Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1895 — Page 9
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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY; AUGUST 3. 18951
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ports
It l« settled bjr this time that the Valkyrie III is to carry the British colors In the international yacht race for the America* Cu P- In deep-sea trim, she Is somewhere on the bosom of the broad Atlantic at the present moment, headed for these shores—and may the winds ami waves treat her kindly. It is not so sure, however, that the costly Defender will be the defender, after all. She has failed to show herself a much superior boat to the Vigilant, and was undoubtedly beaten in the strong wind of July 21. It is said that her steering gear got out of order—she has a complicated set of machinery rigged up in her stern with which the big rudder can -be handled more readily. The press report of the race •ays: "The yacht Is steered by two •mall wheels that work together on several smaller wheels. These work on two shifts, one inside the other, and it Is thought that the Inner became hot and choked." In other words, there w is what is known among railroad men as a "hot box,” which seems sufficiently ab•urd In connection with yacht sailing. Aside from this mishap, the Defender was beaten. She crossed the line shortly after the Vigilant, and was unable to •hake her off. Another thing Is that the Defender has never been officially measured, and her real-rating le not known. This being so. It, of course, can not be known to what •mount of time allowance the Vigilant (which is certainly a lower-rated yacht than the Defender) should be allowed. It Is already being hinted that the Vigilant has not had all the time allowance she is entitled to, and that, as a matter of fact, she won the first and third races, as well as the one where the accident occurred. The excuse for not giving out the measurements of the Defender is that the Herreshoffs do not want Watson to know more about the Defender than can possibly be helped, but this excuse does not amount to much when it is remembered that the Valkyrie in is increasing the disUnce between herself and the Clyde every minute, and could not be changed now, however much her owners desired. If the Defender is to prove the better boat, it is time that the public was knowing it. If tbe Vigilant is the better boat, it Is she who must defend the cup. The Vigilant successfully defended the cup last year, •nd there are a large number of yachtsmen that believe that she can beat any boat on the same lines that Watson can build. The talk In base ball clrcles is about the outlook for Sunday base ball for next season. There are some clubs that claim they can hardly exist without the Sunday patronage, and there are many clubs against Sunday ball. It is argued that a team that plays ball on Sunday can not do as well duriftg the week, and that from' this standpoint—the wearing out of players—Sunday ball would be a bad thing. It Is also said and with some show of reason that many people who can go to see the game on Sunday do not care to go during the week days, and that from a boxoffice standpoint It is not altogether a good thing. The Eastern clubs are all arrayed against Sunday ball, and the Western clubs are at present talking of compromising on a 25-eent admission to the week: day games.* The Indianapolla ball club did not do so badly on its recent trip. It did no as well as the ultra-enthusiasts expected or hoped, but It did well enough for a l4am that had a little bad luck. It won 50 per cent, of Its games, and that Is about all that can be expected of a team away from home. Kansas City did better than this on Its trip away from home, but then Kansas City has been playing phenomenal ball lately, and has been going along at a gaU that it will find Imposible to keep up for the rest of the season. In the parlance of the bleachers, "It will strike the toboggan •oon." Then If Indianapolis has held its own, it may increase its lead in the first place until the pennant is assured. Terre Haute and Grand Rapids serai to be fighting hard for the last place, and it is about an even thing at presept, who will get the ••booby’* prize. ^ ' The days In the ring of that once great light-weight pugilist. Jack McAuliffe, are •bout over. The report Is that he is getting so fat that he Is already in the heavyweight class, and he himself has said that he would not try to train Into condition except for the purpose of meeting Griffo, the young Australian, who Is now languishing in Jail. Even at that, the match, if It were made, would have to be at catch weights, for McAuliffe could not possibly get any lower in the scale than 146 pounds. McAuliffe has never ben defeated In his life, and he has had some hard tussels in the ring. He Is the last of the great trio to pass out of the life of the ring. There were the three Jacks, and they were all good ones—John L. Sullivan, heavy* weight: Jack' Dempsey, middle-weight; and Jack McAuliffe, light-weight The first has passed out of it altogether, the •econd Is broken down and 111, the third is getting too heavy for his trade. All three of the men were good livers, lovers of Ufa as fast as It could be had, and they burned the candle at both ends. All three of the Jacks made money with their fists; not one of them was able to lay it by. Boxing was in its hey-dey while they were in the ring, and they were the best boxers of their time. , * Base-ball is taken a great hold in England and is becoming a popular game. It will probably never oust cricket, but •Ticket is • game with more or less aristocratic tendencies. It takes .time to play a game of cricket, and busy people can not afford to give up more than two hours or so to reproation of that kind. For that reason base-ball is becoming popular among the majority in England and oricket is gaining ground In a few of the Eastern cities of this country. A possibility of the near future Is in- * ‘‘ - The English sportlt, and urging that teams be organised, one England, one Scotland and The purpose is to have this country and phiy York, Boston Pbllhave the National cities visit Eng- . The scheme is aght of by the Eastern base-ball men. It will be a good thing for both countries to increase the number of international sporting •vents. - ■ ' One of the hardest things to get any real information about is the big fight that scheduled for October SI, at Dallas, Tex. Elm, one man says the tight bhall not take place, then there is a decision that under the law It can not be prevented, and so the fighters and the antifighters keep pegging away at one another until the man who wants to see the fight does not know which way he will have to tarn his steps. There is an expression of confidence among sporting men in tbe ability of Dan Stuart and Joseph Vendig to do what they start out to do, and It will certainly not be well to have a mishap occur at the last moment. There are plenty of places in the tJnited States where the fight can be interference, and if that the Texas offlthe place of meeting It will do great hand If the holders of worth of tickets to the y their money and take the be disappointed, t, It seems that
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and positive statement, officially made, would set the gossips at rest ami would increase the sale of seats.
