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SPORTS

PACKEY WILLING 10 BOX GIBBONS Local Fighter, However, Demands St. Paul Man Make 142 Pounds.

Packey McFarland, the south side fighter, returned to Chicago yesterday from New York, where he defeated

"Harlem Tommy" Murphy in a ten-

round bout before the Fairmont club

last Friday. He

Manager Emil Thiry and Trainer Ike Bernste in. The local battler said he would not entertain any offers to meet Mike Gibbons, the St. Faul welterweight, unless the Gopher fighter agreed to scale 142 pounds at 3 o'clock. Packey said there would be nothing doing if Gibbons insisted On 145 pounds at the same hour. McFarland also said he would meet Jimmy Clabby at the same figure. "I do not intend to take on any of the heavy fighters in the welterweight class unless they make 142 pounds at

waukee November 3. before Tom Andrews' club in the Auditorium. PI lion

has started training In Indianapolis.

The club has ordered its advertising matter and the arena is being renovated.

Now along comes Mr. McGoorty and

deposes as follows to manager and promoter:

"Youse guys don't seem to appreciate

what a big card I am. Did I not

punch holes in that tough Dutchman

Frank Klaus, for the edification of

several thousand fans a few weeks

ao? Did not Klaus trim Billy Fapke

and Georges Carpentler? Yes, he did

That makes me the champion and the

most important middleweight In the

ring. "Now what I want to say is this

t You are giving me only a paltry 30

ner cent of the gross gate. I want a

Captain and Star Back of Purdue Eleve n

guarantee srentleman. and a substan-

was accompanied by J tial on(, ..

Twirling his cane and looking dig

nified at the same time, Mr. McGoorty

awaited their reply. Said the promoter: The Promoter Replies. "Edward, you overestimate your importance. Do you remember when

I Jimmy Clabby cleaned you in Butte?

Yes? Did you notice that George Chip, a comparative unknown, knocked out this tough Klaus party in the sixth round the other night? You only got a shade decision over him. No, Edward. 30 per cent is enough without a.

; guarantee. You'll draw a big gate

3 o'clock." Packey aaid. "I am not a I anJ TOake enough kale to buy the best full-fledged welter and I will not take; business block In Oshkosh. This is

short time ago he should be able I pasping for all ce off an extra pound to fight me. ! .

any chances of being beaten by meet

ing fighters who are pounds heavier. I made 137 pounds for Murphy and it took little effort on my part to make this poundage. "If Gibbons or Clabby want my game they will have to make the weight. I am willing to meet any fighter in the world over any distance at this weight. If Gibbons was down to 143 pounds when he boxed 'Spike' Kelly in Keno

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I don't think Clabby can make 142 pounds, but if he can I would like nothing better than to box him any number of rounds. "I have no matches scheduled. New York promoters want me to meet Freddie Welsh or Leach Cross. I am willing if they make proper inducements. The Ritchie-Cross fight on Tuesday night is attracting a lot of attention in New York and it should be a great fight. I am not going to fight again until after the holidays unless something worth while turns up."

final."

"Nothing doing," said McGoorty. "I want the 30 per cent, about a $1,500

guarantee, the peanut privilege in the

arena and the sandwthch privilege on

the special train from Chicago. Other

wise, I will not fight. So long, gent

lemen."

Whereupon the great middleweight! strolled nonchalantly away, leaving T.

Effervescent Walsh and T. Andrews

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in the contest with Chicago today. When the football special reaches Chicago the Purdue rooters will be ready to wager even money that Coach Smith's men defeat the Maroons. Never before were the Purdue students and the rooters so confident of beating Stagg's men. It is estimated that 2,000 people will leave here on the special football train.

PLAYER BADLY HURT IN GAME Wichita. Kan., Oct. 25. Robert Burgess. 20 years old, one of Fairmount college's star line men. was seriously

hurt in the game with Southwestern 1

: college yesterday. He was still un- j j conscious last night at a hospital. i T'hl'stftlflna not -in innnncicinn f I

; the brain and his recovery is doubtful.

YALE CREW RACES ".- PRINCETON TODAY

Oarsmen to Establish New

Angle by Holding Autumn Regatta.

