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Show THE SPORTING WORLD, ! Richards the Coon Succeeds in Besting Paddy Welch. THE MILL LASTED FOUR ROUNDS. j An Ogden Unknown Wants to Meat th t Montana Kid Yesterday's Baseball Game Sporting Splinters. Frank Richards, the long armed coon km' Paddy Welsh engaged in a six-round con test in Mike Fitzgerald's gymnasium on Sat urday night. About two hundred wertl present. Welsh Mas evidently as full as , Boston goat on wash day when he came ill and from the start-he seemed to imagine that he was fightiug under London inj stead of QueensburyJ rules and that each of his arms was an axe. In the first round he went at I ichards with a rush swintring his mauleys like a man flagging an express train with a shirt. After tlie coon punched him in the windbag he clinched to save the jag of beer he had on him and was thrown. From that tine on he was not. in it aud in the fourth round a poke in the mouth floored him, and he was counted out. Richards deserves no credit for the victory. Fitzgerald Fitzger-ald preserved the best of order during the contest. Several other interesting bouts took place between amateurs. Salt Lake Won the Gane. The game between the. Salt Lake and Og-den Og-den base ball teams yesterday was not as fine as expected, owing to the high v ia) which prevailed. Tt was a slusin.g,'u'Ji from start to finish. Salt Lake touching'Tr Pitcher English for 12 hits, while Busby was? hit safe 11 times. Errors were as plentiful) as plums in September.Salt Lake being cred- itcd with 9, while Ogden was charged up with 10. The score by innings is as follows: fol-lows: Salt Lake 0 2 7 2 1 0 0 0 0 12! Ogden 4 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 10 Another game is being arranged, which will be played at Ggden. Sporting Splinterf, Spider Kelly admits that Billy Plimmer is too much for him. Jem Hall has challenged the winner of the Pritchard-Hall fight. A fight between Austin Gibbons and Stanton Stan-ton Abbott has been arranged. 4 Major Levy has arranged to get his ri bits for the coursing tournament from Cl fornia. Articles of agreement for the Fitzsimmons-Pritchard Fitzsimmons-Pritchard fight have been sent to England for Pritchard to sign. The teams which contested in the tug of war at Anaconda recently are now having a law suit over me siases. In the sport between the Ogden and Salt Lake gun clubs at Nelsons on Saturday, lb.3 former won by a score of 319 to 2S5. Voung Williams and Jack Lynott are billed for a four round set-to on Thursday night, the erent of the Williams-L&nge fight. Fred Johnson, the English champion, left Liverpool for America on Monday last. The Prince of Wales and Prince George saw him off. The sporting authorities on this side seem to think that Mr. Jackson is booked for a good licking at the hands of Mr. Slavin in London, towards the end of this mouth. An Ogden unknown has expressed his willingness to meet the Montana Kid in the Junction city and offers to put up a forfeit of $550. Mr. Unknown can be accommodated accommo-dated just as soon as he puts up the cash. The following is William O'Connor's somewhat unique challenge, to John Teenier: "I will row John Teemer at any time, for any sum, and at any distance he chooses to name." That doesn't leave Mr. Teemer any Chance to avoid the issue. Some time ago Tommy Warren, ex-foather-weight champion was matched to tight an unknown at Cripple Creek, Colorado. The unknown turns out to be "Spider" Weir. Both will try and make a fake tight but it is doubtful if the miners there will stand it. An interes'.insr bicycle race will take place In London on Monday, in which England, Ireland and America will take parL The race will give Zimmerman, America's champion, cham-pion, a chance to see what he can do with rmand, England's champion rider who, last year, made a record of 2:16 from a standing start. The relay bicycle ride from Chicago to New York, by means of which a government document signed by Major General Nelson A. Miles will be conveyed from army headquarters head-quarters at Chicago to Major General O. O. Howard at New York, will be started at 2 o'clock next Wednesday afternoou, regardless regard-less of the weather. One of the chief purposes pur-poses of the trial is, if possible, to make a record surpassing the possibilities of horsemanship horse-manship in actual military dispatch work. Ninety riders will take part in the race vrjjy. time between Chicago and Rochester. i'jJ(, riders have gone over their route in ordt- ro i become acquainted with the conditio 0 i the roads. . J |