Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-05-09
REAL SPORTING NEWS.
The Canadian league opened Wednes-

The Canadian league opened Wednes-
day.
Victoria leads the northwest league;
Oakland the Pacific Coast; Chicago, the
and Cincinnati the National.
With the selection of Las Vegas, N.
NJ, as the scene of the Jack Johnson
Jim Flynn heavyweight championship
battle on July 4, open doubt as to the
staging of the contest has been dis
PEELED.
The third annual track meet was held
at Ephrata, WASH, five teams partici-
pating: Quincy, Krupp, Hartline, Coulee
City, and Ephrata. Quincy won the
meet with IS points, Krupp second with
80, Hartline third with 90, Coulee City
16, Ephrata IA.
Hans Holmer, the American runner,
won the international marathon race in
Berlin. Johnny Hayes, the former
American marathon champion, finished
second, II laps behind. The race was
held in skating rink. The proceeds
aggregated $4,000.
Articles have been signed by Frank
Gotch and "Gus" Schoenlein Of Balti-
more, better known as "Americus, for
match for the heavyweight wrestling
championship of the world. Decoration
day, May 80, is the date set for the
bout. The strangle hold is barred.
North Yakima high school won the
sixth annual Yakima valley interscho-
lastic track meet, with SO 2-3 points.
Prosser was second, with 81. Sunnyside
got % 13 and Ellensburg Q. Valley
high school records were broken in the
half-mile, the high jump, the high hur-
dies and the shot put. Thomas of Pros
ser won the individual honors with three
frsts in the sprints. Thomson of North
Yakima won IA points.
The 18th annual Princeton inter
scholastic games resulted in the lower
ing of three worlds records. J. E.
Meredith Of Mercersburg, Pa, was the
star of the meet, breaking two former
worlds records. He lowered the quar-
ter-mile figures is seconds, to :49. In
the half-mile run, Meredith reduced the
old record of 1859 to 1855. Wentz OF
Roselle high school lowered the two.
mile record of 1910 As to 10 minutes
3-5 second.
Auto Races at Los Angeles.
One hundred and seventy-ive thou
sand persons saw three new world =
records established at the fourth annual
Los Angeles automobile races.
Teddy Tetzlaff Of Los Angeles, driv
ing 9O-horsepower Fiat, won the 3O3
mile free-for-all with the phenomenal
average Of 1880 miles an hour, break
ing the previous mark Of 74.63, made
last year by Harvey Herrick in a Ma
tional on the same course.
Caleb Bragg Of Pasadena was sec
ond and David Bruce Brown of New
York, the favorite, was third.
In the medium car event Ralph Dc
Palma, the italian driver, in Mercer
set new record of 1854 miles an houl
for ISL miles, and in the light cal
event George Joermann Of Los Angeles
driving Maxwell, placed the 101-milt
record for small cars at 61.S6 miles az
hour.
In his fifth lap, Barney Oldfield' y
huge Fiat threw tire at the Soldiers
Home turn and struck R. W. Pierce, 6
spectator, glancing blow, but did no,
injure him.
Western College Track Meet.
The third annual Pacific coast inter
collegiate track meet was won by the
University of California, with 81 point:
to it's credit. The University of Ore
gon finished second, with 23 points ant
Stanford university took third place
with II points.
The standing of the other college.
and universities which participated il
the meet were as follows: University
of Washington, II points; Pomona Col
lege, 8; University of Southern Califor
mia, 3; University of Nevada, /; st
Ignatius college, 1.
The star performer Of the day wa.
Mcclure of Oregon. He set new rec
ords in the mile run, which he did il
4:241a, and two-mile run, which wa.
done in 1851. The latter event PROVED
to be the most sensational event of the
day, the Oregon boy beating Crabbe Of
California in holly contested finish
New marks were set in the high JUMP
by HORNE of Stanford, who went ovel
the bar at 6 feet as inches.