Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-05-30
REAL SPORTING NEWS

son is young Mann of the Seattle team
To the younger of Spokane IS two high
schools, North Central, went the honors
of the first dual track and field meet
held Saturday Scor S3 to 4S.
Bill Johnson, outfelder, and Wynn
Noyes, pitcher of the San Francisco
ball team, have been leased to the Spo-
kane team in the Northwestern league.
Jimmy Callahan IS Chicago White
Sox, once the "hitless wonders,'' but |
now the smuggling demons, are cutting
a wide swath in the American league
race.
The latest scheme of A. E. Rother-
mel, president of the Tacoma baseball
club, is to. switch his franchise to North
Yakima on account of poor support in
his home city.
President Joe Cohn of the Spokane
Indians announces that he has signed
Pitcher Carl O'Loughlin of San Fran
cisco, and that the twirler would join
the club in Portland Monday.
Old MOIHiHSoldI VI IlIloDulk uc-
feated George Sutton of Chicago,
champion 1871 billiards of the world,
in a contest for the title recently at
Chicago by a score of 500 to 463.
Victoria ball team leads in the North
western league, Cincinnati in National,
Chicago in American and Vernon in
Pacific Coast league, Missoula in Union
| Association and Boise in Western Tri-
State league.
Walter Rutt, the German rider, is the
greatest six-day rider that ever lived.
He won the recent Berlin and Brus-
sells races and also finished first in
one of the recent Madison Square
Garden contests.
One of the prettiest contests ever
pulled off on La Grande (Ore.) dia-
mond was that between the Boise Irri-
gators and La Grande Pippins Satur-
day, resulting in tie at the end of
the thirteenth inning, the game being
called on account of darkness.
Major Palmer E. Pierce, who for sew
National Collegiate Athletic associa-
ton, has sent his resignation to the
executive committee. His withdrawal
is necessitated by his recent promo
ton to the rank of major and his as
signment to a regiment in China.
Baseball history was made at Phila-
delphia Saturday when the players of
the Detroit American league club went
on strike and refused to play the SEIZED
uled game with the Philadelphia team,
because Ban johnson, president of the
league, had refused to lift the suspen-
sion placed against Ty Cobb for strik-
ing a spectator in New York AS a
consequence, Philadelphia defeated a
makeshift team placed in the field by
Manager Jennings, "a to 2.
College Contests Saturday.
Yale's varsity track team suffered
at the hands of a we'll balanced Har-
ward aggregation, the worst defeat in
the history oe the track meets between
the two colleges. Harvard piled up 9
total of II points to Yale's 33. Gable
the negro athlete of Harvard, was the
individual star of tht meet.
Cornell defeated Princeton in theil
annual track meet, "a "a to SO 1-3.
The Syracuse varsity eight defeated
the navy varsity by three-quarters Of
length. Winning time-10 minutes
5 is seconds.
Tryouts Make Records.
Three world IS records and five Olym
! piad records were broken; one world 7
: and one Olympiad record were tied
and still another record was approache,
within one-ffth of second at the Pa
ciic Coast Olympic trials on the Stan
ford oval.
HORNE of the Olympic club of Sal
Francisco with a wonderful new mar
of 6 feet Z inches in the running hig
jump, rs of an inch better than hi
own world s record and Ralph Rose
L Olympic, with new Olympic an
world record in the shot put of s
feet 3-s inches, right and left hand
, were the two particular stars.
Forrest Smithson (unattached), wa
= surprise of the trials. The world
3 record holder in the 110-meter hurdle
finished third. Fred Kelly, Universit
q of Southern California, won in 1872
three-ffths of second slower tina
Smithson IS best time.
Ira Courtney, Seattle A. c., tied tn
Olympiad record of 10 AS in the 10
10 meter dash.
- May Hold Two Conventions.
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