The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-21
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BRIEF SPORTING NOTES.
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Fred Tenny will coach Harvard uni
Vers1ty base ball team.
Arthur Irwin favors national home
for base ball players.
Battling Nelson, ex-Iightweight hoy.
ing champion, weighs now 1877 pounds
cleveland made $4,000 profit on re.
cent hve-day grand circuit race meet
Rochester recently witnessed a ian.
MS tournament under electric lights.
Los Angeles and adjoining towns
are preparing winter season Of base
ball oase
cleveland High schools are oonsid.
ering substituting ice hockey for has.
ket ball.
Rochester High school will NAV as-
sociation football instead of the rugby
style this fall. - 20 -
Dave Allerdice will teach the punt
ers and drop kickers of the MICHIGAN
squao IN their preliminary training.
california Jockey club will give 500
ooo In stakes at the meeting in San
francisco beginning November -
Mr. Cochrane, owner of the Yacht
Westward has presented three new
trophies for the Kiel regatta next wear
Mayor Beahr OF Cleveland has asked
the aid of the government in secur.
Ing the Olympic games for Cleveland
in 1916. ei'''a
Scotty Mckay of Toronto has chal.
lenged Billy Allen of Ottawa for the
title
Forty-one states now have game
MISSIONS and wardens, the total num-
per OF wardens being 9,24O, of which
o'4os serve without pay.
The Vancouver lacrosse team anna.
teur champions of the Pacific coast
want to play the cup championships
games on September "a and October
sam Fitzpatrick has taken the man
agement of Anton LaGrave. and the
former manager of Kid Layigne saws
the lad is ready for any of the light.
weights.
Inc Polydeucean club of so mem.
Ders, an organization of the University
OF California students, will stage
monthly boxing bouts at the club
headquarters in Harmon gymnasium
The strength of rugby football, as
played by the big Pacific coast col
leges, is shown by 12O freshmen turn
ing out at Leland Stanford and 140 at
California in effort to make the
teams.
Annapolis rowing equipment has
been added to by two new four-cared
shells. They are to be used by the
mldshipmen in practice breaking in
new oarsmen. A couple of shells are
also to be bought
King Alfonso of Spain won silver
cup in clay pigeon shooting tourna-
ment in the Isle of Wright short
time ago.
American horses landed four of the
five share in the trotting champions
ship race recently decided at Baden.
Fred Leyburn won in straight heats,
Grafton Bells was second, Sir Todd
third, and Shadt G fifth.
Fred G. Thompson, the Occidental
college athelete who recently won the
all-round amateur athletic title at
Chicago, has returned to Los Angeles.
Thomson is to act as instructor at the
Long Beach Y. M. G. A.
Lawrence Solman of Toronto is
ready to back Eddie Durham of that
city in professional sculling race
with Ernest Barry of England, who
recently lost to Dick A1-nst, the con-
test to occur in Toronto bay.
When Milton PAUL, the University
of Pennsylvania crack; Abel Kiyiak,
the Brooklyn school boy champion,
and Melyil Sheppard appear in a spec
ial race they should settle for all time
who is the real middle-distance run
ming champion.
Glen Riddell of New York has chal-
lenged Jimmy Smith of Buffalo to
bowl a home-and-home twenty-five
game series, total pins to count the
games to be rolled on newly planed
alleys. Riddell won the Greater New
York title last year, an honor which
Smith won several times before he
went to Buffalo to take charge of al
legs there for John Floss, who was In.
strumental in Buffalo securing the
1911 national bowling championship.