Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1904 — Page 8

TITE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1901. SPORTING SECTION. r RT ON Interesting News and Gossip of the Track, Ring, Alley and Rink r Spring Woolens For Gentlemen's Wear If ycu are interested in having your Spring Suit ready for Easter time do not delay in your shopping. We are well prepared to satisfy your needs. Our cutting and fitting department is In the hands of an expert, and the new showing of Spring Woolens is unequaled. . . . BR ITT EXPLAINS HOW HE WILL BEAT CORBETT Says Champion Has Defeated Easy 'Marks, While He Has Met Tough Ones. iirtrrn mnr Tnini in nniTnnrTT unui n nur 1 KU I tU BAU I HAU ß Hu I lilt 1 1 NU'ii ALUNt I TO IE USED AS A FARM III INTERESTING RACE Famous Kite-Shaped Course at Independence to Pass Out of Existence. Ko-We-Ba Bowler Rolls in Good Form and Gains One Point on Brinkmever. "NAPOLEOX'S WATERLOO" GRAFF TOPS RAMBLERS BEROER PICKS BRITT

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Heavyweight Says James Can Hit About as Hard as Any Middleweight SAN FRANCISCO. Ca!.. March 12. They're off. Jimmy Britt and Young Corbett will now aet lown to business for the

greatest of great fights. Regarding his chances in the coming tight Britt said: "I can't show what I can do against big fallows like Sieger and Fitzgerald. I wasn't In the ring those nights to knock them out. That doesn't-constitute a win in my mind. ou don't have to knock all men out to win. I knew before they came here that they were gluttons (or punishment, and all I did was to wear them down and weaken th-m. I knew my cards and Just played right. Well, my fight with Canole was different Spider Kelly, who was in my corner, knew all the time that my right hand was bad H knew when I hurt It, and Just tailed Canole by yelling. 'Swing your right. Jimmy." I swung a few wild ones Just to make it look good. I fought all night with one hand. You 11 see whether I can punch or not he night I meet Corbett. This will be no .jiBr game. It s going to be biffbang, and one of us will drop before seven rounds have gone. I tell you now that it won t go to the limit, and see if I'm not right." I guess you're not confident, Jimmy, chir p, -l one of the friends while lighting a Iew I'll l. . . Well, I have a right to be. piped. James. "J know what I can do. I am almost certain of winning this, ami never felt so tire of anything In my life. I have seen ' rbett fight three time now and know his Style pretty well. He has had all little fellows to lick. None of them as tall and rangy as myself. I am going to work today, but I won't have to kill myself doing the weight. 1 have been working with Sam Berge.r at the Olympic flub and weighed 1'JH this morning. You see. that leaves me with eight pounds to take off. That's easy. My hands are both In grand shape now and, 1.. irring an accident in my training I will enter the ring without an excuse for a joe Ber-g.-r. amateur heavyweight pugilist Of California and also a great friend of James Britt. has expressed the following opinion on the Britt-Corbett fight: "Though a friend of Jimmy Britt. I don't allow my friendship for him to influence my Judgment in sizing up his ability as a fighter. I think I can diagnose his case Just s rold-bl I.lly as though I had never poken to him. You may think t,hat this is hardlv (...s it.l.-. I.ut I t'llew I can Io it. Now as to knowing what Britt can do there J nobody who knows him better than 1 do. 1 have put the (loves on with him so many, nnuy times that I know him like a book. When he is in the ring I know every move that Is coming off. 1 know what he is going to do Just as well as he does hims If, I have boxed with him so .much. Now, right at the outset. I want to on record as saying that I believe Britt will beat "orbett this month. Of course, you expected me to say this In view of our intimate relations, but this opinion comes from the heaH and not from the heart. It will be a great right, but I sincerely and honestly think that my man will give the talent a terrible shock. I recognise that Corbett is a great fighter. Don't think that I underrate him a bit. Any man who can ro along and kn ck them nut the way he has been d'dng must be a wonderful fighter, and the,, is no getting away from the fact. But I think Britt la a great lighter, too. Lately I have heard it said that Jimmy can't hit. If he couldn't hit I would know it. I have boxed with him enough. I have boxed with all classes of fighters, and I want to say that I in-ver had a middleweight hit me harder than he has. Now that is a fact. Now. I will admit that Britt may not know where t place a blow- as well as he might, but he is improving rapidly. You know a fighter may have a big wallop sotnetim.