Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11
REAL SPORTING NEWS

The University of California baseball
team defeated the Stanford team Sat
urday, to 4.
With 100000 safely laid away, Bat
Nelson plans to retire from the game
after this year.
Barney Oldfield, automobile racer,
will be reinstated in good standing in
the American Automobile association
on April 80, it is announced.
At Los Angeles w. E. Hasha of Dal-
las, Texas, lowered the one mile motor
cycle record from 40 is seconds to
80 3-5 seconds at the stadium one-third
mile track.
In a poor fight Frank Mantell of
Pawtucket, R. l., and Jack Herrick of
Chicago, middleweights, fought at Los
Angeles, Saturday, resulting in vic
tory for the former.
Portland at Los Angeles, Oakland at
San Francisco and Vernon at Sacra-
mento is the way the teams in the
Coast league started the pennant race
Tuesday of this week.
The unprecedented interest in bill
iards that has possessed Spokane fans
this winter may eliminate in north
western championship balkline tourna-
ment to be staged in that city.
Because, he says, of the brutality
of. the game" Carl Morris, erstwhile
"white hope" has quit the ring, tenn
porarily, at least. He went to work
as an engineer on a switch locomotive
The first attempt at the annual eight
cared rowing contest between crews rep
resenting the Oxford and Cambridge
universities, at Putney bridge, was de
clared no race after both shells had be
come waterlogged.
An interscholastic track and field
meet and declamatory contest to EN-
brace several north Idaho and south
eastern Washington high schools is nov
being planned by the Lewiston higl
school, to be held in Lewiston April &c
BY a score of almost three to tw,
the Lincoln high school track team O.
Seattle won the first track meet of tn
season from the Vancouver high schoo
Saturday. The final score of points wa
Lincoln 70, Vancouver high school SO
Fifteen carloads of horses hav
landed at Spokane for the April rae
meet at Alan, Idaho, few miles cas-
of Spokane, including well know
Juarez gallopers from the stables o
John Lowe, Charles Clark, for WHOM
Lowe is trainer, w. H. Filter and Ear
Linnell.
At Milwaukee, Wis, Leon Kimm o
Grand Rapids, Mich, won the world
one mile amateur championship role
skating race when he finished first i
the grand finals ahead of Carl Car
son of Chicago and Emil Eichstedt o
Milwaukee, in the order named. Kimm
time was 304 3-5.
Louis Disbrow, driving a 2OO-h horse
power Jay Eye See car at San Diego
Sunday, clipped 10 is seconds off tn
Oldfield in 1907. Disbrow made til
distance in SO 3-5 seconds. At on
time he travelled at the rate of 10
miles an hour. Disbrow also set
world IS record for IL miles over a
earth track, making the distance
11:17.
At Del Monte, Cal, Miss Eleanor
Sears, the athletic Boston society gin
completed her 115-mile walk from Blu
lingame, footsore and disappointed
not having reduced the record set tv
years ago by DR.. w. A. McEnerny, tt
English pedestrian, who covered IL
course in SO hours and As minutes. Mi
Sears elapsed time was SO hours ar
80 minutes, which has aroused enthus
asm among her friends by reason of IL
fact that McEnerny's course was seve
miles shorter.
Probably the greatest bowling ev
seen on any alley was that of Jimn
Smith during one of his trips to Oh
cago. Smith had two matches Wi
local champions, with stakes of $10t
a side, six games out of II to win. F