Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1908 — The Sporting world [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Sporting world

“Spika* Robson After Attell. Frank 8. ("Spike”) Robson, the English featherweight, who arrived In New York recently, wants to fight Young Erne, Tommy Murphy, Owen Moran, Tommy O’Toole and if possible Abe Attell in a finish fight. “I claim the featherweight chaoiplonship of England,” said Robson, "by virtue of having beaten Johnny Summers, who beat Driscoll, conqueror of Bowker “I maintain that the limit of weight for a proper featherweight is 126 pounds, and at that weight Lwill take

on any man In the world from twenty rounds to a finish for $5,000 aside, and I have backers who will put up the money at any time.” This is “Spike” Robson’s third visit to America. The first time here he fought Young Erne, Tommy Murphy and Abe Attell. Robson says American sporting writers formed the habit of calling Bowker Jem Bawker, but that his correct name is Joe Bowker.

Erne Teaching Parisian* to Box. Having shown so marked an Improvement in athletic sports, the French now intend to reach out for honors in that peculiarly Anglo-Saxon game wherein the padded glove and the squared circle form the main implements beyond the human fist and skull. Frank Erne, who at one time was American lightweight champion, is teaching the art of “stop, block and get away” to Parisians, and he declares they take to the game like a duck to water. The American says he has some pupils who show championship class, and in a few months more of practice he expects them to go out after scalps. When they do, declares Erne, they will make the English and American fighting men sit up and take notice. It will be queer to see a French champion pugilist—but, after all, why not? We have a French golf champion, a Russian wrestling champion, Belgian rowing champions, and, come to think of it, the present heavyweight boxing champion, Is a French-Canadian with a Scotch nom de guerre. King Edward Ha* Great Two-year-old. Commenting on the two-year-olds In King Edward’s stable this season, an English turf writer says: “Of the two- 1 year-olds Perrier will, unless I am much mistaken, turn out by far the best. He Is framed on grand lines and has all the good points of a race horse without being of quite the same handsome appearance as his sire, Persimmon, who got him from Amphora. Too big to be trained on the hard ground during the summer, he was still backward when late In the autumn he made his one and only appearance In public In the Dewhurst Plate, and, although beaten by Rhodora, he ran so well and finished with such dogged determination that the hope is justified that he has only to make ordinary improvement to be capable of taking high rank among the best of the aspirants to classic honors this season, a consummation devoutly to be hoped for.” Mi** Sutton Won’t Travsl. Miss May Sutton, woman tennis champion, will not go to England this year. She declares that if the defeated English net stars desire to win back their honors they must come to the United States to get the chance. It is now a question as to whether the British women are as* game as Miss Sutton and whether they will come to thia country. Loving Cup For Ganzel. One of the big things planned for Cincinnati when the Reds open the season at home is the presentation of a loving cup to John Gansel, the new manager. In about three months from the opening the fans may want to present John with a hook. —— - Yankee Steeplechasers In Big Stake. Foxhall Keene has nominated two American bred racers for this year’s Liverpool Grand National steeplechase to be run on Friday, March 27. The entries are the chestnut mare Chorus, by Chorister, out of Helena, and the bay gelding Prophet.

“SPIKE” ROBSON, ENGLISH FEATHERWEIGHT.