Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-17
LATE SPORTING NEWS.

LATE SPORTING NEWS.
William D. Marsh of Winnipeg won
the IS mile $4,000 Marathon race at
Butte Sunday in 1858 over muddy
course. Alexander Rowan of Nanaimo,
B. c., was second.
Spokane horsemen will send the best
horses in the northwest to the horse
shows at Seattle and Portland.
Ham Hyatt, the ex-Vaneouver star,
is again leading the National league
hitters.
The early controversy between W. S.
G. and the University of Washington
goes to show that the Seattle team is
not anxious to take the eastern bunch
on without having all the best of the
argument before the game begins. The
university has always held out for the
big end.
AS an indication of the interest be-
ing taken by the American public in
baseball this year, an authority has
compiled the following list of the esti-
mated profits of the major league clubs,
basing the figures on the attendance in
the various cities to date:
Pittsburg, $175,OOO; Chicago Ma
tional, $15O,OOO; New York National
$15O,0O0; Cincinnati, $4,000; PhiIadel-
phia National, $4,000; st. Louis Ma,
tional, $4,000; Brooklyn, $4,000; Bos-
ton National, 100000; Detroit Amer
lean, 100000; Athletics, $4,000; Bos
ton American, $25O,OOO; New York
American, 100000; Cleveland, $4O,OOOj
White Sox, $4,000; st. Louis Browns
$4,000; Washington, $4,000.
Battling Nelson is said to be groom
ing younger brother for the ring
Emilio Lunghi, the Italian short-dis
lance running champion, who has beer
making fast time in eastern meets
claims he will lower Tom Burke IS 600
yard record of l minute IL seconds
and Charlie Kilpatrick's 1853 25 fol-
the half mile before he returns to Italy
Wanganu (Australia) sporting mel
may offer Sculling Champion Ernest
Barry of England $4,000 expenses if h,
will go to New Zealand and row
Richard Arnst for the championship
and $4,000 a side.
Secretary Abe l.. Langtry of the
American Bowling congress has put VI
$50 gold medal, which will be award
ed annually to the bowler rolling tn,
highest total in nine games at thu
congress yearly championships, be
ginning at Detroit next year.
Robert E. Gardiner of Hinsdale, {
clean limbed, rosy checked lad of Il
years, won the amateur golf champion
ship of the United States at Chicag,
Saturday from Chandler Egan of Elk
moor, twice winner of the national hon
ors, 4 ups and to play.
Hans Wagner carries his own aut
with him swinging around the Nationa
league circuit.
Cornell students will present Coacl
John F. Moakley with $1,000 dwelling
at Ithaca.
Walker, the South African sprintel
is suffering from sprained ankle.
Tenpin Experts Jimmy Smith an
Aleek Dunbar of New York will go o
tour of the west the latter part o
this month.
Pushball, with ball six feet i
diameter and 800 or more on a sid,
has taken the place of the annual bow
and cane rushes between the freshme
and sophomores at the University 0
California.
To stimulate interest in range shoot
ing a Pacific coast rifle and revolve
club is being organized. 1t will includ
the clubs ON the Coast that shoot bot
rifle and revolver and which use tn
military rifle to some extent, at leas
Emil Frisk of the Seattle team
now the leading batter of the Nortl
western league.
A new world IS record of % consecl
tive bullseyes, followed by a mario,
miss and 16 more consecutive bullseye
at slow FIRE on the 500 yard range i
the Shuman re-entry match, was tn
feature of the opening day of the fit
annual meeting of the New Englan
Military Rifle association ON the Wax,
field range recently. The new recor
was made by Private George w. Rec
of Company A, Sixth regiment, NJ
NJ, of Wakefield. The best previou
record of the range was 20 consecutiv
bullseyes made last year by Capital
Stuart w. Wise, ordnance department
M. v. NJ.
frankie Neil, ex-champion bantam
weight boxer of the world, put Pats
McKenna of Chicago away in one min
ute and 40 seconds of the first roun
of their scheduled Is round bout a
North Vancouver, B. c., Saturday.