The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-02-28
SPORTING NOTES.

recently.
Bv his recent victory Ketchell is
practically the u~ndisputed middle
weight champion.
Harold Reed of Portland, now at
Stanford, recently ran a 100 in 10
fiat and a 1920" in % As.
LAS far as real sport is concerned,
walking is away ahead of AUTOMOBILE
ing or any other kind of travel" says
Read Holiday of New York.
Packy .deFarland won a decision
over Freddie Walsh in a 10-round go at
Milwaukee recently. The lighting was
fast and furious all through.
Wee Coyle and Mullen of the Seattle
high school may be barred from ath-
letics at the Seattle high school for
having played on teams with profess
SIGNALS.
Schaefer won the finals in the ISL
billiard match with Cutler, the final
score being 1900 to 1924. The contest
has been in progress for a week at
Philadelphia.
The hockey game between Rossland
and Nelson, scheduled to take place at
Grand Forks yesterday did not occur,
Rossland refusing to play at any place
other than Rossland.
liver Lawson, the Chicago Swede, re-
peated his recent triumph at Kansas
City by winning the six-day race at
the Park Square Coliseum track last
week from a fast field of riders.
The worlds single SOULS champion
ship will be rowed at Waganui, New
Zealond, this week, by William Webb
of Waganui and Richard Tressender
of Newcastel, New South Wales.
Jack O'Brien, the Walla Walla base
ball promoter, thinks that he will
make a go of the league there. He has
applications for franchises from a
number of Inland Empire cities.
Pug" Bennett of the Seattle team
in the Pacific Coast league in 1905 and
1906, has affixed his signature to a
Seattle contract, and the face of Man
ager d. E. DUgdale is wreathed in
smiles.
Quincy A. Shaw of Boston, Mass,
has regained the title as national
racket champion at the tennis and
racket club by defeating his clubmate,
P. d. Haughtin, the 1906 champion,
in three out of five sets.
An effort is being made to organize
a baseball league among the towns in
the Wenatchee valley, consisting of
Wenatchee, Leavenworth, Cashmere,
Waterville, and the promoters may go
as far east as Harrington.
For the first time in its history the
city of Cranbrook has been included
in a regular racing circuit and will
have two days sport with the ponies
May % and %, according to the ar
rangements made by the Western Cir
cult of Canada.
George Elinor, owner of the st. Paul
baseball team, has sold Joseph Sug
den, catcher, and Louis Nordyke, first
baseman, to the Vancouver baseball
team of the Northwestern league
Both players came to st. Paul from
the st. Louis American league.
One of the largest crowds seen al
the Emeryville track turned out tt
witness the running of the California
Derby, the classic event for the 3-year
old division. There was not much o
a contest in the event of the day
however. In the betting Meelick al
ways ruled favOrite and won easily.
While North Yakima racing mel
may be making desperate attempts tt
give Sherlock Holmes, the Spokane
PAGER, a 2:06 record and take ava!
his eligibility for a 2:07 class, the Spo
kane owner, Fred S. Shaft, is entirely
-unCUnCeTned IN the matter and says i
is nothing to him whether or not the
horse gets credit for 2:06.
CathIeen Pope, the ~10-year-olt
fancy skater, recently gave a private
exhibition on the ice at New York
Her audience was a distinguished
group of the Four Hundred, including
Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Brokaw, Mrs. Stuy
vesant Fish and Mrs. Harry Paint
Whitney. Cathleen is an amateur
and skates merely for love of tn,
sport.
The committees of the athletic club
have decided that under the presen
circumstances it is impossible to &C
cept the challenge SEM by the Inter
collegiate Association of Amateur
Athletes of America for an interna
tional track and field meeting between
teams representing the universitie
and colleges of the United States ant
those of Great Britain, to follow tn,
Olympic games in London next sum
mer.
ketcheIl Whips Sullivan.
Colma Arena, Colma, Cal.-Youni
Ketchell, the Grand Rapids mich.
m~iddleweight, made short work o
Mike (Twin) Sullivan Saturday after
noon in their scheduled 25-round bat
tie. The end came after but one min
ute and Is seconds fighting in tn