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Show THE SPORTING WORLD. THE DENVER BALL TOSSERS EASILY DEFEAT THE HOME TEAM. The Visitors to Play at Ogden Joe McAuliffe Mc-Auliffe to Go on the Police Force AVeir to Fight Murphy. The Denver ball tossers easily defeated the home team yesterday by a 6corc of 7 to 3. The visitors play Ogden tomorrow and will return! o Salt Lake towards the end of the week. sporting splinters. It is likely that Dixon aud Plimmer will make a match. The Coney Island club beared $15,000 in the Dixon-Johnson fight. Ike Weir, the Belfast Spider, has gone to Frisco to fight Johnny Murphy. The Harvard men in Salt Lake haven't got much to say since the Blues trailed the Crimson in the dust. Jim Corbett was anxious to have Jim Daly meet Bob Fitzsiinmons at New Orleans the first week in September, but the Olympic club announces that Jack O'Brien, the Welsh champion, will battle the middie-. middie-. weight champion on that occasion. The following wagers were made in New Orleans last week in the three fights which come off at the Olympic club iu the first week in September: Three thousand dollars to $2500 that McAuliffe will defeat Myer; tOOO even that O'Brien will defeat Fitzsim-mons Fitzsim-mons ; 15000 to (3000 that Sullivan will defeat de-feat Corbett. i , j Joe McAuliffe will quit the prize nncr now sjnd will probably get a place on the 'Frisco rjol ice force. .- He was badly punished aud (Joddard did not escape without sonic bad bruises. The latter now thinks he has a sure thing on the championship, but his performance shows trAt Jackson or Slavin rbuld whip him. Slavin would punch him oiit and Jackson might treat him precisely nf- he did Slavin. Goddard is not as good a lAxtr as Slavin, and, of course, would not brin it with Jackson. He has great confidence confi-dence in himself, however, and wants to iacet them both. iRacius: by electric light at South Side park, St. Louis, has been so successful that tite rule of allowing only live horses to start ill any race has been discontinued.... Hcre-hfcetrwt Hcre-hfcetrwt i ts " rtTiwr ir-tfrri?triVnt tfT horses may start in any event. These nisrht races have become so popular that their number will be increased next week from four to six eveuts each night. "Polo Jim" will do the starting on this course until the Saratoga meeting opens. |