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Show Tl SULLIVAN IS QPTMHST1G Believes Reno Fight Will Have WJiolcsomc Effect on Sports Generally. EPIT0iE OF SPORTING NEWS .FROM EVERYWHERE Paris Grand Prix Excites Keen Interest Among Millionaire Horse Owners. BY RICHABD DAHLGEEN. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON". June 2.1. Senator Timothy Sullivan of New York, stakeholder for the JeffrJos-Johnson prise light, who has been tourlngr England and Europe, bo-licvos bo-licvos that If tho heavyweight championship champion-ship battle is fought out without accident acci-dent or lluke, It , will mark a new revival of boxing In America. Senator Sullivan, or "Big Tim," as his friends call him In the States, conlidcd to me that he anticipated an-ticipated seeing the. greatest fistic fight of a decade July -1, when Jeffries and Johnson meet in Reno. Ne While Senator Sullivan is optimistic about prize fighting, he saya thut sports generally arc cramped and hindered In the States by unduo interference, llo apoko particularly of racing and touched on football. Public clamor is ever being directed against somothTng, and quite often iL is a form of sport, ln the words of the Tammany polltlclun, the average av-erage American is a pretty hysterical sort of cliap. - 'T hnvo ever been convinced that tho light between James J. Jeffries and Champion Jack Johnson will he entirely honest." said Sullivan, "if I had not been convinced I would haro hnd nothing noth-ing to do with it. I know tho principals and many of tlioso interested one way or another, iind J mado it plain before T would connent to be stakeholder that It would have to bo honest. It will be. Those -who have already gone to ihv States from England and other foreign countries will not regret It. They will ec a great battle a great exhibition of stamina, science and fctrcngth. "I believe thai, the tide will turn In favor of boxing in tho States, although it will have to bo conducted cleanly and above board. "No fixed fights which will allow accidents, acci-dents, no riots, no boisterous conduct whh'h would at any tlmo warrant police iK'tlon. Prize fights must be conducted JuBfas any oilier kind of sporting or athletic ath-letic events. "Thero has been much public interest in various branches of sport in Ihc United States which has not always been good. There is only one slalo where a lcgitlmaio prize light nay be hold, although al-though boxing matches may bo held -almost anvwherc Racing has been all but killed bv laws from the varlouH state legislatures. Recently new football rules were passed to satisfy public domand which, r am told, will detracL from the interest of the game. Baseball is nboul the oulv thing untouched, although the club owners have raised Hie prices to such an extent that ordinary people in Lhc common walks of life cannot afford to attend the games." Secure Polo Ponies. The ponies which will be used by tho Hurllnghaine Polo club when they mukc the try to snatch bark the International cup from (he Meadowhrook team of Long Island, will be shipped about July 10. This will give tho ponies about two months lint" In America for actual training, ho that Unv may be Hrrlimatod to American air. watr-r and provender by the time for the gam rs In th fall. Til" English f-ain will make a determined deter-mined effort to bring b.T'k to Hnglnnd the cup won by the Americans here last your The learn Hint will go lo the Rtatoa will consist, of th" twin brothers. R. and K, Gronfcll. tho Earl of Rocksavagc and Lord Wodchouso. Th Dukn of Rox-burghe Rox-burghe ban lonned his otable of pdiilos to Lord Wodehouse. Cnptnln IS. B. Miller will accompany life learn Instead of L-ap-tain Lloyd, wbowo official duties will not permit hla leaving England. Vred Ramsdoll of Texas, who was a student at tho University of Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia last vear. and Nathan f.artmcll. who coached in the track team of the unl-vorsitv unl-vorsitv of North enroling last season, have been ln hard training here for three weeks, preparing for tho English championships, cham-pionships, which aro to be held nt Mam-ford Mam-ford Rrldge. this city. July 2. I wan particularly interested in Rams-dell, Rams-dell, because I had heard so many reports re-ports about him. Mostly in ordor to see him and partly to talk about