-s and not know how to plant it so it will do the most harm, it is quite an art to snap a punch in right. You see lots of fellows who can kno. k a ste. r down in training, but they will go in the ring and can t score a knockout to save their lives. It is because they don't know how to punch. Britt knows how to hit. though he can Improve some, and will in his next fight. What I like about Jimmy is ids fine head work. Mark my word, you won't see Corbett weiking up to Britt. as he did to Han Ion and Sullivan, ami push his head Into his breast and winging those rights and lefts over on the Jaw. Britt will not stand for anything like that. If corbett starts anything like that with him you will see somebody tearing tnt his stomach, which I am told is his soft spot. Now. in regard to their physical condition, both men will he in fine shape. The weight suits Corbet! to a dot and Britt will make i: pounds nicely, though he has nev. r done it before I have seen him down to 130 dozens of times In his training. "Yes. I suppos- Corbett will be favorite In the betting, but that cuts no figure with me. Beating li ii Ion. who is a great favorite here, sent drift's stock sky-high. Britt will send it the other way." SHARKEY LOST HIS XERYE. New York Sort's Story Regarding the Big Sailor Fighter. NEW YORK, March 12. At the opening of Col. James Breslin's new tavern A. Smith, the will-known sporting man and referee, told a rather amusing yarn of how Bailor Torn Sharkey n cold feet when he had a side bet posted to tight (ius Ruhlin and drew down the bet. S"me one sahl to Smilh: "Mas Sharkey gone back or is Munroe a wonder?" Smith smiled and replied: "As for Sharkey being a wonder. I never knew him to be won ierful at anything except taking tea re of his money, and the strength of the krip wits' which he holds on to that is the most remarkable exhibition of physical cul-t-ire have ever witness d." (Colonel I'ullen ted that he had biiAil himself for Vj0 when he and Ruhlin fought during th- festivities attending the English coronation. "That bet did n I o." said A! Smith. "I was stakeholder, and I ought to know. I have never told this story to any one before, but II just as lief every one should know it. "After the match was made I went to Stagland. being delayed more than 1 expected, having to go on the Lucania Instead of th i antpania. "I had to see Sharkey one day and RuhI the next. When I went down to Sh irkey's place he took me out Into th. garden and said: 'if Ruhlin does not want that money to go that we bet I cannot hold him to it.' I said: 'What are you talking aboutr 'Well.' he said, if Ruhlin do s not want that money to go I cannot hohl htm.' I said: 'Has Ruhlin told you he did not want the money to go- u, tu,j n.t make an answer kept 0Q rei but in "a sort of foolish way tttng that he could not hohl Ruhlin. finally. 1 got a hit out of patience and said. 'Th.n ou want to draw the money0 'If Ruhlin would like to draw It I Will draw." replied th sailor. I saw he was eager to draw the money, and next day when 1 saw Hilly Ma. Men I askd Hlllv if he wanted to draw the He said that ti war $1 .' o bis rnoii. y up ,nd J Ruhlin s; that Ruhlin had never gone hi . that it migh' maki him nervous, and. as th.-r. v.,s a Nk purse n- wotmi jk-i ,( -..:i draw Kuhli:. I I1.5UD. So I agreed to that, as Sharkey wanted it. ami when I -aw Sharkey again b said to draw th- other thousand. Herr PlarUe'a Record. Ni;W YORK. March 12 Here Is Herr Placke 's recrd as prepared by his Kuropean manag r. John Smith All wins: J ick Harrx rn is. New Zealand. ney. (Not our Billy, of course.) Fisher, iu uiii' blow, ker. Quceiistown Round and a half in 'Frisco, h. of Bag la ad, was on the record, spired that he only nearly beat EugUah champion. Uv challu

