The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-29
LATE SPORTING EVENTS.

After defeating Johnson, the cham '
MON billiard player of Seattle, in a IA
inch balk line game at the Athletlc
club. Spokane, Dean Chapman OF the
9 A A. c. has issued a challenge to
meet anybody in that city at cushion
caroms.
George Philbrook, one OF the great
est athletes in the northwest, has been
elected captain of the Whitman col
Iege track team for the year 1909.
Law 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 Fris 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 so, 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 90 1-5 points to 43 AS.
Harvard could do nothing with Hey
inger's pitching Saturday afternoon,
and Princeton applied a coat of white
wash to the locals, the score being
!, 3 to 0.
f 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
e ever held on Rogers field, at Wash
ington State college.
The Washington high school Of Sc
t attic won the track and field cham
pionship of western Washington in the
e meet at the university compus Satur'
day afternoon, with Lincoln high OF
e Seattle second, Tacoma third and
Everett fourth. One record went by
d the boards when Price of Tacoma
skipped over the 22O-yard hurdles in
,r q Is seconds. The feature OF the
ID meet was the relay race, which was
is won by Tacoma. Tanner, the coloreC
n boy who has been one of the Tacoma
high schools star athletes for severa
years, turned the trick, and in doing
is so ran one of the greatest races of hi
r career.
g.. Martin Burns and John Brown, EN-
IN ployes Of the San Pablo Quarry com
D. pany, were recently killed by an acci
dental blast in the Point Richmon'
quarry, near Frisco.
ly BY taking with cas- most of tn
Id points in the military events, the For
he Wright soldiers squeezed out a vic
tory in the gymkhana track meet hel
a under the auspices of the w. s. [
he cadets at Spokane. They scored 2
n points, the cadet athletes getting SCI
ond with %, and Gonzaga third wit
10 points.
I'm The threatened disbanding of Idaho
baseball team has been avoided by tn
college faculty, which has voted I
give the boys a weeks vacation in tn
latter part of the month.
=. Arrangements for a fight betwee
Tommy Burns and Bill Squires, tn
he Australian, have failed.
~ At Seattle DIR. B. F. Roller defeate
FREQ b6ell III the mOSL bpOSS~SUAs
-, catch-as-catch-can wrestling mate
ever seen there. The match Taste
1 hour and 81 minutes and so second
The first fall went l hour 16 minus
and 5 seconds. The second went
minutes and was fast and sensation;
nix Great Fly Casting Contest.
Three worlds records were claimt
,m- by the members of he Anglers eli
rly of New York in their third annual
and bait casting tournament at Ne
ent York recently. DR.. R. Johnson, usi
cry a quarter-ounce bait, cast it 161 fe'
The salmon fly casting for distan'
Ups open to amateurs and professional
will resulted in some excellent p
in formances. Among the competito
lta. was w. M. Plevins of NorthamptC
5. shire, England, who came to New 70
ing especially to take part in the tour
we'd ment.
rec The Briton will carry home W
? a him the title of amateur champion
the world with a salmon rod Is fl
Hong, for his best cast, 129 feet. I
~ professional record with the sa,
length rod was also increased to
feet by E. ]. Mills.
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