Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-06-25
LATE SPORTING NEWS.

Iu0 OedtJl0 team bIlll leduS Tue uOTIn
western league.
Pittsburg has the leading team in ma.
tional league.
American league is now lead by the
Detroit Tigers.
San Francisco leadsr coast league by
two games.
Officials of the American Bowling
congress will hold the 1910 tournament
of the congress in Detroit from Febru
airy 26 to March IA, inclusive.
San Rafael, Calm the men IS sin
giles tennis tourney Maurice McLaugh
lin, champion of the coast, successfully
defended his title by defeating Carl
Gardner in two best sets out of three
the score Of each being rs. Miss May
Sutton defeated her sister Florence fol-
the California state championship in
straight sets, the score of both being
60.
Weston, the tourist, rested at Ogden
Sunday.
In bloody, slashing battle that last
ed little more than II rounds, at Col
ma, CAL, Monte Attell retained the
116-pound championship by knocking
out frankie Neil, the former bantam
weight champion.
Manager Shredder of the Tacoma
baseball team has signed Pitcher Lane,
now with Oakland Coast leaguers,
Pitcher Hensling, with Vernon, and
Paul Schaeffer, University of Illinois
crack outfelder, recommended to Ia
coma by George Huff, scout of the
Chicago Cubs.
1t is said that Battling Nelson is
sincere when he announces that he in
tends to retire from the ring next Sep
TENDER.
The fifteenth annual trap shooting
tournament of the Washington State
Sportsmen s association is on this week
at Tacoma
With lead of over 40 points over
his nearest regular playing competitor
Buck Connors of Spokane is foremost
among the batters of the Northwestern
league.
Norman Elberfeld, third baseman of
the New York American league team,
was suspended recently for three DAYS
for disputing Umpire o LoughIin s de-
cision in play.
Crown Point, Ind.-One of the hard
est and most sensational automobile
races ever run was won over the
Crown PointLowell course Saturday
by Louis Chevrolet, in a Buick car, in
which one cylinder had been put out of
commission. He defeated Bourque,
driving Knox, by the narrow margin
of one minute and five seconds. after a
race of 1856 miles. Time, S:O1:34.
Bourque, in Knox, finished second,i
and Robertson, in a Locomobile. third.
Crew, England-R. E. Walker, the
South African Splinter, was victorious
over N. G. Cartmell of the University
of Pennsylvania in the 1OO-yard dash
here Saturday afternoon. Time, 10 sec
onds fiat
G. A. Comiskey of the Chicago White
Sox and his friends are doing some
tall thinking these days over the re-
port made some days ago that Evelyn
Comiskey, daughter of the old Roman.
was to marry Harry Stone of Spokane.
Comiskey has no daughter.
George Dewey, president of the Bos.
ton National league baseball club. died
on a Pennsylvania train between Cedar
vile and Xenia.
President Brush of the New York
club is reported as having asked a
well known firm of New York archi.
tects to draw plans for new triple
decked steel grand stand, to be built
at the Polo grounds before next sea-
son.
The Spokane team is to have a new
catcher, A dicker has been started for
strong man from one of the eastern
clubs to join the Spokane team imme.
1iately.
"The Northwestern league is as fast
as any class 'B league in the country
and faster than some of them.n said
George Huff, the scout of the world Is
champions from Chicago, who is watch
ng the Northwestern league teams in
he hopes of picking up some good tim
Der.
K. E. Walker, the Olympic champion
n the sprints, will be on hand in Sc.
little for the A. A. U. Championships.
At Hammond, Ind, Jimmy" Clab.
by knocked out "Dick" Fitzpatrick
n the eighth round of their scheduled
-O-round bout recently.
James M. Neville of Oakland. Cal
won the A.-Y.-P. golf championship at
he Seattle club links.
Eddie Marine and Kid Scaler fought
draw recently in Calgary, Alberta.
BIZ Martin, Whitman IS crack spr;nt-
r, will lead the Missionary track atb. |
etes during the season of 1910.
The P. N. A. annual track and field
meet has been called off.
spokane City League, Sunday Next
June s7-DOdd-Hazelwood, Brownlee.
'ouaves, Hillyard- varney.
King Edward Is To See Pi, Wa