Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-12-11
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

Tacoma bowlers have organized city
bowling league.
Cyclists started six-day contest at
Madison Square Garden, New York,
Monday.
Christy Matthewson, the New York
pitcher, will coach the Harvard ball
squad next spring.
A movement has been started and is
well under way for the organization of
a Spokane City Bowling league.
Edward Harris Coy, fullback on this
years. Yale football team, has been
elected captain of the 1909 eleven.
Frank Kramer, national cycle cham
pion, won the three-cornered match
race at Madison Square garden Satur-
day.
Los Angeles.-A. D. Wolgast knocked
out Young Kid Mccoy in the second
round of what was to have been TO-
round contest.
Washington State has a basketball
team this year which is going to make
q strong bid for the northwest cham
pionship honors.
Will Mattson, right end of the Uni
versity of Washington football team,
has been elected captain of the team
for the coming year.
Over 100000 clay targets were
shot at this year by the growing army
of trap shooters. Guns used by the
shooters cost about 100000. ,ae
Matt Stanley, who stands at the head
of Pacific coast catchers for develop
ing young pitchers, has gone to work
for A. G. Spalding & Brothers in Sc
attic.
1t is about time for the northwest
conference to get together and arrange
things so the annual fights between the
colleges about ineligible players viii be
stopped.
Maurice Thompson of Montana was
given the decision over Gene Sullivan
of Butte in the fifteenth round at Amer
deem recently. Tho men fought at catch
weights.
Packey Mcfarland says he win re-
tire from the ring in year. His fists
have already earned him $4,000, and
he expects to make that much more in
twelvemonth.
elected to take charge of the football
team of the University of Washington
for the season of 1909 again at an in
.GFease inssalarya ~ !. ..sab "a.
With its greater representation in
most of the events, the Tacoma Y. M
C. A. Saturday easily won the first an
nual indoor meet for the Pacific north
west championships.
When Rudolph Spreckels sold his
string of fast race horses at public auc
ton at Santa Anita (Cal.) track Sat
vFday His career as a racing magnat'
was brought to an end.
That Hal Chase will rejoin the New
! York American league club next sea
son now that George 6tallings, the olt
Buffalo magnate, has been made man
ager of the Yankees, is regarded as Ger
tain in New York.
The Multnomah Amateur Athlete
club defeated the Oregon Agriculture
college, footbalb team Saturday at Port
J land by the score of IL to 10. AS tn
} score indicates, the game was har,
} fought from start to finish and was ais
/ notable for several spectacular plays.
Denver, Co.-In a fast, clean, sense
tional game here Saturday the Carlisl
Indians defeated Denver university b
the score of 8 to 4. The red men mad
their score in the first half on two feel
goals by Hauser. In the second hal
J the Denver team hit a great strid
and outplayed the visitors. The sho1
+ end of the score was made on gos
from the s0-yard line by Captain Bruss
A feature of the game was the cas-
with which Denver outplayed the Il
y dams at their own game.