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Show j THE SPORTiNG WORLD. THE PEOPLES' THEATRE SECURED FOR THE LYXOTI IHOMPsOX MILL. ShaefTer Makes a Poor Showing Against ! Vlgnaux, the French Champion 1 Coming: Sporting Events. I 1 The managers of the Lynott-Thompson i mill hare secured the People's theater, o;i Commercial street, for the contest, whieb will come oil on July 28th. Sporting Splinter'. Budd Ooble, on being- asked to name the best and jramest horse on the turf today said: "Axtell for a stallion, Nancy Hanks for a mare and Direct for a pacer." Captain II. P. Pointer, the breeder of the noted pacer Hal Pointer, 2:09, died at Spring Hill, Tenn., last week. At the time of bis death he owned the dam of Hal Poin ter. Joe Darby, phenomenal English jumper. broke tho jumping record at Church, Eng- land, recently. Iu six back jumps In; cleared fifty-eight feet, beating the world's ' record by three feet. With ankles tied he r jumped six feet high, breaking his own record by two inches. He also beat the record for five hops and a jump. Bob Fitzsimraous has arrived at New Orleans Or-leans from San Francisco and will remain there a day or two,- preparatory to going", into training for his contest with the English Eng-lish iighter, O'Brif.n. Fitzsimnions is looking look-ing well. He weighs 102 pounds aud is apparently ap-parently in the best of health. He will train at Bay St. " Louis. The prices of admission ad-mission have been fixed by the Olympic club for the three pugilistic events in September as follows: For the Myer-McAuliffe contest on the 5th, general admission $7, reserved seats $10, boxes, six chairs in a box, 15; for the Fit7.simmons-0'Brien contest on the. 0th, general admission $10, reserved seats ?15, boxes, six chairs in a box. $120; for the Sullivan-Corbett contest on the 7th, general admission $15, reserved seats $20, six chairs in a box $150. Jack O'Brien, with his trainers and sec-conds, sec-conds, Jim Bevn and Bobby Habbijam, will sail for New York from Liverpool tomorrow. to-morrow. On O'Brien's arrival in New York he will deposit 200 guarantee and sign articles ar-ticles to tight Fitzsimnions. They will then proceed to their training quarters without delay. Habbijam, who will accompany O'Brien, is one of the best known sporting men in London, Advices from Paris report that Billiardist Jacob Sh.i'fer, who went to Paris to play Champion Frank Ives for the world's championship cham-pionship cup, secured an engagement direc- I'luusiiip uup, kuuicu an eu.ieujeiiL uirec- tly with his old rival, Maurice Yignaux, who is running a rival academy to the Folies Bergcre, which engaged Ives and Slosson. Shivfer had played no billiards since Ives won the cup from him in Chicago over two months ago and he showed his lack of practice in his first games with Yignaux. , The Frenchman rjlayed a balk-line game of 300 points ind beat Sh;efer 300 to 133 and afterward at cushion caroms administered a second defeat, making li5 whiie Shiefer was scoring 53. It is not yet settled when Shiefer will play the match with Ives, but ' it will be some time between the 20th and 25th inst. it is to be a five nights' match. A match race has been arranged as a feature fea-ture of the Janesville summer meeting, July 111 to 22. Manager, with the fastest 2-year-old record in the world. 2:11J, will go against Guy July 20 for 2500. Entries for the meeting closed today with a strong list. A special for 3:00 horses was added, books to close July 16. . The Dawson-Needham fitcht will take place in San Francisco on July 2tith. Harry Maynard, the ex-champion liirht weight, who is well known all over the coast, wants to re-enter the ring, and offers to fight the winner of the Dawson-Needham contest. Frank (Hover, the once noted puglist who fought Jack McAuliffe through twenty-four twenty-four awful rounds and fourteen rounds with Choynski, is now a victim of consumption, consump-tion, living in a small cottage near Elitch gardens, Denver. He weighs now only about 135 pounds. , . |