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PRESENT-OA! BOXERS ARE AJFHRIFTY BUNCH During Days of John L. Sullivan Barroom Loafers Helped to Spend the Money. THOSE WHO HAVE SAVED There have been changes in the ring since the late eighties, when John L. Sullivan held full sway. But It is doubtful If any more striking change has taken place than the attitude of fighters towards this same money question. When Sullivan won a fight, wine and booze generally flowed like water In his neighborhood 'so long as the money lasted. No man was too obscure to lack an invitation to drink at John L.'s expense. After he had played host for a time, it frequently pleased him to throw the bartender out of doors aud get behind the bar himself. This was accepted as part of the routine, however, and when John L. did any damage to the fixtures, he generally settled up the next day if he had any money left. This gave his supporterb mauy chances to talk about his generous impulses, his free-handedness. and so on. But that it hurt the fighting game, and hurt it badly, cannot be denied. It resulted In John L. having a following of deadbeats and saloon loungers such as no pugilist has had thereafter, all hanging about the champion in the expectation of free drinks. To such au extent was his petttSf followed that many sporting meu seemed to Judge a fighter's popularity by the number of these hangers-on who attached themsedves to the tail of his kite. When Jim Corbett defeated Sullivan aud refused to burden himseif with a gang of these loafers it actually hurt him iu the estimation of many followers of the gam', who believed that he ought to have followed the precedent set by Sullivan though exactly why he should do so they could not explain themselves. Nearly all the big money-makers of that day spent thier money as fast as they got It save Tommy Ryan, George Dixon. Jack McAuliffe. Jack pempsey all were smitten with the ideu that it was necessary to rid themselves of money us though it wer' infected. Nowadays, the contrast is strong indeed. Many of the leading lighters have enough put by to insure them a comfortable living when they leave the fighting game. Tommy Ryan and Jack O'Brien are credited with the possession of $lt0,00U each. Jim Jeffries is said to be worth this sum aud i&O.OUO in addition. Terry McQovera is credited with close to $100.juo. Jim Corbett may not have any very large sums stored away, hut there is a general belief that he has put enough money by to start him in any line of business he may desire to enter. Joe Walcott and Joe Gans each owns his own home and has some little money put by. Walcott is said to have several thousand dollars. Gans is credited with about fc',700. Dave Suhl van and Spike Sullivan are known to have put several thousand dollars away apiece and each owns his own home. Fitzsiminous was werth a considerable sum at one time but his exact means to-day are unknown. None of the bantams set m to have much. Iu spite of Attell's frequent victories, he is said to have absolutely nothing. Forbes had some little money and owned a roadhouse near Chicago a short time ago, but he is not known to have anything to-day. Nell has not yet saved much, although he is suid to be of a thrifty disposition, and Regan has not yet begun to accumulate his pile. Still, the showing made by the hading members of the profession is enough to show the contrast which exists between the old days of the ring and (he present time and the chauge is for the bettering Of the sport. EDDIE HAXLOX'S WEIGHT. San Fraucisco Lad to Post Forfeit for Future Matches. PHILADELPHIA. March 12.-Eddle HanIon, the San Francisco boxer, who has in i le many friends by his quiet, gentlee manly manners out of the ring, thinks that he has got all the worst of It in the controversy over his weight, and he sends out a clear, manly statement on the subject as follows: "I have nothing but words of praise for my late opponent, George Decker, for I consider him a game and willing- boxer. And, while I would gladly enter into another match with him. I would only do so under conditions that the weight subject would be brought out nunc plainly than in our last outest "Th- opinion seems to prevail that I am not a legitimate feather-weight. This idea 1 would Ilk- to dispel at once, for It do me u gnat injustice and In order to prove I am not making any idl. assertions wlil bet 1500 and place the money in your hands that to-day. out of condition. 1 do not weigh 133 pOQPla. Furthermore. I will box (Jeorge Decker at l'-TT pounds, weigh in at 6 o'clock, and post a forf. it of $25 . Now, if there is any further doubt about my ! weight, I will box y ung Erne. Jack O'Neill, Billy Vi:i!s. S;.mmy Smith. Billy Maharg. "Or k Boyle. Kddl Haney or any ither feather weight at 127 pounds at a o'clock, or 130 pounds at ringside "I am not selecting my opponents, and, whoever I mee;. the public can rest sured of seeing m- do my utmost in dlsrng f them In the quickest possible time My stlc of boxing may not i.- pretty t look at but I try make it as . fT -live as I cun. and up to date it has pro n very niece nil to me So I Intend to continue it, whether it pleases ui critics ur not."

