Show iIT PORT1NG CIRCLE Several Events Scheduled for the v Near Future 0 v CAPTAIN LANGES COLTS 1 TIIBV AUE IJEirVG COACHED FOIL A TOURACV Jim VIUIaiu Itonily for Work Again Hurry HyiuliwWni hack Corbett AKninit laclCKon Tlie Turf Tlic Diamond So7ii tli5iiiercut > i f r Local sport thahas been languishing languish-ing like a shirt collar in July for these many moons betityssigns of arousing itself to renewecUjajstivIty since Captain Lange has tak rjtit under his wing and takEt tnder some real breezj bvents are promised for spring monjhs csnts His gymnasium Is now the light around which any number of promising moths have gathered and no matter who the minstrel that tarries there he is sure to findsome one in his class and up to lrRac0 0 Scarce a day or night that the conceit is not knocked out of some Cracker jack to feed the vanity of another while the biggest of em are accommodated by the rotund master of ceremonies At present the captain is coaching his colts for a tourney which he hopes to pull off in some commodious hall the laurels to consist of appropriate medals for each class from feather to heavyweight Jim Williams appears to have permitted per-mitted himself to drop clean out of sight But then the Utah champion has a faculty of saying very little while sawing pknt of wood and It may be that while down on his sheep ranch he is fitting himself for big game There was a time when those who were dead in line cherished a hope that the champion and Reddy Gallagher the latter as his nickname implies carrying a head of hair that is red enough to burn up the world might be matched Reddy appears however to have taken it into his head that the sheepherder was not in his class and perfectly contented to rest on the honors the newspapers have lavished on him while drawing a munificent check from the Denver Athletic club I Is not likely that future fu-ture efforts to bring them together will be any more gratifying My money goes up on the white man The speaker was Harry Hynds whose splendid physique rose statuesquely from a group of well known chappies who were then discussing the relative I merits of the men and the result of the approaching interview between Cor bett and Jackson Then you think more of him than when you placed your money on Sul 0 livanYes Yes sir I do Not only that I be 0 lieve Jim is the best man that ever put foot in the arena Because he cppjmered Sullivan No sir because he conquered Jackson Conquered him shrieked the color blind Idolators of the antipodean I didnt stutter gentlemen I said conquered and I said It advisedly I witnessed that fight and I was at the ropeside when the pride of lIes ton bit the dust Any one of a number of men could have whipped Sullivan Sulan at the time of his downfall but no man outside of Corbett could have whipped Jackson Sullivan was in his pugilis tic dotage Jackson was In his pugilistic I pugil-istic prime his swollen ankle which i wasnll a ruse and excuse that Jackson himself never seized to the contrary And you insist that Coibett whip ped Jackson To a dead certainty only he failed to get the decision I dont like to he guilty of anything that resembles ego tism but I happened to be in the dr ss 0 I ing room the morning after the draw as It went forth and I want to add A my testimony to that of several ethers 0 who saw Corbett come in as fresh asa as-a twoyearold while Jackson followed limp and groggy upon the arms of his I rubbers He was knocked out I tell I you and when they enter the ring in > June no matter where i be voull I find my money right back of the white man Of course its n little early to open the pool box but if there Is among you nmy Jackson man who I thinks he wont have a chance to get his dough covered why Ill accommodate accommo-date him with a forfeit Harry evidently meant business evidenty as he Hashed a stack of yellow boys and put them as an evidence of good faith II I I And what a rakeoff it will be for the locality tha captures the fight I Financiers have been for weeks undertaking I un-dertaking to compute the actual j amount of money that was left by the visitors in Jacksonville but they have never been able to accomplish more than a guess Jacksonville Itself it-self has never figured It out to the fraction but Its merchants awoke to the fact that i was a big relief In the I midst of hard times and knowing this I promises to come forward as a vigorous vigor-ous rival for the approaching mill Of course it shocked some of the good people in converftloh assembled but the merchants there are perfectly wil ling to contribute 25000 so they say for a full stock which had I been permitted in January would have scattered scat-tered half a million instead of a hun dyed thousand 4 h 1 0 While no activfsteps in that tHree ton have becomeltrvlsible turfmen are looking forwardlo the spring meeting tle meetng of the Jockey club with considerable interest and the effort will doubtless be to make I excel anything hitherto undertaken The w having become with a large number of horsemen inter in-ter quarters the string upon the ground should be larger than ever before be-fore while the flesh should be faster Sam Groesbeck to whose activity more than all others are the cranks Indebted fpr their amusement on the I diamond states that while he has not I put forth his net yet that the woods axe full of twirlers and that Salt Lake with a little exertion may carr I i off the pennant this season Of course it looks somewhat brutal says Sam to agitate base ball when the agita ton for bread is so fierce but I is veil enough to let tossers of the exclusive ex-clusive east know that Zion is alive and ready to perch itself upon the front seat of the band wagon UPPER CUTS Mike Fitzgerald continues his encouragement en-couragement of light sparring these winter evenings Denver Carroll who is now stopping over In Zioir for refreshments took his first licking from Captain Jim Smith of the Denver News I was the cap tain too who discovered John P Clow who after a triumphal march through the west went down before the assas ins bullet i Harley McCoy who trained Clow for many of his battles and who subsequently subse-quently murdered Captain Hawley in the halls of Colorados legislature is making a desperate effort to secure his liberty through Governor Waite Is Dixon to finally sustain his long deferred Waterloo at the hands of 3riffo asked a constant reader of the sporting editor Its difficult to say dear reader Dark meat has been get ting the worst of it during this admln stration despite the fact that the Man of Destiny went to the rescue George La Blanche has entirely die appeared among the back numbers The friends of Tommy Warren ex champion featherweight who killed a colored porter In Texas are struggling to secure his release Ed Kulley who at one time posed as the bright particular orb of the Ipcal porting world has been heard from in Mexico whithcjj he landed on H j I parachute jump out of San Francisco 1 Its dollars to doughnuts that this 1 wandering minstrel will yet return to j the territory I It will be gratifying to learn that j Bat Masterson has not yet permitted himself to announce the winner in the I CorbettJackson match |