Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06
SPORTING NOTES.

The baseball season in the Coast
league will begin March 9.
The University of Washington is on
the lookout for track coach.
Ralph Frary, Bob Caruthers and
Robert Black will umpire in the North
west league.
Jack Johnson, the colored heavy
weight, has agreed to meet Tommy
Burns in London.
Whitman college defeated the Uni
versity of Idaho in basket ball game
recently, rs to 16.
Packy Mcfarland is after match
with Jimmie Britt or the winner of
the Britt-Nelson fight.
At Marysville, Cal, Frank Mantell
was given the decision over Kid
Farmer at the end of the goth round.
William Hulen, better known as
kid" hulen, will captain the Spokane
Northwestern league team this year.
Roy Shaw, the North Yakima base
ball player, has signed his contract
with the Pittsburg National league
team.
Portland golfers defeated the golf
ers from Tacoma Saturday afternoon
in out of the IL individual matches
played.
DR.. Roller, the big Seattle wrist
| Ter, has issued a statement that he is
ready and willing to take on Frank
Gotch at any time.
The University of Oregon promises
to have fast set of distances, five
freshmen in a five-mile relay covering
the distance in 24:36.
Joe Pearson, perhaps the greatest
athlete ever turned out by the state
of Washington, will return to athletics
this spring at Spokane.
Aurelio Herrera, the Mexican pugil
list, of Bakersfield, Cal, was accident
ally shot in the leg by his partner
Badly Wilson, recently.
John S. Boa, secretary-manager o
the Western Boosters Trapshootins
association, announces that Butte is t.
have a big trap tourney this year
At the Park Square track, Boston
Saturday, Major Taylor beat Joe Fog
Ter in two straight heats of matcl
bicycle race. Distance one mile an
one-half mile.
With the arrival of Coach Kiesel a
Pullman, track athletics at w. S. {
have taken on new life, and a bi
bunch of students are out training 70
the various events.
Abe Attell, the featherweight chan
pion of America, Friday PRACTICAL
: knocked out Ed Kelly, the "Buffal
newsboy," in the seventh round of
scheduled 20-round bout at Frisco.
v W. A. Hoagland of auburn, N, Y
. won the six-day waking match whiC
1 ended in Kansas City Saturday, ha
S ing covered $50 miles in 62 hours. +
S thus retains the worlds championshi
t Track Manager Ralph Easter of IL
University of Washington is confdel
/ that Washington will win the thre
e cornered track meet between Was
5. ington, Oregon and Idaho this sprin
y S. Metzger, chosen as head coach
5 the University of Pennsylvania foe
ball team for the season of 1908, is
u the northwest on the lookout fl
T. available football material for Il
+ University of Pennsylvania.
- Forrest Smithson of Portland smas
- ed another worlds record in hurd
racing recently, running the so var
hurdles in As seconrs, % secol
better than the old record. The ra
10 was run at Trenton, N. j.
N At the annual convention of the
e. tercollegiate association of amate
J. athletics in New York recently it W
decided that Pennsylvania as hold
is of the intercollegiate track-field cha
r pionships, was entitled to the ne
Ot meet.
Louis Orsie the crack 145-pou
Mt boxer at the S. A. A. c., winner in
of long series of amateur contests at t
club, mostly by the knockout rou
has been protested by the Multnom
club of Portland on the ground of
legged professionalism.
y The siX-day roller race at Lewist
= came to a close Saturday night wi
y out a victor, as Cornell and Hensl
- are tied for first place, with recC
:. of three heats each to their credit. I
ne tie will be decided by another he
~ which will be arranged for next we