CORBETT. Fi fit Jimmy Britt.

COLLEGE TO Tit TRACK: SCOTT HUDSON'S JUMP Most Successful Driver Is Also the Liest Educated Man in Big Circuit. HIS STRING THIS YEAR LEXINGTON, Ky , March 12. A classic course at an educational institution like Center College is hardly the training supposed to be nece.-ary to produce the most succesful trotting horse Iriver of modern Änos. In fact, It has never occurred to the minds of horsemen that a master reinsman could come from any source but that of the paddock or the stable. Scott Hudson has set aside all traditions, as, riuipped with an education to fit him for any profession which icquires learning, he has fnstead gone on the track and made a record as a skillful trainer and successful driver unexcelled In the history of light harness horse racing. His career goes to show that a finished college training can be utilized In connection with the turf and that booklearning Is no drawback to a career of success with horses. He is probably' the best educated, from a classic standpoint, of any prominent trottln: horse driver ort the turf to-day, and the last three seasons he has proved the most successful. The deeds of the brilliant stars Hudson has carried year after year through the grand circuit have been chronicled in column after column of the dafty.and weekly papers, but little has ever been ritten of the man wh sv marvelous skill and indefatigable industry has made possible the achievements to the credit of the great horses he has had in charge. Among his ff How-drivers his ability is classed in the A No. 1 notch, and it Is common to hear the expression when one of his great horses goes into other bands, "that man has the horse, but Scott Hudson has the recip. ." HudMM was bom in Washington county. Kentucky, in 1870, and is now, therefore, only thirty-four years old. He went from college right to the track, and began his first training operations in lx!n. when twenty years old. Jn MM he was sick the entire MUMM, and that is the only year he has he. n out of the harness. In 1901. 1902 and 1803 he was the largest winner on the turf each season, and during that period he has driven no less than live horses that each have won over $17.000 in a single year. To those familiar with the earning capacity of a trotter or p.iccr. it is useless to note what a successful career has been the lot so far of this blond driver of light-harness horses. To dale lluds.-n has given rccrls to ten horses better than 2:08 and twentvfour cracks have been marked by him in 2:10 or better. The list includes such stars as Audubon Boy. 2:03; Nervolo. 2:04Vi; Twinkle. 2.0b, Hawthorne, 2:0p4; Rythmic. 2:0614; Don Riley. 2:07: Chase. 2:07Vi; Annie Lee. 2:074; Merry Master. 2:074; Banle Flanagan. 2:07; Dr. Madara, Iii; Belle Kuser. 2:08; Jay McGregor. 2:08; Creecent Route. 2.-06; Baron Bell. Iä9; Cgnt. Jack. 2:001; Dillon Boy. 2:I94; King Egbert 2:09; Lena Mack. 2:0t4: Marv lor. 'on. 2:09; Blanche Turner. 2:10: Blase Boy. 2:Ui; Rimer S., 2:10, and The (Jraizer. 2:10. Horses driven by Hudson In the last few years have won two 120.000 prizes, an $18.000 stake and three $10,000 purses, a record in the same period of time never eclipsed by any Iriver. The notel reins-man has this season adopted a new rule with his string, and. Instead of training thirty or thirty-live horses, as heretofore, he has limited his stable to flftetn head, all of which are either stars or creen prospects which have shown their ability to go a mile In 2:10 or better. SEXATOR BAILEY BUYS A KENTUCKY FARM LBXINGTON, K . March 12. -Cnlted States Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Gainesville.. Tex., who has been here for the past few days, inspecting his stable of trotters at the Breeders' Association track, today bought at public auction the Thomas Shelby farm of forty-six acres for $.M. The farm is situated about two miles from this city on the Versailles road, and will be used by Senator Bailey as a home for his select stud of trotting horses. Several prosperous farmers and horsemen were present at th' sah- to bid on the property, but Senator Bailey's bid was the only one made, and the property was knocked down to him. It is considered one of the best sah s of real estate in this section in recent years, and shows that the value of gool land Is on the Increase. Vnnder Mil in ritnd I'rlx. NKW YORK, March 12.-Willlam K. V.inderbilt Is the only American represented in the entries for the Grand Prix de Paris this year. He has made six nominations, all of them being of French breeding, as follows: Promoteur, colt by Little Duck, out of Providence; Calico, colt by Calllstrate. out of Ildico; Bray, colt by Pepper and Salt, out f Biayman; Pay Pream. filly by Saint Pamten. out of Polinka. cq do Fercoq. colt by Achille. out of H Ivette, and Ravioli, colt by Fils de Rol, out of Ravenne. Polinka. the dam of Pay Pream. Is n American mare, bred by the late Pierre Ixiriiiard at Rancocan, by imp. Kortaner, out f Coquette, by Lexington. Before she was export 1 to Krane six threw su h fair performers as the filly Porin'. ly imp The Sailor Prince, and th colt Pdabra. hy Kmperor. Ildico. the lnm of Calico, is also of Itancocas breeding, leing by imp. Mrtemer. otit of Opponent, by Melbourne, jr. In all there arc JJÖ numlnuiloxis for th Grund I'm

