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Show tho past three months and a break was bound to come sooner or later. Daly has said a great many things which annoyed his employer. One statement made by Daly to aparty of Sports in New Orleans was rather funny. He told them that Co.-bett had given him a check for $10,000 as a token of his esteem. When Corbett reached town today, he was asked w hy he persisted in punching Daly when they were giving exhibitions. This was the reason given for the Philadelphian quitting the combination. "I'll tell you," Corbett said: 'Daly was never hit very hard, and it was not because of my puuehing powers that he got out. i Daly is going into the business of book-making book-making in Buffalo. He has been anxiou to invest his money in something ever since the tight. I hope he will be successful." " Manager Prady telegraphed Prof. John Donaldson to go to New York at once. He will arrive "there tomorrow. Donaldson sparred through the country with Corbett before his fight with Jackson, aud was in the Californian's corner on that occasion, as he was at New Orleans. Receipts ot' the Fistic Carnival. So much has been said and written about tbe profits of tho New Orleans Olympic Olym-pic club on the contests of fistic festival week that the following report by the chairman chair-man of the contest committee, covering the dates September 5, 6 and 7, will prove interesting. inter-esting. The figures are absolutely correct and come from the books of the club: MYEE AXD Jl'AUI.IFFE. 171 box coats, J15 $ 2,505 00 651 reserved eeuts, to $10 G,M0 00 20T1 general aduiiiou, q, $7.. 14,497 00 7 i-ubscriterst k'U.feSt.yO. 34 30 . 790 members t ckets, j. S'-. . 00 tibO complimentary tickets 4;.o0 Total admission $-25,196 30 DIXON ASDjSKElXY. J-i2 box seats, ?, $10 1,200 00 Hi i reserved seats, ("! $7.50... 4,515 00 1757 general admission, 0. 5. . i,75 00 9 subscribers t'k'ts, 5- 3.50. 8150 751 members tickets, '. , 1,503 00 K"H complimentary tickets FALL TOURNAMENT. It Will Bring: Out the Best Athletic Talent. : -' - DUFFY PROPOSES NEW RULES To Ciovern Future FItic Encounters Yesterday's Race-Ia1 v"s Head 1m Swelled The Olympic Club's Iteeeipts From the Three Fight The Iiutte Athletic lnb Will Offer a Purse of tSlO.OOO The JLateat Sporting ts. Dave Levey is meeting with much encouragement encour-agement from those interested in outdoor sports in his efforts to get up an athletic tournament to take place in November. It is intended to make this the most interesting interest-ing affair of the kind ever held in this region, and the programme will be of such a varied character as to attract all who are in any way interested in sports. Prizes of sufficient value to bring out the best talent will be offered. of-fered. It is expected that a meeting of the promoters of tho scheme will be held next week. "ew Prize Ring Rules. The Cincinnati EmpMrer says: There is a wide difference of opinion among sporting men as to tho interpretation of the rules which are generally supposed to govern !ontests in the modern prize ring. In some clubs wrestling, clinching and the roughest kind of fighting arc allowed, and the contests approach the old-time prize lights very closely. Professor John Duffy is iu favor of barring such practices as 'Shouldering, " elbowing and clinching, which are so common nowadays. 4003 Total admission $16,0S3 50 SULLIVAN AND COKCETT. 2-J3 boiJ?.S5 5.5" 00 b :il reserved seats Cd. $M 2o,tW0 IK) ICiSd general admission (, 1j 21',7'JO 00 lij Mibrribeis' tickets frf, W.M 168 00 Sc3 uie m bers1 tickets ((( $5.. 4,165 00 fcW4 complimentary tickets iVri Total admission $ 60,318 00 Grand total $101,507 80 Amount of expenses as per statement on file , .$10,407 88 Ain't puree Mver-MeAulilfe.. 10.0J0 (K) Ain't purte Jbxon-Skellv T.50J 00 Am't purse Sullivan-Corbett. 26,000 1)0 Total expenses S.&K- S3 Amount net prolit S1-.649 92 Joseph L. SroRL, Secretary. 'tw Ouleans, Sept. 2i, ibW. Prof. Dully was referee of the Sullivan-Corbett Sullivan-Corbett fight, and has officiated in a like capacity ca-pacity at nearly every important glove contest con-test which has taken place in or near the Crescent City during the past two years, lie is competent therefore to give an expert opinion as to the many alterations which the present rules need. A set of rules has been drawn up by Trof. Duffy. L pon these lines he has invariably acted. Although the Olympic club never had rules, save a revised set of those originally origin-ally given to the world by the Marquis of tjueensberry, the contestant in all the lights held in the arena of that organization have always been instructed as to what the club considered fair lighting. Prof. Duffy has put his ideas on the subject Into shape, and suggests that the following be called tho "AMERICAN GLOVE CONTEST KULE3." The Knee', Yesterday's races were hardly as good as on the opening day. The sport opened with the postponed heat of the haif-whu dash, which w as taken handily by Flora E., the winner of the first heat, and thus gave her the race. Ivan took the 2:45 special trot, winning the first, third and fourth heats, the other starters being Charley A., Dnisy Sherman and George L. Time, 2:32, 3:31JS', 2:36. The three-ijuarter-mile dash was won by Blue