Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-03-11
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 will be light
weight champion again is the predic-
tion made by Joe Ghoynski.
Lewiston State normal school basket
ball team recently defeated the Uni
versity of Idaho team 20 to is.
Barney Oldfield is one champion who
came back, I" but he does not think
Jim Jeffries can do thesame thing.
When contemplated improvements at
the Spokane ball park are completed
Owner Mr.. COIN 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 bases
ball team. He is 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. IA.
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 Nell
son, cupid IS messenger has been busy
with Wolgast s 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. 'sCon Y Connolly Of
San Francisco was second, in 2:52:45.
T. 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 ILL.,.
Dorando did not start because of an at
tack of bronchitis.
Olympia. 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
mot, as the Pierce county prosecutor re-
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 Mason
county by the attorney general.
| Otto Deanor, right tackle on the w.
is. G. football team for two years, and
Will 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 of
the college for an investigation.
/ Oxford, England. The hammer
| throwing and quarter mile events Of
the Oxford varsity meet were won Sat
, urday by George E. Putnam of Kansas
and L. S. Hull of Michigan, both
Rhoades scholars at the university. Put
nam threw the hammer 151 feet and
inches. Hull ran the quarter mile in
r so rs seconds. Putnam Is throw breaks
the intervarsity record of 1873 feet IL
/ inches, established in the Oxford
: Cambridge meet in 1909.