Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-03
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.
The Encouragement of the schedule
for the Northwestern league has been
made. The Spokane schedule from
now on will read: June 30-July 5, Ia
coma at Spokane; July 7-12, Aberdeen
at Spokane; July 1919, Tacoma at
Spokane; July 21-26, Spokane at
Butte; July 28-August 2, Vancouver at
Spokane; August 40, Seattle at Spo-
kane; August 11-16, Vancouver at Spo-
kane; August 1928, Butte at Spokane;
August $3.50, Spokane at Tacoma;
September 1-6, Spokane at Seattle;
September S-13, Spokane at Aberdeen;
September 1920, Spokane at Van
couver; September 22-27, Spokane at
Tacoma; September 29-October 4, Spo-
kane at Vancouver.
Eddie Quinn, manager of the Spo-
kane team, says he is going to
strengthen his team.
Pitcher Teddy" Roosevelt has been
released by Manager Ed. Quinn of the
Spokane team in the Northwestern
league.
Chicago leads National league with
percentage of $685., st. Louis in Ameri-
can league with .613; Portland in
Coast league with $751; Spokane in
Northwestern with 615, and Bradley
Engineering Co. in Spokane City
league with .693.
Norman Elberfeld of the New York
baseball club of the American league
was recently chosen manager of the
team to succeed Clark Griffith, who re-
signed.
George Hackenschmidt, the ex-cham-
pion wrestler whose death has been
reported, is alive and apparently well.
Manager Bob Brown of Aberdeen
has announced the purchase of Dave
Rowan, last year Spokane's first base
man, and bought by st. Paul at the
close of the season, and Eddie House.
holder, the Northwestern hitting lead
err in 1907, and drafted by Omaha.
Dandy Frisco, the undefeated stall
lion of the northwest, time 2:11 IA,
died recently at Freewater from acute
gastric-intestinal catarrh, complicated
by flatulence.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Swinging
their sweeps with powerful strokes
which carried their slender shell
through the water at all but a record.
breaking speed, the Syracuse varsity
crew won the big four-mile race Sat
urday for university eight-oared
crews. They headed Columbia by less
than one-third of length and Cornell
by bare length at the finish line
after one of the most interesting and
most hotly contested regattas of the
collegiate racing ON the Hudson
course.
Incidentally, Syracuse took from
Cornell the trophy which is the token
of victory in this race-the varsity
challenge cup, presented in 1898 by
DR.. Louis L. Seamon, Cornell, to be
held by the winner for one year.
Cornell carried off the two-mile
race for freshmen eight-oared shells
for the stewards cup in handy fashion
going over the course in minutes
20 3-5 seconds, three lengths of open
water ahead of Syracuse. Columbia
was third, with Wisconsin fourth and
| Pennsylvania fifth.
Barney Oldfield, the greatest
character the auto world has evel
known, has returned to the track
racing game.
Joe Heinrich won two out of three
falls from Charlie Stone at CoeuI
d'Alene recently.
In the QUOT pitching contest at Med
ical Lake recently between D. Keen
the champion of Ireland, and F. B
Tichenor of Spokane, former worlt
champion, the latter won.
The Bradley Engineering company
team of the Spokane city league IL
planning to repeat its trip of last sea
son to Kalispell, Mont, and Manager
Kennedy has now scheduled a series
of games to be played by the Bradleys
at the Kalispell fair, which will take
place late in July.
Harry Lombard, who is scheduled tt
meet Louie Long at Spirit Lake OF
July 4, has been matched by his man
ager, r. L. Parker, to meet Billy Lau
der at Calgary, B. c., on July 8.
Two members of the Olympic team
are so anxious to compete in Londor
that they stand on their trip acros.
the Atlantic as stokers. They do it foI
training purposes.
The Tri-City league in Portland il
having its troubles. Two of the clubs
have dropped out of the league al
ready, these being Albina and Oregon
City. The teams dropped out be
cause they were losing money.
The third meeting of the Butte
Jockey club has begun at the old Mar
Gus DAILY racing course in that city
and will continue for so days. Purses
to the amount of $4,000 have beer
hung up for the meeting.
Rabies Epidemic Spreads.