Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1909 — GAMES AND RACES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GAMES AND RACES

MARCH. 14. Meelick won the 810.608 Crescent Derby at New Orleans. APRIL.. \ 8. Sotch defeated Hackenschmldt tar world's heavyweight wrestling championship at Chicago. Ik Jack Atkin won the 810,600 Carter handicap on the Agueduct track. Maw York. t MAY. ft Calvin Boms rest of Chicago won the tolOfnAtfonsl Rtnßtxir billtard

Fkmship in New York, defeating Berolle, the Frenchman, by the score of - 400 to 216 points. Latonla won the Kentucky Derby at Louisville. t IX Jack Atkin won the Metropolitan ' handicap at Balmont park, New York. 16. Jay Gould defeated Eugene Mlles, the English player, for the world’s’ amateur tennis championship in London. JUNK. L Celt won the Brooklyn handicap at Gravesend Bay. N. Y, X Slgtaorinetta, an Italian horse, won the English Derby. 14. W. K. Vanderbilt's horse Northeast won the Grand Prix de Paris, the greatest race of the French turf. IX Ballot, owned by J. R. Keene, won the Suburban handicap at Sheepshead Bay. N. Y. 25. Harvard won the vqrsity boat race at New London. • • ' ' JULY. A Battling Nelson defeated Joe Gans for

the lightweight championship of the world in 17 rounds at San Francisco. IX Martin J. Sheridan of New York made a new world record by hurling 7 the discus 128 feet fl Inches at the London Olympic games. M John J. Hayes, an American, won the Olympic Marathon in London.

august. , t 25. Allen Winter won the American Trotting Derby at Rendville, Mass. 80. Maakette won the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. SEPTEMBER. X Papke defeated Ketchel in 12 rounds for middleweight championship at Los Angeles. OCTOBER. 14. The Chicago National league baseball club (Cubs) won the world’s championship by defeating the Detroit American league club (Tigers) at Detroit; score 2—o. XL George Robertson, driving a 90 horsepower Locomobile, won the Vanderbilt cup in the auto race at the Motor parkway, New York; speed average 04 miles an hour. NOVEMBER. 7. Harvard defeated Carlisle Indians at . football at Cambridge, 17 to 0. Wisconsin defeated Minnesota at football, 5 to 0, at Minneapolis. 14. Yale defeated Princeton, 11 to 6, at football. Chicago and Cornell played to a tie score of 6 to 6 at football. Pennsylvania defeated Michigan, 28 to 0, on the gridiron at Ann Arbor. 2L Harvard defeated Yale at football on Yale field; score 4 to 0. 36. Pennsylvania, defeated Cornell at football, 17 to A in Philadelphia. Wagner in a Fiat car won the Grand Prize of the Automobile club, driving 402 miles in 6 hours 10 minutes 31 seconds, at Savannah. 2X West Point defeated Annapolis at football "in Philadelphia, 6 to 4. 80. Pat McDonald tossed the 56 pound weight 16 feet three-eighths inch in New York, smashing the world’s record of 15 feet 7 inches, held by Matt McGrath. Norman Brooks and A. F. Wilding, Australian defenders of the international lawn tennis trophy, defeated the American challengers at Melbourne. DECEMBER. X Tom Collins made a new American record for 5 mile run in New York; time 25 minutes 19 2-5 seconds. 12. MacFarland and Moran, the PaclflcAtlantic team, won the 6 day bicycle race in New York; distance, 2,737 miles. 1 lap, beating the record 3 miles and 7 laps.

J. J. Hayes.