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Show team named will after winning seTeral vie- 1 tories challenge any club in Utah. At least so says Charlie Stanton. The Pittsburg- Chronide-TeUflraph tells a hard tale on Corbett. It says: "Corbett has been raking the country for two months past with a man named McVey. He is the show's property man and baggage hustler, but generally gen-erally gets up in a crowd on the first night and challenges Corbett to meet him. A go is arranged and then McVey is billed as an 'Unknown,' a 'Dangerous Blacksmith,' the 'Soho Crasher,' or something else. At Chicago, Chi-cago, April 23, McVey went on as 'McCann, the Chicago Blacksmith.' He went out according ac-cording to schedule time. Corbett will not deny this." James Corbett, the young man who will fight John L. Sullivan at New Orleans In September, will go into training at Asbury Park, June 8, with Mike Donovan as trainer. Jim will work until three davs before the light when he will depart for the Crescent City in a special train consisting of an engine, en-gine, baggage car and coach fitted up as a gymnasium and sleeper. He will ship a lot of water from Asbury Park to New Orleans in order to avoid any inconvenience which . might arise from a change. Sullivan will begin training under the direction of Jack Ash ton on Long Island, June 11, and he will work up to a short time prior to the fight. AMONG THE SPORTS- Some Pertinent Gossip Abont the Sla-vin-Jackson Fight. AUSTRALIAN "SMITH'S" OPINION. He Believes the White Man Can Whip Any of the Big Ins Splinters Splin-ters of Sport. The coming battle between Frank Slavin and Peter Jackson has called forth the following fol-lowing very elegant expression from that Australian authority on sporting matters, the only "Smith" who says anent Slavin: "Years ago, before Frank P. Slavin had won a really big fight, I was asked to write some doggerel on the man I considered the coming champion. I picked Paddy Slavin and tipped him to whip Farnham under the Australian flag, Jem Smith under the English En-glish flag, Jackson under whatever flag they might meet, aud John L. Sullivan under the shadow of the stars aud stripes." That was a big assertion to make with one exception, Jem Smith, for a more overrated, big tub of intestines and wind never stepped iuside a ring than he. As to Farnham, Smith took chances iu prognosticating a victory for Slavin over him. The latter at one tito-whipped tito-whipped Jackson and was a real clever fel-j low. But at that time Peter Jackson wasl not the man he is now, while Slavin is no better than he was at the time he fought! Farnham. Some sporting authorities contend that in pugilism there is no such thing as a chance blow, but the writer hereof takes issue and' declares that there is. In the fight with Farnham the latter's foot slipped on the floor, and taking advantage of the opportunity opportu-nity offered ,Slavin delivered so tremendous a body blow that his opponent was internally injured. In fact, that blow, even according to Smith, caused Farnham's death. Slavin's record is a fair one. He whipped Joe McAuliffe in two rounds and Jake Kil-rain Kil-rain in nine. Jackson took a little more time to do his man, when he and thebigCal-ifornian thebigCal-ifornian met, but he got there all the same. While Slavin can claim some creditfor whipping whip-ping Kilrain. Peter points to Joe Godfrey, Cardiff and Goddard. His only mistake lay in not besting Coi bett. The two men fight on a different plan altogether. al-together. Slavin is a rusher. He goes in to whip his man from the start. Jackson is a fellow who can wait. He is quick as a cat, too and being a practiced ring general will doubtless give Frank a chance to work awhile before assuming the offensive. The Australian writer says that in a mill between be-tween Slavin and Sullivan it would simply be a question of who lands first. He might have made the same application as regards the coming mill. And he might have added that if Jackson fights a waiting fight that he will win for he is quick enough to keep out of Slavin's way while acting on the defensive. de-fensive. Sporting Splinters. Joe Burns the wrestler is matched for a contest with Ben Jones of Denver. Jack Davis of Omaha will probably be matched to fiht Australian Billy Smith. George Godfrey and Joe Lannon are hard at work training for their approaching mill. Billy Woods, who recently defeated Jack Davis of Omaha, wants to fight Ed Smith of Denver. Jem Smith, ex-champion of England, was recently knocked out by a kick from a horse. He was taken home insensible. George Kessler of Butte is looking for a fight with Dave Campbell of Oregon. George had best stick to his profession as telegraph lineman. Johnnie Payne, a Cincinnatti bookmaker, offers to back Frank Mcllugh, against any 114 pound man in the world for $."00 the weighing to be done at the ring side. Chris Non Der Ahe says he wants thin men in his base ball team ; that fat boys are no good. In this Chris is very unlike Julius Caesar, deceased. Jule wanted men that were fat. Mike Fitzgerald has fitted up a room in the rear of his Mirror saloon for sporting events. A magnificent sixteen foot ring has been constructed and a seating capacity of 100 provided for. The regular meeting of the Wheel club will be held this evening at the rooms of the president, Harry R. Browne,iu the Commercial Commer-cial bank block, at which time the annual certificate will be prepared and forwarded to the headquarters of the League of American Wheelmen at Boston. The date for the Wllliams-Lange contest has been changed to May 17th, and Walkers' pavilion has been secured for the occasion. A number of interesting preliminaries have been arranged, and among those who will participate are Herbert Slade, Ed Noble, the Montana Kid, Frank Richards, Steve Davis, J. Lynch, Henry Williams, Ed Lynott, Oscar Block, Jim Hays, Pat Welsh and Tug Wilson. Wil-son. The most sensational ball contest on record was the one played on Friday last between Cincinnati and Boston on the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati grounds. Fourteen innings were played without either making the circuit when the game was called on account of darkness. Both clubs played phenominal ball and each totaled the same number of bases. It was a game replete with sharp brilliant playing. A game of ball will be played on Friday afternoon at 4 p. m. between the old Deseret team and a nine from the Desert university. The former team is composed of Pendleton, pitcher; Holden, catcher; Stanton(Charlie,)' first base; Coffin, second base; Gardner, third base; Dull, short stop; Griffin, center field; Downey, right field; Gries, left field. Admission free and everybody invited Tae |
