90 to Q.
Boston.-The light but agile clever
of the University of Maine left th'
stadium well content at having held
Harvard to a score of 16 to O..
Portland, Ore.-Football scores: A
Forest Grove-Pacife university 20
Portland academy O.. At Portland (soe
cer) Multnomah 8, C~olumbias o.
st. Louis.-Coehem' Is St. Louis uni
versity football team was played TO
standstill during the first half of tn,
game with the Rolla school of mines
Final score, 40.
Old style football of the steam role.
type had its innings at Recreation park
North Central high school and Houston
school battled fereely for two 2o-minut'
halves to a tie, 5 to 5.
Philadelphia.-Making two touch
downs in the first 10 minutes of play
Pennsylvania did herself proud whel
she simply swept the strong Bucknes
team off it's feet, 1e to o.
Spokane.-The Spokane high sehoo
football team, almost universally re
garded by football critics of the north
west last year as the most remarkabl
machine that northwest interseholasti
football ever knew, started off its 100
season with a score of 81 to o agains
the North Yakima high school.