Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-06
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

The New York Giants have Cancelled
their proposed trip to Cuba.
The Northwestern league next season
may comprise eight teams Portland,
Helena and Everett all want to get in.
l.. Nordyke, captain of the Vancouver
champions, and former first sacker for
the Indians, has been drafted by the
Oakland management
The only record broken in the annual
fall handicap games at Harvard Satur-
day. was the pole vault. j. L. Barr
cleared the bar with IL feet 7-S inches.
New amateur world 8 motor cycle
records were made at Detroit by Fred
Huyck of Chicago Tor 10 miles and for
Is miles, the former 1928 rs and the
latter 14:19 3-5.
Arwtie Holman, star center fielder of
the world champion Cubs, is to be mar
ried to Miss Mae LOCKER, the pretty
Chicago girl to whom he has been en-
gagged for a year.
Billy Papke, the Illinois "thunder-
bolt' and middleweight champion of
the world, is to have $4,000, win, lose or
draw, for meeting Stanley Ketchel a
third time, November 80.
Walter McCredie is extremely sore be-
cause the Coast league did not go after
four cities in the northwest and un-
doubtedly he represents his uncle IS
sentiments in the matter.
James R. Keene announces that he
will send the champion horse of
America, Colin, years old, and un'
beaten winner of Is races in his two
years on the turf, to England.
Frank L. Kramer, the champion BIZ
cycle rider, recently broke his own
world IS record for rs miles unpaced in
competition at the Vailsburg track, rid
ing the distance in 57:36 3-5.
William Bradley of New York, by the
purchase of six trotters for $125,O0C
and the expenditure of about the same
amount in getting up breeding stud
is among the foremost light harness
patrons.
Bobby johnson, the clever little
featherweight who won decision oil
a foul from Kid Scaler in SPOKANE
about four years ago, lasted less thar
two rounds against Abe Atttell at Reno
New.
George T. Stallings, the man who i
booked by Farrell to succeed Elder
field as manager of the New York Amer
leans, is considered good selection b.
most of those who, are acquainted wit
the man.
Miss Catherine G. Harley of the Fal
River (Mass.) Golfs club Saturday wol
the national championship at the Chew,
Chase tournament by defeating Mrs, I
H. Polhemus of the Richmond Countr
club of Brooklyn, N. Y, by score o
6 up, s to play.
Abe Attell and AID Wolgast have bee
matched to fight 20 rounds for tn
featherweight championship of tn
world before the Jeffries club of Lo
Angeles on the night of November II
Attel, it is said, receives guarant
of $4,000, win or lose, or draw.
Dick Hart, an eastern wrestler, fe
an easy victim to the prowess of j. !
0 'Connell, the new instructor of tn
. Multnomah Amateur Athletic club. Han
won the first fall on fuke in eigh
minutes, and O'Connell took the secon
and third falls in four and one minut,
respectively.
New YOrk.-Before crowd of 5000
speed-mad motor enthusiasts, most c
whom sat up the entire night in inte
, mittent showers to be early on hant
George R. Robertson, guiding a II
horsepower Locomobile, of America
make, won the Vanderbilt cup raj
Saturday in 24O minutes 4S is second
creating new American speed recor
for road racing and for the first tin
in the history of the race gaining
victory for America. Herbert Lyttle, ;
. the wheel of a 5Ohorsepower Italia
Isotta car, finished second, l minut
i. AS is seconds behind the winner. OV
f ing to the overlooking of the crowd upC
{ the road the race was called off withol
any of the others being permitted of
8 cially to complete the contest.
g Robertson (driver) Locomobile-
4 Started at 6:45, finished at 1O:45:4s l.
v time 4:4s is. Lyttle (driver) Izotta-
+ Started at 6:35, finished at TO-:
Il $50 2-5; time 4:O2:36 2-5.
It Distance, 25s.O6 miles.
# Winners average speed, 64 3-5 mil
per hour.
e. Weather, overcast, with rain duri
4; night and early morning.
q. Course, wet and treacherous.
= Saturday Football Games.
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