InTke Ring
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The leading sporting event of the year i will be the pugilistic battle for the heavyweight championship of the world. The match was made October 11, 1894. when : Champion J. J. Corbett signed articles to ■ fight Robert Fltsslmmons for 110,000 a side, ; and the largest purse offered. The moment articles had been signed andsthe forfeit money on each Side was posted, the talk of the fight began, and It has been growing day by day until in the matter of interest it eclipses any other event in the sporting world. It took a long while for the two men to get together. There was
little over one week, and already It is reported that 245,000 worth of seats have been taken. Not content with the Corbett-Fltzsim-mons attraction, Stuart and Vendig decided to make the event a pugilistic carnival. and to that end other purses have been offered for matches between Billy Smith and Tommy Ryan and between Peter Maher and Steve O’Donnell. Aomission to these bouts will be at reduced rates. These fights will take place on the day succeeding the big fight. Recently there has been much talk of the impossibility of the fight taking place in Texas. Governor Culberson, of Texas, issued a proclamation declaring it unlawful to fight for a prize in the State, and the Attorney-General of Texas declares It to be against the law. Other well-known lawyers In Texas, consulted by the Florida Athletic Club, declare that there is nothing In the law of Texas to prevent the fight, and the preparations have not been delayed. It is generally believed that Stuart and Vendig have not gone as far as they have in the matter without being quite sure of their ground. The FiRhtera In Training;. Both pugilists are already in training— not doing a great deal of hard work, but enough to keep them from getting rusty.Corbett is training at present at Loch Arbor, where he has a pretty cottage and a gymnasium. He is being trained by Jim McVey, and he has Steve O’Donnell for a sparring partner. His work at present includes running,, walking, handball, base-ball and bicycling. Beside these he, of course, wrestles, punches the bag and spars with O’Donnell. Quite recently he took a nasty header from his wheel, but he escaped serious damage. His training quarters are in the rear of a pretty cottage, in which j lives W. A. Brady, his manager, and the • champion Is looked after by Brady as | such a valuable piece of property de-
Smith. of Salt Lake City, in four rounds. In 1886 he defeated Billy Welch, champion middleweight of the'Arie! A. C.. for • a gold medal, in four rounds. Billy Welch fought him again, but was knocked out In one round. In 1887 he knocked out Jack Burke, at the Olympic Club, in eight rounds. In 18*iS he defeated Frank Glover In three rounds. In 1889, May 30, he fought Joe ChoynskI, near Fairfax, for $1,000 a side. The fight waff with two-ounce gloves and was stopped by the police in the fourth round. June 5 the men met again on a barge near Benecia, CaL Corbett weighed 180, Choynski weighed 172. ChoynskI wore skin gloves. Corbett two-ounce gloves. Patsy Hogan was the referee. Corbett got the decision in the twenty-seventh round.
