Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 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 a
score of 0 to 0.
Golfers will play under new rules
after January 1, 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' brawny eleven of old
college stars fell before the light Ore
gon eleven by a 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 Chilly"
Smith of Alaska.
Frank Gotch, the American wrestler,
and George Hackenschmidt, the Rus
sian, met in London recently and
agreed upon a match.
Mike Lynch, captain of the Tacoma
Tigers since the season of 1906, has
signed a contract with Dugdale to cap
tain the 1909 Siwashes.
Washington 3 banner of purple and
gold waved in triumph over Denny field,
Seattle, Thursday, as they won from
Oregan Agricultural college, 80 to 0.
Seldom have two football teams been
SO evenly matched as the army and
navy Saturday. The army won after
a desperate struggle by score of G
to 4.
While playing football on Thanksgiv.
ing day, Sergeant Bird Dowie of the
Eighty-third company, coast artillery
stationed at Fort Rivera, Hull, became
paralyzed from his neck down.
w. s. G. 4, whitman o. This tells
fought football battles Washington
State college has ever played and
closes the season without a game lost
by the farmers.
Summing up the casualties of the
baseball season just brought to a close
the records show that this year there
were II deaths due directly to the
game, while 26 were seriously hurt. AT
least $50 persons were hurt, all told
but most of the injuries were slight.
Stanley Ketchel of Grand Rapids
Mich, regained the middleweight cham
pionship of the world Thursday at San
Francisco and reversed his defeat of last
September when he sent Billy Papke
the Illinois thunderbolt, crashing to the
floor. The end came in the eleventh
round.
A Fiat car, sent plunging through
changing fog and sunshine over 400
miles of railways by the experienced
hand of Louis Wagner, a Frenchman,
won at Savannah, Ga, the most spec
tacular, the longest and the fastest in.
ternational automobile race ever
brought off in this country.
The closing game of the season fol-
the Spokane high school football team
cleared the association about $3.50 after
the $3.50 expenses of the Salt Lake
City team were paid. This puts the
high school nearly 5000 to the good on
the football season, the games with
Lincoln and Tacoma high schools being
big money makers.
Dorando, the Italian, proved that he
was game at Shepherd IS Bush, London,
when he fell exhausted within a few
feet of the tape and long way ahead
of Hayes, the American, who won. By
beating Hayes for the same distance,
&c miles and 3s5 yards in New York
last week, Dorando has earned the title
of greatest long-distance runner in the
world. He came in 60 yards ahead of
Hayes and was IL minutes faster than
the time that Hayes made in England.