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Show RIGHT OFF THE BAT. Alvarado. the shifty Mexican who put Kid Broad on the blink at Bingham some time ag-o, is out with a challenge to the winner of the Sullivan-Lewis match here the week of the 10th. Though Peruna was barred. ... Nels Nelson, father of the Bat, is director direc-tor of a bank In Hegewlsch, 111. The son Is also doing right well, thank ye. . Hugh McGovern. brother of poor Teddy, knocked out Billy Madden of Chicago the other night, In the fourth round of a six-round six-round go. 'see Pittsburg moneyed men are touting for selling pools on the races. Must have made theirs that way. - Louisville merchants want the thirty-day thirty-day spell of racing cut down to ten or fifteen days. Must have lost on mudlarks. And thla in Kentucky!" The sun eure do move. . . Twice in the same place Frank Gotch, champion heavy-weight wrestler of the world, lost to Charlie Olsen of St. Louis at Cincinnati. 'Twas a handicap match-fall match-fall In fifteen minutea or lose. And Frankle lost. . Beals C. Wright, at one time champion tennist of the world, is matched, together with Karl K. Behr and Ray Little of Noo Tawk. t meet all challengers for the international cup. . . J. W. Hanes. S. Spits and L. Laurie put the roller under other bowlers on Crown alleys last night, and won the round trip tickets to the bowling congress at Denver Den-ver next week. If Kid Bernstein doesn't watch out he'll step on his tongue and choke himself to death. He's also likely to get his dial cracked If he goes up agin Ernest Wright, champion of Murray, on the 12th in Murray Mur-ray opera-house. Well the kid needs the money he's hitched. Get a reputation, and you'll get all that's comln" to you. That's the. way high school basketballers feel these days as they pat themselves on the back and see themselves climbing up the backs of the East Denver bunch, who had the nerve yesterday to challenge our boys. The match game may come off the latter lat-ter part of this or the early part of next month. The Denver lads claim the championship cham-pionship of the middle West, and think they're some pumpkins. ... This is another case of if with' a capital capi-tal "I." If the Central A. A. U. board decides that the local Y. M. C. A. basketball basket-ball bunch Is entitled to play in. the coming com-ing championship matches at Chicago, our lads will get a hump on themselves and do things to those near-champions, the Crescents, who came here, saw and didn't conquer. The match will come oft about the middle of this month, and If everything la well, our boys will leave for the windy city about the 16th. ... Hugo Kelly, the Italian with the Irish name, and Tommy Ryan, fought a draw at Rochester last night, after six rounds of playing. Australia's the place for real sport. Think of a crowd of 1S.O0O people going to see that chunk of tar. Jack Johnson, colored heavy-weight champion of America, Ameri-ca, pound the eternal sawdust out of one Lang, a bloomln' colonial of Victoria. But you can see a prize fight In the colonies for two bits. Here It costs about (5 to get in and a blamed sight mora to get out. Out of. the seven-game woman's chess championship series mt New York, Mrs. S. R. Burgess of St. Louis, won the second sec-ond and third games from the champion, Mrs. C. P. Trey of Newark. Thought chess was a silent game. , Company M baseball team forfeited the first baseball game ef the season to the regular Fort Douglas team Sunday, by a tie score of J to 8, the former bunch refusing re-fusing to play on. Challenges are out to meet any team In the city next Sunday at the fort. Roy Caatleton went to Atlanta. Ga., yesterday, because he wanted to be In time to join In the spring practice of the New York Americans and Vause Atlanta wouldn't come to him. John Rooney, German by suppression, a Chicago copper, walked all over Leo Pardello of New York and Italy last night in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match in the city by the lake. |