Williams Tried to Make a Hamlet in Iowa, hut Made a Very Costlv Failure.

The famous kite-shaped track at IndeI pendence. Ia.. which, in its tlne. has played , an important part in the history of trotting racing in this country, is to pass away, j and instead of contests of speed and endurI a nee the plowman will in the future wend i his weary way over the som-what historic soil. This kitc-shapgd track, the first practical plan for reducing records of trotters and pacers, was the creation of W. Williams, the man who leaped into fame by selling Axtell, a three-year-old trotter with a record of 2:12 to a high-wheel sulky, for $106.000, and who has often been referred to as the Napoleon of the trotting world. And If he was such, Independence was his Waterloo. The destruction of the track will have no bearing on the future of the trotter or pacer. The kite-shaped track with one turn was faster than the track with two turns. The bicycle sulky, however, followed in its wake, and made the oval about as fast as "the freak," as the kite course was called. Williams lost money on his investment, and his idea of holding racing carnivals on Iowa's plains was a queer bit of fanaticism, to say the least. But horsemen who were about in the boom times for trotters will somehow always remember Independence and its kite track. Williams, Independence, was a narm to conjure with ten or twelve years ago. Plainly told, the story runs In this wise: C. W. Williams, a telegraph operator, owned two trotting mares, which he bred to pracUcally untried stallions at William L. Slmmons's Ash CJrove farm, in Kentucky. He raised the foals with care and then "chased his key" and became a trotting horse trainer and driver. The result was a success greater than he had ever dreamed of. Axtell and Allerton w re phenomenons, and horsemen all over the land marveled at the young Westerner and his triumphs. He was in the center f the stage with his two great horses, and for $106.000 he sold Axtell to a syndicate. Everything he touched in the horse line turned to gold. He was the man of the hour. With the fortune he had made from saUes he announced he was going to make Independence "the hub of the horse universe." He would build near that town, which Is on some maps and not on othTs. the fastest track in the world. He would make Iowa and the "rest of the West" the place above all others for raising and racing trotters. He built his track kit-shaped started a bank, a daily newspaper and a hotel. H planted all his new riches in that hamlet. Stakes in those days were profitable. Horsemen paid in entrance fees $15,000 for the privilege of racing for $5.000 of their own money. Boom days they were, ami prices soared high. Williams worked hard and had clever men as lieutenants, but failure stared him in the face in less than two years. Fast ime was made and records were easy. But the public did not travel to Iowa's track. The bottom fell out of the market and C. W. Williams left Independence. He hal lost money big money but wns game, and went to Illinois still true to the trotter. Independence faded from sight gradually and for a few years it has been now and then that the name of the town has 1" en heard. And now the news comes that May 1 the grandstand, stables ami fencing at "Williams's folly" are to come down and a farm will take the place of the race track. Williams is buying wheat land in Canada ami who knows but that in a few years, "the Napoleon." his "Waterloo" and his hirses will be a mere entry to the year book. NEIVS OF THE HORSES. A filly by The Tramp has been foaled byLamp Girl, 2:9. Charter Oak Park is arranging a futurity for foals of lw. Fanny Pillard. 2:03;. will be driven on the road in England. Regal Chinas. by Chimes, is In foal to Oakland Baron. 2:09. One of the fasbst workers at the Buffalo covered track is Pillon Boy, 2:09. Although Sidney Pillon is the sire of the world's trotting queen his fee is only $100. K. E. Smathers has abandoned his auto mobile trip around the world on account of business. Ben Kenny predicts that John A. McKerron will do a mile in two minutes if he does not go wrong. Instead of being sent to England Peter the Greet -:e.7'4. is now in Kentucky at the Raichen Wilkes farm. The new Privlng Park Association at Wellsville. N. Y., is g.dng to build a trotting track to cost ?2U,000. All of the trotters on the farm of the late J. Malcomb Forb'S will be sold at auction, but the date has not been fixed upon. Los Angdes, Cal., horsemen predict that Sweet Marie, 2:134. will sweep everything before her in the 2:14 trots down the Grand Circuit this year. W. L. Wood, Ablngton. Ind.. has sdd the good trotter Coo Onward, trial 2:20, in the hands of Charles S. Osborn, to Float Jolly. Tipton. Ind. Ashland Park, the famous Kentucky stock farm, which was the home of George Wilkes, has changed hands and will be a tobacco farm hereafter. John Splan ts not a man to live in the past. He said reently that Lou Pillon is as much better a hrse than Maud S. as Maud was better than Lady Suffolk. The only foal by Major Delmar, l:5i34. Is a stud colt now three renn old. out of Lizzh B.. by Deucalion, IA He la owned by Pr. W. F. Jones. Ticomleroga, N. Y. Charlie Pöble has sveral good ons in his string this year. His record horses are Annie M.. 2:10Vfe; Guy Caton. 2:10V; Lltile David. 2:19'4; Media, 2:19'4, and Boaz, 2.2iV4. Commodore. 2:23. a thirty-year-old American trotting hors is still racing and winning In ÜM antipodes. He is now going under the name of Jock, and at Queensland beat some of New Zealand's best. A trotting hors- rat ing at thirty years is almost Incredible in this country. One of the finest small stables in the country will be erect, d at Washington. N. J., by John C Weiler, the well-known horseman, who is about to undertake some novel experiments in breeding. The stable will cost upward of $30.000. and will include many features of stahl' equlprm-nt entirely new. Mr. Weiler will also at the same time erect a spacious cottage after plans now In preparation. The house will be fitted throughout with modern heating and ventilating apparatus, which will be connected with the stable underground. JoeUey Ketlfern's Apology. Jockey Redfern's relnstatment was brought about by his clever apology in writing, which was as follows: "To the Judges of the Los Ang des JockeyClub: "I respectfully ask for clemency In the ruling you have made against nie for refusing to obey your onlers to ride the mare Laureata. The only reason I refused to rhle the horse was because my father bold me not to ride her. I have alwavs h en taught to ohy my father, and t. believe that what he told me to do was right. "I realize now that h- was wrong in telling me not to ride the horse, and that I w as w rot u; In beying him rath. .- than fOtt, But I am only a b iv eighteen years old, and I expect I only did what mst every other boy wiuld have done under the same ciruinstances. In all my rldliiR on the turf I have never been In any trouble of any dePcrlption heretofore. I sincerely apologize to you for the error I committed this time, ani 1 hope u will frgtvc me for it." önitnni Wn 1 0 u. School No. li l -k. ib.ill team yesterday defeated .No. hi' a score of 11 to 10

Hayes Potter in Front in Commercial and Minton Leads the Druggists.

