The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-03-06
SPORTING NOTES.

The baseball season in the Coast
league will begin March 8.
The University of Washington is or
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, rs to 16.
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 IL 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
to have fast set of distances, five
freshmen in 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 of
the Western Boosters Trapshooting
association, announces that Butte is to
have big trap tourney this year.
At the Park Square track, Boston,
Saturday, Major Taylor beat Joe Fog
Ter in two straight heats of a match
bicycle race. Distance one mile and
one-half mile.
With the arrival of Coach Kiesel at
Pullman, track athletics at w. S. c.
have taken on new life, and a big
bunch of students are out training for
the various events.
Abe Attell, the featherweight cham
pion of America, Friday practically
knocked out Ed Kelly, the Buffalo
newsboy," in the seventh round OF
scheduled 20-round bout at Frisco.
w. A. Hoagland of auburn, N. y,
won the six-day walking match which
ended in Kansas City Saturday, hav-
ing covered $50 miles in 81 hours. He
thus retains the worlds championship.
Track Manager Ralph Easter of the
University of Washington is confident
that Washington will win the three
cornered track meet between Wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho this spring.
S. Metzger, chosen as head coach of
the University of Pennsylvania foot
ball team for the season of 1908, is in
the northwest on the lookout for
available football material for the
University of Pennsylvania.
Forrest Smithson of Portland smash.
ed another worlds record in hurdle
racing recently, running the go yards
hurdles in Z AS seconrs, 2-5 second
better than the old record. The race
was run at Trenton, N. ].
AT the annual convention of the in
tercollegiate association of amateur
in New York recently it was
decided that Pennsylvania, as holder
of the intercollegiate track-field cham
was entitled to the next
meet
Louis Orsie, the crack 145-pound
boxer at the S. A. A. c., winner in a
long. series of amateur contests at the
club, mostly by the knockout route,
has been protested by the Multnomah
club OF Portland on the ground of al
legged professionalism.
The six-day roller race at Lewiston
came to a close Saturday night with
out victor, as Cornell and Hensley
are tied for first place, with a record
OF three heats each to their credit. The.
tie will be decided by another heat,
which will be arranged for next week.