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Show WILLIAMS PBAISED. " The 'Frisco Papers Call Him a Top Sawyer. CHARLEY WRITES A LETTER. -I SZitchell Thinks He Can Give Champion Cham-pion Corbett a Sorprlse Party The reat Battle Between Alex ressaina and Buffalo Costello Xext Monday Xieht Paddy Gorman Gor-man Back Acaln The Football Game S porting Splinter. t On Thursday morning the only question which the San Francisco papers considered in connection with the Turner-Williams fight was as to how many rounds the Salt Lake man cauld stand up before the colored cyclone, and the sixteenth seems to have been fixed upon as the one in which Williams Wil-liams would fall softly asleep in response to a swing on the jaw. The result was therefor there-for a gi ent surprise to the' sporting authorises, author-ises, but all now admit that a more exciting or hctly contested battle has never been put up iu 'Frisco. The papers of Friday give Williams great prae, and agree that he is a top sawyer. The Chronicle gives an excellent excel-lent cut of Williams' determined face, and r worker. He believes that he has first mort- I gage W the 25'J0 purse offered by the Coney Islanci club, tor which he and Piimmer are to 2gtt." I The Great ISaltle Next Week. Oni week from tonight Alex. Greggains and '3uffalo" Costello will fight it out before be-fore the Couey Islaul club. These men recently re-cently fought a draw at 'Frisco and somebody some-body is going out this time, sure. The men are among the best middle-weights in the world and the strongest kind of rivalry exists ex-ists between them, so that a great battle is assured. The betting in New'York is a little in favor of Greggains, and he is the choice here. Local sports take a peculiar interest in the result of the mill, as it is believed that Jim Williams will sooner or later meet the wiuner. Tha Football Game. The liveliest kind of interest is taken in the forthcoming football contest between the T. M. C. A. and the Sixteenth infantry teams, which will be played at the baseball park on Thanksgiving day. Sporting Splinters. Jim Daly. Corbett's old sparring mark, has tired of bookmaklng and wants a fight with some oue, he is not particular whom. A new bicycle track is to be built at Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, the surface of which will be cement. ce-ment. The track will be three laps to the mile. Miss Lizzie ILsggerty of Chicago recently accomplished her seventh century run. Miss Lucy Porter, another Chicago lady, has also says: - "A sore of aporta all the way from Salt Lake City were buying champagne lest tight. They were treating their friends most lavishly and were paying for the liquid with San Francisco gold. The Salt Lake contingent scooped up all the loose money floating around among the sporting men of this big city on a little pugilistic tete-a-tete between Jim Williams of Salt Lake and George Turner, the black idol of tho slough city, at the Wigwam on Eddy street A thousand people saw Turner knocked oat in the eleventh round after a highly exciting j contest." CHARLEY WRITES A LETTER. MltehoU Thinks Ii Can Giro Corbstt a Surprise Party. Tom Allen, the retired champion of the world, who resides at St. Louis, has received a letter from Charley Mitchell, dated London, Lon-don, November 7. In H Mitchell says: T am sure to fight Corbett, aa you know, Tom, unless he pulls out. I shall be better, stronger and bigger when I face him than I ever have been in my life and, between you ridden the same number of centuries. Colonel Jack Chinn, w ho was shot at the East St. Louis tracks Tuesday, has so far recovered re-covered that he has beeu moved to St. Louis. The physicians say that he will be around again in a few days. Frank Waller, the California long-distance rider, now in Chicago, is a cement pavement layer by trade. He is so anxious to get to England ucxt year to try conclusions with the cracks that he will work his wiy over if he cannot get there any other way. Bobby Burns, the conqueror of Cal McCarthy, Mc-Carthy, has thrown up ,his ni-tch with Johnny Gorman. Present Noel, of the Crescent Cres-cent City Athletic club, has promised Burns a good-sized purse to fight the winner of the Smith-Van Heest battle. If Burns should be successful with either of these fighters, Noel will match him against Champion George Dixon for a big purse. Champion Jack McAullffe Is in Boston trying to arrange a four-round bout with Patsy Kerrigan to take place In Providence, R. I. Kerrigan is willing if he is not matched with Tommy Ryan the walterweight champion cham-pion next week. Kerrigan has been anxious for some time to meet McAuliffe in a limited and me, I am very sanguine as to my success. suc-cess. Now, you ask me on the frank what I think of Corbett. I fancy Corbett very much, but keep that to yourself. They think I am fat and done with, but there will be a surprise party for them In ten rounds, I am certain." Mitchell's recent bout with her majesty's law, in which ho was accused of committing an unwarranted assault on one George 8ol-vage, 8ol-vage, an old man, is referred to in in his letter let-ter to Allen, aud his version of the affair is entirely different from the reports of it cabled'to America. Mitchell says that in company with some friends while making r, night of it in London, he and his party wer j assaulted by a party of thugs in an alley (lf a side street. "Chawley" fought the assaulting assault-ing party to a standstill, and Solvage, w lo was one of them, was knocked down Find badly smashed in the face in the scuffle. ' he entire party was arrested, and Solvage on discovering that Mitchell was the man ' ho put the face on him, lodged complaint of assault as-sault to kill against the prize fighter, tie says in his letter to Allen: I appear on my appeal case January 18. Sifice my conviction the woman and two men that were witnesses against me have been jugged. Irhe woman and one man put to trial for shoving Had coin were the principal witnesses against me; (kite other got two years tor lfighway robbery and violence. vio-lence. So I have a good chance of getting out f it. Yon can bet if we had been the mags thily took ns for we should have been robbed, but Because Be-cause it was me the magistrate thought he would like to have