Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-05-22
LATE SPORTING EVENTS.

After defeating Johnson, the cham
pion billiard player of Seattle, in a IA
inch balk line game at the Athletic
club, Spokane, Dean Chapman of the
S. A. A. c. has issued a challenge to
meet anybody in that city at cushion
caroms.
George Philbrook, one Oh the great
est athletes in the northwest, has been
elected captain of the Whitman col
lege track team for the year. 1909.
Jay Gould won the first and second
sets in his match in London with Eus-
tace Miles, the English player, for the
worlds amateur championship at court
tennis.
There were seven boxing bouts be-
tween men of the navy and of the
army at FRS co recently, and the sail
ors won them all.
Princeton N. J.-Conditions for the
dual track meet between Princeton
and Cornell Saturday afternoon were
fine. Final score: Cornell 80, Prince
ton 81.
Boston.-Yale's athletes surprised
even their own admirers Saturday
afternoon when they won the annual
dual field meet from Harvard by a
score of go Is points to 43 AS.
Harvard could do nothing with Hey
myers pitching Saturday afternoon
and Princeton applied coat of white
wash to the locals, the score being
to 0.
Pullman, Wash.-University of Ore
gon 62, Washington State college 60
This tells the tale of one of the pref
test and most exciting track meets
ever held on Rogers field, at Wash
ington State college.
The Washington high school of Sc
attic won the track and field cham
pionship of western Washington in the
meet at the university compus Satur-
day afternoon, with Lincoln high of
Seattle second, Tacoma third and
Everett fourth. One record went by
the boards when Price of Tacoma
skipped over the 22O-yard hurdles in
u 1-5 seconds. The feature of the
meet was the relay race, which was
won by Tacoma. Tanner, the colored
boy who has been one of the Tacoma
high schools star athletes for several
years, turned the trick, and in doing
so ran one of the greatest races of his
career.
Martin Burns and John Brown, en-
ployes of the San Pablo Quarry COM
pany, were recently killed by an acct
dental blast in the Point Richmond
quarry, near Frisco.
By taking with ease most of the
points in the military events, the Fort,
Wright soldiers squeezed out a vic
tory in the gymkhana track meet held
under the auspices of the w. S. G.
cadets at Spokane. They scored "a
points, the cadet athletes getting sec
ond with %, and Gonzaga third with
10 points.
The threatened disbanding of Idaho's
baseball team has been avoided by the
college faculty, which has voted to
give the boys weeks vacation in the
latter part of the month.
Arrangements for a fight between
Tommy Burns and Bill Squires, the
Australian, have failed
At Seattle DIR. B. F. Roller defeated
Fred Beell in the most spectacular
catch-as-catch-can wrestling match
ever seen there. The match lasted
l hour and 81 minutes and so seconds
The first fall went 1 hour 16 minutes
and seconds. The second went So
minutes and was fast and sensational
Great Fly Casting Contest.
Three worlds records were claimed
by the members of the Anglers club
of New York in their third annual flv
and bait casting tournament at New
York recently. DR.. r. Johnson, using
a quarter-ounce bait, cast it 161 feet.
The salmon fly casting for distance,
open to amateurs and professionals,
resulted in some excellent per
formances. Among the competitors
was w. M. Plevins of Northampton
shire, England, who came to New York
especially to take part in the tourna-
ment
The Briton will carry home with
him the title of amateur champion of
the world with a salmon rod Is feet
long, for his best cast, 129 feet. The
professional record with the same
length rod was also increased to 40
feet by E. ]. Mills.
STANDING OEIEAcIIE rEAMe