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Show with a smile, "but that may be it. Iam in no mood to hurry Sunol. The season has been backward and I shall give the mare plen'y of time before I put her to any severe test." SPORTING SPLINTEKS. nanlan wants to make a match for himself and O'Connor against Gaudaur and Hosmer. Sim'MeKeon reccntlv offered to Dlace $30,000 on Sullivan Rt Si" 00 to S0. He was told that the best he eculd get was $100 to $00, and finally agreed to take that. Bob Fitzslmmons believes Sullivan will defeat Corbett easily in the coming fight, but should he not doso, and Corbett win by a lluke, the Australian proposes to challenge the Californian. Fitz is also confident that Dixon will defeat Skelly. Jimmy Carroll seems to have returned to his admiration for Bob. In speaking of him today Carroll said; "There aro only three men in the profession that would stand a ghost of a chance to defeat Fitz. They are Jackson, Sullivan and Corbett. Outside of these three Bob could make a monkey of the whole set." McAulirTe is training well, but maintains secrecy about his boxing, and 'will not box in public or allow anyone to see his sparring. spar-ring. A number of people who have gone to Bay St. Louis to see him train have been greatly disappointed by this secrecy. Mc-Auliffe Mc-Auliffe seems to be especially desirous that no one should know his ring tactics. The World's Athletic association will erect a hotel and pavilion at Chicago and have this connected with au amphitheater having a seating capacity of 50,000. The idea is to JOE GODDARD COMING THE BARRIER CHAMPION WANTS TO SPAR IN SALT LAKE, Rat Will FWbablj- Xot . Have a Clianee to Io !o An Interesting Description of the tireat Amphitheater Amphi-theater in Xfw Orleans Fitz-fcinunon'8 Fitz-fcinunon'8 Ultimatum The Trotting Ileeord Dixon Is Happy General Sporting Venn. Joe Goddard, the barrier champion who recently defeated Joe McAulifle, has written Colonel Kelley stating that he will be iu Salt Lake towards the end of the week and asking ask-ing that arrangements be made for him to give an exhibition here. Of course the colonel will not undertake anything of the kind, on account of the attitude of the powers pow-ers that be toward this form of athletics. The Australian will be given a reception, however, and when he resumes his journey to the Crescent City Colonel Kelley will accompany ac-company him. Both will witness the Sullivan-Corbett Sullivan-Corbett match, and Goddard will challenge the winner at the ringside to tight for the championship of the world and any amount of lucre. PREPARING FOR THE CROWDS. have visiting athletic associations stay at the hotel and have all the World's fair athletic ath-letic entertainments given in the amphitheater. amphithe-ater. It is estimated the improvement will cost about 4tM(,(H.w. Necessary ground has already been leased. Corbett will be given a testimonial on the athleti c grounds at Asbury park on August "A), ten days before he starts for New Or-leans. Or-leans. The testimonial will take the form of an athletic carnival, in which the great lighter will be the star attraction. There will be thirteen events, of which Corbett will enter three the half-mile run, a sparring spar-ring bout with Jim Daly and a wrestling match with some man of national reputation. reputa-tion. William A. Brady has the affair . in charge. Professor Kocap, the amateur champion boxer, visited Corbett yesterday, I and ssid that he was in far better shape than Sullivan. It is understood that Trof. John DufTey has been selected by the Olympic club as referee for the three great glove contests to take place September 5, 6 aud 7. Dixon arrived ar-rived at New Orleans yesterday afternoon, and has since been in the hands of prominent promi-nent colored people. He has been royally treated and feels assured of fair play, although al-though told in the North it would not be safe for him there. Jack Havlin and Tom O'Rourke accompany him and all are confident confi-dent of an essy victory. Dixon weighs US pounds and will only train for strength and wind. He goes to Biloxi tomorrow and will train there. English sporting men are in a quandary Extensive preparations are being made in New Orleans for the three great tights which come off there on the 5th, 6th and 7th of next month. The Olympic club is pushing work on tbe amphitheater where the battles will take place. The structure will be much larger and more handsomer than that erected for the Maher-Fitzsimmons fight. The arena will be the same, the club deciding that it was better to make no change, but to enlarge and otherwise improve the old arena. It is at least 40 per cent larger than the old one, with a still greater increase in its seating capacity. A large number of additional seats have been placed above the others so as to command a good view of the ring and be no obstruction to anyone's view. The arena, when completed, will seat 10,000 persons. per-sons. Fifty large arc lights will illuminate the arena, and au automatic gong made on the most improved plans will be one of the additions to the apparatus now in use. It will not only time the lighters in each round and the rest between the rounds, but w hen a man is knocked down will strike ten seconds so as to be heard in all parts of the arena. It will be in a place where all can see it, and will be a convenience to those who care to keep up with the time. The number of applications for tickets made so far gives assurance of a crowded arena at each light. Already there has been sold $40,000 worth of seats. exclusive of general gen-eral admission scats, the sale of which will eral admission seats, the sale of which will not begin until the 3d of September. The secretary, Mr. Ross, and his assistants are kept busy answer ng communications and applications for seats, which are coming in from all over the world. One of the features of the interest awakened awak-ened in this triple event of the Olympic's is the facilities aftorded the newspapers. Some of the papers will have boxes with special wires to be connected with the office of the paper, to which the fight will be telegraphed tele-graphed round by round. All the railroads running into the city will give reduced