Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-04
SPORTING NEWS
Standing of Western League Clubs.

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Kid Simmons featherweight boxer.
died in st. Paul. Minn., from injuries
received while boxing.
George H. Mills. known throughout
the United States as a starter of trot-
ting horses, died in hospital at Mid
Teton. N. Y.
Mike Gibbons OF St. Paul defeated
Leo Houck of Lancaster, Pa, in ten
round bout in New York, taking the
honors in eight rounds.
The Princeton tennis team won
from Harvard at Princeton, N. j.,
seven matches to two. 1t was the
Crimson's first defeat of the season.
Horse racing was resumed in Ger
many with the opening of the spring
meeting at Hoppegarten track in a
suberb of Berlin, in the presence of a
crowd almost as large as is usually
present in peace times.
frankie Fleming of La Praieire.
Que, Canadian lightweight champion,
conceded fourteen pounds to Freddie
Welsh. world lightweight champion,
and earned draw with him in a ten.
round bout at Montreal, Can.
The boxing bill. legalizing ten-round
no-decision boxing bouts in Illinois un-
der the supervision OF state athletic
commission, was defeated when it
came up for final passage in the lower
house of the Legislature. The bill
lacked five votes of enough for pas
sage, the vote standing ~ to 81.
GENERAL
Nine men are dead as the result OF
dust explosion in the Smokeless
Coal Company's No. 1 mine at Johns
| town, Pa.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, leader of New
Yorks social set, died of cerebral
hemorrhage at Glen Cliff. her summer
home at Garrison, Ill.
1t became known in New York that
Theodore Roosevelt, at his home al
Sycamore Hill. fell and broke rit
as he was trying to mount a horse.
Jacob Rupert, one of the most
widely-known brewers Of this country
and founder of the Jacob Rupert
Brewing Company. died in his home
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The funeral of Charles Frohman
theatrical manager and producer, who
was one of the victims in the sinking
of the Lusitania. were held in New
York Services in four other cities
were arranged by actors or actresses
who have starred under Mr.. Frohman's
management.
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viction. David F. Houston, secretary ol
agriculture of the United States, in al
interview and in a brief address al
the Chamber of Commerce in Denver
declared that this country-with the
West the great producing center
would become the provider of the
world in agricultural products, ant
that dry farming had come to stay.
The one hundred and twenty-sev
enth general assembly of the Presby
terian Church of the United States al
Rochester, n. Y, adopted resolution
offered supplementary to the report ot
the temperance committee, condemn
ing the Rev. Dr. Charles III. Parkhursi
of New York for sending a telegram
to California, which was interpfe eted
as supporting the anti-prohibitior
party of that state.
AT a memorial service held at Eas
Aurora, N ". for Elbert Hubbard ant
his v lie, the entire village and coun
tryside. 5000 in number, gathered t.
do honor to the memory of their tw'
greatest citizens.
Tributes to the memory of Alfret
G. Vanderbilt, who perished in thu
Lusitania, were paid in memorial serv
ices held at the home OF his mother
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, in New
York. Relatives and friends only at
tended the service. Mr. Vanderbilt
body was not recovered. although
search was made f. ~