The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-09-11
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

The hunting season for quail opens
on october l and not on September
Is.
~Sheepshead Bay.-The great Futur-
itv. over a course of six furlongs, was
by Maskette, with Notter up.
William Jennings Coyle, better
known as Wee" has decided to at
tend the University Of Washington
this year.
Salt Lake City, Utah.-The defeat
of o. J. Salisbury by Garnett in the
fifth round of the inter-mountain ten
mis- tournament created general sur
prise.
Judge ". W. McCredie, vice presi-
dent of the Pacific Coast league and
owner of the Portland franchise, says
the Pacific Coast league has not en-
larged to six clubs.
Washington State college and Whit
man college will both be weakened
this year by the loss of players who
have turned professional through
playing summer ball.
Arthur Pender, a left-handed pitcher
from the Portland Tri-City league, a
member of the Vancouver (Wash.)
team in that league, has been signed
by Manager Bob Brown of the Aber-
deem team.
The Spokane Rod and Gun club will
start it's series of weekly shoots on
Sunday, November l, at the new
grounds on Moran prairie, and these
matches will be continued through the
season on every Sunday.
Nat Miles, the Harvard man, sue.
ceeded in wrestling from Irving Wright
of Boston the title of international
lawn tennis champion. The title had
been held by Wright and his brother,
B. c. Wright, for several years.
Vancouver still leads the North.
western league and Los Angeles the
Pacific Coast league, New York in Ma
tional league, Wardner-Kellogg in
Occur d'Alene league and Bradley En-
cheering team in Spokane City
league.
The University of Idaho football
squad will be strengthened this fall
by the addition of one of the old-timt
players who in 1902 was regarded a!
one OF the greatest players in tbs
northwest-Elton. the giant tackle o
the w. S. C. team.
Laing, the Vancouver, B. c., mar
has been awarded the internationa
single SOULS championship of the Pa
cifc coast by the regatta judges. TIL,
international double SOULS "a wa
won by Laing and Sawyer, who de
feated Gloss and Waite easily.
In tests held at Huntington Bay
L. l., Saturday it was co~nclusivel
shown that athletes who have inhale
pure oxygen are temporarily so il
vigorated that they are capable c
greater performances for short di!
tances than under ordinary physica
condition.
Fred Mcleod, a native of Mort
Berwick, but now with the Midlothia
club of Chicago, won the fourteent
open championship of the Unite
States Golf association at the links /
Hamilton, Mass, by defeating Will
Smith of Mexico in their 1S-hole pla.
off of a tie, by a score of n to So.
Interest in football is agai
awakened all over the countr
: Schedules are being made rapidly an
the colleges are all figuring on wi
ming championships. There promis,
to be six we'll balanced teams in Il
northwest, all fghing for the char
pionship of the six colleges of Il
conference.
p Encircled by cheering crowds al
occupying the position of honor in
4 parade of $4,000 men and boys, so
n the 76 Olympic heroes--the stur,
young athletes who represented Amt
lea ut the Olympic games in Londo
n winning the greatest number of poin
4 in a contest open to all countries
the world-were given a great rece
I ton Saturday in New York city.
s E. ]. Chingren, Jack Forbes a
Pleiss, the three members of the 81
e hdh0 Jun Nlub VIM dllSuuGu l
y Washington state shoot at Seatt
winning first honors in the individu
shooting, individual high average a
team shooting, are going to enter [
a. Western Boosters Trap-Shooting
10 sociation e at Anaconda on S,
d TENDER s, 9 and 10 for additional h,
ors.