Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-06-20
LATE SPORTING EVENTS.

Danbury, Conn.-W. r. Dray of Yale
Saturday established a new worlds
record for the pole vault, clearing the
bar at II feet ga inches.
The ST. Paul baseball team is the
only team in the world that can boast
of an Indian battery In Pitcher Louis
LIE Roy and Catcher Jack Meyers the
Saints have two full-blooded Indian
players.
T. G.. (Van) Cook has been APP
pointed umpire in the Spokane city
league by President w. f. Connor Mr..
Cook is by no means new with the
indicator, having umpired in the troll
ley league last year. as well as having
taken charge of numerous college and
high school games in both the east
and west.
Palouse is to have a carnival of
sports on July and 4. The Pa
louise giants are to be reorganized
for the occasion, and a series of ball
games will take place. Alpha Cox,
the old Whitman star athlete, was in
the city this week. and announced
that Palouse would be a mighty live
place on that occasion. A number of
track end field events are also to be
pulled off on the days of celebration,
and some handsome prizes are to be
hung up.
Before a great crowd tie fale base
ball nine Saturday afternoon defeated
Princeton, 8 to 2.
So. Irxy
referee and authority on pugilism, died
in Chicago at 1920 Saturday night of
heart failure, following a stroke which
he suffered more than a week ago.
Paris.-Tommy Burns, the American
heavyweight claimant, and Bill
Squires, the Australian, fought eight
rounds here Saturday night before
Burns finally concluded to end the af-
fair with a solar plexus punch that
fioored Squires.
1t is expected that arrangements
will be completed this week whereby
the Columbia Basin league will be or
gained The league will be composed
of six and possibl seven towns in the
valley. Mesa, Kennewick, Cornell,
White Bluffs and Cunningham are all
in line
Refusing to return indictments
against the members of the Mobile,
New Orleans and Montgomery teams
for playing baseball on Sunday in VIC
lation of the state law, the grand jury
adjourned.
The victory of A. G. Gilbert of Yale
in breaking the world spole vaulting
! record Saturday, by IL feet 7 "a inch-
es, gives Oregon three athletes with
worlds records-Gilbert, Forest Smith
son and Dan Kelly.
Ella Christianson of Muskegon is
credited with the record of IL seconds
in a 100 yard dash.
There have been few greater race
horses in the United States than
James R. Keenes Colin. Last year this
great race horse won 13 straight vic
tories, valued at $4,000.
Alumni of the Tacoma high school
Saturday collected $2500 for the com
pletion of the high school stadium be-
fore the first of next September. 1t
is planned to build a $4,000 field by
subscriptions from the alumni of the
high school and Tacoma business men.
Twenty-Five events will make up
the championships at the Olympic
games from July 10 to July 26.
The balls used this season lack the
old gloss. Under the new rules pitch
ers are prohibited from soiling new
balls by rubbing them in the dirt or
on the grass. The balls were discol-
ored for two reasons. One was to
blind the batters and the other to re
move the high polish so the ball could
be gripped tighter and therefore
curved better. With the manufacturer
furnishing unglossed balls the pitch
ers can work to better advantage.
The recent death of Riley Grammar,
the noted turf plunger, at Rawhide,
New, whert he had gone in the hope
of replenishing his depleted exchequer
through the medium of big gambling
house, recalls the fact that many of
his wagers on the turf were the most
sensational in the history of racing.
When he was in the heydey of his ca
reer he thought nothing of making
$4,000 and $4,000 bets, but of late
years he had been what is commonly
known in sporting circles as a ''piker'
Many moneyed men backed him, but
his luck had gone back on him and
he could not again climb to the top.
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