Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-25
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Zimmerman, the Cubs sensational
third baseman, again leads the National
league in batting.
Forest Smithson, who holds the
world s record in the 110-meter hurdle,
is to marry again.
AL Palzer is affectionately referred
to by ardent admirers as an enlarged
edition of Terrible Terry McGovern.
Joe Jackson, the Maps star outtelder,
has at last jumped into first place for
batting honors in the American league.
The baseball team at Kellogg has
finally been financed and the new man
agement is now scouting for players to
form a team.
American athletes took the two fea-
ture events-the 400-meter and the
3O0O-meter team race-at the Olympic
meet Saturday.
Big Jerry Meek, the Victoria catcher,
is pulling away from the field in the
race for the 1912 batting honors of the
4NOIluMtolCIn
Victor Morris Smith Jr., holder of the
world s amateur record for aeroplane
speed, was instantly killed at Ravens
wood, Calf, Saturday.
Frank Mantell of Pawtucket, R. l..
and Vic Hansen of Coalinga, Cal, mid
dleweights, have signed articles for a
20round match at Salt Lake.
Surgeons are trying to get George
Edward ("Rube") Waddell, once the
most famous pitcher in baseballdom
and now on the Minneapolis payroll,
back into pitching shape.
The horse show at the Spokane Inter
state fair will be unusually good this
year. Many entries of fine stock are
promised, and a number of novel fea-
lures are to be introduced
John G. King, present manager of
the Boston Braves, is worth approx
mately 500, 900, because he did not fol-
low the wishes of his father that he
engage in the bakery business in pref
erence to baseball.
Jack Curley, the promoter of the
Johnson-Flynn fight, says that he lost
$4,000 of his own money besides $1O.-
900 which was put up by Las Vegas
business men in his recent venture. In
spite of the fight being losing propo-
sltlon, Jack Johnson was paid $31 ,O0O
the amount agreed upon.
The moving pictures of the Wolgast-
Rivers fight have been developed. They
show practically every blow of the fight
but do not show that Wolgast fouled
Rivers in the thirteenth round. In this
round the men are shown fighting head
to head and Rivers falls slowly to the
canvas after receiving quartet of body
blows from Wolgast. Wolgast. appear
ing very weak, is shown stumbling over
Rivers outstretched foot. According to
the pictures Rivers was on the floor full
10 seconds.
Automobile racing in the Pacific
northwest has been placed on a firm
basis with the announcement by the Ia
coma business men who subscribed the
funds for holding the big motor speed
carnival on the prairie south of that
city on July and 6, that a permanent
racing association would be formed i'm.
mediately and a fine brick speedway
constructed on the site of the present
road course. Profits of the racing meet
just closed will be the nucleus of q
fund for the building of a brick track
which is to be modelled after the famous
Indianapolis motor speedway, on which
the world IS record average of "a 70
miles an hour was made on Memorial
day.
Canadian Shot Breaks Record.
Acknowledgment Mortimer, a Cana.
dian marksman, Saturday scored
world s record at the 1900 range in the
Kings Morton match rifle shoot at Bis.
ley, making 70 points out of a possible
rs with his Is shots.
South Africa Big Winner
Stockholm.-South Africa, which
heretofore has played a modest part in
his Olympic drama, came to the cen.
Ter OF the stage at the moment of ire
Sunday, winning the mar
ithon race, the most important number
lpon the Olympic program. This might
nave been honor enough for a small ma.
ION, but South Africa also won second
place by secure lead.
Inc winner of the classical marathon
vas K. K. Macarthur, tall Transvaa1
policeman. His compatriot, c. w. Cit.
nav, came second into the stadium
everal hundred yards behind, and third
{, appear was the American, Gastron