rates to the fight. Two days after the sale of tickets tick-ets and seats had opened in Cincinnati, the Queen & Crescent railroad sold 300 and the Louisville & Nashville 250, and the sale in other cities is proportionately large. Excursion Excur-sion trains from 2Tew York will be run through by the Manhattan and New York athtetic clubs, and one or two perhaps by private individuals. From Chicago and Cincinnati Cin-cinnati through trains will also be run. About twenty-five Salt Lakers will be at the ringside. DIXON HA 3 XO FEARS. George Dixon arrived at his training quarters quar-ters at Biloxi, Miss., this morning. "While in New Orleans last week the bantam-weight champion visited the principal places In the city, and so overjoyed was the little fellow aUthe reception accorded him that he sent a cablegram "to his firm friend, Peter Jackson, telling him of the kind treatment he re- over the fcullivan-Corbett tight. Corbett is now slightly the favorite on account of Peter Jackson having given it as his opinion that Corbett can hit hard enough for ail prize-ring prize-ring practical purposes. It is prize-ring history that Corbett fought Jackson to a standstill, aud then Jackson looms up again and defeats Frank P. Slavin, whom every one deemed invincible after he had defeated Jake Kilrain. Charley Mitchell says Sullivan Sulli-van should win if he only enters the ring in condition. Frank P. Slavin says he never witnessed Sullivan fight, but from the stand he made with Mitchell and Kilrain he should defeat Corbett, unless the latter surprises the sports and turns out a wonder. KNIGHTS OF THE SILEXT STEED. The boys are ready for another race. Harry Mayo will soon be riding a safety again. Professor Davis thinks of getting a pneumatic. pneu-matic. Rhodes will go for the 100-mile world's record on the Parkside track on August Buffalo isn't a half bad sort of a town. It expects to send SUM) wheelmen to the league meet in Chicago next year. The number of wheelmen in Salt Lake has increased considerably during the past thirty days. Waller has been guilty of the statesman's indiscretion. He has written a letter. The champion for a day at the twenty-four hour ceived. Dixon stated that Jackson doubtless doubt-less would arrive in the Crescnt City in time to see the three fights and would second sec-ond him. Toall his beat friends he has sent word that he has no fear of not getting fair play. Dixon has gained several pounds and now weighs 118 pounds. O'Rourke, Dixon's backer, will have his charge" working in a day or so. BOB'S ULTIMATUM. Lanky Bob Fitzsimmens, who is now in St. Louis, will soon branch out in the theatrical theat-rical business, aud he expresses the opinion that as soon as he does so Hall will pester the life out of him with challenges, which it will be impossible for him to acc,epL He has accordingly laid down the ultimatum that he will consider no challenges at all from Hall unless the latter backs them up at once with $2500 and is willing to make a side bet of ?0000. Fitz thinks that Pritchard will whip Hall in the coming fight, but greatly doubts whether there will be any fight. He had begun training when the O'Brien match fell through. He stopped his heavy work, but has been doing light training, train-ing, so that no pugilist will be "able to take advantage of him by a sudden challenge, thinking him not iu condition. THE TROTTIXG RECORD. Will the trotting record be broken in 1892V is a question tliat has frequently been asked of late by horsemen. Nanoy Hanks has tried to reduce the figures and failed, under circumstances that indicate that this 'declares that he will ride 425 miles on the Alameda track in Califofnra some time in September and recover the honor which he lost to Spooner and which Spooner lost to Shorland and James. Wr. C. Thome, of the racing board, says that an amateur may pace a professional, or may be paced by him in a ride against time in which no prize Is to be awarded and to witness which performance no admission fee is charged. W. C. is authority on this Tooseiy and indefinitely understood matter, which first had its origin in the announcement announce-ment that West, the Miuette's club trainer, who is a professional, was to be paced and was paced by amateurs in the course of his abandoned twenty-four-hour ride. SPRINTERS AT PLEASANT GROVE. The sporting fraternity was treated to a fine exhibition of sprinting; at Pleasant Grove Saturday evening. A young fellow from that place, Baxter by name, had defeated de-feated Stephen Chipmnn, a local runner, the week previous, and, with his backers, came over a few days afterward, boasting of the deed and offering to nut up a couple hundred hund-red dollars that it could be done again. Chipman quietly covered Baxter's money aud arranged to run a horse with another arty at the same time. Baxter was beaten about six feet in the footrace and Chipman's horse ran fast enough to get to the end of 1 the stretch first. In the day's eveuts Chip- man is ahead about 1300. Other races are talked of for the near future. mare is out of candidacy for the highest honors. Palo Alto has died, and Allerton has gone lame. Maud S. is being bred, and what trotter is left to attempt, let alone to achieve, t6e breaking of the record? The only answer is "Sunol." To ascertain if Mr. Bonner would permit his queenly mare to undertake the task, a reporter called upou that ycntleman Tuesday aud presented the question to him. "I am not quite prepared to answer you specifically," replied Mr. Bonner. "I think that what you say a'bout Sunol's being the only trotter left to try the thing is tbe right idea, but I don't sec why I should be in a hurry. I now hold the two best records, Sunol's 3:084 ou kite-shaped track, and Maud S.'s 2:0S?4 on the circular. Why should 1 not be content, for the time being at least? Still I may do something later in the season. It will not be before the latter part of September or early in October. Perhaps Per-haps if you come and see me in two weeks I may be able to let you know of some definite defi-nite programme that has been agreed upon." "Of course, it would be Sunol to break the record if you do make up sueb. a programme?" pro-gramme?" "I won't say now," replied Mr. Bonner |