! March 2, 1892, he knocked out Peter Maher before the Olympic Club, New Orleans. The fight lasted twelve rounds, and Fitz- , slmmons was the favorite. He scored*! knock-down and first blood in * the first round. The fight was for a purse of $9,090 and a side stake of $1,000. In the same j year he beat James Farrell. Newark, I twelve rounds; Joe Godfrey, Philadelphia, ; two rounds; Jerry Slattery, New York, | two rounds, and Millard Zeuder, Anniston, Ala., in one round. March 2, 1893, he : knocked out Jem Hall before the Crescent City A. C. for a purse of $40,000. 1 JGtzsimmona weighed 167; Hall weighed • 163M;- Fitzsimmons was seconded by Martin Julian, Frank Bosworth and Bill FltzI slmmons. Hall was seconded by “Squire” Ablndon, Charley Mitchell and Jack McAuliffe. The betting was 10 to 9 on Hall,
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JAMES J. CORBETT.
much talk about It pro and con, and when everything seemed settled Fitzsimmons found some difficulty in raising the necessary amount of money for his stake. He raised !t at last through the help of friends who believe In his ability as a fighter and some where in the United States or out of It the battle for the world’s championship will be fought for October 31. As soon as articles had been signed for the fight offers of purses from various clubs poured In upon the managers of the tyro pugilists. They came from all over the United States, but as a matter of fact there were not half a dozen that could really be considered seriously. There was an offer from the San Francisco Athletic Club, one from the Crescent City Athletic Club, and one from the Duval Athletic Club of Jacksonville, and one from the Florida Athletic Club. The last offer was the best, but a difficulty presented itself. It was known to be almost impossible to pull off another light in the same State where Corbett had defeated Mitchell, and the Florida Athletic Club had to seek a
serves to be. Corbett has ah Intense hatred for Fitzsimmons and Intends to pound him hard—if the lanky Australian will let him. This feeling is looked upon as dangerous by the friends of Corbett, who remember that he nearly lost his battle with Mitchell by fouling him when he was down. Corbett expresses entire confidence in himself, and wishes the fight
were to be to-morrow.
Fitzsimmons is in training at * Coney Island under the shadow of the big elephant. He has a cozy place fitted up by his wife, who was formerly a member of the variety company of which Fit* was the star. His wife’s brother, Martin Julian, who has managed Fitzsimmons Shrewdly since he has been in this country, is with him and watches hla training with a solicitous eye. Fitzsimmons is said to be improving wonderfully, and to even things up between himself and Champion Corbett he Is putting on more flesh than he usually fights with. Bob Is an untiring Worker and still does a little
blacksmithlng once in a while. His favorite sport at present is bicycling, and not to let Corbett get ahead of him, he
ROBERT FITZSIMMONS.
also took a header from his wheel, without senous consequences. Fitzsimmons announces his intention of staying near
. p»r. •I; j SSL Ihen K'Viiia
site for the contest. It was soon decided that the headquarters of the club would be moved to Dallas, and when a new offer
was made of I
fight before the Florida Athletic Club in | Sin*
Dallas the offer was soon accepted by
both men. ~ ‘ ■ c
The Clab’M Arraasrementn. The Florida. Athletic Club owes the fight to the energy of Its president and treasurer, Dan A. Stuart, and to the “hustling” ability of Its manager. Joe Vendig. As soon as the light was assured, these officials Invited plana for an amphitheater, and made every arrangement for the fight.
Corbett’s Record.
James John Corbett was born In San Francisco. September 1, 1866. He went to school at the Sacred Heart College, San Francisco. When he became a man he thought of taking up base-ball as • professional player. Instead, he accepted a position In the Nevada National Bank. He was always a boxer, and after he Joined the Olympic Athletic
A plan was finally fixed upon for an j Club, he soon took the amateur ch&m amphitheater with a Seating capacity of . pi on ship. His first professional fight was 52.815 persons. The frame-work *f this j with David Eiaeman, whom he disposed large building is now being raised. There j of in two rounds. In 1884 he defeated will be in it 22,069 unreserved, seats. 17,688 i Duncan McDonald, of Butte. Mont., in reserved seats, 2.406 seats In boxes and 652 ! four rounds. From that time up to 1886 seats for reporters. Reserved seats cost \ he defeated successively Mike Brennan diagram of seats has been on exhibition a I William Miller in sU rounds and Frank
July lo, ne oesiea Joe Choynsi Francisco, In four rounds. July 29, he fought a draw with Dave Campbell, Portland, Ore., in ten rounds. It was said that Corbett had the best of the bout, but had agreed not to knock Campbell out. On February 18, 1890, he won from Jake Kllrain on points with five-ounce gloves, before the Southern A. C. The match was for $3,500, and lasted six rounds. April 14 he won from Dominick McCaffery tor the gate receipts in four rounds. May 21, 1891, he fought a draw with Peter Jackson, before the California A. C. Corbett weighed 182, Jackson weighed 198. The match was for a purse of $8,500, with $1,500 a side. The contest was declared a draw in the sixty-first round, and each man received $2,500. June 26, of the same year, he sparred with John L. Sullivan, in San Francisco. October 8 he won from Ed
Fitzsimmons knocked out his old adversary in the fourth round. March 25 he knocked out "Tough” Warner, of Buffalo, in one round. September 5 he won trora Jack Hickey, of Ireland, in three rounds. June 17, 1894, he fought a draw with Joe
frey, of Philadelphia, In one round, and got no decision in a bout with Joe Lannon. March 15 he made a match with Sullivan. On June 26 he first took to the stage, appearing In "Sport McAllister.” September 7, 1892, he defeated John L. Sullivan In twenty-one rounds. Corbett weighed 178 pounds, Sullivan 212 pounds. The fight was for a twenty-five-thousand-dollar purse and $20,000 stake money. It was before the Olympic Club, New Orleans. Fiveounce gloves were used. Bat Masterton was time-keeper. Corbett got “first blood,” In the fifth round. Sullivan was the favorite in the betting three and four to one. February 24, 1893, posted money to fight Charley Mitchell. July 11 signed articles to fight Peter Jackson for $10,000 a side in
CORBETT’S TRAINING QUARTERS.
