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Show after all is indebted to fate for something. some-thing. Keddy Gallagher Is now after Young Mitchell and Kat Mastersou ileclares his willingness to back the former for J.000. Mitchell will probably be induced in-duced to meet him. Mcllugh and O'lirien are both in training and will be in excellent feather when ou the night of March 7th, they meet in this city to decide a questiou of ten-round supremacy. Herbert Slade looks a stronger and more powerful man than ever. He has taken excellent care of himself arid is the biggest piece of furniture in F.d. Kelley s gymnasium. Phil Archibald, the California bookmaker book-maker who took Ike Weir to the colonies, col-onies, is back, disgusted with the Spider, on whom he squandered several thousand dollars. W'v'.r wouldn't train, but insisted on gutting on sprees, and his only light was with Abe Willis, at Svdney. and after four rounds Weir qiiit. Tho audience roared over Weir's pranks, but everyono said he was out of condition, and Willis had tho best of it. IL.aball Not... Is Salt Lake to have a club? liutte mid Helena are both picking out material for ball clubs. William Williams of Strentor, 111., has signed with Kansas City. President Thurraan has been deposed as president by the American association. associa-tion. Jack Glascock has signed a New York contract at a reduced ligure, is a late report from the metropolis. When the Chicago club plays in Columbus Co-lumbus April It), they will make their lirst appearance there since lhTti. Old Cy. Sutcliffe is "out of sight." He was one of the terrible examples of "league tyranny" in the fall of 'M. Tebeau has begun to dicker over terius with Cleveland, and has sent on his uniform measurements. He will captain this year's team. The colony of baseball players at Hot Springs is daily increasing. Those already al-ready there include lieatin, Heckley, Joicc, Long, Ihinlap, and Davis. Sandy Griswold declares that Perry Werden "lushed and played ball in about equal parts" when he was in the I Western. Tho king has more sense now. The Chicagos have no less than twenty-three men under reservation, and the Times up thcro raps I'ncle Anson for not letting a few of them go into tho league lields. "Tobacco heart," may have been the cause of John Clurkson's fall of last season. He is an inveterate smoker of "student's lamps." A medical authority authori-ty is out with a warning to ball players not to smoke too much. The action of the Western association associa-tion in leaviim its circuit stand as it The ultimate outcome of the chapter of acrimonious correspondence be-twee be-twee u the friend and followers of Bob Fil'.simmons nnd those of Jim Hall, not to mention the deliance with which the latter has shied his castor, is the problem in which the disciples of the arena are particularly interested at this period of tho sporting solstice. Hall has spoken his piece in language that is at once plain and vigorous. He has also been tried by the California Athletic club, with results that were so favorable to his prowess that ho has secured a place in its list of adoptions. Whatever the merits of tho two men in a light to a finish Hall has used his words without gloves. He seems to have developed some flaming antipathy antipa-thy toward Fitsimmons that ran te appeased ap-peased no where or under no conditions condi-tions outside of the ropes. Hall has very w isely leveled his weapon at the biggest game and the highest card that is now in the ficklo deck of continental middle weights. Fitzsimmoiis has reached tho loftiest pinacle of fistic famo, The rival who wrests that distinction dis-tinction and prize ring honor from him draws a fortune, and even greater fame. Hall knows this. So do his backers. Hall has been firing his cartridges at this satellite. They may be blanks but they have cut the air with an awful whistle and roar. He denies the right of Fitzsimmous to Haunt tho Australian championship, ' while Fitxsimmons talks bark and presents pre-sents his card to the sporting world with the following upon it: "I had boxed many men in Australia and while many concede that I had the best right to tho title of middle weight champion, still there were some dis- 1 putes, Jem Hall claiming the title in Australia while Kill McCarthy, who had gone to San Francisco, also claimed to be the representative champion of my fatherlaud. I wanted to tight both of these men, and as Hall was easier for mo to get at than McCarthy, who was 7000 miles away, I directed my attention atten-tion toward him. Well, we met and I defeated him in live rounds for a small , amount. He was not satisfied with this, and kept making talk until finally I put j up t.iOO in the Heferee otlice. in Sydney, r- to make a match with Hall or any other closed last season is, perhaps, the wisest thing that could have been done. The only change that could have been made was the substitution of Indianapolis Indian-apolis or Grand Kapids for Sioux City. In the litter city Sunday game are not allowod. Tho question of organizing a league to be composed os Baker City, La Grande nd Pendleton. Oregou, and Walla Walla, Wash., has beeu considerably consider-ably discussed by the hase ball enthusiasts en-thusiasts of those cities (lately and the initications are that a meeting will soon be called to elfect an organization. Turf Topira. The spring races at this point are promised a larger attendance than ever before. The race to be contested in October next by L'tah yearlings will be the most interesting contest that has taken place on territorial turf. Alreatly important entries have been made and tho purse ' i middle weight in Australia. There wa no answer to this challenge, but Hall kept on talking. Finally I heard that he was going to- spar at Larry Foley's Athletic hall, in