Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-03-28
SPORTING NOTES.

New Orleans Saturday
Jimmy Britt and Packy Mcfarland
have signed for fight to take place
IN Frisco on April FL.
Johnny Coulon of Chicago Clearly
outclassed Young Terry McGovern OF
Los Angeles in their 1O-round contest.
George Hackenschmidt, the Russion
lion, has arrived in America for his
championship match with Frank
Gotch
'1'y' Cobb has signed contract for
$4,000 with the Detroit club. He led
the American league in batting last
season.
Ed Green, the Troy wrestler, won
the second and last fall in holly con-
tested match with Billy Bagley OF Mos
COW, at Troy, recently.
Andy" Anderson, a freshman at the
Washington State college, has been
elected captain Of the basket, ball team
for the season 10000.
The California women won the inter-
collegiate basket ball championship
Saturday, defeating Stanford the sec
ond time. The score was % to IL
Pitcher Higginbotham, who was the
star of the Northwestern league last
season, has been showing up well in
the early practice games at St. Louis.
The Seattle Athletic club athletes
won three OF the four contests from
Multnomah last week, Venables, Speck
and Kelly winning from Frank, Dram
ga and West.
Arrangements are complete for a
catch-as-catch-can wrestling match be-
tween Lou Bucholtz of North Yakima
and William Bagley of Moscow, to
take place Saturday night, March 21,
at Palouse.
Cyclone" Johnny Thompson of ILL
nois knocked out Johnny Murphy of
Frisco in the eight round of what was
to have been a 20-round glove contest
at Frisco. The preliminary fight, be-
tween Jimmy Carroll and Monte Attell,
at lis pounds, went Is rounds to a
draw. Billy Roche was the referee in
both events
Calvin Demarest of Chicago Satur-
day night broke the worlds amateur
record for the high run in the opening
game of the national amateur 14.2
billiard tournament at the Chicago
Athletic association, making 1913 in his
seventh inning. Demarest won the
game, beating Clarence Jackson OF
Chicago 400 to 165. Demarest's aver.
age was 81 1-19.
Northwest League Notes.
lamp Osborne, the eccentric pitcher
of the Spokane Indians, has been pur
H. no LII
the purchase price being kept secret
Russ Halls Butte team, which had
planned on training at Lewiston this
year after a successful training season
there last spring will now go to Ever
EFT for few weeks prior to the open
ing in Seattle. The switch is caused
by the change in schedule, which takes
Butte to the Sound to open and brings
Aberdeen over on this side of the
mountains. The Tacoma, Seattle anc
Vancouver teams will train at home.
Manager Quinn announces that he
has closed deal with II. G. Calhoun
of the Lewiston normal school for the
use of the normal baseball grounds
and that the Indians will be taken tt
the Idaho city about March %. They
will be ordered to report to Captain
Hulen at Spokane not later than Sat
urday, March 81. Manager Quinn ha!
also closed a deal for Manager Brown
of Aberdeen whereby the Black Cats
will report at Charleston, just across
the river from Lewiston, and traiI
there at the same time that Quinn:
men are working out on Normal hill
The Lewiston and Charleston chamber:
of commerce have been interested il
the thing for some time and are put
ting up handsome guarantee to cove
teams.