Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-03-05
SPORTING NEWS ITEMS.


Milwaukee may bid for the national
amateur billiard series for April.
Jim Jeffries will shortly 60 into the
mountains, according to dispatches from
Los Angeles. Good.
That Battling Nelson win be light
weight champion again is the predic-
tion made by Joe Choynski.
Lewiston State normal school basket
ball team recently defeated the Uni
versity of Idaho team 23 to IS.
Barney Oldfeld is one champion who
" came back,' but he does not think
Jim Jeffries can do the same thing.
When contemplated improvements at
the Spokane ball park are completed
Owner Mr.. Cohn will have room for
over 5000 of the faithful.
This latest ruling of the national sec
rotary means that all players now held
by the Aberdeen Baseball association
are free to go where they please.
Harry Hughes is the name of the
latest acquisition to the Spokane base
ball team. He is a twirler, halls from
st. Joseph's college at Dubuque, Iowa,
and is said to be a conner.
With only one more interclub smoker
to battle through before the P. N. A.
meet in March and April, the Spokane
Amateur Athletic club leads the clubs
comprising the interclub league.
Adolph Wolgast, champion light
weight pugilist of the world, recent con
queror of Battling Nelson, pride of Mil
waukee, has annexed another title. He
is champion long-distance heart-smasher
of the world. Since his defeat of Mel
son, cupid IS messenger has been busy
with Wolgast IS name and he has been
claimed by Michigan girl and also by
Miss Eugenia Hoewey, a southern Cali
fornia belle.
John Hayes of New York won the
Marathon race, held in San Francisco
last Sunday, over seven starters. His
time was 2:44:55. "ConD Connolly of
San Francisco was second, in 2:52;45
4 Z. Fitzgerald, another local man, was
third. st. Yves, who was the accredited
favorite before the race, dropped out in
/ the seventh mile. He said he was i'll
Dorando did not start because of an at
tack of bronchitis.
Olympia.-The 1909 state law which
gave a white man or woman similar
privileges to those heretofore limited
to Indians in regard to catching salmon
any old way and at any old time, does
I In Dsor.oa ff,r. fa
Gently said, wipe out trout and other
game fish during the closed seasons, ac
cording to an official opinion rendered
to the prosecuting attorney of Masor
county by the attorney general.
Otto Deanor, right tackle on the w
S. c. football team for two years, anC
VIII Miner, left end, who has played
on the team internationally for five
years, have employed a lawyer of Pull
man to press claims they say they have
against Coach Kienholz of the football
team for services as football players
Coach Kienholz, formerly of Spokane
has petitioned President E. A. Bryan o
the college for an investigation.
Oxford, England. - The hamme
throwing and quarter mile events o
the Oxford varsity meet were won Sat
urday by George E. Putnam of Kansa
and L. S. Hull of Michigan, bot
Rhoades scholars at the university. Put
nam threw the hammer ISL feet and
inches. Hull ran the quarter mile i
:52 2-5 seconds. Putnam s throw break
the intervarsity record of 1913 feet 1
inches, established in the Oxford
Cambridge meet in 1909.