Sydney, ami I resolved to go there and challenge him from the stage, so that he would have no chauce to escape me. I did this, saying I would make the stake as large or as small as he wanted, and that I would light him again with any sort of gloves he might select. In answer to this cballeuge he said: "Gentlemen. I am going to America by the Zelandia which tails tomorrow afternoon, and so I will not be at liberty liber-ty to accept the challenge of Mr. Fitz-Himmons, Fitz-Himmons, much as I should like to do so. If he will come to America I shall only be too glad to meet him in a contest there." I went home and had a talk with my wife, and then and there resolved to go to San Francisco to litrht him. Accordingly Accord-ingly I packed up what few traps I will be sullicieut to increase them bo-lore bo-lore the books are closed. Al Farrow, the big California racer, who is held at $10,000, broke out of his stable the other night and took a winter win-ter evening's walk from North Hudson to Fort Lee. The trip might have killed him, but it didn't, and a couple of days later Al Farrow won a race. There are two royally bred fillies in the land which will never have a brother or sister. 'They are Miss Russell's Rus-sell's two daughters "by Electioneer. Miss Russell was shipped to Palo Alto aud bred twice to Electioneer with a view to getting a stallion. Each of the foals was a filly. The latest Kentucky phenomenon in the way of a trotter is a yearling colt called Pilgrim that is an inbred Wilkes, being by Acolite 2:21 and out of a mare bv Geortre Wilkes. It is said that needed, and went aboard the Zealan-dia Zealan-dia about noon the next day. I looked about for Hall, but he had not yet come aboard, and I leaned over the side to see when he should come up the gang plank. Finally he came in sight and looking up, saw me. Now, of course I don't pretend to know whether it was seeing nie on board the steamship which caused him to change his mind or not. but anyway, he turned straight around aud walked away, ordering his baggage to betaken back up town aghin. Tho Zealandia sailed without him much to the surprise of the steward, who was to bring him over. When I saw Hall walk away I had half a mind to get oil' the boat and stay in Sidney to make him light again, but 1 thought better of that aud resolved to tight McCarthy in 'Frisco and thereby settle his claim or mine to the championship." cham-pionship." But it is not the exchange of these vocal blows in which the publio and the sporting world are interested. Let tho contest go to the arena and in a few minutes the matter of supremacy will have been at least temporarily determined. deter-mined. Ed Smith, the Denver imitation, has challenged Jack Ashton to fight for for $1(!00 a side and a purse. In Brooklyn hereafter the mayor will have to be called on for permits to give boxing exhibitions whether for amusement amuse-ment or prizes. Boxing in Cincinnati has been legally squelched. There's waiting among tiio Chicago sports an order having been issued by Chief Marsh to the "linest" to stop ail athletic exhibitions at which boxing was a feature of the entertainment. Saturday night, as a rule, is a favorite time for displays of the manly art in Chicago and last Saturday night was r.o exception. The Chicago foncing club had arranged a little programme Pilgrim can show a 2::)0 clip down the road, and that an oiler of $15,000 has been refused Lir him, his owner being confident tharhe will beat Freedom's yearling record of 2:2lt before the close of 1MII1. Malcolm Forbes of Boston, the owner of that fast campaigner, Jack, who defeated de-feated Palo Alto last season, advocates the grading of the standard into three classes, thus Class A to include 2:20 trotters and their produce. Class B, 2:23 trotters, and Clas C. 2:110 trotters. There has to be some change made In the standard and Mr. Forbe's idea is one well worthy of consideration by all trolling men. When Goldsmith Maid trotted in 2:17 in Milwaukee, Wis., near twenty years ago, a great hue and cry was raised about short track and bad training. Wheu Dr. Herr gave Lady Stout a three-year old record of 2:2()' about seventeen sev-enteen years ago, the doctor was accused ac-cused of "cruelty to animals." but everybody keeps as still as mice in a meal chest, in 1X1)0 when a yearling makes a record of 2 2ilJ. A bill has been introduced in the Illinois Illi-nois legislature that is evidently directed di-rected at Ed Corrigan's Chicago racetrack, race-track, as it contains a clause limiting the number of racing days a year to thirty. Corrigan's new track at Hawthorne Haw-thorne will be ready earjy in May and he expected to continue his race meeting meet-ing this year until cold weather. Mayor Crieger is at Springlield lobbying in the interests of the bill, which gives riso to the supposition that the real purpose of the bill is to elfect the financial" ruin of Corrigan. for their rooms, at lot! Randolph street, but shortly before 8 o'clock thev were warned by the police not to go on with the exhibition. It, is said that the mayor intends to allow no more boxing iuChicago, and that all the exhibitions that have been arranged will have to be post poned. Big Joe McAuliffe adds Pat Slattery's eap to his pugilistic belt, the knock-cut knock-cut having occurred a week ago. Jem Smith's exchequer must be badly depleated to induce him to launch a challenge at Charley MitchelK A foot race would be more in keeping with their proclivities. The Clipper fires a rominiscence of f the meeting between Tug Wilson and John L. Sullivan at Madison Square garden and says that on that occasion a patron of Wilson offered to match him to light Sullivan with bare knucks for the championship. Sullivan is said to have accepted but subsequent developments devel-opments nipped it in the bud. Tug |