Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-04-16
sPoRT1No NEWS NOTES.

The Northwest baseball league opens
Saturday this week, and the coming
baseball season is rich in promise and a
higher grade of ball and keener rivalry
of teams is predicted. See the games
at Spokane with the Aberdeen :tBlack
Cats.''
President W. Il. Lucas of the North
western league, says he will demand
that the umpire hurry the players on
and off the field. If player disputes
an umpire, he is to be warned, and
another attempt to kick will result in
a S. fine. If the player still persists,
he will be removed from the playing
field, and the president will assess an
other fine on the offender.
Operations are to be resumed on the
Kimberly mines southeast of Oroville,
Wash.
Manager Stedman of the Paragon, has
been in Wallace for several days in
search of men to work at the mine. At
least 20 men will be employed.
Pennsylvania IS varsity eight defeat
ed the Yale eight Saturday afternoon
over mile and a half straightaway
course on the Schuylkill river, in rather
easy fashion.
Ernest Escalat, a mining engineer
widely known throughout the west, died
recently at Reno, New. Escalat some
years ago was wealthy; he died penni-
less
A smelter company was organized at
Republic, Wash, recently, by Spokane,
Seattle and Grand Forks capitalists.
1t is believed that the smelter is an
assured project.
At Windber, Penn, Saturday, seven
miners were killed, several slightly in
jured and many narrowly escaped death
as a result of premature explosion of
dynamite in mine No. 81 of the Ber-
wynd-White Coal company.
Providence, R. I.-Before $500 peo-
pie, Henri I. st. Yves, the new world IS
champion Marathon runner, defeated
Matthew Maloney of Yonkers, N. Y, by
a half mile and 25 yards in a 2O-mile
run at the baseball grounds here Satur-
day, st. Yves times was 2:O2:O2.
The victories of two French runners,
Henry st. Yves and Louis Orphee, in
remarkable time, against strong run
ners of other nations have called aten-
ton to the possibility of this nation
claiming honors in future international
long distance running races.
Montana League Schedule.
The official schedule for the Inter
mountain league will provide for the
opening of the season on May 4. The
opening games will be played at Boise,
Idaho, and Salt Lake. Butte plays at
Ogden, and Helena will open at Salt
Lake for 10 games each The Butte
team will be home from August 16 to
81 which is the time for the Eagles
annual convention.
Manager Barnes has changed the
training place from Ogden to Pendle-
ton, Ore, where they will report on
April II. A series of preseason games
will be played as follows: Nampa, Ida
! no; La Grande, Ore; Baker City, Ore;
Weser, Idaho; Caldwell, Idaho; back
to Nampa, Idaho; Emmett, Idaho, and
Meridian, Idaho. This brings the bunch
close to Boise, where Butte will open
May 4 for the first 10 games.
Spokane City League.
The following City league schedule
is arranged to show which games at
Natatorium park, Spokane, will be first
and second in the double header and
also gives the schedule for the game at
Hillyard.
April IS: Varney-Brownlee, Hillyard
Hardwood, Dodd-Zouaves.
New Baseball Rules.
A substituted pitcher must pitch until
the man at the bat, when the pitcher
takes his position, has either been put
out or reaches first base.
In case of interference with a fielder
or batsman the ball is not in play until
the pitcher, standing in his position,
holds it and the umpire calls "play."
A batted ball that touches the person
of the umpire or player "while on
or over fair ground" is a fair hit, and
batted ball that touches the person
of the umpire or of played "while on
or over foul ground" is foul hit.
Hereafter in case of players eject
ment from the game by the umpire such
player is out of both game and grounds
He must either go to the clubhouse or
leave the grounds entirely, under pen
atty of forfeiture of the game by the
umpire.
Hereafter any ground rule must
be acceptable to the captain of the Wis
iting team, and if Objectionable to said
visiting captain the umpire has the
power to adopt or reject said ground
rule or rules.
Big Fire at Lenos.