Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-12
SPORTING NEWS NOTES,

The Northwestern baseball league
season will open April II with Port
land at Seattle; Vancouver at Tacoma,
and Aberdeen at Spokane. The first
games will be played at Portland the
week of May IL. Until June 1 the
teams will all play seven games week
except at Vancouver, where there will
be no Sunday games, the Vancouver
Sunday games being transferred to Sc
attic or Tacoma.
A rule suggested by Dugdale was
adopted requiring that when there is
no one on bases the pitcher shall de-
liver the first two balls straight; that
is, curves or spitballs are barred, al
though the pitcher may use his judg-
ment whether to pitch balls or strikes.
All transportation and mileage ex-
penses are to be polled.
1t was agreed that no sale or trans
fer of players shall be made within
30 days of the end of the season.
| At home all the teams will wear
white uniforms, and on the road col
ored ones.
Maintaining an even, swinging stride
that rarely varied throughout the race,
Tom Longboat, the Onondaga Indian
from Canada, wrested the laurels of
an indoor Marathon race Friday night
at Madison Square Garden. Victory
seemed almost within the grasp of the
plucky Englishman Alfred Shrubb,
when he collapsed in the 25th mile,
leaving the Indian to finish the race
of &c miles and 3S5 yards alone.
Taking it for granted that Walter
, johnson will pitch for the Washington
club in the opening game with the
} New York Americans, Washington fans
have, at this early date, placed their
team at the head of the American
J league percentage column, with 1000
on the night of April ~.
Oscar Gunderson, living at Spokane
) who, at the annual tournament at Chip
pewa Falls, Wis, January "a, became
: the champion skier of the world by hi'
feat of jumping 1873 feet, came to thi'
= country from Norway about eight
: years ago.
!, Whitman colleges speedy basket bal
n team, apparently beaten s to in thu
: first half, ran rings around the stat
college squad in the last half anC
r won, 16 to 10, last Saturday at Pull
l. man.
IL At Indianapolis, Ind, Saturday, Dc
Is rando Pietri, the noted Italian Mara
d thon runner, defeated a relay team o
four local men in race of 16 miles
e Dorando' g time was hour 35 minute
n IS seconds. William Wright, Leste
4, Miller, Ray Bronson and Joseph Bal
e, clay were the Italians opponents.
Is Rossland, B. C.-Owing to the heav.
4. slushy snow, it was impossible to max
e. anything like a respectable record, an
Ia the Jeldness trophy, emblematic Of til
e. skee- Jumping championship of BIRTHS
n. Columbia, went to Torgal Noren, fl
is three years holder of the title, by tt
s. insignificant leap of 70 feet. La
g. year Noren jumped 1O1 feet and WI
doing even better than that in pra
Of tice.
in Ell. ("Lucky') Baldwin, the note
u turfman, is still in serious conditio
MT The discrimination of the big tria
or gular track meet between Idaho, Pu
ed man and Whitman loses one of the /
ne teresting events of the year for the II
st lowers of track athletics. The ado
ton of the conference meet makes l
nd for it in a way, but the triangul
g. would be a great event any time.
st Boomer Weeks of Spokane means
ss get tryout to see what he can do
Sc. the fighting game before he quits.
IN Manager John McGraw of the NJ
le- York Nationals, has signed the once
of nous player, Arlie Latham, particuls
ly famous for his humor, as Goa
for base runners. Latham's spec1
duty will be to say funny things
the coaching line and to "kid" t
Gu opposing team.
The Seattle A. c. won the intercl
m meet from the Spokane A. A. G. F
ne day, night by taking two bouts a
OF getting a draw in the other.
me Kansas City-The six-day eigl
lie hour-a-day bicycle race was won
Ire Root and Folger, who in the 4S hor
nd rode lib miles laps. Root finish
W. for his team. Kramer, Moran's pa
ner, was wheels length behind Ro
10 while Mitten, Bardegett IS partner, W
nd few feet behind Kramer, in an exc
u! ing finish.
II New Haven, Conn.-Before an emil
tut siastic crowd of 800 people Jan
ma Crowley of the Irish-American A.
ad- of New York won the amateur Ma
TO thon race here Saturday in hours
ng- minutes 4s seconds. Harold Braun
MS Danbury was second and Tom Lilly
pal Dorchester third. Tom Harris,
vii negro "phenom, was fourth. Out
on the nine CONTESTANTS only the four M
say toned covered the distance.
ENCOURAGE RELIGIOUS WOE