The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-15
SPORTING NEWS


butante stakes for Gallaher brothers
at Louisville, KY.
At Albuquerque, N. NJ, Albuquerque
won the fourth straight game of the
series with Douglas, II to 5.
Gunboat Smith had the better of
bout which opened the National Ath-
letic Club in Denver.
At st. Louis, Earl Hamilton, left
handed pitcher of the Browns, was
fined $500 and indefinitely suspended
by President Robert Lee Hodges for
failure to get into condition.
A $4,000 purse for the Colorado
derby to be run June &c, at Overland
Park in Denver, during the spring
meeting, is the magnet that has drawn
to Denver as fine a lot of 3-year-old
thoroughbreds as has ever been quart
cred at that beautiful park
Jose r. Capablanca, of Havana,
captured the first prize without the
loss of single game in the chess
masters tournament in New York.
Frank ]. Marshall, United States
champion took second prize, likewise
without the loss of game
Two state records were broken at
Albuquerque in the duel meet between
the University of New Mexico and
the Agricultural College of Las
Cruces. Kirby of Las Cruces took
the broad jump at 20 feet "a inches
and Ray McGanna of Albuquerque
made :53 15 in the quarter-mile
The Aggies won the meet, 60 to 40.
The worlds record for wall-scaling
by high school cadets was broken at
Cheyenne when squad No. 3, from
Casper, Wyo., defeated squads from
the Cheyenne, Rawlins and Laramie
high schools by going over a regula-
ton army wall, with regulation army
guns, in 10 seconds. The previous
record was As seconds. The win
ming Casper squad twice scaled the
wall in 1-5 and once in 2-5, while
the squad taking second place Chey-
enne No. 3, went over in 2-5.
GENERAL
tragedy were buried at Queenstown
on Monday.
At Atlanta, Ga, Leo NJ. Frank was
re-sentenced to be hanged on Tues
day, June %, for the murder of Mary
Phagan.
Insurance on the Lusitania, it was
said in New York, amounted to ST.
100000. The vessel was valued in
round figures at $10,0O0,0OO The
worth of the cargo she carried was
estimated at s735,OOO.
Two are dead and two others are
in critical condition from burns as
result of collision of an automo-
bile at Fresno, Cal, with power pole
whose wires, carrying 10000 volts of
electricity, fell upon the car.
Col. Roosevelt suffered his most
serious and possibly vital blow in the
Barne libel trial at Syracuse, N Y,
Tuesday Justice Andrews ruled that
all testimony in printing graft, COM
prising that of dozens of witnesses,
hundreds of documents and many
days to present, should be excluded
as immaterial. He held the defense
had failed to prove that Barnes was
responsible for the alleged graft be-
cause of his political dominance.
The trial of William Barnes suit for
libel against Theodore Roosevelt en-
tered into its fourth week in the SUI
preme Court at Syracuse. N. Y.
The sinking of the Lusitania, with
the resultant heavy loss of life, has
caused New York insurance COM
panies to abandon issuing policies to
anyone travelling abroad.
The Boston Opera Company, which
produced grand opera in Boston for
six seasons, filed a voluntary petit
ton in bankruptcy. The schedule
shows liabilities of $4,000 and as
sets of $4,000,