JOSEPH VENDIG, Manager Florida A. C.
. Choynski at catch weights. The fight was in Boston, and the police interfered. Five rounds were fought, and Fitzsimmons had the best of it. July 28 he knocked out Frank Kellar, of Michigan, in two rounds. September 26 he knocked out Dan Creedon before the Olympic A. C., New Orleans, , for $4,000 and a bet of $1,000. This, his
last fight, lasted two rounds. Mensurements of the Men.
Comparisons are odious. Not only that, when it comes to fighters they are valueless. A good deal has been said about Fitzsimmons giving weight to the champion, and it may be that he will give away a few pbunds, but he has ad-
fjuunua, uui ne nas au-
a jfe°knocked rat Charfey Mitcheffb?- vantage3 ’ from a fi * hter ’ s standpoint, that fore the Duval A. C., Jacksonville, Fla., i 'J' 11 * make UD ^ or a11 l° 8es * Bes 1 - for $5,000 a side. "Honest” John Kelly ’ that. Fitzsimmons has been putting
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riled
referee. The fight lasted three rounds. April 12, he sailed for England. September 7 he knocked out Peter Courtney, of
scope. Fitzsimmons's Record. Robert Fitzsimmons was born ih Elston, Cornwall, England, June 4, 1862. He was taken to Australia while quite young.
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DAN A. STEWART. President Florida A. C.
and grew up an Australian. He got little education, and was apprenticed to the trade of blacksmith. A fine blacksmith was spoiled to make a fighter. His first appearance in the ring was at Timarv, ! New Zealand, in a competition opened ! by Jem Mace. Bob defeated four men in j the same night, and at one stroke won the amateur championship of New Zea- | land. In the same competition the next year (1881) he bested five men, one of them being that noted fighter. Herbert Slade (the Maori), the only native fighter that Australia has ever produced. Among his other undated Australian performances are: Beat Jem Crawford in threfe rounds, Bill Slavin in seven rounas, “Starlight” in nine rounds, Arthur Cooper in three rounds. Jack Murphy in five rounds, Brinsmead in two rounds, Jack Greentree In three rounds, Dick Sandall (for the championship of New Zealand) in four rounds, Conway in two rounds. West in one round, Pablo Frank in two rounds, Jack Riddle in four rounds and Pat Eager In two rounds. In 1889, December 17, he won from Dick Ellis, of New Zealand, in Sydney, In three rounds. February 10, 1890, he lost to Jem Hall In Sydney in four rounds being knocked out. May 10 of that year he arrived in San Francisco on the Zealand. May 17 he tried out at California A. C. with Frank Allen, and broke Allen’s
FITZSIMMON’S TRAINING QUARTERS
wrist. May 29 he beat Billy McCarthy, of Australia at the California A. C. for a purse of $1,250 in nine rounds. June 28 knocked out Arthur Upham (154 pound limit) for $1,000 before tbe Audobon A. C.. New Orleans. The fight lasted five rounds. January ,14, 1801, he knocked out Jack Dempsey for a purse of $11,000 and a side bet of $1,000. which was the largest purse ever offered up to date. This was the battle for the world’s middleweight championship. Dempsey was the favorite in the betting. Five-ounce gloves were used and Queensberry rules prevailed. Fitzsimmons knocked Dempsey down in the third round, got first blood In the fifth. The fight lasted thirteen rounds. April 28 he knocked out Abe Cougle in Chicago in thirteen rounds. May 1 he won a fight from "Black Pearl” in Minneapolis in two rounds. July 22 his match with Jem Hall, at St. Paul, did not take place, and the Minnesota A. C. forfeited $3,000.
