Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-04
SPORTING NEWS

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sioux CITY ............. 90 80 .ouv
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wichita ............... a. so 'toi 'od
Topeka .......-........ oo 9D 10, -,
st. Joseph ...........'. 81 % 'o'i
City Draughtsman Charles James
is completing plans for the military
disappearing targets to be installed
at the Pueblo Rifle Range six blocks
east of the Pueblo Golf Club.
Barney Oldfield will try his hand
at racing up into the clouds at Colo
RADIO Springs. He has agreed to ride
for the Delage car folks. foreigners
who are interested in the Pixies Peak
climb.
bill" Wright. Cheyenne speed king
again showed up in the lead at From
tier Park at Cheyenne when he won
first honors in the fifty-mile motor
cycle race of the Capital City Motor
cycle Club.
Mabel Trask, owned and driven by
Walter Cox of Dover n. NJ, had lit
tie trouble winning the historic Mer-
chants and Manufacturers $4,000
stake for 2:os trotters at the Grand
circuit meeting at Detroit.
Twice within five minutes the
worlds steer-roping record was
broken at Frontier Park, at Chey-
enne. wyo.. first by Bert Weir Of
Monument, N. NJ. who reduced 1t
from 80 seconds to % seconds: then
by Fred Lowery of Oklahoma. who
cut it to "a seconds.
Yellow Fever, champion buckins
horse, made good his repueation at
Frontier Park at Cheyenne, when he
threw Eddie McCarty in the cham
pionship rough riding contest. to the
uproariously expressed delight of 49,
900 people. McCarty rode well, but
Yellow Fever is in n class by him
self and the cowboy from Bear Creek
could not keep the saddle. In the
cowgirls' rough riding contest Maude
Tarr tainted in the saddle, but her
horse was caught before she fell
GENERAL
The widow of Lieut.. Col. NJ. C. But
ler. slain by Harry SPANIEL, in Al
pine, Tex, will receive pension.
The bodies of six persons drowned
in flood resulting from cloudburst
near Sunrise, Wyo, were recovered.
Meat cutters employed at the pack
ing houses at East st. Louis, ILL.,, Of
Swift & Co., Armour Co. and Nor
ris & Co., struck.
The death toll in the Middle West
ern states, as a result of the most
terrific heat wave in its history
mounted to sixty at noon Friday.
Permanent organization of the Ma
stands perfected at Cody with the
election of Gus Holms of Cody. Wyo.,
as president, and l.. L. Newton. also
of Cody. as secretary.
Three men were fatally injured
when street car crashed into an
elevated railroad pillar in the Bronx
in New York. One of them was a
policeman serving as guard. The ac-
cident was the most serious WHICH
had occurred since the beginning of
the strike of motormen and conduc-
tors on the surface car lines in the
Bronx and Westchester county.
Villa, with about thirty men, is in
the Canon de las Huertas, near Ell
Paso re Penoles. Durango, according
to dispatches from Gen. Ramos sent
by courier to Mapami and tele-
graphed to Gen. Trevino at Chihuahua
City. Calexito Contreras, his chief
lieutenant, whose death recently was
reported from Mexico City. deserted
Immediately after Parral and made
his way southeast with one-half of
the men who attacked that city ac-
cording to the dispatches.
Second Lieut. S. H. Wheeler of the
Army Aviation School at North Is
land lost control of his aeroplane at
Ontario. Cal. and crashed into line
of automobiles. overturning four, kill
ing Harold Stoebe, years old, and
seriously injuring Mrs. C. A. Stoebe,
the boys mother. Lieutenant Wheel
er was not injured although his ma
| chine was wrecked.
Thomas j. Mooney. a labor agitator
sought by the police in connection
with the preparedness parade bomb
explosion case, was In custody at