The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-09-04
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

The hunting season for quail opens
on October l and not on September
Is.
Sheepshead Bay.-The great Futur
ity, over course of six furlongs, was
won by Maskette, with Notter up.
William Jennings Coyle, better
known as Vice." has decided to at
tend the University of Washington
this year.
Salt Lake City, Utah.-The defeat
of o. ]. Salisbury by Garrett in the
fifth round of the inter-mountain ten
mis- tournament created general sur
prise.
Judge w. w. McCredie, vice presi
dent of the Pacific Coast league and
owner of the Portland franchise, says
the Pacific Coast league has not en-.
larged to six clubs.
Washington State college and Whit
man college will both be weakened
this year by the loss of players who
have turned professional through
playing summer ball.
Arthur Fender, left-handed pitcher
from the Portland Tri-City/league, a
member of the Vancouver wash
team in that league, has been signed
by Manager Bob Brown of the Aber-
deem team.
The Spokane Rod and Gun club will
start its series of weekly shoots on
Sunday, November [, at the new
grounds on Moran prairie, and these
matches will be continued through the
season on every Sunday.
Nat Miles, the Harvard man, sue
ceeded in wrestling from Irving Wright
of Boston the title of International
lawn tennis champion. The title had
been held by Wright and his brother,
B. G. Wright, for several years.
Vancouver still leads the North
western league and Los Angeles the
Pacific Coast league, New York in Ma
tional league, Wardner-Kellogg in
Occur d'Alene league and Bradley En-
cheering team in Spokane City
league.
The University of Idaho football
squad will be strengthened this fall
by the addition of one of the old-time
players who in 1902 was regarded as
one of the greatest players in the
northwest-Elton, the giant tackle of
The w. S. c. team.
Laing, the Vancouver, B. c., man,
has been awarded the international
single SOULS championship of the Pa
cific coast by the regatta judges. The
double SOULS race was
won by Laing and Sawyer, who de-
'eated Gloss and Waite easily.
In tests held at Huntington Bay,
L. l., Saturday it was conclusively
shown that athletes who have inhaled
pure oxygen are temporarily so in
Vigorated that they are capable of
greater performances for short dis
;ances than under ordinary physical
condition.
Fred Mcleod, native of North
Berwick, but now with the Midlothian
club Of Chicago, won the fourteenth
open championship of the United
States Golf association at the links in
Hamilton, Mass, by defeating Willie
Smith of Mexico in their 18-hole play
off of a tie, by score of II to 80.
Interest in football is again
awakened all over the country.
Schedules are being made rapidly and
he colleges are all figuring on win
hing championships. There promises
% be six well balanced teams in the
all fighing for the cham
of the six colleges of the
conference.
Encircled by cheering crowds and
the position of honor in
parade of $4,000 men and boys, so of
he 76 Olympic heroes-the sturdy
young athletes who represented Amer
ca at the Olympic games in London,
the greatest number of points
n a contest open to all countries of
he world-were given a great recep-
ion Saturday in New York city.
e. J. Chingren, Jack Forbes and
oleiss, the three members of the Spo-
kane Gun club who attended the
state shoot at Seattle,
first honors in the individual
shooting, individual high average and
cam shooting, are going to enter the
Western Boosters Trap-Shooting as
ISOLATION event at Anaconda on Sep
,ember s, 9 and 10 for additional hon.
,rs.