Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-05-16
REAL SPORTING NEWS


Victoria leads the northwest league;
Oakland the Pacific Coast; Chicago, the
American, and Cincinnati the National.
With the selection of Las Vegas, N.
NJ, as the scene of the Jack Johnson
Jim Flynn heavyweight championship
battle on July A. open doubt as to the
staging of the contest has been dis
PEELED.
The third annual track meet was held
at Ephrata, Wash, five teams partici-
pating: Quincy, Krupp, Hartline, Coulee
City, and Ephrata. Quincy won the
meet with SIS points, Krupp second with
80, Hartline third with 80, Coulee City
16, Ephrata IA.
Hans Holmer, the American runner,
won the international marathon race in
Berlin. Johnny Hayes, the former
second, IL laps behind. The race was
held in skating rink. The proceeds
aggregated $4,000.
Articles have been signed by Frank
Gotch and "Gus" Schoenlein of Balti-
more, better known as "Americus, for
match for the heavyweight wrestling
championship of the world. Decoration
day, May 30, is the date set for the
bout. The strangle hold is barred.
North Yakima high school won the
sixth annual Yakima valley interscho-
lastic track meet, with SO % points.
Prosser was second, with 81 Sunnyside
got % 1-3 and Ellensburg 9. Valley
high school records were broken in the
half-mile, the high jump, the high hur
dies and the shot put. Thomas of Pros
ser won the individual honors with three
frsts in the sprints. Thomson of North
Yakima won IA points.
The 10th annual Princeton inter
scholastic games resulted in the lower
ing of three worlds records. j. E.
Meredith of Mercersburg, Pa, was the
star of the meet, breaking two former
world S records. He lowered the quar-
termile figures is seconds, to 40 In
the half-mile run, Meredith reduced the
old record of 1859 to 1855. Wentz OF
Roselle high school lowered the two
mile record of 1910 As to 10 minutes
3-5 second.
Auto Races at Los Angeles
One hundred and seventy-fve thou
sand persons saw three new world s
records established at the fourth annual
Los Angeles automobile races.
Teddy Tetzlaff of Los Angeles, driv-
ing a 9O,horsepower Fiat, won the 3O3-
mile free-for-all with the phenomenal
average of 1850 miles an hour, break
ing the previous mark of 74.63, made
last year by Harvey Herrick in a Ma
tional on the same course.
Caleb Bragg of Pasadena was sec
ond and David BruceBrown of New
York, the favorite, was third.
In the medium car event Ralph De
Palma, the Italian driver, in Mercer,
set a new record of 1854 miles an hour
for ISL miles, and in the light car
event George Joermann of Los Angeles,
driving Maxwell, placed the 101-mile
record for small cars at 61.S6 miles an
hour.
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huge Fiat threw tire at the Soldiers
Home turn and struck r. w. Pierce, a
spectator, glancing blow, but did not
injure him.
Western College Track Meet.
The third annual Pacific coast inter-
collegiate track meet was won by the
University of California, with 62 points
to its credit. The University of Ore
gon finished second, with 23 points and
Stanford university took third place
with II points.
The standing of the other colleges
and universities which participated in
the meet were as follows: University
of Washington, IL points; Pomona Col
lege, 8; University of Southern Califor-
mia, 3; University of Nevada, 1; st.
Ignatius college, 1.
The star performer of the day was
Mcclure of Oregon. He set new rec
ords in the mile run, which he did in
4:24A, and two-mile run, which was
done in 9:551a. The latter event proved
to be the most sensational event of the
day, the Oregon boy beating Crabbe of
California in holly contested finish.
New marks were set in the high jump
by HORNE of Stanford, who went over
the bar at feet AS inches.