Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-04-17

Cubs 8, Walkovers 7.
The Vancouver team, known last sea
son as the Canucks, is seeking a new
nickname this year.
The schedule for next Sunday oil
the Spokane City league is as follows
Dodd Clothing Co. vs. Union Iron Wks
Bradley Engineering Team VS.. Cubs
Preliminary steps have been taken
for a meeting between Jack Johnson
the negro heavyweight, and Tommy
Burns.
Frank Erne, at one time lightweight
champion, won a close 10-round deci-
sion over Curley Watson in Paris re-
Gently
France Chance, manager of the Chi
cago Cubs, champion baseball players
of the world, is admitted as one of the
finest baseball generals in the bust
ness.
The 60-day race meet to be given at
Butte this summer will start June 81
and close September 4, and $140, 900
will be given away in stakes and
purses. Starter Murray will again Off
ciate
The Lewiston high school track and
field team won signal victory Satur-
day over the Charleston high school
and varsity props, the local athletes
securing IA points, props So and
Charleston 6.
Abe Attell is slated to meet Eddie
Kelly near Seattle on April 20 and is
also matched to meet Brooklyn"
Tommy Sullivan late this month in
San Francisco so that one of the dates
will have to be cancelled.
Jack Monroe, the former Butte
miner and who got such a reputation
through his fluke with Jeffries, only
fight, is reported to have valuable
mining property at Cobalt, which
makes him the richest pugilist in the
world.
Fred Creel got the decision over Bob
Larson; Heinie Ritter had it on Wal
ter Foley so that the referee stopped
it in the second round; Bloom and
Mcpherson fought four fierce rounds
to a draw; the Raeger-Binger mill was
stopped in the second, Raeger having
the best of the going, and Curley Co
han lost to Art St. German on a foul
in the second. This sums up the
smoker of the S. A. A. c. Friday night
at Spokane.
San Francisco.-Packey Mcfarland,
the Chicago lightweight, made short
work of Jimmy Britt in their SEIZED
uled 20-round contest Saturday after
noon. Britt was sent to the floor three
times in the sixth and last round by
powerful right swings on the point
of the Jaw. He took the count of nine
twice, and after the timekeeper had
counted five Britt's father jumped into
the ring and waved Mcfarland away
1t was practically clear knockout
Mcfarland outclassed Britt from start
to finish.
Portland Ore.-Forest Smithson
Saturday, running under the colors OF
the M. A. A. c., broke the worlds re
ord in the 50-yard hurdle in the an
nual track meet between the Univer
sity of Oregon, Oregon Agricultural
college and Multnomah Amateur Ath
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seconds. Smithson, in running off the
regular 50-yard high hurdle event, tiec
the worlds record of 6 As seconds.
special event was then arranged be
tween him and Eberle Kuykendall o.
the University of Oregon, in which
Smithson made his wonderful perform
ance. The contest was fully sane
toned. Oregon won the meet by TAX
ing 46 points, agricultural college 81
and Multnomah II.
The benefit for Chris Won der All,
in st. Louis recently netted the vet
eran owner and manager of the st
Louis team $4,000. Charles Comiskey
manager of the Chicago Americans
purchased box for the game and paiC
$500 for it. Others paid sums ranging
from S25 to $50