Besides
flesh rather quickly lately. Not ths^t saggy fat around the abdomen that tel s of the decline of a fighter, but good, solid
the
not be
the way. Corbett is the Ideal
man as the physicians measure man. His arms outstretched measure exactly the same as his hlght. This Is not true of Fitzsimmons, whose arms outstretched measure 3H inches more than his hight. The following figures show the exact measurements of the two men: ~~ Fltsslmmons. Corbett. 5 ft. 11% in .Hight...11 11. l in. 32 years Age. 29 years 170 pounds ...Weight 185 pounds 15 in Neck 17 !n. 39 in Chest (normal) 38 in. 44 in Chest (expanded) 42 in. 29 in Waist 33 in. 20Vi in Thigh 21 In. 13% in .Calf of leg: 14Vi in. 6 ft. 3V| In..Arms outstretched 6 ft. 1 in. HVi In....... — I.,.Biceps.. i4Vi In. lOVf’ln Forearm 11 Vi in. 6Vi in...;,..........Wrist 6Vi in. 9 Size of glove 8
....Size of hat 7Vi Size of shoe 8 probable that every city of any
size will send its quota of spectators to the big fight. Arrangements are being made In this city for an excursion train to the scene of the fight, and it is expected that fully one hundred people will
go from here.
Pugilistic Punches. A match is being arranged between Tom Cooney and Jack Smith’s “un-
known.”
Eddie McConnell’s bag punching challenge has been taken up by young Cohen,
of Allegany.
Joe Betrand has matched to fight Frank Maclewski, of Cincinnati. The fight will
be at 119 pounds.
Ed Gorman and Jim Welsh, lightweights, are trying to arrange another
match for $1,000 a side.
Billy Gallagher is in training and says he is willing to meet any 140-pound man.
He has plenty pi backing.
John Maher, of Washington, D. C., offers to bet $5,000 even that Corbett wins in fifteen rounds if the men fight. Young Griffo, the Australian pugilist, -is still in Jail in Brooklyn, and his friends are trying to raise the money to get him.
out.
Mayor Stoy, of Atlantic City, has shut down on boxing, and no further engagements need be made for the paying summer resort. The London Referee says that the stopping of prize-fights in America Is largely a question of money properly or improperly tendered the police'. Dutch Neal and Danny Needham have put up all the money necessary to bind a match between them. The fight will take place near St. Louis. Marty McCue, of Philadelphia, and Joe Mullin, of Boston, are to fight fifteen rounds at 128 pounds before the King Philip A. C., of Providence, August 12. Peter Maher wanted to have a go with Joe Choynski recently, but “Parson” Davies, who is managing Joe just now, thought he had better try for better game. Tom Sharkey, “champion of the American navy,” knocked out Billy Smith, of Australia, before the-Selma A. C., San Francisco. The fight lasted seven rounds and was fierce. Tommy Dixon, who has been matched to fight George Dixon for $2,500 a side. Is a New Zealander. So far the Suffolk A. C. of Boston has made the best offer for the fight. The hew boxing club In which Tom O’Rourke, "Parson” Davies and Jim Kennedy are Interested is to be called the Electric. It will be opened with the Handler-Lavlgne go on August 26.
doe in v thi will be managed by W. A. Brady. There is talk of pitting Valentine against Jack McAuliffe at Dallas. Mobile has come forward with an offer for the big fight in case anything happens so that It can not be brought off in Texas. Alabama has no law against fighting, and the citizens are anxious for the crowd. Bud Renaud, of New Orleans, is looking after the Mobile end of it
ATHLETIC
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Balns.
Sydney A. Noon, one of the best cricketers In Ni*w York, died last week. The Indiana Homing Club announces open sweepstakes for pigeon fanciers. The all-around American professional 135 yard handicap, will be run at Newark
on August 5.
able, the club will not know what th« entrance In each class will aggregate until the first of next week, as many of the entries will come a long distance.
word to be av man, but was sound of the cat
friends say that he got fully awake by the time he reached MUlersvUle.
tall Taylor, the colored rider of slis, won the ten-mile race of tss Cycling Club (colored), in
Coleridge’s Fast MU*.
Cleveland, O., August 3.—The Indiana
pacer Coleridge showed wonderful speed in the unfinished 2:20 pace here yester- ! °M?- He made the run In 27:M, which Is
A r... . day. He won the first heat In 2:tiV4 j 5t! d16 the ra,te,t tlm ® by OM of
A citizens purs© for si 100-yard foot-rac© , ^ — j th» in y.ra,c©* H “ n,y '* ,r | - r I -""-Sr-
if the Univer- ! J" 2.07%. The 2.13 trot was easily won friends say that he finds the street too
all eleven, is : by Benzette, chestnut mare, by Onward, j
i in straight heats, in 2:09%, 2:10% and j
G. Homrighausen, of Philadelphia, won 1 2:09%, Geneva being second and Atlas j
prizes valued at $816 at the First Interna- third. The 2:17 trot was unfinished. Pen-1 tional Shooting Festival of America. j elepe winning the first two heats in 3:12% i A wheelman ran Into the daughter of
Albert Ivins, the futurity winner, and f n nd 21 2 3u^ n a
Leonard Flnlette. of PhikdelDhia, will ; Hate ^allamont the } street. He knocked the child down and shoot a match at 100 birds for $250 a side, fifth and sixth in 2.12%, 2.18%, and Colonel was proceeding on hts way when Mrs.
