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Show SPORTING ITEMS. ' In the final of the fancy skating tournament at the Princess rink last week, Mr. Craddock and Miss Cath erine Hyman took first place after a very close fight with Miss Kate Stewart and Mr. Jackson. The judges judg-es were undecided in the matter and I left the decision to the applause of ; the spectators. ' ' l The grand western handicap, the " annual trap shooting contest for westerners west-erners and shooters of the middle ' states, will be held in Denver next August. Cash prizes amounting to I $20,000 will be distributed to the win- ners in the different events. There will be a six days' session. President Isaac Sharpless of Haver- L ford college, the old Quaker institu- tion of learning, declared in an ad- Ij dress delivered recently that in the If- last twenty-five years college morals have improved as the result of the l, development of athletics. '1 A six-day walking match, which j contestants entered from various parts ' of the country, is to be held in Convention Con-vention hall, Kansas City, commencing commenc-ing Monday night, January 27. Up at the University the girls have the basket ball fever, and have it bad. It is proposed to organize an inter-class inter-class league to play a series of games soon after Christmas. Just think of the life-long friendships that will be smashed all to flinders as soon as that league is formed. Farmer Burns, the Iowa wrestler, defeated Mike Dwycr of Denver in two straight falls at Omaha Tuesday night. The first went thirty-four minutes and the second eight and a half minutes, When Dwycr went down in the last fall he fell on his open right hand, so seriously injuring his wrist that he will be forced to give up wrestling for some time. l) Manager Wood of the Lagoon Athletic Ath-letic club has called off the Mantcll-Smith Mantcll-Smith twenty-round boxing contest scheduled for New Year's day at Lagoon La-goon and instead Miercof has signed up "Rube" Smith of Denver and Charles Williams of Rock Springs, Wyo. The American committee of the Olympio games, which are to be held in London, next July, has decided on , June 6, as the day for the try-outs of those who desire to become members of the American team. There will be two try-outs, one in the East and the other in the West. From the showing made in -these meets, the team -will be selected. |
