Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — ODD & ENDS OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ODD & ENDS OF SPORT

Philadlepbia Jack O'Brien and George Gardner have been matched to fight at Louisville. The $20,600 paid for Dan Patch (2:04,4) i* one of the greatest price* ever paid for a pacing stallion. Tommy Feitz, who appears to be Harry Forbers’ closest rival for bantam-weight boxing honors, is a pupil of Terry McGovern. - New Y’ork having passed a law declaring pigeon shooting illegal in thia State, New Jersey and Delaware, it i* said, will follow suit. During the fourteen years Jake Beckley has been a professional ball player his batting average haa been .311. Thia la a most remarkable showing. Jem Mace, the old-time EngHsh boxer, who long held the title of world’a champion, La still bale and hearty and 1* now conducting a boxing school in London, Frank Erne, the popular Ilght-weighA champion, will not be able to appear in the ring for some months owing to the fact that he fractured two rib* in hl* recent go with Gua Gardner in Chicago. Torn Burna, the old Chicago third baseman, who died the other day, was a member of one of the cleverest quartet* known to the game—Williamson, Burns, Pfeffer and Mike Kelly, writes Tim Murnsne. Never before or since was such a team together a* those four. Havana, Cuba, will ultimately be the Mecca of th* cycle racing men each winter, providing tbe preaent plana of the Board of Control of the National Cycling Association do not miscarry. The arrangements for the construction of a cycle track in Havana are now being made.