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Show THE WORLD OF SPORTS. The Postponement of the Williams-Turner Fight a Disappointment. HOW IT WAS LOOKED UPON HERE. "The Times" Special Told the Whole Story Kaces at the West Side Track " Yesterday Sporting Splinters. Jim Williams' friends could hardly realize that their favorite had been knocked out by malarial fever, and notwithstanding The Times special, many of them gathered at the telegraph office and sporting headquarters headquar-ters last night in the hope that th6 report might be exaggerated and that the Utah champion mitrht enter the ring after all. Of course they were doomed to disappointment, and the news received fully confirmed the report that Williams was a very sick man and that the fight was declared off. Considerable Consid-erable money had been wagered here on the result of the battle, but it wasn't a drop in the bucket compared with the amount put up in San Francisco. The money will all be returned, as it is uncertain when the fight will take place, it having been indefinitely postponed. When Williams found that he was sick, it was in keeping with his disposition to try and conceal his condition from Delancey Wilson, his manager, aud it is fortunate that the disease dis-ease prostrated him before the eventful night, otherwise, in his condition, he would have been simply a chopping block for the stroug colored man. Some people affect to believe that Williams' Wil-liams' sickness was only feigned. We do not think that for a moment, nor can such a suspicion be justified. He was very anxious anx-ious to get this tight, as he wauted to test himself, aud become a full-fledged professional profes-sional or retire from the ring, as the result might dictate. Then, when 'he knew as much about Turner as possibly could be learned without meeting hiin in the roped arena, he made a heavy side bet on himself. Williams has spent all his life here in these mountains, and the sudden chauge to San Francisco was too much for him. We look to see this light come off yet and to see Williams win it. Yesterday's Kaces. Rather a small crowd witnessed the raees at the West Side track yesterday afternoon. The betting was very light, although the three events furnished some fair sport. Sporting Splinters. Jim Corbett and Jim Daly boxed at Red Bank, N. J., last week for charity. The Coney Island Athletic club offers a $3000 purse for a battle between Ed Binney of Boston and Alex Greggains of California. George Wheelock offered $35,000 in cash for Yo Tambien, the peerless queen of the turf, last week, but Chris Smith wouldn't think of it. Frank McIIugh, the 114-pound boxer of Cincinnati, has at last got on a match. He is to tight Pat Garrity of New York, for $500 and a purse of flOOOl George Godfrey announced yesterday that he is still in harness and would like to get on a match with "Joe" Goddard, the Australian, Aus-tralian, who recently defeated "Joe" McAul-iffe McAul-iffe in California-Billy California-Billy Hawkins of Des Moines, la., 140 pounds, knocked out Jack Nolan of St. Louis, 138 pounds, in the fourth round of their glove fight at Des Moines on Tuesday night of last week. Jim Corbett Js said to be -using large quantities of champagne in his training. Californians, however, believe that the long headed fighter started the report in order to make the betting 2 to 1 against him. Mr. Marcus Daly's $20,000 imported colt by Hampton, out of Cherry, arrived in this country Wednesday. He was shipped to Byrnes, trainer for Mr. Daly, and the latter, after a suitable period, will train the youngster young-ster for his racing career. The mile and a sixteenth record, broken Tuesday by Yo Tambien, belongs to Chicago. Aloha and Van Buren tied the best previous mark at 1 :46. Aloha erained his at Washington Wash-ington park on July 13 last year, and one mouth later Van Buren duplicated it at Garfield park. A London special to a New Y'ork paper quotes Jacob Schaefer, the billiard player, regarding the postponement of his match with Ives, as follows; "Ives refused to play the match outside of the F'olies Bergeres and I refused to play outside of Vignaux's saloon. sa-loon. For the present the match is off." The final deposit of $500 a side in the international in-ternational wrestling match for $2000 'between 'be-tween Ernest Roeber and Apollon, champion of France, was posted Wednesday. Interest is manifested In this match for the Frenchman French-man comes here well recommended. He is in training in East New Y'ork. Roeber is in William Muldoon's hands at Belfast. The men are to wrestle Grwco-Roman style, best two in three falls, at the Academy of Music next Monday night. For some time John Ward and Gil Ward, of New York, both members of the famous Ward crew of years ago, nagged each other about their merits as oarsmen, and they finally decided to row a race and settle the point in double, light working boats. It came off on July 20, and Josh chose his cousin, Edward Ward, to go with him, and Gil chose Dan Ward, brother of Ed. The race occurred at Cornwall, in the afternoon over a mile and a half course. They had a good eveu start and 500 feet from the line Josh drew away and was never headed afterwards, after-wards, winning by four lengths in 13 minutes, min-utes, 5 seconds. The latestdevice forharness racing, known as the bicycle sulky, scored a triumph at De-triot De-triot Thursday afternoon when three crack trotters' made sensational miles by Its aid. Rnrlrl Dohle u-ot the affair Wednesdav from Boston, and befng rather skeptical about it, let Ed Geaa try it first. The Village farm trainer was already favorably disposed to the use of the pneumatic tire and ball bearing axle, so thaf when he worked Excellence in it four seconds faster tnan he could go with ordinary wheels, he decided to try it in a race. The 2:17 trot, which Honest George should have won Wednesday in straight heats, was still to be decided and the big gelding drew the queer looking vehicle with little effort in 1:16, half a second below the record he made Wednesday. That convinced Doble and he hitched Jack tj the small wheels, the famous gray going the fastest race of his life and landing the free-for-all-trot in the best time ever made for four con- I secutive heats. Nancy Hanks also went her mile in it, but as she was not ia good form the test in her case was not a fair one, though she trotted in 2 -11, making the first three-quarters in better than a 2:10 gait. |