The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-05-22
LATE SPORTING EVENTS.

After defeating Johnson; the cham
pion billiard player of Seattle, in a IA.
inch baik line game at the Athletic
club; Spokane, Dean Chapman of the
s. A. A. c. has issued a challenge to
meet anybody in that city at cushion
carcms.
George Philbrook, one OF the great
est athletes in the northwest, has been
elected captain of the Whitman col.
lege track team for the year 1909
Jay 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 Frisco 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 80, Prince
ton e.
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 60 1-5 points to 43i 40.
Harvard could do nothing with Hey.
myers pitching Saturday afternoon,
and Princeton applied a coat of white
wash to the locals, the score being
3 to 0.
Pullman, Wash.-University of Ore.
gon 62, Washington State college CO.
This tells the tale of one of the pref
test and most exciting track meets
ever held on Rogers field, at Wash
lington State college.
The Washington high school of Sc
attic won the track and field cham
pionship of western Washington in the
meet at the university compus Satur
day afternoon, with Lincoln high OF
Seattle second, Tacoma third and
Everett fourth. One record went by
| the boards when Price of Tacoma
skipped over the 220-yard hurdles in
liz is seconds. The feature of the
meet was the relay race, which was
won by Tacoma. Tanner, the colored
boy who has been one of the Tacoma
high schools star athletes for severa
years, turned the trick, and in doing
so ran one of the greatest races of his
career.
! Martin Burns and John Brown, EN-
tployes of the San Pablo Quarry com
pany, were recently killed by an acct
dental blast in the Point Richmond
quarry, near Frisco.
| BY taking with ease most of the
points in the military events, the For
Wright soldiers squeezed out a vic
tory in the gymkhana track meet hel(
under the auspices of the w. S. G
cadets at Spokane. They scored q
points, the cadet athletes getting sec
ond with %, and Gonzaga third will
10 points.
The threatened disbanding of Idaho
baseball team has been avoided by tn
college faculty, which has voted t.
give the boys weeks vacation in tn
latter part of the month.
Arrangements for a fight between
Tommy Burns and Bill Squires, tn
Australian, have failed
At Seattle Dr. B. F. Roller defeate
Fred Beell in the most spectacula
catch-as-catch-ca wrestling mate
ever seen there. The match Taste
l hour and 81 minutes and SO seconds
The first fall went 1 hour 16 minute
and 5 seconds. The second went
minutes and was fast and sensational
Great Fly Casting Contest.
Three worlds records were elaine
by the members of the Anglers clu
of New York in their third annual fl
and bait casting tournament at Me-
York recently. Dr. R. Johnson, usin
a quarter-ounce bait, cast it 161 fee
The salmon fly casting for distance
. open to amateurs and professional
resulted in some excellent pc
formances. Among the competitor
was w. M. Plevins of Northampton
shire, England, who came to New Yor
especially to take part in the tourn
ment.
The Briton will carry home wit
him the title, of amateur champion {
the world with a salmon rod Is fe,
long, for his best cast, 129 feet. TT
, professional record with the san
length rod was also increased to Il
feet by E. J. Mills.
: STANDING OF LEAGUE TEAMS.
l Spokane City League.
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, Bradleys .................. 81
. DOddS ................... 81
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Slater e Slater ................ 81
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Northwest League.
:, Tacoma .................. 81
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