The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-31
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Ihe Australian tennis players won the
Dwight f. Davis international cup, final
ly defeating Messrs. Wright and Alex
ander, the American contestants.
Myron Curtis, who has coached the
Carleton football team for the past two
seasons, has resigned his position and
will return last and 90 into business.
Harry Slower, manager of the track
at Butte, Mont, says he has advices to
the effect that there will be no legislation
against racing in that State this winter.
Jem Driscoll, claiming to be feather
weight champion of England, knocked out
Charley Griffin, featherweight champion
of Australia, in the eleventh round of
bout which proved the best boxing exhibi-
ton seen in Boston in many years
No football game will be played be-
tween Iowa and Minnesota next fall and
negotiations have been practically ended.
as the Gopaiers. insist that the game be
played at Minneapolis and Iowa insists
that it be played al Iowa City or not at
all.
Alfredo De Orc of Cuba is the three
cushion billiard champion of the world
with Thomas A. Hueston of St Louis by
the score of 80 TO So. The final score
for the three blocks game is, De Orc 80.
Hreston 107.
Now that Demarest and some of the
other stars are out of amateur billiards
owing to the showing up in Chicago, it
should be possible to arrange an unusu-
ally interesting amateur tourney, for the
lesser players will have a chance now they
did not have before.
Negotiations are on TO take the Cornell
Yale and Harvard rowing crews to Seat
tie during the Alaska YukOn-Pacific ex-
position next summer. 1t is planned to
hold at least one regatta on Lake Wash
ington each month during the exposition.
which opens June l and closes Oct. 10.
The State board of control of high
school athletics will not decide on the
place for the annual meet of the Iowa
high schools, but the different institutions
will be given an opportunity to choose
the location Of the big yearly event. Des
Moines expects to capture the meet.
A fine row has been stirred up i'm base
ball circles by statements from Umpires
KLEIN and tombstone that an attempt
was made to bride them at the deciding
game between New York and Chicago
at the New York Polo grounds. Ma
,ional League officials are investigating
and prosecutions may follow.
Harry Pulliam was unanimously elect
ed president of the National Baseball
League at the annual meeting of the as
I'll
to the secretaryship.
Freeport wants to stay in the Wiscon-
sin-Illinois League. A committee is now
busy in the Illinois city raising the diff
ference between $500 already subscrib-
ed and the total $500 deficit
The crowds attending football games
are increasing every year. An attendance
of 10000 or more at big games is not I'M
common this year. The smaller college
games are drawing proportionately large
crowds.
| Restigouche, carrying top weight, cas-
ily won the Oneonta handicap at six and
one-balf furlongs at Los Angeles. He 50
overwhelmed his field that he was held
at | to 9 in the betting. He took the lead
earlv and gradually increased his advan-
tage, winning pulled up by five lengths
in rs 2-5.
| A new, novel and highly successful way
of hunting rabbits after night was made
near Marshalltown, Iowa, the other night
when III. II. Nichols and Charles Ed
ridge equipped touring car with a dou-
bic set Of head lights. secured the coun-
try roads and killed thirteen rabbits with
out getting from the car, in little more
| than an hour.