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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
12
A Portland plot to disrupt the Pacific Northwest league faces a finish in Seattle as California and Portland factions push for a new Portland club. Dugdale in Seattle signs Spec Hurlbut, aims to field top players, and vows no salary cap to outdraw rivals.
Henry Harris, manager of the San Francisco team, announced in Portland that a new Pacific Coast Baseball League will include Portland Seattle San Francisco Oakland Sacramento and Los Angeles. He said no new additions are planned and Seattle will join the circuit.
Pacific Northwest Baseball League president Lucas says Portland will have a strong team next season and the league will build new grounds if current Portland stockholders sign over the grounds. He notes Portland, Lotte, Helena, Seattle, Tacoma, and Spokane will provide backing to support a move and a formal team presence.
Seattle dispatch reports President Lucas will arrive to direct action against incursions from California. He promises to push a strong line, with Minor League backing led by Sexton. His main goal is to organize a team transfer to Portland and defend existing interests.
Pacifico coast middleweight George Taoraner defeats Billy Stitt of Chicago in a six round bout. Stitt is knocked down eight times in the first round and saved by the bell as the fight ends. Gardner dominates rounds four and five before pressure mounts, but Stitt lasts the final round without a knockout.
Newkirk and Jacobsen and Leander with Flora Krebs forged ahead with strong team riding in the six day race in New York. At midnight their tally reached 1,706 miles and 6 laps, about 159 miles behind the time record of 1,865 miles 6 laps. Other leading teams included MacFarland Maya Stinson Moran Bedell Bedell and Butler Turville with 1,705 miles or 5 laps.
Four American jockeys who rode in Europe return home on the Kronprin Wilhelm steamer, reaching port today. Ben Rigby, the best known, plans to ride in France next season. Charles Thorpe will settle on a farm near Geneva Kansas. R Gray resides in San Francisco. Exnidie Jones is the fourth rider.
At the state Y M C A meeting in Tacoma Dave Grant of Seattle shattered the world long dive mark. He leaps to 15 feet 3 inches, surpassing the previous 14 feet 5 inch record by seven inches.
Salvador requests a lower amount from the arbitration board that met in Washington, seeking to trim the total award of 800000. The filing comes as the case moves through the review process.
The Sab vador Commercial company faces a spring claim for injuries through franchise appropriation. The state department has reviewed the matter for three weeks and shows no change in view that the award is just and must be paid by February at the latest.
Early this morning George Robinson, a 35 year old miner at the St. Lawrence mine, was fatally injured by a fall of earth on the seven foot level. No one else was hurt. body taken to Lavelle's undertaking establishment.
A Chicago Chronicle report details socialist Sunday schools linked to Hull House founder Miss Jane Addams. Originator Miss Mary Coulson is said to have started the movement, which meets weekly from 1 to 2 PM with 125 members under Superintendent Miss Swanson.
The writer describes socialist Sunday schools in Chicago favoring cooperative ideals over traditional religion. Classes, led by Walter Huggins and others, meet at venues like 120 Western Avenue and Wicker Park hall. Activities include socialist cantatas, social programs, and youth engagement amid internal socialist divisions.
Brooklyn editor notes Rev. John A Dowie proclaims Christian Catholic Church of Zion with himself as General Overseer. Disciplines liken to an army and demand tithes for a world wide gospel. Zion City near Chicago serves as financial hub and base for publishing, banking, and mail order trade.
In a Brooklyn Eagle印 tale a showman's son examines a Noah s ark and quips that Noah had only real animals no mythical beasts. The exchange questions the worth of the biblical menagerie and mocks the idea of modern shows needing exotic creatures.
A blast at the Cornell mine in Van Anda nearly killed Louis C. Delatre of Vancouver. The man, aged 31, was 1,280 feet underground when he attempted to fuse a blast and was blown from his position. He sustained multiple severe fractures from the explosion.
Berlin dispatch notes Mrs Tower and her three daughters arriving to visit Ambassador Tower. Emperor William is at Potsdam, and Tower may meet the emperor in two or three days after his arrival.
The Yale Record notes that I. F. Bansback of Denver was elected captain of Stanford's football team for the 1905 season. The brief item records the leadership choice and cites the Cal Stanford setting in December.
Nillings’ record falls as Buttes win five games at Thornton alleys with 2 7 pone, 120 pins ahead of Billings and better than San Francisco All-American scores. Silver Bowl push ends with 2717 total. McMillan leads with 226. Mort White tops the Buttes with 12 4-5 average. Local team hopes for a Saturday rematch against Billings.
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