Jesse Pritchett rolled in good form in Friday night's Indianapolis bowling league series and as a consequence he now tops the L B. L. men with an average of 188. Brinkmeyer. of the Washingtons, is second with 187 and Ray, of the same club, is third with a 1S average. Twenty of the Indianapolis leaguers are In a class of 180 or better. Lee Graff, of the Rambler club, leads the Independents. He tops Lincoln Pickey, of the Alcazars, by a one point margin. Plerkes. of the Royals, Is third, averaging 182. Hayes Potter, of the Pettis team in the Commercial League, is first with an average of 180. Peacock, of the Burfords. is second with 178 and two men are tied for third place with 171. Minton. of the Ell Lillys, leads the Prugglsts by a good margin. He leads with 163. Blair, of the Lillys, and Hook, of the White Elephants, are tied for second with 154. Buddenbaum and Lee, of the Log Rollers, are the first men In the East End League. They lead with 187 averages. Keeter, of the Rivals, is second with 181. The averages: Player. Club. Games. Av. iTltchett, Ko-We-Ba 66 Brinkmeyer, Washington 69 Bay, Washington 55 Coffin, Marlon 53 Bryson. Marion 65 Buddenbaum, Washington 66 Holloway, Turner ; 66 Field. Turner 65 M. Levey, Marion 57 Burton, Ko-We-Be 66 Bomb. Turner 69 IVa. nek. North Ride 68 F. Mueller. Ko-We-Ba 60 W. K. Cooper, Imperial 69 Yorgcr. Turner 66 Leap. Marion 63 Carter, Marion 66 Fehrenba'h, Turner 69 Pecker, Imperial 69 Wands, Ko-We-Ba 64 IRS 1R7 I185 185 1S5 K! 183 183 183 k: 1VJ 182 1S1 180 180 180 in ISO i Independent Leane AreraffN. Player. Club. Games. Graff. Rambler 60 Pickey, Alcazar 18 Plerkes, Royal 35 Pwelle. Rlnky Dink 12 Schmidt. Alcaxar 27 J. Brady, Alcazar 41 Sachs. Royal 65 Wickard. Royal 44 Goebel, Pewey 9 Rassfleld. Rambler 63 Av. IKS 181 181 Iva 180 17s rn 177 177 177 176 176 175 171 174 174 173 173 113 172 171 171 171 171 170 17' 170 If roalel. Royal .... Fox, Prospe t Buzatt. Alcazar .. Malsoll, Rambler . Fa i ley. Alcazar .... ComatoclL Alcazar 47 69 63 69 49 L'6 H. Holtman. Reliance 65 Brien. Kinkv Pink 66 Kerling, Pud-No 21 I. Holtz. Reliance 39 Nellus. Rinky Pink 33 Ressener, Rambler 60 Mueller, Rambler 48 J. Crh-wicz. Alcazar 69 Bnslew, Rinky Pink 54 Wiley, Pewey 11 Niemann, Rambler 66 Coninierelnl League Averages. Player. Club. Ganes. Potter. Pettis 66 Peacock. Burford 68 Kirkwood. Kingan 65 Evans. Burford 61 Rosendal, Burford 61 Holtmann. Lanrie 63 Wimmer. Kingan 69 Brady, Kingan 69 Sanagan. Kahn 48 Bramlt. Kahn 68 Wallace, Kahn 25 Gruner. Iaurie 69 Purman. Begtt 69 Harms, News 42 Gough. Kingan 41 L. Colder. Marott 65 Brown. Marott 68 Av. 180 178 171 171 170 170 164 163 Mi 15: 159 158 157 IM 156 l.v, 155 155 155 154 154 IM 152 152 152 151 IB 150 1Ü0 M Klttrick. Pettis Mueller, Kahn .... Jordan. Kingan ... O. Cobler, Marott Btsloff, Burford ... . . 69 . 66 . 60 . 47 . 50 . 65 . 55 . 4v . 63 Powd, Burford Ib'izer. News Fisher. News Webster, Burford Marriott. When Harding. News Miller, Kingan 58 11 liniuuisis' League Averages.

Player. 'lab. Games. Av. Minton. Eli Lilly 42 163 Blair. Eli Lilly 45 154 Hook. Whit- Elephant 42 164 Patesman. White Elephant 48 153 Pennicke, Eli Lilly 45 152 Bassett, White Elephant 30 152 Adams. White Elephant 45 151 G. Mueller. V. B 30 150 MorrisiU, White Elephant 45 149 Ziegler, White Elephant 48 149 Stockman. Ell Lilly 36 149 Zink. Eli Lilly 44 14X Purvea, Kieferette 45 147 Phclan. White Elephant 45 146 Korn. Eli Lilly 27 146 O Leary, Eli Lilly 36 146 Btlpher, Y. B 45 145 Marshall, Kieferette 45 145 Wrede, Y. B 48 143 Miller, Kieferette 45 142 Klint End I.eaffiie ATeraRri. Player. Club. Games. Av. Buddenbaum, Logroller 38 187 Lee, Logroller 15 187 Keeter, Rival 12 181 Buzzart. Volunteer 24 180 H. lt man. Capitol 15 130 Brinkmeyer, Capttol 33 1T7 Kirkwood. Capttol 21 177 Plerkes, Volunteer 13 177 Hughes. Regular 15 U6 Brady. Volunteer i 12 175 Seay, W. O. W 21 175 Ra, Capitol 36 174 Boyle. Volunteer 51 170 Brinkman. K. B 47 170 C. Kirkhoff. K. B 9 168 Heller, Capitol 28 166 C W. Piel. Capitol 23 165

M. T. II. S. Average. Played. Av. ...60 .165 Pickey. Ikkioko Schmidt. Ikkioko 56 Schwab. Ikkioko 60 Knox, Freshle 57 Murr. Manchu 45 Ayres, Manchu 42 Alnm. Ikkioko 58 Hirschmann. Freshie 46 .165 .163 .MO .158 ,1W .151 .14.1 WORTH W ILL HOLD IX FIGHT FOR DATES CHICAGO, III.. March 12.-"It is actually laughable to tliink that the Western Jockey Club stewards could imagine that the Worth race track would be opened this year on the dates assigned us by that body." said J. El. Wagner to-day. "The stockholders in the Worth track are all In favor of holding out in the fight against the action of the Western Jockey Club. If any member of the company weakened and expressed a desire to accept the dat s assign d us, the r t of the stockholders would buy him out in a Jiffy. It is fur principle we are fighting. If we gave In now. they would give us even worse treatment next year. "If the horsemen about the ciuntry were not afraid of the Western Jckey Club, which body owes its existence to the turfm ii. Worth would run an outlaw meeting. Let a bunch of th big owners offer to run their horses at Vrth at an outlaw meetIng, ,.nd the Western Jockey Club would Luv-k ui in its position very uuickU."

