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Show WORLD OF SPORT. TP Ed. McOann of Philadelphia Goes Down Before the Tall Eushes of Charley Turner. A BOOM FOR HELENA BRUISERS. Two Meetings in a Single Day-Record of the Baseball Contents Hall's Very Queer Conduct Pitzsimmons and Pompadour dim. Charlie Turner of Stockton last night defeated de-feated Ed McCann of Philadelphia in the eighth round, the winner receiving $250 for his effort. Chick Rodders knocked out Jim Wesley, a colored rival, at Helena yesterday, aud James Lovett made Jack Patterson of Pennsylvania quit in five rounds. On Sunday Sun-day Ike Hayes, a colored candidate for ring honors, will undertake to stop Jim Allen, a while man, near Helena. The arena is booming up there, and good material is in stiff demand. The results of the league contests yeatcr-day yeatcr-day were as follows: Louisville, 7; Chicago, 2. Cleveland, 11; Cincinnati, 1. Boston, 7; Baltimore, 6. Kansas City, 9; St. Paul, 4. The national games at New York, Brooklyn Brook-lyn and Pittsburg, and the Western at Omaha, Oma-ha, Columbus and Indianapolis were postponed post-poned on account of rain. A special to the Tribune under the San Francisco Chronicle series says: Jim Hall says he cannot consent to the request of the Olympic club to fight Fitzsimmons the same week that Sullivan and Corbett contend. He has made arrangements to make a tour of England, and the carrying out of his engagement engage-ment in that country will not permit him to get ready for the fight in September. He j does not expect any trouble in agreeing upou another date. (jueer minds these sluggers have. Fitzsimmons comes out over his own signature sig-nature in a Chicago paper and reiterates that Corbett cannot stop him in four rounds. He declares Corbett's defi all a bluff and that . he knew a tight in Chicago could not be pressed to a finish when he issued the proposition. |