Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-12-06
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Trail, b. c., may secure the annual
the annual bonspiel of the British Co
lumbia Curling association this year.
Willie Richie is the new lightweight
champion Of the world He won from
Wolgast on a foul in the sixteenth
round
Carl Morris, the Oklahoma heavy
weight, won from Cass Taryer Of Texas
via the foul route at Shreveport, La,
recently.
Fighting Dick" Hyland is hot on
the trail of Joe Bayley and has posted
with a Calgary newspaper 800 to bind
another match.
In one of the most stirring football
games ever played by the two arms
of the national service, the navy de-
feated the army to 0, Saturday.
England won title to the Davis cup,
emblematic of the worlds champion
ship in lawn tennis, by winning third
match from the Australian defenders.
Ad Wolgast, seventh lightweight
champion of the world, received $4,000
for losing the title to Willie Richie of
San Francisco. Richie received $6339.
AL Palzer of Iowa made his debut
before a Philadelphia audience recent
ly, meeting Tony Ross OF Newcastle,
Pa. Ross beat Palzer in every round.
Great interest has been aroused in
London by the challenge sent by the
Nottingham Polo club to the American
Polo association to play a series Of
games for the American cup.
At Los Angeles Joe Rivers showed
a great reversal of form recently in his
match with Joe Mandot. At the finish
of the fight Mandot was in distress,
with Rivers fighting at top speed.
Joe Wood of the Boston Red Sox,
who was the American leagues great
est distributor of goose-eggs last sea-
son, blanked five of the seven teams
that faced him, Cleveland and Phila-
delphia alone escaping.
Rushing the ball almost the full
length of the field in the last minute
of play the San Francisco Barbarians
won the athletic club Rugby champion
: ship of California, defeating the San
i, Francisco Olympic club, to 3.
f That 1912 was a great year athletic
ally was shown by the number of rec
D ords established and approved by the
o Amateur Athletic union, which met il
e convention at the Waldorf-Astoria las
e week They numbered 81 and com
4 prise worlds Olympic and American
r marks.
I Brickley was the greatest SCORING
asset of the Harvard team this season
During the eight games that have beef
e played he has scored nine touchdowns
: put IL drop kicks over the bars ant
u made two goals from placement, kick
ing one goal and totaling 81 points
which is more than half the total scoI
q. ing Of the whole team.
y Lucille Cameron, former sweethear
It of Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, ha
Il disappeared Her mother, Mrs f. Cam
E. eron-Falconett, into whose custody tn
# girl was given by the federal court, ha
e returned to her home in Minneapolis
e grieving for her daughter, who is SUI
e posed to have gone to Johnson. H
i says he will marry her if she will aC
d cept.
% Chicago.-The annual winter meet
q ing Of representatives of the facultie
,f of the big Nine" conference universe
ties ended without either of the point
most interesting to the public having
been touched on. In spite of wide
spread sentiment in that direction tn
: University of Michigan made no NOV
!, toward reentering the conference, an,
= the subject of summer baseball was no
- discussed.