Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-06-01

riott, the former English lightweight
!, title holder. Marriott could not make
the stipulated weight and Immediate
ly ennounced his retirement from
the lightweight class and forfeited
his match with Lew Edwards, the
Australian champion. At the same
time Marriott returned the cham
pionship belt to the National Sport
ing club, which is looked up to in
England as the governing body of
the glove game in that country.
All American boxers are not the
money grabbing type the uninitiated
paint them Back east a couple Of
weeks ago Pal Moore OF Memphis
Tenn, was to box Joe Lynch of New
York. The boys had agreed to make
118 pounds and posted a forfeit of
$500 Moore weighed in at ZIG
pounds the afternoon of the contest
but Lynch was a fraction over the
limit Of 11S pounds. The match was
called off but Moore refused to take
the $500. He was not willing to give
away too great a margin in weight,
but he was sportsmanlike enough not
to exact the Shylock's pound of
flesh when only small margin in
weight gave him the right to take
the money forfeit. II there were
more men Of this spirit the boxing
game would take on a better look in
the eyes of people who oppose it for
one reason and another
the basketball was made last week at
Greenwich, Conn, by Maude Rosen-
baum when she hurled the ball 80
feet 10 inches. The previous girls
record was 8S feet 10 inches made
by Elizabeth Harden of Vassar Col
lege.
The town of Waitsburg, Wash. is
getting ready for big race meet dur
ing June. Horses are now pouring
into the town and a fine meet is an
ticipated. Among the we'll known
Pacific nothewest horse owners who
will race their horses are w. H.
Robacheer of Sprague, Joe Craig of
Pendelton, DR.. Wellner and Sol Pal
mer.
Charles E. Nicholson. designer Of
Shamrock Nv. who arrived recently in
New York. says that the Irish chal-
lenger for the Americas cup con-
ceived six years ago and that he
would make many radical changes in
the event he were to design another
yacht to race for the famous trophy.
In view of the fact that Sir Thomas
Upton has established a we'll known
reputation as being glutton for pun
ishment, it is barely possible that
| Mr.. Nicholson may have an opportun-
ity to put his new ideas into use in
Shamrock V.
Why can't they quit twisting the
Lions Tail. Seems as if there were
some people determined to start
another war. Now comes DR.. j. Dun
can Spaeth, coach of the Princeton
University crew congratulating the
Cornell crew on beating his own and
the Yale crews in the recent triang-
ular race which proved. says Spaeth'
that the American style OF rowing
has got it all over the British. TINS
: because both Cornell and Princeton
which beat Yale represented the
American style with its emphasis on
!, length Of slide. leg drive and the re-
I duced body swing as we'll as Ameri-
can ideas of stroke and rigging.
!, Needless to say Yale followed the
. English ideas.
We presume both Philadelphia and
!. Boston will be all excited over the
: news that en- English cricket team
is coming over to this country IN
\ September to play series or inter-
Z national contests with American
\ teams. Aside from these two cities
! it isn't likely that there will be even
: ripple OF interest. Cricket is one
q game that the great American pun
4 lie has put in a class with reading
= novel while swinging in hammock
Boston has swung into line with
= declaration Of war against the pro-
4 fessional gamblers at the basehah
. parks. A few clouts on the Jaw "
: quickly and properly administered
soon will put an end to the businefs