Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-26
SPORTING NEWS NOTES.
standpoint has a fine ball team.

Standpoint has fine ball team.
The Spokane Kennel club will be
represented in the string of bench
shows in the northwest cities this year.
Oregon Agricultural college won five
out of six matches with the wrestlers
from Washinton State college of Pull
ran.
Billy Papke lost decision last week
at Frisco to Fireman Flynn in a fast
1Oround fight, Flynn winning on ag
gressiveness.
Bernard o. Wills of Walla Walla,
Wash, a cadet of the second class, has
been elected captain of the navy base
ball team at Annapolis, Nd.
Dode Brinkel, the Spokane pitcher,
is working out daily with the Uni
veraity of Washington squad, and is
| already in frst-class condition.
The baseball season has opened at the
University of Idaho, and between 80
anl 40 men have been out to practice
this week on the athletic field.
Reformers who included Sunday
baseball in their crusade have had little
success in their various points in the
United States in which they have made
attack.
Manager Dugdale of Seattle has
signed Tealey Raymond, an ex-In-
dian, to play shortstop. Terry McKune
will evidently not play with Seattle
this season.
Bill Stevens will again be in a Spo-
kane uniform this season. Manager
Bob Brown has sent transportation to
Stevens and intends to use him as
change catcher.
| The first inter-class cross country re-
lay race held last week by the Spokane
high school was big success and the
victory went to the senior class. Fred
Fancher of the seniors was the star of
the day.
L. c. Hull, Rhodes scholar at Ok.
ford and a Michigan boy, won two
places in the Oxford Cambridge games
Saturday. He captured first place in
the 1OO-yard dash and the quarter mile
mile run.
The baseball fans of Spokane hayt
started the formation of a "booster'
organization to help the Indians wiz
the Tenant. The name adopted fol
the organization is the Anti-Knock
ers' association"
Kirby Hoon, the pitcher who was
with Bob Brown at Aberdeen last sea
son, and was brought to Spokane by
Brown when the latter signed to come
here, has been sold to John s. Barnes
manager of the Butte team in the In
termountain league.
Nine members of the rowing squad o.
the University of California had mar
! row escape from drowning Saturda,
afternoon when the racing shell whicl
they were rowing broke amidships. TIL
nine athletes were thrown into tn
cold waters of the Oakland estuary
The prize winners in the bowlin,
tournament at Pittsburg have bee
decided upon in all classes except tn
singles. Two men tied in that even
and will have to bowl it off. I4ir
MAINS of Chicago got $500 for first i
the fve-man team, and Tony Schwot
gler of Madison, Wis, took $34
for the woman team.
In the presence of the crown prime
and an immense throng of spectators tn
American team composed of Floyd Mac
4 Farland and James Moran finished viii
? ners in the six-day bicycle race at Be-
> lin Saturday and received a magnifcer
: ovation, the cheers of the crowd bein
l mingled with the strains of "The Sta
Spangled Banner.''
The real training for the baseba
g season started Monday of this weel
J, when the Spokane league team locate
$ in Lewiston. The players will start tn
: year under a man who believes tha
s condition is great factor in winnin
e a pennant, and it is expected that tn
e men on the squad will settle down an
give Spokane the best that is in then
No gambling, no megaphones, L
> cowbells, no batting of umpires, Il
. abuse showered upon a visiting team {
home player, no rowdy acts in the gran
=. stand, in the bleachers or on the ba
= field, and no intoxicated persons wi
!. be allowed at Recreation park this SCI
son. This is the mandate handed dow
! by President Cohn and Manager Be
Brown of the Spokane team.
For the so-called Marathon derb
u which will be held at the polo GROUND
n in the upper part of New York, Apr
3, five entries have already been r
u ceived. They include, Longboat, IL
! Canadian Indian; Johnny Hayes, IL
, Olympic Marathon winner; Alfre
d Shrubb, the English champion; Dorant
- Pietri, the Italian, and Henri st. we
e the French runner, who has just a
rived in this country.
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