Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-04-04
SPORTING NOTES.

New baseball rules: "A ball inten-
tionally discolored by a player shall be
substituted by, new ball, and the or
fender fined S." "a sacrifice hit shall
be credited to batsman who hits
fly ball that is caught but results in
run being scored"
Vic Holm, the old star pitcher OF
the Fairbanks Morse team in the Spo-
kane city league last season, has
signed a contract with George Shree-
der of the Tacoma baseball club.
The wrestler, Gotch, generally steps
on the mat weighing between 210 and
23O.
At Bakersfield, CAL, Friday, Kid
Scaler of Spokane gained another de-
cision over Billy Snailham OF San
Francisco, after 20 rounds of rugged
fighting.
James ]. Corbett, ex-champion pugil-
list of the world refereed the fight at
Spokane last week and gave the de-
cision to Fred Creel over Louis Orsie.
J.F. Curtis of The Dalles, Ore, won
his forty-fourth consecutive victory in
wrestling contests when he succeeded
in throwing J. P. Bonner of Troy five
times in SO minutes and 35 seconds
before a large crowd at Moscow.
At Palouse Lou Bucholtzz won the
handicap wrestling match in which
he agreed to throw Bagley three times
in an hour The falls were won in
"a, II and IA minutes, respectively.
Lieutenant John Jacob Astor, son
of William Waldorf Aston, recently
won the racquet championship of the
British army by defeating Captain
Luther of the Yorkshire Light Infantry
by score of 8 to 2.
At Honolulu F. Mackenzie, Kane
haha schoolboy, won the Hawaiian
championship meet Saturday. He won
the SO yards in is seconds, defeat
ing En- Sue, the Chinese athlete. He
won the 100 yards in 10 1-5 and the
broad jump at 81 feet inches.
Benny Henderson, the former Port
land pitcher; Doc Moskiman the
former Oakland pitcher, and Bill Mo-
Rarity, last years third baseman of
san Francisco, have signed contracts
with Stockton in the California State
outlaw. league.
At Baltimore George Hacken-
schmidt, the Russian wrestler, failed
in his undertaking to throw Gus
Schoenlin in Is minutes. Schoenlin
weighed TIA pounds against the Rus
slams 20S.
The Stanford track team Saturday
defeated the University of Southern
California athletes by a score of 104
to 49,
Anxious to get bigger slice of the
money taken in at the gate than they
receive by being merely semi-profes-
SIGNALS, lacrosse players in British
Columbia are now wrestling with the
question of the advisability of their
becoming out-and- ut professionals
and playing the game on salary
After 10 rounds of the dirtiest kind
Of fighting, Billy Ross of Centraliay
Wash, was awarded the decision re-
Gently over Barney Mullin. Ross Sc
cured the decision after he had DELHI
erately thrown Mullin to the floor
when the latter refused to get up,
Victor McLagen, the referee, counted
him out
Bell, the outfielder who played such
grand ball for Butte last season, is
making hit with Clark Griffith of
the New York Americans.
At Dexter park, in Chicago, on the
night of April 8, George Hacken-
schmidt the world-renowned wrestler,
will contest TO the worlds champion
ship title with Frank Gotch, the Amer
lean champion. The men will wrestle
to a finish, the winner gaining two
falls out of three and carrying off the
lions share of the $4,000. besides
large side bet and the championship
title.