Successor to Braden 4r Buskirk.

INTERESTING GOSSIP OF POLO IN THE TWO BIG LEAGUES Manager Wilson Says Logansport wtll Not Be Dropped by the Central Fort Wayne to Tour Canada,

Western League Games This Week. Monday. Indianapolis at Muncie. Elwood at Anderson. Tuesday. Marlon at Indianapolis. Anderson at Elwood. Wednesday. Marion at Richmond. Thursday. Indianapolis at Marlon. Richmond at Muncie. Friday Munde at Elwood. Richmond at Anderson. Saturday. Muncie at Indianapolis. Elwood at Richmond. Anderson at Marion. Central Lengrne Gnmea Till a Week. Monday. Lafayette at Terre Haute. Danville at Fort Wayne. Tuesday. Fort Wayne at Kokomo. Terre Haute at Danville. Wednesday. Terre Haute at Iafayette. Logansport at Fort Wayne. Thursday. Terre Haute at Logansport. Kokomo at Panvllle. Friday. Kokomo at Terre Haute. Logansport at Lafayette. Saturday. Lafayette at Kokomo. Fort Wayne at Logansport. The topic foremgfct in the minds of the many polo lovers throughout the Western and Central leagues is, "Who are the real dictators in the game of roller polo?" Some declare that the league officials and team managers have the say and there are others who declare that the players themselves are the real dictators. That the league managers in reality have very little to say has been proven many times this and last season. Numerous instances can be cited where the players have come out flat-footed and refused to obey the orders of their employers. The polo players of both leagues wiil say that they have never received better treatment than has been given them while they were in the West. Still there are some who are always looking for more and will risk a blacklist If there is any chance of helping themselves by this method. This cannot be too strongly condemned. The magnates of the two leagues pay the players their salaries and it :s now up to the club owners to enforce any rule they may make. Indianapolis lovers of polo are raising no howl over the fact that Nick McGllvray will continue with the Indians as first rush and captain. That Hipson in condition could play the game as it should be played has never been disputed. He has failed to make a wonderful record while a member of the. Terre Haute club for many reasons. The Arst is that he disliked to go to a minor league. It was a great drop for him and he probably went to Terre Haute hoping to get into the big Ieaguc within a short time after the opening of the season. Another thing which is perhaps the main reason that the ex-Indian has not played his game this season is that his knee and ankle have been injured. However, it will be remembered that the same wily Hirson missed many games here last year for the same identical reason. He is fast enough for any of the Western league clubs, and he is reported to have had an offer from one of the magnates of the National League that is to be for next season. Manager Fraik Wilson, of the Logansport Central League team, was in the city last week and stated that the many stories which have been flying about to the effect that the City of Bridges was to be dropped from the Central League next year were without foundation. Mr. Wilson said that his club was a good drawing card all over the circuit, notwithstanding the fact that it holds the bottom rung of the championship ladder. Logansport ranks third in attendance In the Central League. Wilson Is always on the lookout for new players, and one new face may yet be seen with the tail-enders before the close of the season. Speaking of the close of the season, there Is Just one month more of the present schedule. Indianapolis is still in last place, but the Indians have an excellent chance to get out of the position they have held for so long with Captain MeOllvray playing a cover-point game. Picky Pierce can always be depended upon to bring the ball down for a pass no matter how strong the defense. Allle CoggshHll has again taken his old place at center. O'Hara and Bannon are also in shape and the three h -dense men are playing a great game. Thfans should not yet lose courage. Stlk to the playing and they will yet put forth their best efforts to win. Second Rush Otis Spencer, formerly of the Grays, is now with the Fort Wayne team, of the Central League, having been exchanged by Manager Sebern for Izzy Whipple. Siencer was one of the cleanest players in the game, and a perfect gentleman off the floor, and many local fans have expressed their sorrow that the speedy little rusher will not be seen here again this year. The wonderful work of Spencer will long be remembered by Indianapolis fans. and he will make the Central cane Kuardians hustle for stops. W hipple is too well known to the local fans to need any comment. He was with the Indians for a time last year. Captain Clarence Jessup. of Rlehmoml. was fined 15 by Referee Moran during the progress of the Marion-Richmond game played In the former city on Thursday nlKht of last week. Jessup deliberately seined the referee by the at collar ami shook him for calling a ful on the scrappy goal tender. If Levi Foster was a referee ami the goal temler of th- "Fighting Five'' would use such methods. Foster might forget himself. Such tactics as are continually used by Jessup will not help the name. Tom Murphy, of Logansport, has all the minor leaguers "buffaloed." Murphy mail, an unenviable reCQfid as a scrapper while a member of the Andersn W stern League club. Howtver, this year he has played clean polo unless some of the other players start.-d dirty work, then "Fighting Tom would get busy with his ftsts. Polo managers ar- condemning Manager Joe Fx. of Marion, for using Lyons at half back in a recent game against Richmond. While it is true that such action was in direct violation of the league's rules it is improbable that Henley protest against the outcome of the game will 1 aland, us Fox made th. sutemtnt thai u

