The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-03

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The international selection commit
tee of the Football Association OF
England have recommended the fol-
lowing grounds for next seasons in
ternational soccer matches; England
VS.. Scotland, at Everton; England VI.
Wales. at Tottenham;a England VS..
Ireland at Derby.
The eastern doubles lawn tennis
championship and the twentieth an
nual singles tournament of the Long
wood Cricket club will begin at the
clubs grounds, near Boston, July Is.
William A. Larned, who won the cup
In 1908 and 1909, will be called upon
to play the winner of the tournament.
Harry Hillman, who has signed to
again coach Dartmouth college track
team, is studying at Dartmouth and
will enter the medical school to fit
himself for a physician at the end of |
the coming college year.
Major Taylor, the famous colored
bicycle rider and former national |
champion, will re-enter the game at a |
series of races to be held at Salt |
Lake City during the summer Taylor |
will meet Jack Clarke and liver Law
son in Individual and three.cornered
contests.
University of Chicago base ball
team will go to Japan for series of
games this fall. They will sail Sep
TENDER Is and return about January.
They will play Waseda university Of
Toxic five games and the same num-
Der with Koio university Of the same
city.
Few breeds of the popular variety
Of dogs can trace their origin as far
back as the Irish bull terrier without
evidence of cross-blood. Originally
springing from wire-haired black and
tan terriers of 200 years ago, they
have come down through succeeding
generations without any mixture what
ever. AS his name denotes, the Irish
terrier is the representative of the
Emerald Isle.
The power-boat regatta to be held
on the Niagara river July % to 80,
under the auspices of the recently
! formed Great Lakes Power-Boat
| league, promises to be an affair
which will attract the attention of the
world devoted to this character OF
sport. DR.. A. E. Hubbard of Buffalo,
commodore of the league, says that
not only would the great lakes be
York, Florida, California, the st. Law
renee and other clubs from home and
abroad would send their best.
Glenn H. Curtiss, the famous avia-
tor, will offciate as Judge at the
Rochester Motorcycle clubs meet
July 2. Mr.. Curtiss is himself an en-
thusiast in the motorcycle game, and
he is at the present time the holder
j, of the worlds record for speed on
, motorcycle. having made mile in
!, 26 2-5 seconds on an eight-cylinder
, 40-horse power machine of his own
make. at Ormond Beach track, Janu-
} airy %, 1907.
Athletic Coach Ter" Delaney OF
. Iowa claims that Ira Davenport. the
D Chicago university middle-distance
D champion runner, is one Of the great
nj est performers the athletic world ev
er saw. According to Delaney, Coach
! Stages pupil will make all the col
!, lege cracks hustle at. the quarter and
) half mile. Delaney. as we'll as 'Poochs
d Donovan of Harvard and john,
, Mack of Yale, is in Boston for ths
: summer, while Jack Moakley OF Cor
D nell and ,Keane Fitzpatrick of Mich
gan are expected any time.
New York city's July amateu
. athletic carnival will be held in eigh
n teen different fields throughout -!
city. it being the biggest of man!
municipal track and field meets hell
throughout the country on that day
Events have been arranged for no
only the star athletes of the Amateu
Athletic union and the embryo ath
letes of the public schools, but ais
for the militiamen, firemen, police
!, letter carriers, street cleaners, cit
employees, private and parochie
schools, playground boys, members c
recreation centers, inter-settlemen
Athletic league, Catholic and Churc
Athletic league and Young Men
= Christian association, but also for L
D Crosse clubs, basket ball and socce
D foot ball clubs and German turnvert
D ms and gymnastic associations q
D well.
1t is almost certain that the Rugb
II game of football will supplant the II
tercollegiate style in the gramma
y schools of the state of Oregon. &c
some time past the officials OF tn
4 Oregon schools have been contempla
ing the change. The State Universll
is of Oregon is also reported to great
favor the Rugby IulSo. IL lhio i''.ie
. ton takes the game up, 1t is almo:
certain that the whole of the mort
II west will follow suit. When the Cal
fornia university journeyed to va
u couver last December to play for tn
!. Keith championship against the va
Z couver union the oregon universal
la sent its football coach to Vancouv'
:, to watch the games and submit r
~ FORT.
st Frank ]. Marshall, Brooklyn's I
lg nous chess master, the holder OF u
United States championship, which
u acquired by defeating Jackson
ID showalter of Lexington, last Winte
II has decided to go to Hamburg, Ge
many, and participate In the intern
r. tionaI Masters Tournament, to
Id held in connection with the pienni
r. congress- of the German Chess ass
citation. 1t is two years since Marshi
Ill took part in a strictly information
w tourney, his last experience OF
Ill kind having been at Dusseldorf, "
many, where he carried off the nj
On prize without losing single gan
90 and with Sarwe. of Russia, In seco