Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
SPORTING NEWS ITEMS

rlanh Mauser, the Spokane pitcher,
now at Colfax, has been blacklisted in
ball.
The Spokane team leads in North
western league. League ball is on at
spokane now for three weeks.
Joe Bayley of Victoria beat Billy
Allen of Toronto recently for the
Canadian lightweight championship in
Is rounds.
Pitcher Noyes of the Spokane club
and "Chief" Cadreau of the same or
ganization are being sought by big
league scouts.
Efforts to secure class A rating
for the Northwestern baseball league
are to be made this fall at the meeting
of the national association.
1t is unlawful in the state of Wash
ington to keep fish under four inches
in length that may be hooked, the
idea being that these tiny fish should
be returned to the river.
Bob Hunter, known as Daredevil, -
was instantly killed Sunday in a mo-
torcycle race at Luna Park, Cleveland,
Ohio. The riders were speeding rs
miles per hour when a collision occur
red.
Alfred Goulet of Australia, riding
against time, broke the world IS record
for one mile, unpaced, at the Salt Lake
palace bicycle track Sunday. Goulet IS
time was 1852, which is one-ffth of a
second faster than the old record.
Reed Orr of Sacramento and w. F.
Baker of San Jose, motorcycle racers
were killed and two others seriously
injured while riding faster than mile
minute at Sundays race meet at the
San Jose, California, driving park.
Boston.-Miss Blanche Stuart Scott
secured the distinction of being the first
woman to fly an aeroplane in New Eng
land at the opening of the aviation
meet in Squantum Saturday. She used
biplane. Later Miss Harriet Quimby
made a half-hour IS flight in a new
monoplane.
John w. Ferguson, well known in
California as breeder and driver of
trotting horses, was stricken by heart
disease while driving far in the lead
in the first trotting event today at
Santa Cruz, Cal. He fell from his sulky
while the trotter continued under the
wire and again circled the course, halt
ing at her stall.
The military team representing the
United States has won the interna-
tional army rifle shooting team compe-
tition at the Olympic games, with a
grand aggregate score of 1858.
The other aggregate scores were:
Great Britain, 1000; Sweden, 1873;
Africa, 1881; France, 1917; Norway
1476; Greece, 1889; Denmark, 1412;
Russia, 14O1; Hungary, 1884.
vienna-At the international avia
ton meet here Saturday the Austrian
aviator Cskay, whose real name is
Miller, reached an altitude of 420(
meters approximately 1879 feet)
He carried a passenger. The previou:
altitude record with a passenger wa:
made by Provost at Courcy, 9s4(
feet. Roland G. Garros holds the in
dividual height record of 13,943 feet.
Billy Papke, the Illinois fighter, woI
an easy victory at Paris, from tn,
Frenchman, Marcel Moreau. In tn,
18th round of the contest, which wa
scheduled to be for the middleweigh
championship of the world, Papk
twice foored Moreau with right ant
left hooks. The call of time saved tn
Frenchman, but when the gong sound
ed for the 10th round Moreau quit, ad
hitting he was beaten.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Cornell uni
versity Saturday upheld its reputatio
for Craftsmanship by winning all thre
races rowed over the Poughkeepsi
course on the Hudson. The Corne
crews did not all win easily, but in tn
three contests in which some of tn
best amateur oarsmen of the Unite
States were pitted against them, Co
nell showed it had lost none of the ski
which in recent years has made it tn
: leader in the annual regattas on tn
/ Hudson.
Fine weather had brought host
visitors who thronged every poiI
of vantage. Both Leland Stanford il
: from California, and Wisconsin came
for a good deal of attention.