the pleasure and name of sentent-- tuuuu i-uuieai uj iiuitu name, ids lnauce-ments lnauce-ments which the champion now offers him arrf" very good. The medical profession doesn't seem to feel disposed to popularize bicycling. Warnings Warn-ings are sounded every now and then, and some time ago the Lancet scared the life out of any number of riders by a terrifying article on the evils of long distance riding. Now another M. D. comes along and declares de-clares that cyclists who ride to excess are all afflicted with a catarrhal laryngitis. Mouth-breathing Mouth-breathing and the rapidity and pressure with which large quantities of air are forced into the Jarnyx are said to be the cause. WE Champion John 'L7 tiullivan created quite an excitement at York, Pa., last evening. even-ing. The "big fellow was billed to appear at the opera house. He was about to start for the theater and called a cab. but found Samuel Wallick in it Sullivan wanted the cab all to himself and commanded Wallick to vacate. To this the latter oojected and Sullivan got in and pulled him out, tore his coat badly and jostled the wearer about roughlv. Wallick then swore out a warrant for Sullivan's arrest ou the charge of assault and battery, but the fighter's manager set- ! tied the case before Sullivan was arrested. ' Much excitement prevails at Fairfield, la., over a foot race at the fair grounds Tuesday. The runners gave their names as Bickmore and Markley. Bickmore was backed by Farmington money and Markley by Iowa Cltv. The race was at seventv-five yards. Paddy Gorman Back Again. f Paddy Gorman has returned from En -land, where he has been for four monthi , and brought with him a large disgust forr English sporting clubs. Iu au intervie w with a New York Sun reporter he gave tome information concerning Jim Hall and Salyor Brown, who have friends in Salt Lake. J "I went over to England about five months ago to fight any welter-weight they hasj," said Gorman. "I called on Mr. Flemmijig, the manager and part owner of the National Sporting club, London, and ho asked me what I would fight for. I told him taf.t I had got $1000 for fifteen rounds with Mike Leary in America, and he told me thsf he would arrange a battle for me. Afterjif.ait-iug Afterjif.ait-iug for two weeks W. A. Paine put upl300 to back me against Ted White or "Crick" Robinson. Mr! Paine posted 100." "Fleming told me to come up to the club At the pistol shot Bickmore had his back to the line eating a lemon, but turned and ran, finishing a yard behind Markley. Bick-inore's Bick-inore's backers claimed no race, but the stakeholders paid the money to Markley's man, who skipped. It is thought the runners run-ners were partners. Eight thousand dollars is said to have changed hands. Australian "Billy" Murphy is after George Dixon, champion featherweight of the world. He thinks that Dixon is afraid of him. He oilers to accommodate him at 115 pounds, or will fight him at 115 pounds for the featherweight championship. It is not the belt he is after, but the money, and he is willing to fight the colored lad for any reasonable sum that he may name. He can get down to 115 pounds, he says, and still be strong. Murphy is now training for his fight with Tommy White of Chicago. This fight will take place in December at the Pneifir. Athlntfc. rliih Sn FranriR on the night that Stanton Abbott and jf ustin Gibbons were to have fought. I wentJthere, but was refused admittance. My back! r and myself had a meeting with White, an4 then, when the National club was calledjupon, Fleming offered a purse of 05, 50 for the wiuner and 10 for the loser. I refined the offer." "Did you see Hall fight?" Gornfan was asked. f "No, I didn't see him in the finisli light," replied Paddy, "but I saw him Fiox six rounds, and it was on the level. II J mado a monkey of Pritchard." "I met Sailor Brown in Londl.n," continued con-tinued Gorman. "The first time Tras in an ale house, and the proprietor was I stuck on him. I askod Sailor how he wnfe making things go, and he told me that cbiicken was his regular diet, and that he Jidn't care about anything elae." I "I would like to get on a fight rvith some one, and I don't care who the maxi is." Southern colleges Jwill be heard from on the football field this month. The University j of Virginia claims the championship of the South, and Trinity, the University of North Carolina, Auburn and all yearn to take the Virginians' scalps. On account of the great interest which is being taken in football matters in Georgia, the University of Virginia Vir-ginia and Trinity college have decided to transfer their great Thanksgiving day gams froo Richmond to Atlanta, and to enter i'-ito the great football carnival which takes plce on November 23, 24, 25 and 20 four days of kicking contests. The schedule of the games, all of which will be played at Brisbine perk, will be as follows: November 23, Auburn vs. the University of North Carolina; November 24. University of Virginia vs. Trinity college. North Carolina; November 25, Auburn vs. the "Treks;" November 26, Auhnrn vs. University Uni-versity of Virginia. This series of games has just been amnged. Every college is working hard for this series. Training on Winning Groltinds. N Tom Clark, who is training IJeter Maher and Joe McGrath, writes to the! New York Sun from Navesink Highland, that both men are progrcssiug uicely in their work. "They are laboring hard and conscientiously aud are confident of success," he says. "Peter is an example at present, of w fiat a perfect conditioned man should be. If. very day he punches the bag for .an hofir, walks and runs over fifteen miles, and follows instructions instruc-tions to the very letter, ne I and Costello box together every day, andl they make a pretty set-to. The place we f are staying at is kept by Thomas Jefferson nd we are supplied sup-plied with everything that . fighting man requires. I "Up to the present timel the place has turned out two winners, nalmely. Jack Cat-tanach, Cat-tanach, who whipped Tom JflcCarty, and Joe Choynski, the victor over (fieorge Godfrey. Many piotninent sporting suen visit us, aud they seem to be greatly -leased with the form of the men. The peoj.le here are fighting fight-ing mad, and spend many Iiours with us. "McGrath is a good l Ai and a willing j |