athletic conditions in America. I mado a trip to his training quarters. Ramsdell Is a strapping chap, young, brawny and broad shouldered. His manner and voice ar? pleasant and he smiles oflftn. "It is rather linrd to, dI.sassocIa.to college col-lege athletics from just athletics when speaking on that subject." said he. "In America some athletes attend college for track and Mold honors rather than to , acqulro knowledge. The most striking feature of the American athletic situation situa-tion now is the way in which tho southern south-ern and western communities have come ; forward In bids for Intercollegiate athletic ath-letic honors. Not so many years ago. not more than eight or ten big colleges and unlvorsitioB wore associated .witn athletic laurels, and they wero nearly all in the oast. Now nuch schools as Tulanc In New Orleans, the Universities of No-vad.-L, Colorado. California. Washington. Oregon, North Carolina and other states, must bo reckoned with. Leland Stanford unlvorsity of California and Notre Dame university in Indiana have both produced some mighty fine athletes In the pnst year or so. Intercollegiate meets in the Continued ou Following Pnga TIM SULLIVAN IS OPTIMISTIC Continued From Preceding Page. western states and couthorn states are now oqually as Important as the big meets In tho oast. "America has como to the front in ath-letlcs ath-letlcs in a "wonderful fashion in tho past four or five years. Tho impetus of now records and good health has been great. Athlotlcs havo not detracted much from football; both havo prospered. A numbor of college men become professionals after leaving school. Some go In for bnsoball, pome for running and Jumping and pole vaulting and others for coaches and trainers. "Thore will bo a big amateur meet at Now Orleans noxt fall, when many new records aro oxpoctcd." The Grand Prix of Paris will be run tomorrow. There wero 101 nominations, representing tho cream of the turf. This promlor event of tho French turf always al-ways attracts many Americana, and tomorrow to-morrow will bo no exception. Of tho entries, slxtocn aro English, and tho colt by Hamburg out of Blue Girl, Witch Work, New Caotlo II., and Whisk Broom aro of American breeding, but havo throughout their racing careers been trained by A. J. Joynor of iNowmar-kot. iNowmar-kot. If Mr. Whitney bo destined to win, It will have to bo with tho last named, which Is undoubtedly his best three-year-old, and victory would come as handsome hand-some compensation for his omission from the derby, Anothor American Is Merry Task, but It Is feared his chance of winning for August Belmont is very rcmoto, his best form as a two-year.old, when he ran three times, having been at tho Nowmar-ket Nowmar-ket Houghton meeting, when ho was third to Admiral Hawko and Maid of Corinth for the Criterion stakes. St. Alphonno Is an unknown quantity, its ho has never yet run. Ho Is nominated nomi-nated by A. B. Bowen, who bought him as a yearling colt, by St. Fruequln, out of Orphan, at Sir John Robinson's sale. The now National Athletic union, which grew out of a dispute ovor tho definition of professionalism In athletics, will havd some ticklish questions to docidc. Tho Amateur Athletic association refuses to recognlzo professionalism at all, and this led to tho formation of tho new body. The National Cyclists' union decided, to allow both professionals and amateurs to compote In the same events so long as both abided by the rules of the meeting. meet-ing. The now organization sanctions cash prizes in athletic meetings, which gives rise to tho vor" Interesting question: What Is professionalism? What Is the dlfforenco between paying a man to take part In a contest and offering a cash prize? Ernest Barry, who will meet Richard Arnst for tho sculling championship of the world In South Africa in August, has sailed. A monument has been unveiled at Dover Do-ver to Capt. Matthew Webb, tho famous English channel swimmer. Jem Drlscoll, who was to have fought Abe Attell for tho featherweight cham- ?lonshlp of tho world in California on uly 2, but who was compelled to como home on account of Illness and cancel the bout, says that interest in tho states is at fever heat ovor the Jeffries-Johnson fight. "Each man has many supporters, although Jeffries Is the favorito in both betting and sontiment," said Drlscoll to me. |
