The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-07-30
LATE SPORTING NEWS.

Pittsburg leads the National league
by rs per cent.
San Francisco is at the top in the
Pacific Coast league.
In the American league Detroit still
leads by nearly 100 per cent.
Los Angeles lost the entire series of
seven games at Portland last week.
Seattle is about 60 per cent ahead of
Spokane, the second team, in North
western league.
Vancouver, B. C.-In the finals of
the mems singles, J. G. Tyler of Spo-
kane, defeated B. Rhodes, local player.
Lee Samuels, the blonde twirler
picked up when Tacoma dropped him,
was left for Manager McCredie to look
over.
'loknnie Bender, who was signed by
Mike Lynch for the Seattle team while
the Turks were in Spokane, has been
let out.
John L. Sullivan repeated his declar-
alton to a Cincinnati newspaper man
the other day that Jeffries would never
fight johnson.
William Murray, manager Of the Reno
Jockey club, has announced that he
would open a Is days. race meeting at
Reno, August II.
"Vinegar Bill" Essick, who was for
merly the leading pitcher of the Port
land club, is now at the head of the
Kansas City string of twirlers.
The collapse of the San Jose and
Santa Cruz teams of the outlaw league
leaves three well known ex-Coast league
men on the rocks in Brick Devereaux,
Eddie Householder and Oscar Jones.
One of the first things Ike Butler
did when he joined the Tacoma club
at Portland was to take out license
to marry Miss Julia L. Averill of Los
Angeles. He was married Saturday.
Sidney Hatch of Chicago set new
world g record for the 1OO-mile foot
race today when he finished that dis
lance in 16:07:43, which is 2:43:14 bet
ter than the previous time claimed by
Albert Cory.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, R. Il. Nc
Laughlin of San Francisco, a youth of
10, won the northwestern champion
ship in the tennis singles Saturday by
defeating Nat Emerson, the veteran
player from Yakima, Wash, the form
er holder of the title. Score, 60; 81;
So.
Eddie Hammond, a well known ball
player in the Northwestern league, is
making plans for a Montana State
league, consisting of eight teams. The
towns to be included in the circuit are
Butte, Helena, Great Falls, Missoula,
Anaconda, Bozeman, Livingston, and
Billings.
Although the owners Of the Phila-
delphia baseball club decline to give
out the terms by which they secured
Mike Donlin, the recalcitrant outfelder
of the New York Giants and erstwhile
captain, it is believed Sherwood Ma
gee and Lew Moren will soon be seen
in the uniform of the Giants.
Percy Smallwood Of Wales gave a
remarkable exhibition of running at
Monessen, Pa, recently. He raced
against three men for five miles, each
of his opponents running one and two
third miles. Smallwood finished half
mile in the lead, his time being "a
minis. 46 secs, 81 As secs. faster than
the world g professional record.
Kansas City won the annual Y. M. c..
A. international championship meet at
the A.-Y.-P. exposition stadium at Sc
attic, Saturday, with Al points. Chi
cago, with "a, was second and Van
couver, B. c., 81, third. The other teams
finished as follows: Ventura, CAL, II;
Everett, Wash, II; Tacoma, 9; Phila-
delphia, s; Portland, Ore, 4; North
Yakima, Wash, 8; Troy, N. Y, 3; se-
attic, 8.
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