Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-31
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 men S singles, j. C. 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.
Johnnie 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 Lo.
Angeles. He was married Saturday.
Sidney Hatch of Chicago set new
world IS record for the 100-mile foo
race today when he finished that dis
lance in 16:07:43, which is BAHIA bet
ter than the previous time claimed b,
Albert Cory.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, R. H. Nc
Laughlin of San Francisco, youth o.
10, won the northwestern champion
ship in the tennis singles Saturday b,
defeating Nat Emerson, the veteran
player from Yakima, Wash, the form
err holder of the title. Score, 60; GA
SO.
Eddie Hammond, well known bal
player in the Northwestern league,
making plans for a Montana Stat
league, consisting of eight teams. TIL
towns to be included in the circuit ar
Butte, Helena, Great Falls, Missouls
Anaconda, Bozeman, Livingston, AM
Billings.
Although the owners of the Phila
delphia baseball club decline to Civ
out the terms by which they secures
Mike Donlin, the recalcitrant outfelde
of the New York Giants and erstwhil
captain, it is believed Sherwood Ma
gee and Lew Moren will soon be see
in the uniform of the Giants.
i Percy Smallwood OF Wales gave
remarkable exhibition of running a
Monessen, Pa, recently. He race
against three men for five miles, eac
of his opponents running one and two
third miles. Smallwood finished hal
mile in the lead, his time being
Minis. 46 secs, 81 AS secs. faster tina
the world IS professional record.
Kansas City won the annual Y. M.
A. international championship meet q
the A.-Y.-P. exposition stadium at s.
attic, Saturday, with Al points. Oh
cage, with "a, was second and Val
couver, B. c., 21, third. The other team
finished as follows: Ventura, CAL, II
, Everett, Wash, IL; Tacoma, 8; Phili
delphia, 5; Portland, Ore, A; Mort
Yakima, Wash, 3; Troy, N. Y, 3; s.
attic, 3.