Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-07-04
SPORTING NEWS ITEMS

Frank Mauser, the Spokane pitcher
now at Colfax, has been blacklisted in
organized 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 a 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 mo,
torcycle race at Luna Park, Cleveland,
Ohio. The riders were speeding rs
miles per hour when collision occur
red.
Alfred Goulet of Australia, riding
against time, broke the world s record
for one mile, unpaced, at the Salt Lake
palace bicycle track Sunday. Goulet s
time was 1852, which is one-fifth of a
second faster than the old record.
Reed Orr of Sacramento and w. F..
Baker of San Jose, motorcycle racers
We're 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
a biplane. Later Miss Harriet Quimby
made half hour IS fight in new
monoplane.
John w. Ferguson, well known in
California as a 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
grand aggregate score of 1858.
The other aggregate scores were:
Great Britain, 1900; Sweden, 1875;
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 1900
meters approximately 1879 feet).
He carried a passenger. The previous
altitude record with passenger was
made by Provost at Courcy, 9s4O
feet. Roland G.. Garros holds the in
dividual height record of 13,943 feet.
Billy Papke, the Illinois fighter, won
an easy victory at Paris, from tire
Frenchman, Marcel Moreau. In the
18th round of the contest, which was
scheduled to be for the middleweight
championship of the world, Papke
twice foored Moreau with right and
left hooks. The call of time saved the
Frenchman, but when the gong sound
ed for the 18th round Moreau quit, ad-
hitting he was beaten.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Cornell uni
versity Saturday upheld its reputation
for Craftsmanship by winning all three
races rowed over the Poughkeepsie
course on the Hudson. The Cornell
crews did not all win easily, but in the
three contests in which some of the
best amateur oarsmen of the United
States were pitted against them, Cor
nell showed it had lost none Of the skill
which in recent years has made it the
leader in the annual regattas on the
Hudson.
Fine weather had brought host of
visitors who thronged every point
of vantage. Both Leland Stanford Jr.,
from California, and Wisconsin came in
for good deal of attention.