The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-02-25
SPORTING NEWS ITEMS.

SPORTING NEWS ITEMS.
San Francisco has captured the jeff
ries-Johnson fight.
At Paris recently Harry Lewis and
Willie Lewis fought to a draw.
"Jake" Schaefer, the wizard of bill
lizards, " is dying at his home in Denver.
Weston, the veteran walker, is going
along fast on his ocean to ocean trip.
Sam Langford has made arrange
ments to arrive in Paris, France, about
March l.
President Dreyfus of Pittsburg has
given Joe Nealon his unconditional re-
lease.
The University of Washington crew
may go to P~oughkeepsie instead of to
Wisconsin.
The University of Idaho Rife club is
steadily improving its scores, although
practice is not so consistent as could
be desired.
The w. S. c. basket ball team took
a frmer hold on the northwest cham
pionship recently by defeating the Ore
gon Agricultural college, 1918.
Willie Hoppe, who plays George SUIT
ton for the 1871 balk line title in Chi
cago next month, intends to get all
of the championships, if he can.
When Ketchel meets Frank Klause
for six rounds in Pittsburg next month,
it will be his first appearance in the
ring since Johnson knocked him out.
Entries to the international balloon
race which probably will be held in
st. Louis in October, have been re-
ceived from England, France, Germany,
Switzerland.
At a recent meeting of the executive
committee of the Associated Students
of Whitman college, w. E. Crawford
was elected football manager for the
season of 1910.
Fritz Holland, who recently jumped
into the limelight by defeating Kid
Breon, well known Canadian fighter,
may meet Mike (Twin) Sullivan in Ia
coma in April.
The Vancouver Athletic club and the
Multnomah club athletes divided hon-
ors in the international boxing and
wrestling meet held at Vancouver re-
Gently, each winning two events.
There is a movement on foot to
perfect a baseball league from towns
along the G.. N. railway, and Wenatchee,
Leavenworth, Ephrata and Wilson
Creek have expressed their willingness
to enter such a league.
David G~autenbein, a veteran river
fisherman of Diamond Bluff, Wis, now
holds the championship for the largest
haul of CROUCH" fish in the history
of the upper Mississippi, his nets hav-
ing brought to the surface $4,000 in
marketable fish.
The 15-mile race at Spokane last Sat
urday between Peter Terway, running
instructor at the Y. NJ. c.. A. there,
and G. n. Lockwood of Walla Walla,
resulted in an easy victory for Ter
way, he finishing IL laps ahead of Lock
wood, in 1:27:50, which is very close
to the amateur record of 1867 for
this distance.
All eyes in the bowling world are
centered on Detroit, where the tenth
international tournament of the Ameri.
can Bowling congress will be held from
February 20 to March Is. From pres
ent indications, the tournament prom
ises to be one of the most successful
ever conducted by that association, and
it is estimated that 400 teams from all
over the United States and Canada will
participate.
Following receipt of the news that his
son, George c. Robbins, an assayer,
known throughout the Pacific coast min
ing regions, has been arrested in Mex
leo for bigamy alleged to have been
committed in Los Angeles, Francis C.
Robbins that he would stand
by the young nan Mr.. Robbins is a
prominent mining engineer. He has
retained attorneys to fight his son s
legal battles.