The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08
SHORT SPORTING ITEMS.

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game from Multnomah A. A. G. New
Years day by score of ia.
Slim Marshall, the elongated twirler
who pitched part OF last season for the
Portland team, has been signed by
Dugdale.
The backbone Of the California "out-
law" league is practically broken by
the Sacramento club joining the Coast
protected league.
Joe Cans, the ex-lightweight cham
pion, is a born gambler. He has lost
probably 100000 on games of chance,
and that's going some.
Larry Gordon Of Butte won in tho
sixth round recently a scheduled 30
round bout with Harry Krant of Seat
tie, when the latter 3 seconds threw up
the sponge.
Captain Wexler of w. S. C. is out of
the game for good as far as intercol.
legiate football is concerned. According
to the ruling of the recent conference
O. A. G. can not use it's freshmen on
any team in intercollegiate contests.
R. E. Walker, the African sprinter,
has again established a new record
when he ran the 100 meter dash in
10 rs. Walker ran the 1OO-yard dash
last week in IS. The new record clips
2-5 of q second from the Olympic rec
ord.
Clark Griffith wants Jake Stahl to
play first base for Cincinnati, but the
Boston Americans will not let him 90.
Griffith kept Stahl in the outfeld on
the New York Americans last year
long after that player showed that he
was out Of place.
The intercollegiate basket ball season
in the northwest will begin January 9.
when the fives from Pullman and Idaho
will meet. The Pullman team will play
six contests with the other colleges in
this part Of the state, though no games
have been scheduled with the college
fves ON the coast.
The Spokane athletic situation seems
to be on the way toward a cleaning up
from the way protests are being lodged
against some of the prominent athletes.
| oOuC SOON WILL COAnC Va GAO WAoAklc
anyway, for it will be lesson to some
of the other men who are undecided
about their standing.
Pacific coast cinder path enthusiasts
are all smoked up over the probabilities
Of race between Tom Longboat, the
Indian Marathon runner who defeated
Dorando Pistrie at Madison Square
garden recently, and Cornelius Connolly,
Frisco athlete whose recent perform
ances have won him wide recognition.
What is expected to be tho greatest
carnival Of sports the Y. M. G. associ-
ations of the northwest have ever
known is scheduled to take place on
January %. 1t will be an indoor meet
between the IL association teams of the
northwest. The meet will be a tele.
graph affair, and each association will
have its men compete on its own track.
Manager Houston McCroskey of the
Washington State college football
team has been officially notified that
the Faulkenberg cup, the big, handsome
silver trophy which has been offered
to Whitman and w. S. c., will remain
with the state college for another year
If Whitman loses to w. S. G. again next
year, the cup will be the permanent
property of the state college.
In an exciting and unique football
contest, the first to have been held il
the history of the game between the
Japanese and Chinese, the Imperials, &
picked Chinese eleven, and all native
sons, defeated the Full this morning a.
Freeman park by score of 10 to 0. The
Japanese were completely outgeneralee
and outplayed, though outweighins
their opponents by 10 pounds.
James j. Corbett does not draw the
color line. He now offers to quit "aet
ing" and fight Jack Johnson, saying il
is shame that colored man should
retain the title. James J. made the an
nouncement from Leadville, Col, where
he is showing. However, James J. cal
not be taken seriously, for he adds tt
. his challenge a demand that he be of
J fered the $4,000 which was offered jim
, Jeffries.
Buffalo, N. Y.-Tom Longboat, tn,
Canadian, Saturday night, for the sec
ond time, took the measure Of Dorand,
Pierti, the Italian, who almost won tn
. great Marathon race last summer at tn
London Olympic games. Dorando, a
in his race with Longboat in New York
r failed to 60 the distance. Time an,
3 time again he sprinted in an effort t.
, get away from the Canadian, but with
out success.