Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-03-14
WRESTLING STILL.
IN BAD IN COAST
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 13.-While
wrestling still is in bad oder in the
en- the sport back into its good graces,
and the diversion has gone a long
way toward filling the breach made
by legislating professional boxing out
of existence.
Bouts with a time limit, and with
a decision in the event no falls, have
brought crowds ranging from five to
- thousand SPECTATORS in San Francis
co. Los Angeles also is staging many
matches among the matmen. Inc IN
terest thus aroused in the state already
has resulted in bringing to the coast
eastern wrestlers of note.
Officials at fish hatcheries il several
of the mountain states recently have
announced that they would place a
million or more fish fry from each of
several hatcheries ir the streams of
the region as soon as the spring
weather caused the annual freshening.
The fish are of several species but
mainly of trout and other game vari
cites. A large portion of the eggs
from which they were Matched were
taken from fish captured in the Rocky
Mountain watershed.
Prospects for a winning track team
at the State College of Washington at
Pullman, were enhanced by the return
of "Ar' Miller, captain and sprinter
of the State College track team. Miller
has been considered one of the best
sprinters in the northwest McClung,
Sprinter; Smith and Woodruff, dis
tance men; Price, broadjumper; King,
weights; Schactler, 44O-man and Witt,
hurdler, all former letter men, form a
nucleus around which to build a
strong team.
Nick Williams, manager of the
Spokane club of the Northwestern
Baseball League is conditioning his
1917 baseball machine at Stockton,
Cal, where the Spokane Indians are
peeling off surplus flesh. The 1916
flag winners of the league have been
disrupted by sales and drafts but Nc
Ginnis, Harstad, Webb, Noble. Harper
and Murray of the old team are under
contract. Williams reported that he
has signed a small army of bushers.'
One of the most enthusiastic quintet
of bowlers in Spokane is the Rowles
family consisting of G. W., the father
and his sons, Edward, Frank ant
Harry. All are members of the same
league and all will compete in the
Spokane bowling championship
Frank is captain of the White Soy
team of the Knights of COLUMBUS
league, of which both his father and
brother, Jack. are members. Harry il
captain of the Federals and Edwa r.
father, G. w. ROwles, is now wearing
a beard as a result of losing bowling
match Recently he agreed with an
other veteran bowler to roll a serie:
of games, the loser to wear a bearC
for a year. Mr.. Rowles lost.
The Great Falls, Mont, team of tn,
Northwestern Baseball League is to bt
financed this year by dances. Already
the directors and stockholders shave
arranged for the first series of five
dances, the proceeds to be used for the
benefit of the baseball team.
The Athletic Council of the Wash
ington State College has voted to hold
the annual interscholastic track NEE
of 1917 under the auspices of the state
college at Pullman on Friday, May d l
Twenty men have answered the cal
of Coach Jerry Nissen for track this
season at the University of Montana.