Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-06-13
SPORTING COLUMN

Charlie Miller and Jess Willard may
box four rounds in San Francisco on
June 20 or 81.
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 2-5, has an
nounced his retirement from athletics.
The AID Wolgast-Johnny 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
F. 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 1874 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 OF
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 high
school, Tacoma, broke the American
interscholastic record for the running
high jump recently when he cleared
the bar at six feet "a inches. Crane
is Is years odl.
Forhall Keene, captain of the newly
selected American polo team, broke his
collar bone Saturday in a practice
game at New York. The accident will
compel the selection of another mem
Der of the American team.
Playing tennis that ran the gamut
from sensational to mediocre, the Aus
tralian team defeated the United
States pair in the double match of
the Davis cup preliminary at New
York by &c, CO, 81, CO, 81
There is little fear of Arthur Pelky,
the American heavyweight, being
brought to trial to answer the charge
of manslaughter as result OF his
killing Luther McCarty in the first
round of their fight for the American
white heavyweight championship at
Calgary.
Although it is still early horses are
arriving at Butte for the July race
meeting and the Butte track will be
pushed, it is believed, to accommodate
all the applicants for stable room. The
prospects for the successful compile
ton of the Montana circuit of SO days
were never brighter.
In the skirmish at New York VIII
liam Hoppe, champion of the world al
both styles of balk line billiards-1S1
and 1S.2-successfully defended his
title at the latter brand of play by
defeating the challenger, Koji va
mazda of Toxic, Japan, by the unpre
cedented score of 500 points to 49,
Baseball is invading France; the
! English people are dissatisfied with
cricket and are beginning to look tC
the American game as a substitute;
Germany is awakening to a deep in
terest in outdoor sports with the hold
ing of the next Olympiad at Berlin
baseball has won Cuba, and is making
rapid strides in Central America, and
it has been introduced with marked
success among the savages of North
ern Luzon.