Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-09-07
SPORTING NEWS ITEMS.

If the Maps and Pirates were playing
for the world s championship, would
alphabet on the series?
Columbus, Ohio.-Thomas Lessard,
leading pitcher of the Columbus Ameri-
can association basebeal team, is dead.
Never before in the history of tennis
in the northwest has one city so COM
pletely carried off the combined honors
as Spokane has done this year.
New York.-Ella Golding of Bath
beach swan from the Battery in New
York to Coney Island, Is miles. Miss
Golding, is 20 years old and weighs 100
pounds.
The Nelson (B. c. lacrosse team,
rated as one of the strongest teams in
western Canada, will play the Spokane
%lacross team at Natatorium park, Spo-
kane, September 2.
Mourmelon.-M. Helles, a young
French aviator, broke the record for a
single continuous long flight in compe-
tition for the Michelin cup. He COW
cred 1900 kilometers (746 miles) in Is
hours.
Los Angeles.-Frankie Conley of
Kenosha, Wis, knocked out Patsy Kline
of Newark, N. j., in the 14th round of
what was scheduled to have been a 20
round fight here. They fought at 1913
pounds.
Bill Lange is the Australian "white
hope" who will meet Kaufman, Lang
ford, Lester, Flynn and other American
fighters when Hugh Mcintosh, the Eng
lish promoter, takes them to the anti
podes this fall.
Camp Perry, Ohio.-Sergeant C..M.
King of the Fifty-third Iowa infantry
won the national military rife cham
pionship of the United States with a
score of 2s5 in the national and $50 in
the president s match.
Athletics at Whitman college will be
handled this year in a different manner
than heretofore, by a board of man
ayers, appointed by the executive com
mittee of the associated students, rather
than by individual managers for each
department.
The team representing the Olympic
club of San Francisco proved to be the
best at the Pacific Coast field and track
meet, which was held at Astoria. The
Frisco team scored AS points. Seattle
was second with a score of "a points.
Los Angeles A. A. finished third with
a total of II points. Sam Bellah of the
San Francisco club took dow the cup
for high individual point winner with a
score of Is points.
. Elgin, nl.-The 3O5-mile automobile
road race, won by Len Zengel in a Ma
t%ional, with Harry Grant second and
+, Hughes third, was not contested with
out its toll of death and injuries.
David Buck, veteran Chicago automo-
7 bile racer, was within IL laps of the
finish, going 65 miles an hour on the
back stretch, when his right forward
. wheel threw a tire. The machine turned
a somersault and Sam Jacobs, mechani-
clan, was killed. Bucks back was
+ broken and he died.
!, P. c. Gerhardt, who won the 100 and
|, 220 yard dashes at the Astoria centen-
NAL exposition recently, has been COM
peting in P. N. A. and Pacific coast
track meets for nearly a decade, and
was undoubtedly the oldest competitor,
: in point of age, in the big meet. Ger
hardt s parents live at Pomeroy, Wash,
0 and he has been a travelling salesman
out of San Francisco for many years.
!, Strangely enough, he never seems to
be out of condition. He beat Dan
5 Kelly at jamestown in 1907.
e Use of rockets in war was proposed
as long ago as 1898, but no progress