Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-19
LATE SPORTING EVENTS.


bar at IL feet 9 "a inches.
The st. Paul baseball team is tn,
only team in the world that can boas
Of an Indian battery. In Pitcher Loui.
lie Roy and Catcher Jack Meyers the
Saints have two full-blooded Indiar
players.
T. G. (Van) Cook has been ap
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 A.. 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 the Yale base
ball nine Saturday afternoon defeated
Princeton, to 2.
George Siler, famous as a boxer,
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
ganized The league will be composed
OF six and possibl seven towns in the
valley. Mesa, Kennewick. Conneil.
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 vio-
Iation 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 Z "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 100 yard dash.
There have been few greater racel
horses in the United States than
James R. Keene's Colin. Last year this |
great race horse won 10 straight vic |
tories, valued at $25O,0O.
Alumni of the Tacoma high school
Saturday collected $25O0 for the COM
pletien of the high school stadium be-
fore the first of next September It |
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 19 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
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 excheouer
through the medium of big gambling
house, recalls the fact that many of
his wagers on the turf were the most {
in the history of racing. {
When he was in the heydey of his ca ,
'eer he thought nothing Of making I
$4,000 and $4,000 bets, but of late
'ears he had been what is commonly
Known in sporting circles as ''piker." :
Many moneyed men backed him. but ,
lis luck had gone back on him and
lie could not again climb to the top. .
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