Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-06-13
SPORTING COLUMN

Charlie Miller and Jess Willard may
box four rounds in San Francisco on
June 20 or ~.
Edward Payson Weston, the veteran
pedestrian, is walking from New York
to Minneapolis.
A meeting between Leach Cross and
Bud Anderson is the independence day
fight program at Los Angeles.
John Paul Jones of Cornell, holder
of the mile record of 4:14 rs, has an
nounced his retirement from athletics.
The Ad Wolgast-Jo hnny Dundee 20
round bout scheduled for Tuesday
night, was declared off on account of
ADS thumb injury.
Jimmy Britt says Bud Anderson will
soon be the lightweight champ. He
thinks that Bud is the class of the
bunch, and Britt knows.
Chris Won der Abe. owner of the
four-time winners, the st. Louis
Browns of the old American ~associa-
ton, was buried Sunday.
The swimming championships of the
p. N. A, to be held in Spokane Mon
| day, June 16, will be the first that have
ever been held in an inland city.
Lightweight Champion Willie Richie
| having agreed to make 134 pounds
ringside, or 1873 three hours before the
| Fourth of July fight at San Francisco.
Spokane has secured a new $4,000
automobile factory, which will enter
the actual field Of active manufacture
ing in the course Of the next few
weeks.
Agreements have been signed up by
the regatta committee in charge o.
the first annual Occur d'Alene regatta
| July AIS, and the Portland, Nelson, b
c., Victoria and Vancouver rowing
crews.
Alfred Crane of the Stadium higl
, school, Tacoma, broke the American
interscholastic record for the running
high Jump recently when he cleared
the bar at six feet ~ inches. Crane
is IS years odl.
! Forhall Keene, captain of the newly
: selected American polo team, broke hi
collar bone Saturday in a practic
game at New York. The accident vii
compel the selection of another men
Der of the American team.
] Playing tennis that ran the gamu
E from sensational to mediocre, the Aus
tralian team defeated the Unite
> States pair in the double match {
+ the Davis cup preliminary at Ne
York by 2-6, GO, 81, 60, 81.
There is little fear OF Arthur Pelk,
the American heavyweight, bein
brought to trial to answer the chare
of manslaughter as a result OF h
killing Luther McCarty in the fir
round of their fight for the America
D white heavyweight, championship
u Calgary.
Although it is. still early horses al
arriving at Butte for the July RAJ
IT meeting and the Butte track will
a. pushed, it is believed, to accommoda
k all the applicants for stable room. III
prospects for the successful compl
ton of the Montana circuit of So da,
were never brighter. ,
:. In the skirmish at New York w
liam Hoppe, champion of the world
- both styles of balk line billiards-1S
and 18.2-successfully defended b
title at the latter brand of play
defeating the challenger, Koji Y
mazda of Toxic, Japan, by the unpl
=. cedented score of 500 points to 33.
Baseball is invading France; &
English people are dissatisfied wi
IN cricket and are beginning to look
!, the American game as a substitut
Germany is awakening to a deep
NJ terest in outdoor sports with the no
as ing of the next Olympiad at Berli
D. baseball has won Cuba, and is maxi
20 rapid strides in Central America, a
,r- it has been introduced with mark
success among the savages OF Nor
". ern Luzon.