Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-04-18

Results or sundays Games.
Union Iron Works IA, Bradleys 10.
Cubs 8, Walkovers 7.
The Vancouver team, known last sea-
son as the Canucks, is seeking a new
| nickname this year.
The schedule for next Sunday of
the Spokane City league is as follows:
Dodd Clothing Co VS.. Union Iron Wks.
Bradley Engineering Team VS.. Cubs
Preliminary steps have been taken
for a meeting between Jack Johnson,
the negro heavyweight, and Tommy
Burns.
Frank Erne, at one time lightweight
champion, won a close 10-round deci-
sion over Curley Watson in Paris re-
Gently.
France Chance, manager of the Chi
cago' Cubs, champion baseball players
of the world, is admitted as one of the
finest baseball generals in the bust
ness.
The 60-day race meet to be given at
Butte this summer will start June 81
and close September 4, and $4,000
will be given away in stakes and
purses. Starter Murray will again Off
ciate.
The Lewiston high school track and
field team won signal victory Satur-
day over the Charleston high school
and varsity props, the local athletes
securing "a points, props So and
Charleston 6.
Abe Attell is slated to meet Eddie
Kelly near Seattle on April 20 and is
also matched to meet Brooklyn"
Tommy Sullivan late this month in
San Francisco so that one of the dates
will have to be cancelled.
Jack Monroe, the former Butte
miner and who got such a reputation
through his fiuke with Jeffries, only
to prove a soft mark later in a regular
fight, is reported to have valuable
mining property at Cobalt, which
makes him the richest pugilist in the
world.
Fred Creel got the decision over Bob
Larson; Heinie Ritter had it on Wal
ter Foley so that the referee stopped
it in the second round; Bloom and
Mcpherson fought four fierce rounds
to draw; the Raeger-Binger mill was
stopped in the second, Raeger having
the best of the going, and Curley Co
han lost to Art st. German on foul
in the second. This sums up the
smoker of the S. A. A. c. Friday night
at Spokane.
San Francisco.-Packey Mcfarland,
the Chicago lightweight, made short
work of Jimmy Britt in their sched-
uled 20-round contest Saturday after
noon. Britt was sent to the floor three
times in the sixth and last round by
powerful right swings on the point
of the jaw. He took the count of nine
twice, and after the timekeeper had
counted five Britt's father jumped into
the ring and waved Mcfarland away
1t was practically a clear knockout
Mcfarland outclassed Britt from start
to finish.
Portland. Ore.-Forest Smithson
Saturday, running under the colors OF
the M. A. A. c., broke the worlds re
ord in the 50-yard hurdle in the an
nual track meet between the Univer
sity of Oregon, Oregon Agricultural
college and Multnomah Amateur Ath
letic club Smithson's time was 6 IL
seconds. Smithson, in running off the
regular 50-yard high hurdle event, tieC
the worlds record of AS seconds. A
, special event was then arranged be
, tween him and Eberle Kuykendall O
Smithson made his wonderful perform
ance The contest was fully sane
, toned. Oregon won the meet by tax
ing as points, agricultural college 81
} and Multnomah II.
The benefit for Chris Won der Ah'
: in st. Louis recently netted the vet
eran owner and manager of the ST
Louis team $4,000. Charles Comiskey
manager of the Chicago Americans
purchased box for the game and pai'
$500 for it. Others paid sums rangini
! from $25 to $50.
Jay Gould successfully defended hi
o title for the third year as nationa
champion of court tennis at the New
= York Racquet and Tennis club Satul
day. His opponent in the challeng
o round was Eustace H. Miles of Lon
!. don, whom Gould beat last year at tn
. Queens club, London, in the challeng
round of the British court tennis chan
A pionship. Gould won the match b
!, three sets to one-19 games to Is. TIL
scores were: GO, ca, Is, 6-3.
i League Baseball at Spokane.
r Schedule.
g Spokane with Aberdeen-April Il
), 10, 81, %, %, "a, 20, 20; June %, 2
d 25. 26, 81, %; August 25, rs. 81, 2S, Q
r 80.
Spokane with Butte-May 10, 20, 2
s %, %, "a; August 4, 5, 6, 7, s, 9; Sc
l. TENDER s, 9, 10, IL, II, 10.
T. Spokane with Seattle-June 2, 8,