Ex-Captain A. A. Knipe, of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania foot-7>a summering at Lake George.
won erna-
'ork. The match is mixed, consisting of ! through the home stretch, with Frank ll ‘t,* > *f.rty ol young people took a raoouide hold, Graeco-Roman and collar and , Agan, In 2:06%. Vera Capel, who wen two i^ n t .il de f £" rf h Ibow. The match Is for $250 a side. | heats, cot second morev. and Frank $ars i ty* p^jc. “ ^ up per w aa^ate iTsT • * - ’
Bremmerman’s. The party included
Tyers, the champion swimmer of England, beat his own record this week at the Brighton baths. He covered 500 yards
in 47 2-5 seconds.
Ernest Roeber and Duncan C. Ross meet in a wrestling match to-night in New
Yorl ~ ” 8
side
elbow. The match Is for $260
Experts In Track events say that Yale is certain to win the high jump, long Jump, and weight and hammer throwing In the Cambridge-Yale events. It Is predicted that Yale will win the competition by one
event.
Arthur E. Foote, manager of the Yale foot-ball eleven, says that there is no chance of a reconciliation between Yale and Harvard, and that there is no chance that the teams will play foot-ball together
this year.
A party from the Caledonian Quoitlng
Kuser the seventh in 2:13%.
The Joliet Races.
Joliet. 111., August 3.—Fidol won the fifth and deciding heat of the unfinished free-for-all pace, aftir a hard drive
Potts hooked her umbrella In his hind wheel and brought him to the ground, wheel and all. There was an Indignant • wheelman, an exasperated mother and an Injured child. The wheelman was riding
on the sidewalk.
A party of young people took a roooo-
heats, got second morey, and Frank Agan third. Electrophel won the two-year-old trot in 2:25% and 2:27%, with Silver Lake second. The 2:20 pace was won by Allene In 2:11%, 2:14% and 2:14%, with Dyers second and Duchess O’Neil
third.
A Doable Team Record.
Decatur, 111., August $.—In a trial of speed at the race-track, in the presence of a large crowd, Effie Powers, by Anderson Wilkes, owned by Brenneman Bros., and
Chib^composed of Gric^GauTd, A^Tay S - i Pestora Wilkes, by Reglie, owned by R. lor, J. Henderson, J. Coutts and J. M. i Montgomery. Paced * mile as a team Clark, go camping Monday morning for Q ".eatj^ ^Uie world s record
two weeks, on White river, five miles
above Broad Ripple.
Fred Roeber, of New York, arrived In the city yesterday and says that he wants to get on a wrestling match with Charles Richards, of this city. He wants to
s. The part
Meek, Grace Myers, Kjatharine Cl Lotta Dinwiddle, Amelia Chumy, Bistline. Addle Wallace, Mary and Lilly Oakes, Maud Fulmer, Grace Taylor. Jas. Daugherty, Clarence Meek, Harry Fletcher, Earle G. Robbins, Will Clap, C. H. Cobb, Eldon and Walton Dynes, Richard Tuttle, William Cleary, Charles Obold.
Notes of the Track. _ I Aileen, 2:07%, is the champion four-
year-old pacing mare.
„ _ Larabie, 2:12%, is the fastest new 2:80
wrestle Graeco-Roman'style within three trotter of the year. He is but three years
weeks. He would like the match to be before some athletic club, but If that can
not be he expresses his
old. The
1
to fly at Terre
_ . ... Pd .. iWI ■■■■RRPratt; MU/liMpii .... _ .. he expresses his willingness to ; Haute next week, when the horses gather
wrestle in public for $250 or $300 a side, from all corners.
He is willing to post a forfeit as soon as
Richards'can be heard from.
Among the track athletic events to come are the Labor Day carnival of the New Jersey A. C., the Amateur Athletic Union games, September 14; the International meeting between the athletes of the London A. C., and those of the New York A.
Rubensteln’s fourth heat in 2:06% is now the champion performance at that stage of a race. W. W. P., who chased Fidol out In 2:06%, worked an easy mile in 2:06 two days later at Freeport.
