The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-08-07
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

There is to be a senior Rugby foot
ball team in Spokane this fall.
Dan Patch will go but one or two,
if any, exhibition miles during the
harness racing season.
The San Francisco team won to S
in wonderful 20-inning ball game
from Portland at Portland Sunday.
Nearly every college in the Pacific
northwest will be compelled to secure
new coaches for the track teams next
year.
Mike Schreck and Jack Johnson, the
colored heavyweight, have been match
Der 10.
1t is rumored that Oscar Bandolin
of Sand Point, the fast outfielder and
heavy hitter with Butte last year, may
come to Spokane for the rest of the
home series.
Owen keenan,, probably the only
man who could pitch equally we'll with
either hand, is now living peacefully
at Pittsburg, where he is a musician
in dance orchestra.
A. R. Dickson, the quiet manager
of the Vancouver team, was formerly
a successful grain merchant at Water
vile. He has shown rare skill in han
ding the great Vancouver team.
R. E. Walker, the South African
Splinter, who recently won the 100
meter run in the Olympic games at
London, started Saturday in the 100
yard dash in the Glasgow, Scotland,
rangers sports and ran the distance
in 9-4-5 seconds.
Baseball fans who have looked up
the records declare that Pitcher Frank
Hosp of Los Angeles holds an abso-
lutely unique and unparalleled posi-
ton in organized baseball, having
forced in five runs in the fourth inning
of Sundays game without allowing"
single hit.
The Spokane ball team seems to be
lacking that concerted action, that
beautiful team work, which marked
the play so forcibly at the start or
rather during the middle of the sea-
son. Now it is every man for himself
and the best man is he who can out
shine the other.
After an absence of 20 years, Mrs.
Mary Frances Ronalds of London,
widow of Pierre Lorillard Ronalds,
famous whip and father of coaching
in America, has arrived in New York.
She will remain in this country two
months. Mrs. Ronalds is called the
leader of London artistic society
Stanley Ketchell knocked out Hugo
Kelley at San Francisco recently in
the third round of their fight. Ketchell
fights 2O-round contest with Joe
Thomas of San Francisco the night of
August 18. On Labor day next Ketch-
ell will fight Billy Papke, before the
Jeffreys Athletic club, Los Angeles. 1t
| will be 25-round event.
That there will be hard fight over
the Seattle baseball franchise this fall
seems assured. 1t is reported from
Portland that man by the name of
Baker, prominent capitalist of Sc
attic, is now in Portland relative to
getting the franchise away from Dug
dale and the Northwestern league and
transferring it to the Coast league
Americas supremacy in track and
field athletics must now stand for sew
eral more years. The recent Olympic
games have done wonders toward en-
| Tightening the world in regard to the
| ability of the American athletes and
despite the arpenter-Hallswelle Incl
dent the Americans have earned a title
of being square, straight sportsmen, a
title which the English athletes have
surely not upheld as they should this
year.
Frank Gotch announces, after he
had given wrestling exhibition at
Houston, Texas. recently, that he
would retire. He says that he is in
a class by himself and that there are
no more champions for him to con-
quer. He figures that he had better
quit now while he is young and
wealthy ioIACl the1I 81 Ou llhC loll
Jenkins and few others, who must
wrestle in their old age. Gotch has
a respectable bank account and big
farm in Iowa.
! The American athletes, who were
victorious in the Olympic games, gath.
cred further honors Saturday after.
noon at Dublin, Ireland, where they
met and defeated the picked athletes
of the Irish Amateur Athletic associa
ton. Seven events out of a total OF
II, the 100-yard dash, the quarter-mile
run, the half-mile run, the hurdle race
the high imp, the four-mile run and
the hammer throwing were won by
the Americans, leaving to the home
team the 220-yard dash, the mile run
the shot putting ard the running long
jump. The Americans were easy win
ners in most of the events in which
they competed.
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