The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-03-25
NEWS ITEMS.

Sam Langford will soon meet Jim
Parry for 25 rounds at Los Angeles.
Al Wolgast says his next fight would
bo With owen Moran and that it would
take place in Los Angeles early IN
June.
The .Jefries- Johnson fight has at last
taken on the real aspect of a battle
for the heavyweight championship Of
the world.
Billy Papke, the "Illinois Thunder
holt - knocked out Willie Lewis in the
third round Of their championship fight
in Paris recently.
A four-team baseball league is to be
organized in the Occur d'Alenes this
season to include Wallace, Wardner,
Mullan and Murray.
II. Smith and Hollensbeek won the
Spokane city championship two-mau
bowling tournament with a total of
5,367 pins for IS games.
On the night of Tuesday, March 20,
will be held the annual exhibition of
the physical culture department at the
Washington State college.
The Spokane Rifle and Revolver club
will meet the Southern California Rifles
in a dual meet by telegraph next month
with standard United States Springfield
rifles.
Liverpool. - The grand national
steeplechase handicap of 1900 sover-
eigns for t-year-olds and up, four miles
and $50 yards, was won by Jenkins
town.
President Joe Cohn of the Spokane
League team has wired to Wis Egan
after receiving a proposition from the
veteran pitcher, and the long-felt want
| FOR the coming season has been secured.
James Joy Miller, the famous Mich
igan quarterback, who was found en-
ploved on the Blalock fruit ranch near
Walla Walla, fails to recall his college
DAYS when shown pictures and scenes
of life at Ann Arbor by Will Coleman,
an old college acquaintance.
Another race between Nelson, Wash
ington State colleges star Splinter,
and Edmondson, the famous 440-man at
the University of Idaho, may be pulled
off this spring in connection with the
meet between the two colleges, which
will be held in Moscow.
The Spokane City league will open
the season of 1910 on Sunday, April 10
and close the season on October 9. The
opening games will be between Harry
Campbell's team and the Brownle'
Furniture Packers for the first contest
and Varney & Somers and the Hazel
wood nine for the second.
1t will be but a short time now be
fore the Northwestern league fans will
get their first real taste of baseball
for this season. Already players in al
the cities in this league are limberinl
up preparatory to the training season
and almost daily recruits and regular
are being added to the fold.
At a recent meeting Of the executive
committee of the Montana racing cir
cult was completed. The following
dates were fixed: Butte, month o
Jrdy; Joliet, August % to "a; Big Tim
Der, August 25 to 81; Bozeman, Angus
% to September 3; Lewistown, Septem
Der 5 to 10; Glendive, September IL t.
IA; Miles City, September Is to II
Great Falls, September 10 to "a; stat
fair at Helena, September &c to DC
tober 1; Chinook, October 3 to 5; Kalis
pell, October II to IA.
Vancouver, B. C.-Dorando PietI
finished first in the 15-mile three-col
nered race here, winning with ease fror
Henri st. Yves, the Marathon chan
pion, and John Marsh, the Canadian
Marsh dropped out in the ninth mile
after he had led the field most of tn
distance, a strained tendon in his lie
making him quit. st. Yves and Dc
rando a~lternated in the lead for tn
next five miles and then in the las
mile the Frenchman stopped to tie h
shoe. Dorando took the lead, opene
a gap of half a lap and it was all owe,
Dorando led to the end and won b
half a lap. Time 1:27:3O 2-5.