H Coleridge is now thi fastest horse wear-
C., September 21; the fall games of the : ing hopples, his mile in 2:06% taking the
New York A. C., September 28, and the Canadian games at Toronto on the same date. One week later, on October 5, the international championship meeting will take place between the Yale and Cam-
bridge teams.
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PACER5
Year by year harness racing comes closer to the maximum cT speed. This maximum is largely an unknown quantity, but it Is certainly not the maximum of the speed of a trotting or pacing horse, when a mile In two minutes has been performed. The ultimate speed of the trotter has worried not a few, and one student of the subject, by a logarythmlc process, reached the conclusion that in seventy years a horse would trot in 1:42. With such speed so remote, the enthusiast in light harness racing can only look to the speed of the day for digestible thoughts. And while this is toeing done, there is no name that stands out so pre-eminently as that of the gigantic Whips gelding, Azote, who only last Thursday trotted in a race with Hulda and Ryland T at Cleveland and won the first heat In a jog, pulled up by hls driver, In the fast time of 2:Q6%. Just a year ago this month Azote started in the 2:10 class at Terre Haute. It had rained and there was no footing on the four-cornered track, except that at the extreme outside of the track. Even there it was heavy. Notwithstanding these impediments to a fast performance, Azote trotted on that track, while there was an oppresive atmosphere, in 2:09%. He lost full five seconds by having to
take the outside of the track.
This year the big horse la the king of the Salisbury string. By many he is accounted the greatest trotter out. Last year he disposed of every horse that he raced with, except Pamlico and Trevillian, but hls losses to them were explained by the fact that he hit his leg and was not able to trot his best. His best race was at Lexington, where he won the Transylvania stake in the fast time of 2:08%, and distanced the dead Ralph Wilkes, 2:06%, In the first heat. This year Azote came over the mountains with little Directly and the rest of the Salisbury stable. Including the trotting queen Allx, 2:08%. Many feared he would not be equal to the free-for-all demands. First he met Directum, the
record from Stathberry, 2:08%.
Symboleer, 2:11, the champion two-year-old pacer, worked three miles in 1:11%,
2:12 and 2:12% at Joliet this week.
Onoqua. 2:09. Is the first 2:10 trotter whose sire had a record below 2:15. Her sire was Keeler, whose record Is 2:11%. Horsemen agree that there are too many ambitious mushroom meetings this year and entirely too many stake events
on the forfeiture plan.
WHUams’s Galesburg meeting, ad infinitum, Is not taking with horsemen. It was too much like a poker game, where
Williams took the "rake off.” .
The Northwestern
The Indianapolis base-ball club was defeated yesterday simply because It was "up against" the best pitching seen here this year, that of young Goar, of tha Terre Haute team. But four safe bite were made off him, and the Indianapolis players were, as a rule, not- able to hit the ball out of the Infield. Mots got one safe and lined two others out Into fielders* hands. The home team was weakened by the absence of Canavan, whose sister Is dead, and Hogriever. whose right hand is so sore that he can not grasp a bat. Young Donavan, a local amateur, was put In to play second, and after he got over his "stage fright" be gave a good exhibition. There is, apparently, good stuff In him. Indianapolis got but one man to first base in six innings. In the seventh, hits by Mots, McCarty and Hogan.
a sacrifice by Woods and a drooped ball by Carney gave ^ HrastorTtEft only,
runs. N
With an erratic flsld behind him, I Chauncey Fisher gave a fine exhibition
■■ ■ m I i of pitching, and the visitors should havo The Northwestern Breeders Associa- , 8hut ^ The attendance was about t*°n iB 1 - 200 - and the umpiring of Sheridan was John R. Gehtry, Robert J and Joe Patch- aot ^ afl ^ Th UrB ^ ay . The score:
fen, to take plac« August 19 or 20, at the
Chicago meeting.
Mikagan, the Indiana sire. Is the first one this year to gain two new 2:10 performers to his list. They are Frank
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Bicycling
Charles Craig is at Rome City and Is touring the surrounding country on hls Horace F. Haynes is training to take part In the fat men’s road race to be neld soon. Weatherly, of England, covered a quarter of a mile In 26 4-5 seconds, making a new record. George Pangborn is summering with bis wife beyond Broad Ripple. He rides to dally on bis wheel. Fred Titus, of New York, and H. Maddox, of Asbery Park, have been matched for a ten mile race. Mrs. John T. Dickson. Edna Kuhn and Charles Ruschaupt mad* a run to Mllltrville during the week. John E. Gllckert, Jr., and George Brown, rode from this city to Dayton. O., to twelve hours, Thursday. W. J. Harrington and Emil Fessler have made several runs to Broad Rlppl* before breakfast this week.
