Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-03-14
,eoar,Ne Nores

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, 26 to is.
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 II individual matches
played.
DR.. Roller, the big Seattle wrist
Ter, has issued statement that he is
ready and willing to take on Frank
Gotch at any time.
The University of Oregon promises
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 tt
have big trap tourney this year.
At the Park Square track, Boston
Saturday, Major Taylor beat Joe Fog
Ter in two straight heats of mattel
bicycle race Distance one mile ant
!, one-half a mile
With the arrival of Coach Kiesel a
Pullman, track athletics at w. S.
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bunch of students are out training TO
the various events.
2 Abe Attell, the featherweight chan
t pion of America, Friday PRACTICAL
r knocked out Ed Kelly, the "Buffal
9 newsboy,' in the seventh round of
/ scheduled 20-round bout at Frisco.
+ W. A. Hoagland of Auburn, NJ Y
4 won the six-day walking match whic
ended in Kansas City Saturday, ha'
ing covered $50 miles in 62 hours. H
G thus retains the worlds championship
e Track Manager Ralph Easter of tn
e University of Washington is confider
e that Washington will win the thre'
a cornered track meet between Was
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II S. Metzger, chosen as head coach
the University of Pennsylvania foo
e ball team for the season of 1908, is
y the northwest on the lookout fl
J. available football material for tt
e University of Pennsylvania.
Il Forrest Smithson of Portland smas
q ed another worlds record in hurd
u racing recently, running the 60 yart
hurdles in AS seconrs, 2-5 secoI
better than the old record. The RAJ
J. was run at Trenton, N. J.
10 At the annual convention of the
Is tercollegiate association of amate
1t athletics in New York recently it w
N decided that Pennsylvania, as hold
ii of the intercollegiate track-feld chal
lie pionships, was entitled to the ne
IN meet.
Louis Orsie, the crack 145-pom
n boxer at the S. A. A. c., winner in
st long series of amateur contests at t.
ed club, mostly by the knockout rout
ut has been protested by the Multnom
d. club of Portland on the ground of
= legged professionalism.
The six-day roller race at Lewist
Il cano RI close Saturday night wi