Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-05-23
REAL SPORTING NEWS
Tacoma is getting ready for its auto
meet July and 6.

meet July 5 and 6.
The most particular batting sensa-
ton of the Northwestern league sea-
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 SO to 48.
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 Galatians 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.
Ora Morningstar of Pittsburg de-
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
eral years has been president Of the
National Collegiate Athletic associa
ton, has sent his resignation to the
executive committee. His Withdrawal
is necessitated by his recent promo
tion 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 wen,
on strike and refused to play the SEIZED
uled game with the Philadelphia team
because Ban johnson, president of tn,
league, had refused to lift the suspen
sion placed against Ty Cobb for strik
ing spectator in New York. AS
consequence, Philadelphia defeated
makeshift team placed in the field b,
Manager Jennings, "a to 2.
College Contests Saturday.
Yale's varsity track team suffered
at the hands of a well-balanced Har
ward aggregation, the worst defeat il
the history OF the track meets between
the two colleges. Harvard piled up
total of II points to Yale IS 33. Gable
the negro athlete of Harvard, was tn
individual star of tht meet.
Cornell defeated Princeton in thei
annual track meet, 81 "a to 521-3.
The Syracuse varsity eight defeate,
the navy varsity by three quarters o
a length. Winning time-1O minutes
is seconds.
Tryouts Make Records.
Three world IS records and five Olym
piad records were broken; one world
and one Olympiad record were tied
and still another record was approache
within one-fifth of second at the Pa
cific Coast Olympic trials on the Stan
ford oval.
HORNE of the Olympic club of Sa
Francisco with a wonderful new mar
of 6 feet inches in the running hig
jump, rs of an inch better than hi
own world 8 record, and Ralph Rose
Olympic, with new Olympic an
worlds record in the shot put of 8
feet 6 3-s inches, right and left hand
were the two particular stars.
Forrest Smithson (unattached), wa
a surprise of the trials. The world
record holder in the 11O.meter hurdle
finished third. Fred Kelly, Universit
of Southern California, won in 1872.
three-ffths of a second slower thai
Smithson g best time.
| Ira Courtney, Seattle A. c., tied tn
Olympiad record Of 10 As in the 100
meter dash.