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Show I! Snappy Items of Sports News i V J Im -j ST. PAUL, March 18. Mike O'Liowd 1 of St. Poul, Minn., middleweight eham 1 pion, defeated Augie Ratner or New I York in a 10-round bout here last 1 night. Ratner fought a defensive bat-I bat-I tic lor eight rounds and mixed .nai-I .nai-I tors in the last two rounds when he I' mae a fairly good showing. Kid Johnpon, negro heavyweight fiom ! Pitfshuig, lasted 42 seconds with Har-I Har-I ry Wills of New York. Wills hit John-t John-t son once and Johnson hit the floor twice. Johnson went down, got up, Ij wen; aown and stayed down 1 CANTON. Ohio, March 18 .Tack j Britron, welterweight champion of the If world, outpointed Jack Perry of Brad-li Brad-li dock, Pa., in a 12-round bout hero last I? night, according to newspaper critics. ! KENOSHA, Wis., March IS. The teU'round bout last night between Ted li Jan.-'eson, Milwaukee light heavy-J heavy-J weight, and George "Knockout" Brown li of Chicago, was stopped by the referee ref-eree in the fourth round, when Jamie-I Jamie-I son claimed he was fouled, i ! ? AN DIEGO, Cal., March IS. Al Gnuvjn, local lightweight, yesterday j Avon a decision over Johnny (Kid) Mex of Pueblo, Colo., in a 20-round match j at Tijuana, Mexico, near this city, i Gruuan was the aggressor during Most j! of !he fight. About 2500 persons saw ) the contest. I SEATTLE. Wash., March IS. The ! new Pacific International "baseball j league has been completed with the j awaiding of a franchise to Victoria,) ID. C, it was announced hero yester-' , da. Other cities having franchises j j nr.? Seal tie, Spokane, Tacoma and Yakima. Yak-ima. Wash., and Vancouver. B. C. ! I j IKORIA, 111., March IS. A nawi leader came to the front in the indi-idu.ls indi-idu.ls event at the American Bowling congress yesterday when Bart Mc-GeoAvan, Mc-GeoAvan, Evansville, lud., rolled a to- tal cf 6S9 pins. ! SAN DIEGO, Cal., March IS. The j Boise polo four yesterday afternoon defeated the all-stars, S goals to 6. for j the Joseph Jessop cup. The all-stars I had a three-goal handicap and were I Hbln to make only three other points, i j PHILADELPHIA, March IS. Fred j j Fulton, heavyweight, easily defeated j Bantey Madden. New York, in n six- round bout last night, Fulton, who! had tho advantage of his opponer.! in height, weight and reach, won all the way. ST. PETJBRSBURK. Fla., March IS. ; In an exhibition game yesterday the sco. e stood: r. j . e. Washington Americans ... 9 I'l 1 Indianapolis American Assn. 4 7 V, Batteries: Johnson, Za chary and Maver; Murray, Fnrrell and Go.setl, Ilenlinc. HOT SPRINGS. Arlc, March IS. Exhibition game scores here yestcrdav wcm;: r. h. k. Boston Americans 6 7 i Pittsburg Nationals 5 10 - I Bamrles: Flaherty, Holborrow, Fortune and Livingston, Devine; Carlson, Carl-son, Wisner, ISberhard, Ponder and Leo, Hoeffner. PHAHR. Texas, March IS.-The scorer in yesterday's game were: 1 P. U. E. St. Louis Nationals 9 10 1. Philadelphia Americans ... 8 11 . o' Batteries Sherdell . and ,CIemons Dihlioefer; Bigbee, Seckcrt, Br-neil and Styles. LOS ANGELES. March IS. R. II. E. Chicago Nationals 2 .5 1 Los Angeles (Pacific Coast 4 10 3 Batteries: Hcndrix. Newkirk and Dalv; Schultz, Dumovich, McKav Thomas and Lapan, Bassler. FAIRBANKS. Alaska, Feb. , 15. (Cy. Mail) Leonard Seppalla's team of fa's dogs, hieh won the All-Alaska Sweepstakes Sweep-stakes races at Nome several times, rcently set a new speed record in covering cov-ering the 800-mile snow trail between Nome and Fairbanks In fourteen days. The team, long considered one "of the fastest in the norlhlnnd, averaged 57 miles a day on the run from Nome. One day they made seventy-five miles. Seppalla. on his record trip, brought out Thorulf Lehmann, president of the Nome Chamber of Commerce, who was on his way outside to the states. j MOSCOW, Idaho.. March IS. Nell Irving, winner of individual honors in the northwestern intercollegiate conference con-ference track meet last year, probably will be entered in the Pacific coast trials for the 1920 Olympic games, according ac-cording to an announcement of the University of Idaho, athletic department. depart-ment. Irving is said to hurl the javelin consistently more than 170 feet and last season he was credited with throwing the 16-pound weight more than 42 feet on several occpsions. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calif-. March IS. Fifty-eight application's were received for tho position left vacant va-cant when the Stanford Board of Athletic Ath-letic Control refused to rp-appoiut Coach Melbourne Evans, it was an nounced here. |