Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-12-04
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

Walter McCredie is to manage the
Portland team in the Northwestern |
league.
The football game at Salt Lake be-
tween Idaho and Utah resulted in
score of to 0.
Golfers will play under new rules
after January l., for the revised code
has been adopted.
The University of Pennsylvania de
feated Cornell in the annual Thanks
giving day game, II to 4.
Yousoff Mahmout, the Turk, won a
wrestling match with Raul Drouen of
France recently at Montreal.
Multnomah s brawny eleven of old
college stars fell before the light Ore
gon eleven by score of 10 to 0.
Spokane's giant high school football
team piled up "A points to nothing on
the team from Salt Lake high school.
After about three minutes fighting
at Burke, Idaho, recently "Cyclone
Larson of Mullan knocked out Billy
Smith of Alaska.
Frank Gotch, the American wrestler
and George Hackenschmidt, the Rus
sian, met in London recently an6
agreed upon match.
Mike Lynch, captain of the Tacomi
Tigers since the season of 1906, ha'
signed contract with Dugdale to cap
tain the 1909 Siwashes.
Washington's banner of purple AM
, gold waved in triumph over Denny field
/ Seattle, Thursday, as they won fror
Oregan Agricultural college, 80 to 0.
Seldom have two football teams bee
so evenly matched as the army an
, navy Saturday. The army won afte
desperate struggle by score OF
to 4.
While playing football on Thanksgi'
ing day, Sergeant Bird Dowie of IL
Eighty-third company, coast artiller
stationed at Fort Rivera, Hull, BEGAN
paralyzed from his neck down.
w. S. G. 4, Whitman 0. This tel
the tale of one of the most free
fought football battles Washingt'
State college has ever played al
closes the season without game 10
. by the farmers.
n Summing UP the casualties of t
# baseball season just brought to clio
% the records show that this year the
N were II deaths due directly to
Il game, while 20 were seriously hurt.
IN least $50 persons were hurt, all to
i. but most of the injuries were slight.
re Stanley Ketchel of Grand Rapi
O. Mich, regained the middleweight cha
pionship of the world Thursday at S
Francisco and reversed his defeat of
September when he sent Billy Pap
no the Illinois thunderbolt, crashing to
:. floor. The end came in the eleve
v round.
A Fiat car, sent plunging throl
nd changing fog and sunshine over
ut miles of railways by the experien
i'll hand of Louis Wagner, Frenchm
re won at Savannah, Ca, the most 81
tacular, the longest and the fastest
on ternational automobile race e
at brought off in this country.
'ds The closing game of the season
hu the Spokane high school football t.
Oh cleared the association about $3.50 a
Ter the $3.50 expenses of the Salt L
no. City team were paid. This puts
us high school nearly 5000 to the good
py the football season, the games '
Jay Lincoln and Tacoma high schools b.
D. big money makers.
10 Dorando, the Italian, proved that
80 was game at Shepherd g Bush, Lon
-'' when he fell exhausted within a
"a feet of the tape and long way al
- of Hayes, the American, who won.
ia beating Hayes for the same dista
80 80 &c miles and 3S5 yards in New J
80 last week, Dorando has earned the
D of greatest long distance runner in
a. world. He came in go yards ahea'
HAYES and was IL minutes faster
rs the time that Hayes made in Englan
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