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Show Sporting Splinters. The most noted sports in the world will sleep in New Orleans tonight. Some fine sport is promised at Garfield on Wednesday, when the Provo and Salt Lake oarsmen will contest for supremacy. The next fight at the Coney Island club will be on September 35, between Johnny Griffin and Jimmy Lynch. Griffiu money will not go begging at reasonable odds. A great many combination tickets have been sold in Salt Lakejtoriuy. The favorites are Sullivan, Dixon and Meyer or McAuliffe. There isn't much choice betweeD the la'tter, but Meyer seems to have a shade the best of it. The well-known Oxford saloon is arnin to the front in enterprise in sporting affairs. On Monday, the 5th, Tuesday, the 6th. and Wednesday, the 7th, the champion lights take place in New Orleans for light, middle and heavy weights. The Oxford saloon has the advantago of direct telegraphic communication commu-nication from New Orleans to Louisville, thence to Chicago, and from Chicago they have through special advantages of getting the news of the great events about to take place in New Orleans by special wire in the . house, and every round of each contest will be given by an operator in the Oxford saloon sa-loon on each evening. Random Opinions. Hurry Duke I have picked Skelly, McAuliffe. Mc-Auliffe. and Sullivan as winners. D. E. Barley Quote me as favoring Dixon, Meyer and Corbett.. P. J. Moran I am not an authority on prizefighting but I never straddle auy proposition. prop-osition. I name Sullivan Meyer and Dixon as the chiefs. Charley Stanton My wad is up on Sullivan Sulli-van and if there are any Corbett men left in town I will mortgage my September salary, John L. -XTay As I am a member of a church I cannot conscientiously allow my thoughts to wander to the roped arena, but must confess that I think almost as much of Sullivan as I do of myself. Mike Fitzgerahl Corbett is the man, my boy. Councilman Simondi I look upon pugilism as the most brutal of sports, but I will keep my eye on The Times for news of the mills just the same. W. S. Willi I believe that John L. is the greatest man America has ever produced. Elmer Ellsworth I have been too busy to look over the pugilistic field, but John L. is 1 my favorite. |