Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-09-05
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

The hunting season for quail opens
on October 1 and not on September
Is.
Sheepshead Bay.-The great Futur-
ity, over a course of six furlongs, was
won by Maskette, with Notter up.
William Jennings Coyle, better
known as "Wee," has decided to at
tend the University of Washington
this year.
Salt Lake City, Utah.-The defeat
of o. ]. Salisbury by Garnett in the
fifth round of the inter-mountain ten
mis- tournament created general sur
prise.
Judge w. w. McCredie, vice presi
dent of the Pacific Coast league and
the Pacific Coast league has not en-
larged to six clubs.
Washington State college and Whit
man college will both be weakened
this year by the loss of players who
have turned professional through
playing summer ball.
Arthur Fender. left-handed pitcher
from the Portland Tri-City league, a
member of the Vancouver (Wash.)
team in that league, has been signed
by Manager Bob Brown of the Aber-
deem team.
The Spokane Rod and Gun club will
start its series of weekly shoots on
Sunday, November |, at the new
grounds on Moran prairie, and these
matches will be continued through the
season on every Sunday.
Nat Miles, the Harvard man, sue
ceeded in wrestling from Irving Wright
of Boston the title of international
lawn tennis champion. The title had
been held by Wright and his brother,
B. c. Wright, for several years.
Vancouver still leads the North
western league and Los Angeles the
Pacific Coast league, New York in Ma
tional league, Wardner-Kellogg in
Occur d'Alene league and Bradley En-
cheering team in Spokane City
league.
The University of Idaho football
squad will be strengthened this fall
by the addition of one of the old-time
players who in 1902 was regarded as
one of the greatest players in the
northwest-Elton, the giant tackle of
the w. S. c. team.
Laing, the Vancouver, B. c., man,
has been awarded the international
single SOULS championship of the Pa
ID 1,xy no O
international double SOULS race was
won by Laing and Sawyer, who de-
feated Gloss and Waite easily
In tests held at Huntington Bay
L. l., Saturday it was conclusively
shown that athletes who have inhaled
pure oxygen are temporarily so in
vigorated that they are capable OF
greater performances for short dis
tances than under ordinary physical
condition.
Fred Mcleod, a native of North
Berwick, but now with the Midlothian
club of Chicago, won the fourteenth
open championship of the United
States Golf association at the links in
Hamilton, Mass, by defeating Willie
Smith of Mexico in their 1S-hole play
off of a tie, by score of n to SO.
Interest in football is agar
awakened all over the country
Schedules are being made rapidly ant
) the colleges are all figuring on win
ming championships. There promises
to be six we'll balanced teams in the
northwest, all fighing for the cham
pionship of the six colleges of tn,
| conference.
Encircled by cheering crowds anC
| occupying the position of honor in ;
parade of $4,000 men and boys, so o
the 76 Olympic heroes-the sturd.
young athletes who represented Amer
lea at the Olympic games in London
r winning the greatest number of point
D in a contest open to all countries o
= the world-were given a great receT
! ton Saturday in New York city.
t e. ]. Chingren, Jack Forbes an
, Pleiss, the three members of the Spc
. kane Gun club who attended tn
Washington state shoot at Seattle
winning first honors in the individua
i shooting, individual high average an
j team shooting, are going to enter tn
j, Western Boosters Trap-Shooting a!
e sociation event at Anaconda on Sci
: TENDER 8, and 10 for additional hon
ors.
: Applies to Men on Duty.