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had used srery effort to borrow a utility man from one of the other Western League clubs. The night following this game Marlon used Lemmon. a one time Central Leaguer, and the Wuakers won by a wide margin, the game being playd in Marlon. Richmond always has a kick coming. The Auditorium rink, in this city, will 1 opened for public roller skating for the first time to-morrow afternoon and many of the old skaters will doubtless be In attendance. Two hundred pairs of new model skates have been received by the local management and the members of the local polo team will act üb instructors until S o'clock, when they will leave for Muncie. Several of the Central League cluba have been fiven sweet sounding names by the polo writers in that circuit. The peer of all is the appellation under which the Kokomo five is known. They are dubbed "Barnes s Menagerie of Trained Wild Cete." The Terre Haute quintet bear the title of the Hottentots and Mr. Foor's Danville team is known as the "Suckers." A Fort Wayne exchange says: "Surface indications point to the conclusion that there is something radically wrong with the Fort Wayne team. From playing polo of the championship variety the team has fallen into a rut In the last three weeks and is dealing out the same brand as it played early in the season with no rink for practice and the players idle half the time. As a pennant proposition Lafayette is not now dangerous, as a spurt, the like of which is not In polo history, would be necessary for that club to get the Central League bunting." 4 There is a great deal of speculation as to what kind of a record the Anderson Ave would have made this season, had they not been badly crippled at divers times. That it would have had a better percentage than It now has is conceded, but there are few who will contend that Anderson would have been a championship possibility. Anderson, with no bad luck, might have finished in the first division, but It Is hardly probable that It would have landed first place. The Panvllle team, of the Central League, is playing a great game. In Daly and Campbell, Danville has the best, if not the fastest pair of rushers in the Central. Whiting and Hardy are playing an excellent game at center and half back, reapectlvely, and Wiemert is putting up a faultless game at goal. That "Gloomy Gus" Campbell Is plenty fast for major leagues was shown at Anderson Friday night, when he helped Norton's men to defeat Muncie. If the spurt had not started so late Panvllle might yet be a championship possibility Moran and Had ley seem to have been the drawbacks for a winning combination In Panvllle. While Whipple was yet a Central leaguer he was roasted unmercifully for playing dirty polo. Kokomo papers handed It to him in large chunks, and to get even the Fort Wayne papers started the anvil chorus on "Ikey" Houghton, formerly with Richmond, and now with Kokomo. Houghton is as large as a fait -sized flea, and the idea of his playing dirty polo against man the size of Phil Jason and Whipple is laughable. Houghton won several games for the Quakers when the latter team played against Indianapolis in this city. The Logansport Journal has it all figured out that Logansport may yet finish fourth. What a lovely dream. e The longest overtime game yet played in the West was won by Muncie on Thursday night of last week. Elwood losing by a 4-to-3 score. Elwood has never been an easy proposition for Muncie to solve, and at times has administered defeats to Petty's men when least expected. Thursday night's game broke all records. The game waa played In Muncie. and only a fatr-slsed crowd was In attendance, the official marks sent out saying that a total of 900 spectators witnessed the contest. Polo fans in Kokomo and Elwood are watching the work of Goal Tenders White and Cashman closely. Manager Sebern, of the Tin Plate, town, and Manager Barmes. of Kokomo, decided that a new face on each team would help the attendance. The upshot of the meeting was that Peggy White, once the iuvtncible, was traded for Mickey Cashman, who made an excellent record while guarding the Racine cage last year. White has failed to make good In Kokomo. and the polo lovers are asking for the return of Cashman. The letter has more than made good in the Wintern League, and Elwood fans do not want "pretty Peggy" to return. Both managers agreed, when the trade was first talked of, that if either man failed to put up a good defensive game, that he should be exchanged at any time the manager saw fit. Kokomo fans want to know if Manager Sebern will consent to the return to the former city of Goal Tender Cashman. Right here is a quiet tip. Manager Sebern. of Elwood. is one of the squarest magnates in the game to-day and will live up to au contrac t he makes. It is being intimated that a shake-up of the Marion team is coming even at this late date. It la not known Just where the ax is going to fall, but it is said that the fall is sure to come, sooner or later. Joe Fox was asked by a Marion reporter to deny or affirm the report, but the crafty leader of the foxy five merely smiled and r fused to confirm the story. Fox has something up his sleeve, and when he shakes hi sleeve something is going to fall 'I here Is somethitiK wrong with the M : n i k'v relation somewhere, and It ia I i- ved that Manager Fox has It located. f President Mart Norton, of the Wester League, has come out with a statemeut that the proposed National Roller Polo League will not be a winner, and also that n xt year the Western League will have a compete ill set of referees. This sounds like ancient history. Th. Fort Wayne t?am of the Central league may t ur Cauada. Arthur Irwiu. pcesideut of the Toronto (Cask) team of the Eastern League, has a plan on foot wherehv he will i:itrduce roller jo!o in several Canadian cities. His plan is t take two polo teams and play of games la Toledo. Detroit ami C cities In southern Csnad tests in the armories aud other club is to be pi- k. .1 anavan. of Fort Wayu tars of th. Central L an . i reat frle ietatlj lntrestii in tt being au en-pota player. made at the clse of tl League, season if the eland and the , gl v lug the conlockej rinks. Tha iy Captain Jimmy from among the igue Irwin and ds and will be veuture. Irwin The trip will be ' present Central aus do not