Bird. Time, 1:23. An excellent programme has been arranged ar-ranged for this afternoon. Sporting: Splinters. Tho Butte Athletic club has decided to offer $750 for a rock drilling contest. Arrangements will be made to offer a $10,000 purse for a fight between Goddard. First Tho contest is to be a fair, stand i up boxing contest, in a twenty-four foot ring, or as nearly that size as possible; the ropes and stakes in the ring to be padded. Spcond The rounds to be of three minutes' min-utes' duration, with one minute's rest between. be-tween. Third No hugging, clinching, wrestling, "shouldering," "elbowing," "heeling," "back-heeling," shall be allowed. Should any contestant violate any of these rules it shall be the duty of the referee to caution him, and for second offense such contestant shall be liable to disqualification. Persist- t ent "hugging," "shouldering" or "elbow- ' ing" shall be deemed foul fighting, just as 'heeling" or "back-heeling" is. Fourth It shall be deemed a foul if one contestant strikes another beiow the belt or while tbe latter is down. A man is to be Choyuski, Fitzsimuions, Hall or some of the other top notchers. Zimmerman regards training as very laborious work aud does not recommend it to those who ride for pleasure. He rode over 1200 miles before he won a race this season. The champion favors the hard rubbing rub-bing afler each race and says there is no .drink so refreshing as slightly sweetened cool tea with a little lemon juice in it. Except in color, Johnny Griflln is said to be almost a counterpart of George Dixon. The crack 2-year-old King Lee is being made the subject of a lawsuit between James E. Maddox, brother-in-law of the Scoggan Brothers, and Xick Finzer, who advanced ad-vanced $10,000 for the purchase of the colt, . agreeing to take his money out of the winnings win-nings of the horse. If England is to maintain her reputation as the crack racing country in the cycling world, we must hustle a bit. With such men as Zimmerman. Kademaker, Protin, Berlo, Taylor and others beating our best times, it behooves us to be on the lookout. Cycling. The new cash prize racing league scheme looks verry pretty on paper, but it is a long way from perfection and it is not likely that the cash prize system wiil come in that way. No. monopoly of the business similar to the baseball leagues can ever be maintained. At Springfield Zimmerman won, besides the $1000 team and carriage, a $'i5 'diamond, $50 suit of clothes, piano lamp and a diamond dia-mond stud. Tyler captured a $200 diamond and a clock. Windle gathered in a $100 diamond, dia-mond, a $75 diamond and a Keating safety. Taylor's prizes were a diamond ring and a $40 diamond. Nelson of Springfield also secured a big share of the plunder. O. P. Caylor, in the New York Herald, says that "J. Waller Spalding, by his suggestion to build bicycle tracks on all the league ball grounds, has struck baseball the hardest blow it has received 6ince the Players league disbanded. His plan, besides being impracticable, is looked upon by tho baseball base-ball public as a confession from one of the mainstays of th league that the game is i financially dead. He has certainly thereby sent abroad the impression that baseball in itself is at last non-supporting and must have the help of some outside athletic attraction attrac-tion to make the business at the various baseball grounds pay expenses." When Nancy HanKs trotted in 2:04 at Terre Haute last Wednesday, she did tbe first quarter in 31. a 2:04 clip, the second quarter in 3IJ4 (2:07), the third quarter in 29 ,l,2', at the rate of a mile in 1:58, and finished in 31?i. When Mascot paced in 2:04 over the same track the next day, his quarters were us follows: 32,l4', 31', 29, 31, the third quarter being at the rate of a mile in 1 :57. the floor or Is lying on the ropes with his feet off the floor. It shall be optional with the referee to dlsqnalify a boxer for a first or second violation of this rule. Fifth When a man is down his opponent shall not be-allowed to stand over him, but must step back at least six feet, the referee to measure the distance. Ten seconds shall be allowed a fallen boxer to regain his feet, and it shall be the duty of the referee to count off the aforesaid ten seconds aloud. Should said boxer fail to arise at the expiration expira-tion of ten seconds, his opponent shall be declared tbe wimer. Sixth No tampering with the gloves shall be permitted, ard the referee shall examine them on the hands of the contestants before the contest begins, to satisfy himself that the padding has not been pushed back from the knuckles. Should the glove burst or come off. it shall be replaced to the referee's satisfaction. A contestant shall not be al- j lowed to wear shoes with spikes. Seventh The seconds or handlers shall do j no coaching while the contcstis in progress, nor shall they be permitted to throw water on their principal or apply any restorative until the round is ended. Nor the seconds be allowed in the ring excepting during the j minute's rest between the rounds. Eighth A contestant shall not be allowed to fall to avoid punishment. The referee shall caution him for a first offense against this rule and may disqualify such contestant con-testant for a second offense. Ninth