Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
SPORTING NEWS NOTES.


w. s. c., Is; Idaho, IA.
This was the result of the third
game of the series between
the two rivals, and by taking the game
w. S. G. won the championship from
the Moscow team.
In letter to Boomer Weeks of Spo-
kane DR.. Roller states that he is will
ing to arrange a match with the Spo-
kane man, provided a place can be
found where it can be pulled off. Rol-
Ter wants to fight in Seattle if posi-
BILE, and it is expected that the limited
round bout will be sanctioned in Seat
tie within few wooks.
Nick Demera, a Greek, won the Mar
athon tryout at Fairbanks, Alaska, last
week in hours 81 minutes. Wada, the
Japanese runner, who was expected to
win the race, was second, and George
Taylor was third.
Outplayed in team work and basket
thowing, the basket ball team from
Los Angeles met defeat in the Y. M.
G.. A. gymnasium at Salt Lake Satur-
day. The score was 54 to 13.
Yale s fast hockey squad ran away
from the Cornell five at st. Nicholas ,
rink Saturday, Yale winning by a
score of to 8.
The northwest circuit will open with
the Victoria Kennel club show at Vic
toria, B. c., April Z to 9, c. K. G.
rules. Vancouver Kennel club follows
with three days, April IA to 16, G. K.
G.. rules. Seattle Kennel club, April 81
to %. Tacoma Kennel club, April %
to 80. Portland Kennel club, May 5
to z. The San Francisco Kennel club,
it is reported, will hold show in May,
closely following the Oregon show.
Oakland Kennel club has arranged for
fall show.
Emeryville, Gals. @. Hildreth' IS 4
year-old horse, King James, won the
10th annual race Saturday for the rich
Burns handicap, proving himself one
of the most courageous thoroughbreds
of the American turf.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Shannon of Edge
worth, Pa, won the Marathon race
Saturday in a biting cold wind in
hours and "a minutes. Masten of
Pittsburg was second. There were $50
CONTESTANTS, so of those having entered
declining to run on account of the I'M
favorable weather and road conditions
LOnnie Lahey, the plucky and
speedy little Spokane boy, won over
the crack eastern professional, Ricard,
at roller skating last week.
The Yakima Valley league this year
includes North Yakima, Toppenish, Ell
lensburg, Kennewick and Paso.
Seattle will witness the first real
Marathon race in the northwest when
the best distance runners on the Coast
contest over the classic distance on
Washington g birthday.
Jack Atkin, carrying the weight of
kin, carrying the crushing weight of
1873 pounds, proved himself the cham
pion Splinter of America when he won
the Alhambra handicap at six furlongs
at Santa Anita park today in terrific
drive by half length from Dominus
Arvi. The six furlongs were run in
the remarkably fast time of 1:11 3-5.
Negotiations are now pending for a
meeting between W. S. G. and the Uni
vercity of Oregon on the gridiron next
fall.
Hugo Kelly, the middeweight, and
Joe Thomas, the California heavy
weight, have been matched this month.
Before a delegation of visiting horse
lovers and newspaper men at M. w.
Savage's stock farm at Savage, a sta
tion near Minneapolis, last Tuesday
the king of harness horses, Dan Patch,
and the heir to royal honors, Minor
Heir, were formally introduced, allowed
to size each other up and for the first
time to test each others mettle for a
quarter of mile squirt on the farm g
famous covered track. The two passed
the silent spectators nose and nose. The
first race between Dan Patch and
Minor Heir was declared a dead heat.