Beattie Power Boat Club Regatta Sets New Year races
Commodore Vince Paben leads the Beattie Power Boat Club in a New Year regatta featuring 35 or more motor boats. A 30 mile course from Bailey peninsula to Shear landing and back will test speed, with 1 and 2 mile options. The Union, a Campbell brothers boat, with 45 horsepower, will race. Stormy weather may cancel to protect smaller launches.
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Sand Point
Shear Landing
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Yealer Way
Motorboat Union
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Gilmore Defeats Linstead in Featherweight Showdown
Fred Gilmore, former American featherweight champion, defeated Fred Linstead by decision at the Athletic Club. Gilmore dominated all three rounds with a rapid left and clever defense while Linstead had earlier knocked Gilmore down with a series of rights. Gilmore turned the tables by outmaneuvering his rival in the later exchanges.
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America
Fred Linstead
Athletic Club
Gilmore
Linstead
Six-team league meeting to organize winter basketball schedule
Representatives from six teams including three Seattle clubs and Fort Lawton will meet to arrange the league's plans. Captains Melfaffie Ross Irons and Cameron attend for Thistles and Seattle, Wanderers send Bloom and Hall, Baker represents Fort, Port Blakeley and Tacoma delegates pending. The league aims to start Jan 1 with home and visiting game return structure to boost out of town attendance.
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Tacoma
Port Blakeley
Fort Lawton
Melfaffie
Ross
Thisties
Irons
Cameron
Wanderers
Ieamy
Hall
Baker
Fort
O Brien Aims To Fight Champion Jeffries
Philadelphia fighter Jack OBrien announces he will meet Jim Jeffries on any terms after starting for the east. He notes public doubt about his condition compares to past challenges by Corbett to Sullivan.
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San Francisco
Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien
Jim Jeffries
Jack
Crack Soccer Team Heads to Canada for New Year Match
The Seattle soccer team will travel to Victoria on New Year’s Day to face a leading Canadian squad. The local club has the best win record in the region and draws strong interest for the upcoming contests. team personnel will be chosen at a meeting tonight in the club room.
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Victoria
Ely
State News Highlights From Pacific Northwest
Progress on Snake River line between Portland and Seattle. state funds include 214463 in gold and 89381 in silver for the year. Reported events across Washington show fires, robberies, accidents, deaths, and social happenings from Hoquiam to Tacoma, Ellensburg, and North Yakima, including storms, a new church at Sedro Woolley, and a Tacoma poultry show opening today.
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Colfax
Tacoma
John Wilson
Mermont
Fear Tacoma
A. Chambers
Everett
William Baines
North Yakuma
John Harling
Everet
Stanko Tonkovich
Catherine Murphy
John B. Lee
Vancouver
Ellensburg
North Yakima
Spokane
Gray's Harbor
New Methodist
Sedro- Woolley
Whitman County
C. G. Raby
Bellingham
Henry Strodemeter
Olympia
New Papal Legation Planned for Washington District
Plans for a new Papal legation in a fashionable Washington district target occupancy by spring 1907. The Catholic hierarchy of America will erect and place the building at the Papal delegate’s disposal with rent estimated at $100,000 not including decorations. Ten aliens became U S citizens in superior court yesterday.
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Washington, D. C
Catholic Hetrarchy of
America
United @tac
Corbett's Gossip of the Fighting Game
Jas J Gorwant presents a boxing column praising Jack Jackson born in the West Indies 1861 who fought in Australia and Sydney He discusses his left hand prowess and compares era fighters like Young Corbett Battling Nelson Jimmy Britt Mysterious Billy Smith Joe Walcott and the Dane Britts wins and knockouts highlighting Jackson's heart and color heritage as a monument-worthy figure
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Kanterprisne Association
Peter Jackson
Jackson
Larry Foley
Sydney
West Indies
Australia
Young Corbett
Nelson
Jimmy Britt
Britt
Nelsom
McGovern
Denver
Corbett
Smith
Joe Walcett
Joe Walcott
South
Barbados
Washington Adds Full Page in Spaulding Manual
The University of Washington earns a full-page feature in Spaulding's Sporting Manual among leading Northwest football teams, previously unlisted. The inclusion highlights UW as a recognized top program in the region and expands its media exposure.
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University of Washington
Spaulding
Northwest
Sporting Brevities Review of Ring, Track, and Golf News
This brief collection notes Fitz’s tough if aging performance and a stomach complaint, Ruby Robert’s stage appeal, Washington Park Track decision to split the oval, Chicago betting ban, Jimmy Wadeworth’s captaincy shift, Callahan leaving baseball for city league, Columbia College curbing sports, and rising auto interest among Mexico’s elites with a 200 member auto club formation.
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Ruby Robert
Gayety
Washington Park Race Track Association
Elylota Marka
Harrison
Chicago
Racing Fever Touches Webb Jay and Others in 1906 Scene
The piece notes Webb Jay’s return to motor racing after a near fatal Buffalo crash at 100 mph and mentions other sports figures and management moves. It cites Ned Hanson guiding the Reds in 1906, Honus Wagner on Deacon Phillippe, Arthur Irwin’s coaching role in Wilmington, Washington’s athletic ambitions, and Bob Fitzsimmons commenting on Britt’s rumored elopement.
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Buffalo
Chicago Automobile Club
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