Gilpin observer., 1915-06-03
Sporting News
of Western League Clubs.

Kid Simmons featherweight boxer,
died in st. Paul, Mimi, from injuries
received while boxing.
George H. Mills, known throughout
the United States as 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.
A committee of three amateurs,
| well known in American athletics, as
sumed charge of the program of
Panama Pacific exposition sports at
San Francisco.
L. S. Thompson's 7-year-old gelding
Borrow. carrying 126 pounds, won the
Kentucky handicap at mile and a
quarter at Douglas park at Louisville
over heavy, holding track Hodge
was second and Prince Hermis third.
Net value of stake to the winner was
$11,7OO. The time was 2:1O 2-5.
Ralph De Palma, the premier Italo-
American driver of the Mercedes, won
the 500-mile speedway sweepstakes
race at Indianapolis, breaking all rec
ords for the distance. His time was
5: 33: !: $3.50 and his average 1884 miles
The record made by Thomas Delage
in 1914, was 6:03:4 1854; average S2.47.
The annual Rocky Mountain mara
thon race from Littleton to Denver
was won by Ted Johnson, who covered
the distance of ten miles in l hour 5
minutes and 5 seconds. Johnson won
the same race last year Frank Hall
ran second, and Fred Duncan third.
Halls time was ! hour minutes and
45 2-5 seconds. Duncan's time was
hour minutes and 2-5 seconds.
General
twenty-five deaths were caused by
the storms in Eastern states.
The flood danger has passed and the
river is receding at Kansas City.
Another record price for prime west
ern spelter was reported at 23A cents
a pound for spot delivery. June ship
ments have sold at 23 cents.
The White Star liner Adriatic left
New York for Liverpool with 296 pas
sengers and $4,000 tons of general car
go and munitions, an unusually large
manifest.
Maurice Benjamin Medbury. wealthy
dealer in antique jewelry. left mys-
terry behind when he sank with the
Lusitania. Two women. Mrs NJ. D..
Medbury of Alameda, Cal, and Mrs.
Medbury-Danbury of London, each
claim to be the jewelry dealers legal
wife and have begun battle for his
estate, variously estimated at from
$4,000 to S150,000.
Former President William II. Taft
in an address at New York at the an
nual banquet of the national associa.
ton Of manufacturers severely crit!.
cized the Clayton act and the federal
trade commission act as detrimental
| to the business interests of the coun.
| try" and denounced the leaders of the
American Federation of Labor for ex.
ercising power that has become ex-
| cessive and detrimental to the public
veal and the good of society"
An earthquake shock of brief dura-
ton shook buildings at Bakersfield.
Cal. So far as known no damage was
done. Reports from Fresno and other
towns said the shock was felt slightly,
but that no damage had been caused.
Having abandoned all hope of es.
Gaping the electric chair in the week
| of July ~ for the murder of Herman
Rosenthal, Charles Becker, former DO.
lice lieutenant, is bitterly defiant and
threatens to publicly repudiate any eff.
forts on the part of his wife or friends
to appeal to Governor Whitman for
| clemencv