The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-02
SPORTING NEWS NOTES.

The Spokane league ball team is fast
getting into condition for the poening
of the season.
Monte Attell won a clean-cut de-
cision over Harry Dell recently in San
Francisco in Is rounds.
John s. Barnes, manager Of the
Butte Intermountain league team, will
have his team train in Pendleton.
The classic Marathon race has finally
taken it's place among the sports to
be ED in Spokane Friday of this week
G. M. Daniels of New York added an.
other swimming record to his string
recently, when he swan 22O yards in
2:25 2-5.
George Sutton defeated Cutler re-
Gently in the championship 1872 billiard
tournament in New York by score
of 500 to 2s2.
The Cranbrook (B. CO. Park associ
alton is arranging for race meeting
for May "a and rs, and has prepared
a fine program.
The Odessa baseball team has been
organized for the season. play with
Fieldon Logsdon as manager and Cor
Kissler as captain.
The work done by the Spokane Rife
and Revolver club in the tournament
held this season has placed that or
ganization in first rank.
Seattle won three out of four events
in the interclub smoker between the
Seattle Athletic club and Multnomah
held at Seattle Saturday.
The signing of SILVER by Aberdeen
is another evidence of the kind of play.
ers who are fast being taken up by
te Northwestern league clubs.
The Seattle leaguers went down to
defeat in the opening game of the prac.
tice season before "Dode" Brinker Is
fast University of Washington nine, 4
to 3, last Saturday.
Seattle A. G. is the northwest cham
pion of the interclub boxing and
wrestling tournaments that have been
held this season between Spokane,
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A. J. Burns Of Calgary, Alberta, Can.
ada, running under the colors of the
8. A. A. G. of Spokane, won the Port
land Marathon race in hours and 4
minutes and A. seconds.
Rumors of purse of $4,000 for a
meeting between Frank Gotch and
George Hackenschmidt in Australia for
the heavyweight championship of the
world have taken definite shape.
The question that will have to be
decided by the faculty committee at
w. s. G. in the near future is whether
Bud Jones has the right to represent
his college on the baseball diamond.
At Montreal, P. O., Alfred Shrubb,
the English distance runner, Saturday
night defeated Abbie Wood and two
local runners in a 15-mile relay race
by eight laps. Shrubb's time was
1:17:1s 2-5.
Stanley Ketchel gave Jack O'Brien
of Philadelphia good beating in 10
rounds Friday night. The gong saved
0 'Brien in the last round after he had
been down three times. The bout was
fast and clever, and at times o 'Brien
seemed to have the champion on the
run.
Jack johnson says he is ready to
close a match if Ketchel will deposit
$4,000 to insure the go and later put
up $4,000 to make side bet of $4,000.
johnson is in New York on the trail
of jeff to see if he can force the big
fellow into making definite declara-
tion.
The baseball season was opened in
North Yakima last Sunday by game
between the Tigers of the Yakima val
ley league and an independent team
composed of former stars of northwest
diamonds and disgruntled local talent.
The Tigers won, s to 0. Over $500
was wagered on the result and 1000 peo-
pie saw the game. The batteries were
Nelson and Kelly for the Tigers, "Nig"
Anderson and Coins for the Indepen-
dents.
Spokane City League Starts.
The City league at Spokane, which
has built up a strong local patronage,
will open its fourth playing season Sun
day, April 4.
Two games will be played at Nata-
forum park, the first at clock be-
tween the Dodd Clothiers and the Var
neys. At O'Clock the Zouaves and
Hazelwoods play.
George Brownlee's Furniture Pack
ers play at Hillyard against the Hill
yard team, formerly Harry Campbell IS
Cubs, City league pennant winners in
1906 and 1907.
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