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II any, exhibition miles during the
harness racing season.
The San Francisco team won to 5
in a wonderful 20inning ball game
from Portland at Portland Sunday
Nearly every college in the Pacific
northwest will be compelled to secure
new coaches for the track teams next
year.
Mike Schreck and Jack Johnson, the
colored heavyweight, have been match
ed to box 20 rounds in London, Octo-
Der 10.
1t is rumored that Oscar Bandolin
of Sand Point, the fast outfielder and
heavy hitter with Butte last year, may
come to Spokane for the rest Of the
home series.
owen keenan,, probably the only
man who could pitch equally well with
either hand, is now living peacefully
at Pittsburg, where he is a musician
in a dance orchestra.
A. R. Dickson, the quiet manager
VI the vancouver Jcdul, was lOlAuclly
a successful grain merchant at Water
VILE He has shown rare skill in ham
ding the great Vancouver team.
r. e. Walker, the South African
Splinter, who recently won the 100
meter run in the Olympic games at
London, started Saturday in the 100
yard dash in the Glasgow, Scotland,
rangers sports and RAM the distance
in 9-4-5 seconds.
Baseball fans who have looked up
the records declare that Pitcher Frank
Hosp of Los Angeles holds an abso-
lutely unique and unparalleled posi-
ton in organized baseball, having
forced in five runs in the fourth inning
of Sundays game without allowing
single hit.
The Spokane ball team seems to be
lacking that concerted action, that
beautiful team work, which marked
the play so forcibly at the start or
rather during the middle of the sea-
son. Now it is every man for himself
and the best man is he who can out
shine the other.
After an absence of 20 years, Mrs.
Mary Frances Ronalds of London,
widow of Pierre Lorillard Ronalds,
famous whip and father of coaching
in America, has arrived in New York.
She will remain in this country two
months. Mrs. Ronalds is called the
leader of London artistic society.
Stanley Ketchell knocked out Hugo
Kelley at San Francisco recently in
the third round of their fight Ketchell
fights a 20-round contest with Joe
Thomas of San Francisco the night OF
August IS. On Labor day next Ketch-
ell will fight Billy Papke, before the
Jeffreys Athletic club, Los Angeles. II
will be a 25-round event.
That there will be hard fight over
the Seattle baseball franchise this fall
seems assured. 1t is reported from
Portland that a man by the name OF
Baker, a prominent capitalist of Sc
attic, is now in Portland relative to
getting the franchise away from Dug
dale and the Northwestern league and
transferring it to the Coast league.
Americas supremacy in track and
field athletics must now stand for sew
eral more years. The recent Olympic
games have done wonders toward en-
Tightening the world in regard to the
ability of the American athletes and
despite the -Hallswelle Incl
dent the Americans have earned a title
of being square, straight sportsmen, q
title which the English athletes have
surely not upheld as they should this
year.
Frank GOtch announces, after he
had given a wrestling exhibition al
Houston, Texas, recently, that he
would retire. He says that he is il
class by himself and that there are
no more champions for him to con
quer. He figures that he had better
quit now while he is young and
wealthy rather than go on like Ton
Jenkins and few others, who mus
wrestle in their old age. Gotch has
a respectable bank account and bis
farm in Iowa.
The American athletes, who were
victorious in the Olympic games, gath
cred further honors Saturday after
noon at Dublin, Ireland, where the!
met and defeated the picked athletes
of the Irish Amateur Athletic associa
ton. Seven events out of a total o
IL, the 100-yard dash, the quarter-mil'
run, the half-mile run, the hurdle race
the high ump, the four-mile run ant
the hammer throwing were won b.
the Americans, leaving to the home
team the 220-yard dash, the mile run
the shot putting ard the running lont
jump. The Americans were easy win
ners in most of the events in which
they competed.
Vancouver at Top.
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