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Show 9 IN THE 8TUDIO8. Munroe to Meet Sharkey. Jack Munroe of Butte, Mont., and Miss Edith Burns, one of Prof. tom Sharkey are matched to meet in re- ft limited round bout before the club Cooks piano pupils, will give a the offering best club house purse. The contest.' cital at the Ladies Literary to the according articles of agreement-signed- , 26. 'oir Tuesday evening next, January must be decided before March mose interested ips muflic are in- 1, 19p4. Each side posted $1,C00 as a. vited. Miss Burns will be assisted guaranty. and Mrs. soprano, by. Miss Larsen, The confab was held at 1 oclock in contralto. Cook, the afternoon, and inside cf fifteen Ji J minutes both sides had - agreed on At the Unitarian church last Sun- terms. H. King delivered a lec- battle Sharkey proposed to have the day, Hon. W. limited to six rounds, but Mun-roe- s Monsieur, and ture on .Voltaire. manager proposed to have the Midame de Loery had charge of the fight for from ten to twenty rounds. As only musical numbers. Monsieur de Loery scraps are allowed In Chicago and Philadelphia these has a high and brilliant tenor voice are out of it as candidates for. cities, of.lyric quality and he sang in splen- the encounter. In California twenty-roun- d did style, an aria from E. Lalos opera, fights are permitted, and at Le Roi d'Ys. Monsieur de Loery and Boston contests over ten rounds have wife sang a duet in Italian, the addio been in vogue during the past two of Nicolai. Both were in good voice years. Sharkey tabooed the idea of and they made an excellent impress- having San Francisco as the battle ion on the larce audience, Their ground. Bids for the contest will be blending effects were especially ad- left open until Jan. 15, 1904, and the mired. Mrs. de Loery has a lyric so- club offering the most money will seprano of great purity and scope, so it cure the battle. six-roun- Western Athletics. During the year just passed athletics throughout the West have been given the boom they deserve, and many remarkable performances, are recorded by schoolboys, college men, and members of athletic clubs. For the first time in many years the Amateur Athletic union saw fit to hold the annual championships of the Union in the West, while an eastern college, Cornell, visited the West and returned to New York, defeated by assured, as arrangements have been completed between R. C. Brlen and J. 11. Richardson, the latter administrator of the estate, whereby Mr. Brien will continue with this noted farm as superintendent and secrotary. Mr. Brien has been connected with the farm for the past fifteen years Michigan and convinced that the ath- in the rapacity of manager, and it has letes of the West are as good as those been under liis direction that a largo of the East. A western school boy amount of breeding was carried on. team paid a visit to Pennsylvania last Southern League Gets Latham. spring and for the second successive President William Kavanaugh anyear won the high school relay chamnounced the appointment of Arlio Lapionship of the West. tham as an umpire for the Southern Baseball league for the season of Blackburn Drubs Langford. 1904. Sam Langford, the colored youtn who defeated Joe Gans, the light Date for Berlin Auto Races. weight champion, several weeks ago, The automobile races for the James was given a severe drubbing by Jack Bennett cup will take place Gordon Blackburn of Philadelphia, also colIn Germany June 17, 1904. ored, and who also has a Philadelphia decision over Gans, at the Central Captain Dieppe. Athletic club, and had the pair not Captain Dieppe,, the hero in John made an agreement for a draw in Drew's play of. that name, is a creacase both were on their feet at the tion of Hope. He first existclose of the bout the Philadelphia box- ed in aAnthony scries of short stories, and er wouid have received the decision. afterward suffered at the hands of the Blackburn pummeled his opponent se- author and Harrison Rhodes the fate verely, and at the end of the tenth of all popular personages of fiction Langford was all in. He managed to dramatization. last out the other two rounds by stall-inThe play is a comedy suggestive both of The Prisoner of Zcnda and of The hero the Dolby Dialogues. Buffalo. Skat Players Name After a good deal of skirmishing is a political refugee from France, who among the skat players qf the coun- seeks the protection of an Italian try the city or Buffalo has been se- count friendly to the lost cause. Tho lected as the next city for the national captain settles down comfortably in skat congress, after the one which is the counts castle, and undertakes to to he held in St. Louis next spring. bring about a reconciliation between Usually the city is selected at the the countess and her husband, who congress two years ahead, hut owing are estranged, and occupy the living to the rivalry among the many cities rooms of the ancestral home on an at the last national meeting a selec- alternating schedule. Many complication could net be made. Cincinhati, tions ensue, for the galiant captain Indianapolis and Milwaukee each mistakes the countess for her cousin wanted the honor of holding the big during three teasing acts. event, as well as Buffalo Now that Cause Enough fer Tears. Buffalo has carried off the plum there An wise man said that we ancient is a general feeling that the selection are to remain In that state of life In was a wise one. d . is but natural that the pair should be 80 admirably adapted to the singing: of duets which require, in addit- ion to the quality mentioned, Another clause which is considered important by ring followers is that the winner is to receive the. entire purse. . Should Munroe win his success will go a long way toward establishing his right to secure a fight with Jim Jeffries for the heavyweight title. If, on the other hand, Sharkey comes out ahead, he will immediately seek a match with the boiler-makeand the' latter may take him on next summer. Sharkey and Munroe were matched to have it out at Butte some months ago, but the proposed battle fell through because the promoters failed to get the necessary permit from the authorities. great musical ability. Illiterate Children. The number of illiterate children letyreen ten and fourteen years of age1 Is: In Alabama, 66,072; Georgia, 68,329; Louisiana, 55,ual; South Carolina, 51,536; North Carolina, 51,190; Mississippi, 44.334; Tennessee. 