The Montana plaindealer., 1908-03-27
SPORTING NOTES.

New baseball rules: a ball inten-
rioually discolored by a player shall be
by a new ball. and the Of
tender fined S." "A sacrifice hit shall
ha credited to a batsman who hits a
fy ball that is caught but results in a
run being scored
Vic Holm, the old star pitcher of
the Fairbanks Morse team in the Spo-
kane city league last season, has
signed a contract with George Shree-
der Of the Tacoma baseball club
The wrestler, Gotch, generally steps
on the mat weighing between 2t0 and
$50.
At bakersfield, Cal, Friday, Kid
Scaler of Spokane gained another de-
cision over Billy Snailham of San
Francisco, after 90 rounds of rugged
fighting.
James J. Corbett, ex-champion pugil-
ist of the world, refereed the fight at
Spokane last week and gave the de-
cision to Fred Creel over Louis Orsie.
J. F. Curtis of The Dalles, Ore, won
his forty-fourth consecutive victory in
wrestling contests when he succeeded
in throwing J. p. Donner of Troy five
times in SO minutes and 35 seconds
before a large crowd at Moscow.
At Palouse Lou Bucholtzz won the
handicap wrestling match in which
he agreed to throw Bagley three times
in an hour. The falls were won in
"a. II and IA minutes, respectively.
Lieutenant John Jacob Astor, a son
of William Waldorf Astor, recently
won the racquet championship of the
British army by defeating Captain
Luther of the Yorkshire Light Infantry
by a score of 3 to 2.
At Honolulu F. Mackenzie, a Kane
haha schoolboy, won the Hawaiian
championship meet Saturday. He won
the so yards in 1-5 seconds, defeat
ing En- Sue, the Chinese athlete. He
won the 100 yards in 10 1-5 and the
broad jump at 81 feet inches.
Benny Henderson, the former Port
land pitcher; Doc Moskiman, the
former Oakland pitcher, and Bill Mo-
riarity. last years third baseman of
san Francisco, have signed contracts
with stockton in the California State
outlaw league.
At Baltimore George Hacken-
schmidt. the Russian wrestler, failed
in his undertaking to throw Gus
Schoenlin in Is minutes. Schoenlin
weighed ia pounds against the Rus
SLAMS POS.
The Stanford track team Saturday
defeated the University Of Southern
California athletes by a score of 104
to is.
Anxious to get a bigg~- slice of the
money taken in at the gate than they
receive by being merely semi-profes
sionals. lacrosse players in British
/ Columbia are now wrestling with the
Iquestion of the advisability of theil
becoming out-and- ut professionals
and playing the game on salary.
After 10 rounds of the dirtiest kind
lof fighting. Billy Ross of Centralia
Wash. was awarded the decision re
Gently over Barney Mullin. Ross Sc
cured the decision after he had delib
|erately thrown Mullin TO the floor
W hen the latter refused. to get up
Victor McLagen, the referee, counted
/ him out.
Bell. the outfelder who played sucl
grand ball for Butte last season, i
making a hit with Clark Griffith o
the New York Americans.
At Dexter park. in Chicago, on tn
might of April 3. George Hacken
schmidt. the world-renowned wrestler
will contest 70 the worlds champion
IsMp title with Frank Gotch. the Amer
iican champion. The men will wrestl
to a finish. the winner gaining tw
falls out of three and carrying of III
lions share of the $4,000, besides
large side bet and the championshi
title.