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er, made a perfect bowling score of 300 points last night on a local alley.

ftVGOORTY IS HOLDING OUT FOR GUARANTEE Oshkosh Scrapper Not Satisfied With 30 Per Cent ' Privilege.

LONG HITS BY SOX

BEAT JSIAT1TS, 8-5

Terrific Slugging Delights

Crowd of 3,500 Fans at Blue Rapids, Kas.

Eddie McGoorty wants to make a fortune In a night. He allows "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" will have , nothing on him. His manager, T. Effervescent Walsh, signed articles binding the Oshkosh Irishman to box Jack Dillon at Mil-

Blue Rapids, Kan., Oct. 25. Warm weather and tremendous enthusiasm greeted the White Sox and Giants yes

terday when they arrived here to play the seventh game of the trip around

the world- Most of the people in three

counties assembled for the noteworthy

event, about 3,500 being present. They

crowded the little ball park, hung on

the fence like fringe, and peeked

through all the knot holes. The Sox won the game, 8 to 5. From early morning, when the tourists' special train pulled in, until It

departed last night the town was a

moving mass of baseball fans. At noon

all the stores closed and the schools

dismissed the pupils. Every one was

congregated around the city square, and It was declared the biggest day the town of Blue Rapids ever had.

The special train arriveed a little

ahead of schedule time, but the reception committee was not caught unawares. Twenty-five motor cars were

at the depot, and all the tourists were driven around the town and out into the country while the natives looked

on in admiring wonder. Thorpe, Russell and Mathewson were the athletes most sought by the townsmen, as they

had been specially advertised.

The country folk swarmed into the

town early in the morning. They came in automobiles, top buggies, milk wagons and lumber wagons. It was estimated that 500 automobiles were in

town, and Main street "resembled" State street In Chicago.

Soon after lunch a band appeared in

front of the hotel and led the parade

of motor cars filled with athletes to the ball park. All the other conveyances followed.

CHICAGO TO MEET REALjOE TODAY

Eckersall Predicts Close

Score When Msxoons Tackle Purdue.

Princeton, N. J., Oct. 25. Oarsmen of

Yale and Princeton will establish a

new angle in intervarsity rowing his

tory when the two eight-oared shells

meet in a dual autumn regatta on

Carnegie lake this afternoon.

Boat races between the crews of the

two universities are not events confined to modern athletic history, since

the sweep swingers of a generation

ago matched rowing skill and stamina, but a varsity boat race In the late fall

Is an innovation between the New Jer

sey and Connecticut colleges.

The race, which was rather hastily

arranged, marks a departure from the

Yale policy of last season when no preliminary contests were attempted

previous to the four-mile race against

Harvard at New London. Although it has been decided to continue the Eng

lish stroke and coaching system at

Yale for another year it was thought

that better progress could be made if one or more minor races were sched

uled before the Harvard oarsmen were

met in the long row over the Thames

river course next June.

Owing to the short period of prep

aration since college opened, nothing startling in the way of speed or row

ing technique is expected. Neither

college was ready for a race, and

Princeton's acceptance of the challenge was merely to secure a similar contest with the Ella next spring, when a third college will be invited to form a

triangular regatta.

YANKEE ATHLETICS DISCUSSED BY DIEM Berlin, Oct. 25. A campaign to arouse interest in the Olympic games

to be held here in 1916 waa inaugurated last night in a lecture by Carl

Diem, general secretary of the Olympic games. Herr Diem told of the recent trip to the United States of the

Athletic commission, of which he was a member. He described with unmixed praise conditions in the United. States and said they were an example for Germany. A large audience listened to the lecture. James W. Oerard, the American ambassador, was . tha guest of honor.

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rUT TOUR TIMES.

WANT AD IN TETB

New York promoters to match Packey

with Mike Gibbons, as the latter side

stepped the matuh.

Clabby Announces II In Wllllngnem.

Yesterday Jimmy Clabby, who fights In the middleweight ranks, although

he can still cale the 145-pound ring

side notch, said he was willing to take

Gibbons' place against McFarland, If

the St. Paul boxer refused to make

that figure. Clabby says just as soon

as he gets through boxing Frank Lo

gan at Coffroth's San Francisco arena,

Thanksgiving day, for a aide bet of $2,000. he will be ready to tackle the

Chicago stockyards wizard.