McCarthy, If 3 Hogan, c£ 8 0 1 1 9 1 McFarland, o 8 0 0 6 1 0 Fisher, p 8 0 0 0 1 8 Totals ...” ..$1 T 4 34 li 1
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Hartman. 3b
Weddige, cf Carney, lb .
Gallagher, ss
Roach, c . Gifforci, rf
Goar, p 3 0 Totals 33
Indianapolis 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 O-a Terre Haute I 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 •—* Stolon basee-McCarthy, Hogan, Caitiff. Sacrifice hits—Wood. Hartman. Double
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champion trotting stallion, and defeated Qh/o^nd Kentucky t aoon th gh 1 d ** him with ridiculous ease. Then he met ! Dmo ftnd Kentucay soon. the world beater. Fantasy, 2:06. He gave j The latest local fad in men’s bicycle her a terrible defeat and reduced hie dress Is to tuok the bottoms of ths record to 2:07%. Again he met Directum, | trousers into the stockings. and again the once invincible stallion j w. W. Wlndle, the old amateur raoer went down. There remained but one, | an 4 record holder, is said to be thinking then, for him to conquer, and that one | 0 f getting on the track again. wa ? IhI Trr^i^nvUnd^T'at H Cl^elaSd! i Frank Ferguson, bookkeeper for the and the erratic Ryland 1 at Ueveland, | Van Q^p Company, take* a ten-mil* ^ e<ln i!fi 8day ’ial n ^. I 8 P ,n every day after office hours. down bl anS* to "now the monarch oF the j Arthur Gardiner, of Chicago, at present uown, ana w unw_ e - ''.—I a man, gives promise of pushing
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“Eat ’em up, Cookie,” with his hood and goggles, Is the meteor of the track this year. He la the horse Klamath, sired by the unidentified Moorookus, whose speed is as the depth of the muddy waters—unknown. “Cookie” has not been beaten since he met defeat at the hands of Azote in California last winter. It is believed that Tom Raymond, who drives him, knows how fast the gelding can trot, but he has never been let do his best except in the battles In the home stretch. Klamath has a long route to go yet before he Is done with hls engagements, and it may be that the once despised gelding (for hls owner once despised him because he was easily defeated In 2:20) will meet horses capable of making him fight it out with old Father Time. A week from next Tuesday the Indianapolis races will begin. One of the first races to be called will be the 2:18 pace for a stake of $1,500. This class will Include some of tbe fastest horses out this season. Probably the fastest is the bay mare Aileen, 2:07%, by Gazette, 2:09%. she being the second performer In 2:10 whose sire was also a 2:10 performer. Aileen took this record hi her race with Afrite at Freeport. Sir Edwin Arnold is another fast one, as he drove Miss Williams out at Janesville two weeks ago in 2:10%. and beat her tbe next two heats. Judge Case, 2:10%, Is also in this class, and so is' the fast mare Prairie Lille. 2:11%. Besides, there are others that have the speed, but have not yet started, who will begin their work in this race. The entries to the six class races for the Indianapolis Meeting closed last Thursday. As entries mailed on the day of closing are, under the rules accept-
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to the front in the bicycling world. Mrs. Grove L Greene and Miss Esther Black will make the run to MartlnavUle to-morrow, returning by moonlight The tow path along the canal incline* toward the water, and more than on* careless rider has taken a wet header. A. A. Hansen, the long distance ridar of Minneapolis, will try and lower tha twenty-four hour record at Syracuse. C. E. Coffin and Walter H. Eastman sometimes take a twelve miles spin out West Washington street before breakfast. Dr. Waterman says that riding a wheel has cured his rheumatism, and he is thinking of recommending it to hls friends. Dr. Roll rode tils wheel into the small of the back of 8. E. Trusler this week, and both men fell in a heap. Neither was badly hurt. L. D. Cabanne is suffering from the effects of a bad fall received at Asbury Park, and he may not be able to race DR. for some time to coma Wallace Smith and Earnest Earl, of the ^ New York store, will start on their wheels ’ to-morrow morning for Chicago. They expect to arrive Monday evening. A. T. Quick and F. W. Samuels ran to Plainfield last Sunday and visited the Reform ScbooL They are organising a party to repeat the trip to-r E. C. McClelland, of Pittsburg, a 1 pion runner, offers to run half while any wheelman to the a mile. He is willing to bet Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Sinex, Bray and Mr. Howard Brown dianapolis Wednesday morning rived at New Albany Friday at They report the roads in fine c Mrs. Carlton, Miss Louis; Mr. Woods and John arrangements this week to. l„ leravllle for breakfasL Mr.
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