Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-08-13
LATE SPORTING NEWS.

Billy Stevens has been released from
he Spokane ball team.
Lou Nordyke is now member of
the Spokane team, and Buck Connors
will occupy the initial sack for the
Canucks, and the deal involving two
stars will be completed.
There was a cash consideration in
volved. Vancouver gets Connors and
$500 for Nordyke.
The protest entered by the S. A. A.
c. against Nelson and COOL running
for the Seattle athletic club will be
point of rule that will have to be de-
cded by the A. A. U. officials
+. J. Chingren, president of the Spo-
kane Rod and Gun club, was the star
of the recent shooting events at Mel
son, B. c. Mr.. Chingren won the feat
ure event of the program, and also tied
with Miller of Seattle in the race for
high amateur. Both shooters broke 1862
out of a possible 800. The tournament
was great success.
The big telegraph meet between
Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle and San
Francisco rifle clubs win be held Au-
gust Is.
Miss Hazel Hotchkiss of Berkeley,
Cal and Joe Tyler of Spokane carried
off the principal honors in the Pacific
northwest tennis tournament, which
closed at Tacoma Saturday.
1t is the opinion of the attorney gen
eral that not single new game law
will be in effect for hunters on this
side of the Cascades this year.
Butte at the present time is getting
an awful scorching from the press of
the state because that city dropped out
of the Intermountain baseball league
Roger Sommer, the French aviator
Saturday beat the world s record for
prolonged flight in an aeroplane. His
machine remained in the air for hours
81 minutes and Is seconds.
Buffalo.-F. S. Lorimer, driving a
40 horse power Chalmers-Detroit racer
in the championship at 1904 miles over
the Fort Erie track, plunged through
the fence in the fifty-sixth mile and
was seriously injured.
The Reardan team has won q out of
"a games played this year.
The demise of the California State
league, the aggregation known as the
outlaws in California, is near at hand.
The Seattle baseball club has bought
the release of Pitcher Clyde Hall from
the Omaha Western league club for
$500
Such small margin separates the
leading pitchers of the Northwestern
league that a single days games are
apt to change all the four or five lead
ers around. Thompson, Allen, Wright
and Pernoll are now the quartet of
wheelhorses that are pulling along nose
to nose in the race.
The cowboy of the west and south
west is laying aside his spurs and
quirt, for the reason that the mus
tang with which he used to spend days
in the saddle is being replaced by the
automobile. So proficient has he be-
come in the handling of the new steed
that with it he has been able to run
down and rope a steer in "a 1-2 sec,
Onds, a record recently made in cow
boy contest in Texas.
The rapid development of the auto.
mobile business is shown by the fact
that within 10 years the number of
car makers has increased from 25 to
more than ESQ, and export sales fol
the fiscal year just closed were not
far from $5,500,OO0.
1t is now obligatory for town boards
in Wisconsin to erect and maintain
signboards along all main Travelled
public highways within their respect
i've towns.
The northwestern football coaches
this year are as follows:
Washington State college-W. S
Kienholtz, Minnesota.
University of Idaho-John S. Gro
gan, Knox.
Whitman. Merrell Blanchard
Bowdoin.
University of Neutrality-suspicious.
Doble, Minnesota.
University of Oregon = Robert
Forbes, Yale
Oregon Agricultural college-So
Metzger, Pennsylvania.
Spokane City League, Sunday Next
August IS: Varney Hazelwood, Hill
yard-Zouaves, Dodd-Brownlee.
BURY HER ASHES NEAR HUsBANI