The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
LATE SPORTING EVENTS.

In the interclub boxing and wres-
Ting contest held recently in Seattle
between the Seattle and Spokane ath-
letic club, Seattle came out victorious, |
winning three of the four matches |
scheduled.
Whitman college was defeated by
w. S. G. at basket ball recently.
Walter McCreedie, the Portland cap
tain and manager, will coach the Uni
versity of Oregon baseball team until
the start of the league season.
Frank Gotch defeated Albert Solo,
mon of Buffalo in two straight falls in
a wrestling contest at Utica, N. Y,
recently.
The Phoenix and Grand Forks hook
ey teams played tieigame at Grand
Forks recently, the score at the end
being to 2.
| Down in Frisco they're having an
I awful time getting Kid Scaler of Spo-
kane fixed up for a scrap The latest
proposition is to match him and John
ny Murphy in preliminary to the Abe
Attel-Frankie Neil fight
| There was much to the DR.. Roller
Farmer Burns wrestling match at Sc
attic recently which sayored of the
fixed" affair. The ease with which
Roller secured two falls and the ap-
parent lack of effort on the part Of
Burns showed plainly to the wise ones
that there had been something doing.
When Eddie Quinn, manager of the
Spokane league team, leaves for the
spring training season with his band
Of Indians, he will take along with him
no less than Is seasoned old warriors
and young bucks, VINO will display
their talents on the ball field.
Formation of the intercity baseball
league will begin in Walla Walla this
week. The league proposed is Of class
D, to comprise Walla Walla, Pendleton
La Grande and Baker City.
Tyrus Cobb, champion batter of the
American league and star player Of
the Detroit team, has returned his
, contract unsigned and asks for $4,000
year and contract for three years
: with the stipulation that he will b.
paid If injured or sick.
l BY raising subscriptions Vancouver
l B. c., has secured sufficient funds II
= send a team of six bowlers to tn
| American bowling congress at Gin
cinnati next month and to the Cana
l. dian ten pin tournament at Toronto.
For the purpose OF forming WASH
u ington state automobile association
. which will carry the legislative battle
/ to headquarters when measures are rt
l. quired to assure good roads, a CONVEX
= ton of all automobile owners is to b
). called either. for Spokane or Seattl
early the coming summer.
James ]. Jeffries has been invited
3 make the trip to Fairbanks, AIask'
to referee a series of boxing bouts o
/ the Fourth of July. Battling Nelso
4 is also in on the invitation, and If
I, fitting opponent can be secured fo
u him, Fairbanks will be treated to SON
real fighting.
Joe Cans is a strong admirer I
u Packey Mcfarland and says that If tt
o. Chicago boy ever hooks up with Ba
u Ting Nelson he will wager $4,000 th'
x the Dane will be on the receiving er
d. of a good beating. Cans says Nelso
is all in.
* A move is on foot to organize boz
III club at Whitefish, Mont, and it
probable that club will be organize
W as there are quite large number
T. boat owners and many more who e
w pect to get boats in the spring.
w In the good time of 9 minues and
TX seconds Cornell, the fast Lewist'
Is skater, circled the ring floor 60 tim
Saturday night, winning the three-ml
race by three laps from Hensley.
IN The 10-game series at 1872 balk b
* lizards between George Sutton of G.
n cago and George F. Slosson of NJ
ne York was finished Saturday mig
d Slosson won the final game by sec
or of 500 to 251, but as Sutton won
n of the ten games played the honors
u the match go to the Chicago ma
TO Slosson made high runs Of SS, SO a
er 80. with an average of "a 1922.