36.376. . , g. r, Suns Rays for Patients. in the Maritime Alps makes his patients live in houses set on'turn tables, so that all sides may be exposed to the suns rays. Dr. Pelegin Dixon After Old Title. The Flight of Pigeons. George Dixon, who has been fight--: Pigeons, it is said, can upon occae form over in England sion outstrip the fastest express train, ing in when he returns to but, their average flight is only at the lately, says that de-- . ratal of about thirty-fou- r miles an hour. this country he will he ready to chamfend the title of feather-weigh- t pion against all comers. Dixon says, PROFESSIONAL CARDS. limit is 118 pounds, the feather-weigh-t the weight at which he was defeated Mine. Amanda Swenson. by Terry McGovern, and that he can VOCAL scale easily at 116 pounds and be Studio. Calders Music Store. Only teacher of strong. McGovern insists that the' Garda Method in city. Hours 10a.m. to6p.ru feather-weigh- t limit is 122 pounds and. that he can make it, but experts beAnton Pederson, lieve that this would prove a severe PIANO. VIOLIN, hardship for the South Brooklyn box- . HARMONY. er. Dixon went to England aphysi-Studio, No. 4,. Calders Music Palace. cal wreck and practically penniless. Now he is strong and vigorous, has a Monsieur a.nd Nad&m de Loery, bank roll; and is enjoying great popVOICK CULTURE ularity. and French Conversation. Breathing and Coaching for Onera a Specialty. Big Cycle Races for West. 636 Constitution Building. It is learned on the best of authority that Col. Albert A. Pope, the million-iair- e John J. McClellan bicycle and automobile manuPupil of Jonst. Scharwenka and Jedliczka is planning to boom bicycle organist at the 1 ahernade. Piano, Th sort, facturer, Oman, siudi , f 'lay ton Hall. 109 Souh Main racing next season in an attempt to oc-- : st. Studio 'Phone, 2086k 2 rings. Residence irevive cycling to the position it Phone, 10 y. He is to cupied a few years ago. have forty sprinters and a number of 'middie-distanc- e riders, and will back-iMiss number of famous champions of and Powers are said to he TEACHER OF MVSIC cent seasons. Tne sprinters are to race all through the west and south, THOM ten S. and will give cycle fans something a.ruofo, atmar so. ithey have not seen since 1899, the last Jimmy year of the L. A. W. control. for the .Michael has already signed year and is having two mocors built, oawtlc am mur. lump. OL9AH OftMir mUAOK. in the deal. wiHram euiurriM . amthkaottk a uk my old-tim- f ; 1 1 Nora Gleason. Kioa ... all mumm. 0. 1 SHARP, Agent rCltPMOM 40 T 8AII fMBfll , . . j Belle Meade Is Saved. That Belle Meade, the property of the late Gen. W. II. Jackson, will continue to serve the turf world as a nursery for blooded horses Is now Illinois Man Walks 40 Hours. Herman Schael of Rock Island lays claim to the title of champion walker against time. Dec. 25 he ended a feat of forty hours of continuous walking with intermissions of only fifteen min- which God has placed us. The unfortunate part of this Is that most folks think we got where we are by our own volition. Hence tears. Praise for American Womanhood. In the opinion of the editor of the Mirror, a paper printed In English In British India, American womanhood is admittedly the finest, the very best, physically and intellectually, of all the womanhood of the world. . utes for his regular meals. No accurate account of the distance traveled was kept, though it is estimated at forty miles. He was completely exhausted, and his feet were badly blistered. Schael is 30 years old. His The Lost Hope. best previous effort was made a year Diogenes, a sage of wondrous wisdom. hours Went looking for an honest man one ago when he went thirty-si- x da- yit is The time. record, against of those he met if they were asked lie and a half claimed here, was thirty-si- x honest, And each he asked said: Sure Mike! hours and was made on the Pacific right away; coast. But on he went, and kept on looking higher, he who boasted was, per se, a liar. For Little Has Chance. Think Henry Some horsemen have expressed the So on he went, nor found what he was searching, opinion that Jockey Henry will meet Although he searched, him High and him low; considerable with opposition in Then searched he down beside the road desat France, where he has gone to make spairing Oh, why, he cried, will they deceive application for reinstatement. An me so! argument is that the Sloan case will Then, finding not by direct application not leave the French Jockey club in liis honest man, he tried elimination- the best of humor, and the action of He marked out all who said that they were honest, the club in appealing from the decione man said: Till Nay, friend,. !tls: sion of the court that ruled in favor not for me of Sloan is an indication of what To say If I .am' honest and tho sag cried: Henry may expect. While there was Come hither! Honest man, Inventions. Old ' for thee! no specific charge brought against gunpowder, middle crown I ages you. Man, with what by lies the During Henry, there is a general belief that it you can't earn! paper parchment, clocks, telescopes, Thanks, said the honest man, and were In- is hardly an auspicious time for his compass stole his lantern! mariners and the for reinstatement. application Baltimore News. dented or adopted, - a . Ivo-nec- |