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S]POKT SIPIC1LDIAMOND GOSSIPNow that the Northwestern league race is getting: so close, speculative fans are betting that they can pick the way the race will wind up. The majority of them are picking Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Seattle. The bets are being made at the odds of three to one, as a rule, and there are bettors who are willing to take both sides. One man yesterday picked Tacoma, Vancouver, Spokane, Seattle. If he’ll come around to the Press office, the Sporting Editor will give him four to one. Spokane isn’t going to finish third— not by about two places.***•••Lynch is sure helping Tacoma out these days, as he comesthrough with the real timely hits. Yesterday he registered threehealthy clouts.• * * * * * *Gardner, the Reaver phenomenal flinger, has come into his own again. He shut out Seattle yesterday, after losing his last threegames straight—and all to the Indians.• ***•*Southpaws are in demand in the big leagues now, and that's why Lefty Russell was sold to Connie Mack for $12,000. A price like that makes Rob Brown’s sales look like a charity bazaar. The scarcity of port-flingers, too, will help Joe Cohn to get $3,500 or more for our own Jess.If the Coast league takes in sjx southern teams and two northern ones, it’s a cinch that Spokane and Seattle will be the choices, And which of the evicted teams wm make the bigger kick? You can just bet that Rob Rrown’s bunch will be there with the liveliest objection. Those Canucks aren’t so slow, and the murmur from Tiger-ville won’t be heard past Puyallup.V* -The motorcycle meet will begin tomorrow’ afternoon at 2:30. Speedomaniacs will be able to get their fill as one or two of thoseseven horsepower machines can hit up 80 miles an hour.**•**«.Fifty football players, ’tis said by the mid-summer dopesters, wdTl be 011 hand when the high school season begins. And they count on four coaches, too.A “fake” is a sporting event that every one is “in on,” except
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Spokane Press
Spokane, Washington, US
Fri, Jul 29, 1910
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