Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24

Jack Kileen, the new Irish champion,
will make his first appearance in this
country at Charley Harveys National
A. G. of New York on Thursday, April
%, against Honey Melody in six
| round bout
Abe Attell demanded for his share
$4,000, win, lose or draw for the bout
with Tommy Sullivan at San Fran
| cisco on April 80. They will class in a
2O-round battle before Luke Marisch's
club. Marisch tried hard to sign I'm
holz for bout with Battling Nelson.
The bout between Jack Twin Sulli-
van and Stanley Ketchell will take
place on May 8.
Bill Squires, the Australian, and Jim
Roche of Wexford have been matched
to fight 20 rounds at the Empire the
alter in Dublin on April 30.
Fishing throughout the Inland EN-
pire is on in earnest and talks of rec
ord breaking catches are becoming OBJ
1ects of gossip in every community.
George Ferris, the we'll known base
ball player, and who last season UNI
pired in the Spokane City league, has
been appointed official indicator holder
for the organization by President w. |
F. Conner. Ferris will replace young
Ralph Dodd, who is on the sick list
and will be unable to attend to his |
duties for several weeks.
In the federal court at Helena Jury |
returned verdict of mot guilty" in |
the case of John T. Murphy, charged |
with unlawfully fencing $1,000 acres of
the public domain. Mr.. Murphy is |
known as the Montana cattle king"
At Paris Saturday Tommy Burns,
the American heavyweight pugilist,
knocked out "Jewey" Smith, the South
African boxer, in the fifth round of
what was scheduled to be a 10-round
bout.
Grand Forks, B. CA ladies' rifle
club has been organized in this city,
under the patronage of Magistrate W.
B. Cochrane.
California won the intercollegiate
contest from the Cardinal athletes
Saturday afternoon by a score of 63 %
to 5S 3-5.
Twenty-eight Chinese pheasants
have just been released in the small
timber near Enterprise, Ore, by S. L.
a sportsman and bird fan
cier, who will endeavor to assist the
birds in becoming acclimated and
numerous. The Oregon law provides
severe penalties for killing pheasants
anywhere east of the Cascade noun
tains.
Doubling the offer made by an En-
glish syndicate for return match be-
tween Frank Gotch and George Hack
enschmidt Tom O'Rourke this after
noon offered the pair a purse of $780,
900 for a match in New York city in
June
Good records in many events and
made the annual Spokane high school
track and field meet Saturday very
successful.
The Pendleton high school won the
track meet from Pierson academy,
Whitman colleges preparatory school,
Saturday, by 81 to 81 points.
The track meet between the Univer-
sity of Idaha and Lewiston high school
for April Is was called off because of
bad grounds.
Glare Ockerman, last years track
of the Washington State col
lege, is athletic director at the Col
fax high school this year.
Owing to the rain and cold weather,
the big track tryout which was to have
been held Saturday afternoon at the
State college was post
poned indefinitely. The nearness of
the big meets will necessitate that the
tryout be held some time this week, as
the team will have to settle down to :
hard work for the Montana and the
triangular meets, which occur April "a
anH Nov .