The pivot blow shall be deemed a foul. "These rule may be improved upon." said Professor Duffy tonight, "but 1 think they embody a great many of the points which SllOli.l HAVECAt SED COM-VEXT. Hugging, shouldering and elbowing is becoming be-coming so common now that something really should be done. It is not fighting by long bhot, and 1 do not believe that sporting sport-ing men care to see these tricks played. "If it comes down to a question ot which of two men can do the greater damage with his elbow or his shoulder, why not let them take luailets into the ring and be done with it? Glove fighting is becoming more and more popular as a sport every year, and one of the reisous for this, I think, is the fact that the brutality which characterized the old prize ring affairs is not seen nowadays. "It is a manly sport, but foul fighting will do it lots of harm if it is countenanced? : Science is cutting a greater figure in the , game now than before the force and age of roughing and back-heeling is past." "1 do not wish to criticise a referee," said i the Crescent City man, "but I know that the fact that Al iStnith permitted Griflin to stand over Lynch when the latter was down caused i no little dissatisfaction. I believe that a man should be given a fair chance to rise I after he is knocked down. Take, for in- I fttunre. Osmond, the English crack, who was frightened from the track by Zimmerman's appearance on British soil, recently had a try at Ede's 50-mile record. He found on his forty-second mile that he could not do the trick and abandoned the effort. His rido was not in vain, however, as he established new records from 26 to 41 miles. His time for the latter distance was 1 :50:21 2-5, nearly 15 minutes better than Ede's time. Speaking of tin; best surface for race tracks, Scheltema-Beduin favors cement and says: "I "have raced and fallen on cement tracks at Amsterdam, Arnhem and elsewhere for years, and I would rather fall on cement than on either gravel or cinders; and as to the pace obtainable, there is no question. Sturm, an ordinary rider, used to do 2m. 20s., for a mile at Armheni. A singular accident happened to the brown stallion Dictator, now in France. The horse had just been trotting at Capelle on Sunday and was returning to Dieppe to take part in a race, when, between Freenay and Atiigny, about 8 p. el, with the train going 37 miles an tiour, the side door of the car opened and the horse jumped out. The train stopped at Aisigny aud an engine was sent back to look for the horse, who was found quietly munc-ing munc-ing away in a wheat field about twelve feet below the embankment over which he had fallen. Wonderful to relate, he bad suffered but littlo from bis fall, tbe only damage done was a few scratches and a split in bis right nostril. "I awful sorry," said Jim Corbett a few days ago, "that I have been misquoted regarding re-garding my alleged parting with Jim Daly. We did not have any argument or dispute. Daly simply left me to better himself. Daly ha got a little money and believes he could do better than sparring with me. He invested in-vested it in a pool room in Buffalo. He intends in-tends to make his home there and leave the fighting business altogether. This is all that has occurred between Daly and myself." a - - I ' I THE HALI.-PKJTC1TARD TIGHT. 'Hall proved himself to be a better man 1 than Pritchard by long odds, yet he came within an ace of being counted out simply because Pritchard would not give him a chance to rise. Hall was knocked down, but the blow did him little harm. That is shown by the fact that he punched Pritchard as he liked upon regaining his feet. There w ould have been a high old time if the man at the w atch had called off one more second. This is likely to happen any time when one man is permitted to stand over an opponent who is down. "Another thing that should be stopped is the practice of throwing water at a man in tbe ring and coaching h'm. It does the fighter little good anyway, and cool-headed seconds never do it. As for the pivot-blow," lie continued," that Is no blow at all. Why, It would be lust as fair to permit a boxer to take a club in the ring and use it. The blow almost invariably catches the man at whom it is directed with the armor elbow. The I back of the glove seldom lands. That is how LaBlanche whipped Dempsey, by landing on his jaw with lils elbow. He might just as well have used a heavy ax-handle. It would ' have been just as fair for Dempsey." j Daly's Mead is Swelled. ' Billy Delaney, Jim Corbett'i trainer, says , that Jim Daly brought on a good punishing I by his own actions. "Daly'a friends have : tieen telling him playfully that he could lick Corbett," said the trainer tonight, "and t really began to look as though Daly thought himself that he could stop Jim. He ' va aware of the fact that Corbett' s right band wis sore, and tried his best to take advantage ad-vantage of the champion. He caught Jim a clip on tbe jaw which broke off one of his teeth. Then Jim sailed in and gave Daiy ihe trouncing he richly deserved, and then Daly very sensibly left the show." The announcement that Jim Daly had thrown up his job as sparring partner to J im Corbett was not a surprise to local sporting tien. They hav had many a "tiff" during |