Show two wonderful records two wonderful records have recent ly been made in the athletic world the more impressive being the halt mile run of frank parsons of yale who covered the ards on a board track in the wonderful time of 1 5 within one second of charlie kilpat rick s record of 1 54 parsons feat Is even greater than that of kilpatrick in view of the fact that the yale man was compelled to run on a hard sur face from which he could secure no possible spring had the race been run on a cinder path it is sate to say parsons would have done 1 52 another feat that has astonished the athletic world was that of ralph hose the new michigan shot putter who hurled the twelve pound missile 6 feet 3 inches after his record BBS announced saturday night he made a speech saying he would beat the record of 48 feet held b horgan of ireland chess players D vided money it has leaked out that baroczy marshall gunsberg marco and the competitors in the first tourney at monte carlo not sat isfried with the manifestly unfair dl vis on of the prize money of some S francs by which 5 were to go to the winner of the contest and the balance to the rest entered into an agreement prior to the beginning of the play to divide the money on a more equitable basis accordingly when the prizes a ere awarded ma doczy gave up 1 50 francs of his 5 retaining I 1 for bi in this way received 1 as second prize winner marshall 1300 gunsberg and marco swid erski the received nothing expects 0 35 thirty five seconds Is the figure set by barney oldfield in an attempt to be made on the mile auto record at ormond beach in april wlliam vanderbilt jr holds the present rec ord at thirty nine seconds and old field counts upon lowering it full four seconds information has been received from the winton motor car company stat ing definitely that oldfield would make the trial using the bullet no 2 for the effort since this machine brol e down at ormond during the five mile championship race it has been at the factory being overhauled it is now ready and each of the eight cylinders are working like a charm fitzs hirsute van ty like all great men bob mons is not exempt from small van ties As every one knows he has about as much hair as a freshly laid egg but with all the keenness and alertness of his steel gray eye he can not gee the top of his head and thinks he has ha there so every time he goes forth to punch the bag or hia fellow man be his public ever so few he carefully combs and brushes the place where hair may have grown once upon a time had robert been as particular about his hands as he Is about his departed hair he still have a chance with jeffrees Jeff rles think english fighter easy jabez white champion lightweight of england intends to visit this coun try and secure matches with some of the best men here british crit acs ics lay particular stress on the fact that white beat spike sullivan which is a mighty slim foundation on which to base his claims for lecog mitlon as a top there is a host of fourth raters in this country any one of whom is capable of pound ing the debilitated spike to a frazzle good country fop has beens it a pugilist has outlived his useful ness in the american ring the best thing he can do is hike to australia and get in the championship class late advices from Kangaroo land are to the effect that old dan creedon has blossomed forth into great form and 1 astonishing his countrymen with ex hibit ions of the deadly short arm work as a sydney exchange expresses it that he picked up in trouble for auto racers the route for the james gordon bennett cup race in germany has forty seven turns and according to the maor of hamburg is dangerous in many places one of these turns is of the seventy degree sort not ivr twenty div uiles of the eighty arft miles wh a is the distance covered in the circuit is straight and level road of this twenty five miles th longest stretch is three miles when it is considered that some of the car being built for this race are of horsepower of the dangers of the race may be realized buffalo s auto tourney buffalo is to hold a great internal dional automobile tournament during the coming summer the automobile club of buffalo will endeavor to se cure the presence there of the aromi nent european drivers and will corn bine with other promoters in bring ing the best talent from abroad to this side of the water for competition during the year many of the prominent american drivers have already signified their willingness to compete in the bourna genf fought sullivan on barge john flood who fought john L sullivan nine rounds on a barge anchored in the east aher near hell gate in 1880 died suddenly at new york last week heart disease is be cleved to have been responsible flood was 55 years old and alpar in perfect health he was em aloyed as a detective by a firm of horse dealers and was well known to horsemen throughout the country foss leaves for france wilson P foss the holder of the amateur athletic union billiard cham recent opponent of phi ladelphia jack 0 brien pion ship has sailed for france where he is to meet M kerolle the french champion in a series of eighteen inch balk line billiard games for the ama beur championship of the world while he Is abroad be will also arrange for a team of the best amateur players of france to visit this country next fall ruhl n s sun has set gus ruhlin who once posed as pos sible heavy weight champion has now fallen far down the lists in a six round bout with jim jeffords at phil adelphia recently he was practically beaten in six rounds and was twice knocked down in the early part of the fight jeffords has so little quality as a boxer that to be beaten by such a man is certainly a black eye for the akron giant challenge for oldfield dominique emile lamberjack the erstwhile follower of pace on a bicycle and present famous chauffeur has hurled a challenge at the king of auto tg barney oldfield and the tor mer holder of the one mile automo bile record henry ford lamberjack will arrive in america some time in june with two racing machines one of horsepower and the other of 60 horsepower lawson leads in wins ivor lawson floyd mcfarland and major taylor continue to win on the cycle tracks of australia on jan 6 lawson defeated taylor for second place in the final of a half mile handl cap in the international test meeting the two americans started from scratch the winner was a sixty yard handicap man badgers plan g regatta the university of wisconsin is to have a regatta day during the jubilee exercises in june that will surpass anything of the kind ever held in the middle west cornell s eight duluth s eight and four and st john s fresh man eight are all to race wisconsin on lake mendota the first part of june yet another score at cleveland 0 march 19 frank ridel of that cit a comparatively un known among the local bowlers rolled in a three handed team on the west side alleys aidel made fifteen strikes before his luck deserted him he had never bowled any high up to this time iowa Is state basketball champion at iowa city la march 19 iowa defeated grinnell by a score of 29 to 1 which gives iowa the state collig championship |