The pride of Hammond says he can

make 145 pounds with ease, saying

that he has been giving away weight

to the heavy fellows. He is boxing

Logan at 158 pounds.

Clabby thinks he can beat McFar- ROLLS PERFECT SCORE

land if Packey makes 145 pounds ring

aide and he wired Billy Gibson, the

Madison Square promoter In New York,

to that effect yesterday. Nothing would please Clabby better than to pit his skill and science against Mc-

farland at 145 pounds.

A battle between these two men.

who are considered the cleverest and

most scientific boxers In the ring.

would surely prove a battle royal. Al

though neither has been very success

ful In the knockout ranks, they have administered severe beatings to the

best of them in their respective

classes.

Minneapolis. Minn., Oct. 26. Fred

Kindler, a Minneaoolis amateur bowl-

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With western football fans display

ing keen interest, the advance sale of tickets assuring a large crowd, and a close and bitterly fought struggle anticipated, a replica of the famous Chicago-Michigan games will be staged this afternoon on University field when Chicago and Purdue meet in one of the

crucial contests of the western football season. Not since 195, when Chicago defeated Michigan in the historic 2 to 0 game

has so much interest been shown In the outcome of a game which means the elmination from the conference race of the loser and a stride nearer the coyeted goal for the winner. With victory in the balance a game replete with sensational and hard fought football should result. Represented by a team which is rated aa the strongest in the history of the institution, the Boilermakers arrived In Chicago yesterday fit and ready for the fray. The players realize how much is expected of them, and they are prepared to put up a battle of which Purdue alumni and undergraduates will be proud. The coach and players are aware they are in a position to bring the conference championship to the university on the banks of the Wabash and nothing will be left undone to accomplish that end. Coach Smith will send his men into the battle to use every formation and trick they have learned since the season opened. Nothing will be kept under cover, as the Boilermakers' hardest future opponents are Illinois and Indiana. On the other hand, Coach Stagg cannot allow his players to use all the weapons of attack in their repertoire, unless necessary, as Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota will be

met in the future.

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RIPON ELEVEN WINS. Ripon, Wis., Oct. 25. The Ripon col

lege eleven waa an easy victor over Northwestern of Watertown yesterday, winning 31 to 3. Ripon played straight football and easily outclassed

the visitors at every stage.

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FOOTBALL SECOND

TO LIFE SAVING

Washington, D. C, Oct. 25. Assist

ant Secretary Newton of the treasury

department has refused to intercede with Capt. Jensen of the Chicago life saving station for Carrol Dwlght Hale,

the Northwestern football player.

Capt. Jensen nas Inrormed the assistant secretary that he cannot af

ford to let Hale play football, as he is

short of men and the time taken for football Is Just the time Hale is most needed at his work. The officials here regret that such is the condition, but as it is they will not interfere. "

COE DEFEATS CLARK. Cedar Rapids, la., Oct. 25. In a slashing game Coe defeated Leander Clark yesterday afternoon, 13 to 0. Bailey and Parke starred for Coe. This puts Coe In the lead for the championship of the Iowa conference. Allen, tackle on Englewood's championship team of several years' ago, played tackle for Leander Clark. Coe directed all the, plays against him and he came out of the game a wreck. During the last quarter he could hardly stand.

CLABBY MY

BOX

PACKEY

How does this sound to boxing enthusiasts? James Clabby versus Packey McFarland. 145 pounds, at Madison Square Garden, New York. The above card was made a possibility yesterday by an announcement made by James Clabby. Packey to Make 145 RIna-nJde. Last Tuesday Packey McFarland, the premier 133-pound lightweight

boxer, announced that he was willing

to make 145 pounds ringside, thereby assuring himself battles with numerous lightweights.

An unsuccessful effort was made by

NO WEST VS. EAST CONTEST Madison, Wis., Oct. 25. Dr. George W. Ehler, director of athletics at the University of Wisconsin, today put to sleep, as he expressed it in a speech before the athletic council, the idea of a post-season game between the east and west to decide the national football championship. Dr. Ehler expressed the opinion that there was nothing for a western school to gain and everything to lose in such an engagement and he thought the matter had been thrashed out and definitely settled last year.

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