The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-02-27
SPORTING NOTES.

SPORTING NOTES.
Kid Scaler and Joe Carroll fought a
2O-round draw at Bakersfield, CAL,
recently.
By his recent victory Ketchell is
practically the undisputed middle
weight champion.
Harold Reed of Portland, now at
Stanford, recently ran a 100 in 10
fiat and a 1920" in % As.
CAS- far as real sport is concerned,
walking is away ahead of automobile
ing or any other kind of travel" says
Read Holiday of New York.
Packy mcfarland won decision
over Freddie Walsh in 10-round go at
Milwaukee recently. The lighting was
fast and furious all through.
Wee Coyle and Mullen of the Seattle
high school may be barred from ath-
letics at the Seattle high school for
having played on teams with profess
SIGNALS.
Schaefer won the finals in the 1871
billiard match with Cutler, the final
score being 1900 to 1924. The contest
has been in progress for week at
Philadelphia.
The hockey game between Rossland
and Nelson, scheduled to take place at
Grand Forks yesterday, did not occur,
Rossland refusing to play at any place
other than Rossland.
liver Lawson, the Chicago Swede, re-
peated his recent triumph at Kansas
City by winning the six-day race at
the Park Square Coliseum track last
week from a fast field of riders.
The worlds single SOULS champion
ship will be rowed at Waganui, New
Zealond, this week, by William Webb
of Waganui and Richard Tressender
of Newcastel, New South Wales.
Jack O'Brien, the Walla Walla base
ball promoter, thinks that he will
make a go of the league there. He has
applications for franchises from a
number of Inland Empire cities.
pug" Bennett of the Seattle team
in the Pacific Coast league in 1905 and
1906, has affixed his signature to a
Seattle contract, and the face of Man
ager D. E. Dugdale is wreathed in
smiles.
Quincy A. Shaw of Boston, Mass,
has regained the title as national
racket champion at the tennis and
racket club by defeating his clubmate,
P. D. Haughtin, the 1906 champion,
in three out Of five sets.
An effort is being made to organize
a baseball league among the towns in
the Wenatchee valley, consisting OF
Wenatchee, Leavenworth, Cashmere,
Waterville, and the promoters may go
as far east as Harrington.
For the first time in it's history the
city of CranbroOk has been included
in a regular racing circuit and will
have two days sport with the ponies
May ~ and %, according to the ar
engagements made by the Western Cir
cult of Canada.
George Elinor, owner of the st. Paul
baseball team, has sold Joseph Sug-
den, catcher, and Louis Nordyke, first
team of the Northwestern league.
Both players came to ST. Paul from
the st. Louis American league
One Of the largest crowds seen at
the Emeryville track turned out to
witness the running of the California
Derby, the classic event for the 3-year-
old division. There was not much of
a contest in the event of the day,
however. In the betting Meelick al
ways ruled favorite and won easily.
may be making desperate attempts to
give Sherlock Holmes, the Spokane
PAGER, 2:06 record and take away
his eligibility for 2:07 class, the Spo-
kane owner, Fred S. Shaft, is entirely
unconcerned in the matter and says it
is nothing to him whether or not the
horse gets credit for 2:06.
Cathleen Pope, the 1O-year-old
fancy skater, recently gave a private
exhibition on the ice at New York
Her audience was distinguished
group Of the Four Hundred, including
Mrs. Aston, Mrs. Brokaw, Mrs. Stuy-
vesant Fish and Mrs. Harry Paine
Whitney. Cathleen is an amateur,
and skates merely for love of the
sport.
The committees of the athletic clubs
have decided that under the present
circumstances it is impossible to &C
cept the challenge sent by the Inter
collegiate Association of Amateur
Athletes of America for an interna-
tional track and field meeting between
teams representing the universities
and colleges of the United States and
those of Great Britain, to follow the
Olympic games in London next sum.
mer.
ketcheII Whips Sullivan.