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Show will IS SPORTING GOSSIP. )rk fm rr, r. (in.iitsu-catch-as-catch-can con- 5 (I tes' between Professor Robinson and rip. m S? .iiminultivo Japanese, at the Salt al m bl Theatre last Monday evening ' a H Lalfno as satisfactory to the audi- 'o W,, M it might have been. The men m S unoq ally matched, the Jap be- ;K too small by some twenty pounds. H npVdcs the men wore stripped In a D B ps nne match, when It Is generally I B V t toed L that light clothing ought I B to bo worn In order that the Jlu-JItsu I B ,n may havo a show. The Japanese I B S endeavoring to get up another I B match and this tlmo w 11 secure a B larger and more expert demonstrate! of the science. IH Exit Young Corbott, or William WM nothwoll, from the championship field. H He Is now a dead one. Ho may do something as a second-rater, but never H aualn will ho bo a contestant for top MM notch honors. Ho is down and out. UM It is rough on the Denver lad, too, bo-M bo-M cause he is broke. Ho has wasted his Wm money earned by fighting in riotous H living and Just before this mill bor-H bor-H rowed ?5000 to bet on himselr Ho mm lost it. The amount of money coming B as his sharo was nearly all consumed mjt in training expenses and ho left tho H coast financially stranded. It is now R up to somo admirer of his to stake H him to a saloon. The Dane isn't that kind of a lad. W He never monkeys with women and BH whio and is abstemious in his manner IBBJj of living. lie is tho coming man in H his class and when ho meets Britt on IV the 25th of this month will give him Ifl a. drubbing, for ho is constantly 1m- BM A voice from tho tomb was heard at HI tho ringside on the night of tho fight M last Monday in tho shnpo of a tola- El gram from McGovorn, wanting a tm matcli with tho wnner. Terry novcr IS saw the day ho could lick tho Dano. IB Clark Ball has offered a $25,000 IB purse for a finish fight between Gus jj Kuhlln and Jeffries, the battlo to take fm place in Panama in Juno or July and ( to be to a finish. Before Ituhlin fights flj Ieffrles again lie should got a now set jjPJ of bowels. When they met boforo the fM ones lie had failed him. lot Poor ol(l 0cor8 LaBlancho, who Ipj achieved fnmo by knocking out Jack U Dompsoy with' tho "pivot blow" was J found dead In a Canadian swamp fione days ago. It is believed he J committed suicide. Two years after Jvlpping Dompsey LnBlnnche came here to Salt Lake. Ho met several J unknowns during his stay and pol- shed them off easy, notwithstanding e was drinking like a fish. He j was always faking up something to m get tho money and lost the confidence or his former backers. After leaving icro ho was arrested for highway rob- "cry nnd sent up from Buffalo for a term of years. Coming out too old to fight, too poor to livo ho doubtless ended it all by destroying himself. Ho went tho routo and paid the pen alty. Jim Corbelt lauglis at tho challenge of John j, Sullivan and says ho will play him a game of croquet for $2500 n side provided John will reuueo his weight to 295 a side. All of which makes tho old fellow's blood boll. John will just about pull Jim's nose somo day when they moot. it & Bob Fitzslmmons and his wife had a hard tlmo finding a place to sleep In Torre Haute, Ind., several nights ago. Because tho lighter demanded accommodation for his lion nnd pooulo dog, they wore turned away from every ev-ery hotel in Terro Hauto. I.ato at night lie got an expressman to take caro of tho livestock and ho and his wife went to a hotel minus their pots. At the first hotel they entered Bob put liis 13-months old Hon on tho desk whilo ho registered. Writing his name is a matter of moment with tho pugilist, pugil-ist, nnd while ho was accomplishing It tho Hon readied over for tho clerk's gig lamp and tore his shirt front out. Mrs. Fitzslmmons Insisted on letting her poodlo catcli drops from tho spout of the water cooler with his palpitating palpitat-ing tongue, and tho proprietor decided that ho had no rooms for the Fitzslmmons Fitzslm-mons family. Fltz picked up his lion, Mrs. Fitz picked up her poodlo, nnd away thoy drove to tho next hotel. They had no : chance to register. The proprietor said that Mrs. Fitzslmmons would havo to keep hor dog in tho baggage room and that lie wouldn't liaVo the lion in tho house under any circumstances. circum-stances. "But 'o's only 13 months old," protested pro-tested tho bruiser-Thespian. "He's too old for mo," replied tho landlord. "This is no zoo." Thoy mndo tho rounds until thoro was nothing loft but tho Salvation Army lodging house. Mrs. Fitzslmmons Fitzslm-mons declined to go thoro and repaired re-paired with Fltz, the Hon and tho poodlo poo-dlo to tho theater, where thoy ato a cold lunch. "E's perfectly 'armless," said Fitz, referring to tho Hon. "I've hnd Mm in the host 'otcls In tho country. '13 wouldn't harm a canary bird. Wot kind of a town Is this, anyhow?" Late in tho afternoon tho property mnn of tho show suggested taking tho lion to a livery stnblo until time comes to move to tho next stand. Fltz took tho Hon to the livery stnblo As ho entered tho front door all the horses tried to go out tho back door. "Take that lion out of hero!" yelled tho livery stable man. "Tho horses smell him." "How enn thoy," retorted Fitzslmmons, Fitzslm-mons, "I'gave him a bawtli la3t night." |