The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-23
SPORTING NEWS NOTES.


George w. Pool, an Arcadia (Oal)
race track man, committed suicide in
one of the stables.
Sam Langford, the Boston colored
middleweight, whipped AL Kubiak, the
Michigan wonder, Saturday.
Ed Grigware, manager of the baseball
team at the South Central high school,
Spokane, is leading his team with the
stick this year.
The first Intercollegiate baseball game
for Gonzaga of Spokane was won Fri
day by the team against the University
of Idaho, 3 to 1.
Aberdeen won from Spokane, Seattle
from Portland, and Vancouver from Ia
coma in the opening games of the North
west league Saturday.
The Pacific Coast golf championship
tournament has been awarded to the
Seattle Golf club and the dates set for
play from June to IL.
A military shoot has been arranged
between the Spokane Rifle and Revolver
club and Company X of North Yakima,
to take place about the last Sunday in
April.
Berkeley, Calm contest prolonged
until dark the athletes of Stanford uni.
versity won the annual track and field
meet from the University of California
Saturday, &C to sc.
Fort Casey's baseball team and the
Websters of Seattle fought 81 innings
at Fort Casey Saturday before victory
perched on either bench, and then it
was victory for the soldiers.
Chicago university won the western
Intercollegiate athletic meet at Lincoln,
Neb., Saturday, with Minnesota second,
Wisconsin third, Nebraska fourth, and
Washington of st. Louis fifth. Chicago
university made 1868 points, Minnesota
1888, Wisconsin 1868, Nebraska $40, and
Washington of st. Louis 2S2.
The indoor championship games of
the Pacific Northwest association will
be held under the auspices of the Seat
tie Athletic club Friday evening, May
Z, in the new national guard armory,
Seattle.
Jimmy Slagle, the Cub outfielder who
has figured prominently in the three ma
tional league pennants which that club
has won, has been sold to the Boston
, National league club. Slagle will 90 to
Boston at once.
With the cheers of thousands of
spectators and the whistles of many
water craft ringing in their ears the
Harvard eight crossed the end almost
eight lengths in the lead of the Colum.
bia crew in their race over a one and
seven-eighths mile course on the Charles
river, Boston, Saturday afternoon, win.
| ming in the fast time of minutes 81
seconds.
John L. Sullivan, Jake Kilrain
Charlie Mitchell, Tug Wilson and Other
famous fighters, as well as Hacken
schmidt, Gotch, Mahmout, the Terribl,
Turk; Jenkins and Dr. Roller of wres
thing fame, will give daily boxing ano
wrestling exhibitions at the Alaska
Pacific Yukon exposition this summer
John Cort will stand sponsor for the
athletic exhibitions.
Forrest A. Smthson, running under
the colors of the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic club, Saturday broke the
world s record in the 5Oyard high hur.
dies by going the distance in Is sec.
onds. The record breaking occurred at
an indoor meet held at Columbia univer-
sity, Portland, which resulted as fol
lows: University of Oregon, 80 points;
Oregon Agricultural college, 81 points;
Multnomah, points; Pacific university
points, and McMinnville college, 2
points.
The University of Washington base
ball team has made a wonderful record
this season and is unquestionably a
contender for the college baseball
championship at the summer tourna-
ment held at the A.-Y.-P. stadium this
year. In this tourney, Brown univer-
sity, Princeton, University of Michigan,
University of Missouri, Stanford and
California universities, University of II.
linois, as well as a few other of the big
colleges of the United States are ex
pected to be represented.
Champions Measurements.