Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-08-14
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

VI the whitman lOOLDdll team, mas
practically completed his schedule for
the coming season.
The Occur d'Alene Boat club ex-
poets to have another big time the
latter part of this month.
Tim Harrington, at one time middle
weight champion wrestler of the
world, is dying of pneumonia at Butte,
Mont.
Packy Mcfarland won In seven
rounds at Los Angeles last evening
from Phil Brock in spirited contest
before the Pacific club.
Ernest McCaugherty, one of the
best hockey players of Spokane, will
be member of the Pittsburg pro-
fessional team next winter
Dorando. the Italian runner who
made such a sensational finish In the
Marathon race at London, has an
nounced that he will turn professional.
Judge Bandelin of Standpoint, Idaho,
one Of the greatest baseball pitchers
who ever played in Spokane, has
finally joined the Spokane team and
will be a member of the Spokane
pitching staff for the balance of the
season.
Before a crowd of 300 spectators
Kid Spencer of North Yakima and
Young Johnson of Spokane, two mem
bers of the Second regiment, National
Guard of Washington, fought fierce
oh
lake encampment, ending in a draw.
Pitcher Marquard of the Indian
apolis baseball team is the highest
priced baseball player in the business.
Muggsy McGraw of the New York
Giants has purchased the young
phenom from Indianapolis for $11, 900,
the record price for a ball player.
A series of lacrosse games between
Nelson and Cranbrook, B. c., for the
championship of the Kootenai country
has been definitely arranged by the
labor temple association, to take place
here during the week of the labor
carnival at Natatorium park, August
II to August %.
One hundred yards in 9 rs seconds.
1t wasn't long ago that such record
would have been thought joke. That
great speed record, however, can not
be entirely the result of modern meth
DDS. It's pure speed. 1t is fitting that
Walker, the Olympic champion, should
make the record.
The American liner New York ar
rived Saturday, having on board Gen. |
Jaes A. Drain of Washington, presi- |
dent of the National Rifle association |
of America, nine members of the rifle |
team that won the worlds champion
ship at the Olympic games, and
number of invited guests.
Spalding's Official Football Guide
for 1908 is ready for distribution.
Quite a bit of space is this year given
to intercollegiate football in the Pa
cific Northwest. Pictures of all the |
six leading college teams of the north |
west are given, as well as their |
records. The review of the season in
the northwest is written by G. N. Nc
Arthur, graduate manager of athletics |
at the University of Oregon.
The Spokane chamber of commerce
has offered a purse of $4,000 for a
race between j. G. Carpenter of Cor
nell and Lieutenant Hallwelle of the |
British army, to take place at the
state fair October s. 1t is proposed
that the men run 400 meters, the same
they were matched in Lon
don, when Hallwelle claimed Carpen-
ter fouled him. The chamber also
offers to pay all expenses of the run
ners to this city.
BY far the most spectacular match
Of the state championship tennis tour
which closed at Tacoma Sat
urday, was the finals in the mems
doubles, in which Payne and Albert |
the Tacoma pair, figured |
on one side and l.. r. Freeman of
Pasadena, Cal, and w. A. Goss of |
Portland, Ore, on the other This
event was won by the visitors in
straight sets, rs, 6-9, GA, but only
after a fierce struggle.
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