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Show EIIS WILL TRY TO GET RECORD Old Irishman Is Coniident He Can Break Weston's Record of 105 Days. BY MANHATTAN. . By Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK, June 4. I regreL to say that I orred recently In stating that the National Clay court tonnls tournament tourna-ment would be held at Kansas City. In fact It will not bo held In Kansas City. Tt will be held In that grand old city of Omah on the banks of the classic Missouri river In Nebraska., The tourney will be held in August, and from the preparations It will be quite a successful success-ful event. In fact, Omaha is an Important Import-ant tennis center in the mlddlo west. 1 am informed that the mid-west championship cham-pionship has been an Omaha fixture for the past sixteen yoars and out of it has grown the National Clay Court .championship. .cham-pionship. If developments aro satisfactory wo may look for somo such organization as "The Aged and Agile Society for Pedes-trlana" Pedes-trlana" if John Ennls. aged 6S, makes good in his effort to beat the inter-continental journey of Edward Payson Weston. Wes-ton. Ennls Is a native of Ireland and, despite his years, he Is as spry as the proverbial cricket. If ho can reach San Francisco in 105 days it will be quite a feather In his cap, although it is doubtful doubt-ful for warm weather Is coming on apace and it Is no fun to race against time on a torrid day, especially when you are noarlng tho prescribed limit of threo score and ten. Weston, who is three days older than Ennls, choso tho early spring when he had the advantages of better weather conditions. The distance between New York and San Francisco Is 4300 miles. Ennls says that Woston really walked only 3500 miles, the distance between Los Angeles and New York. Wagner Is Popular. If Honus Wagnor of the Pittsburg Pirates should be Idle about July 4, near San Francisco, seeking a little exciting diversion ho would have no troublo in braking Into the Jeffries-Johnson 'prizo fight absolutely froo of charge. If Jeff eyor heard that tho great and only Hans was nearby he would have him In the arena In tho finest seat and It wouldn't cost Wagner a penny. Jeffries is excessively ex-cessively fond of baseball and he thinks Wagner the greatest player that over lived. It is dangerous to say anything bad about Honus In Jeff's presence. The team of California Rugby players, mado up from the University of California, Cali-fornia, Leland Stanford university and the University of Nevada, which Is invading in-vading Australia, hopes to come home again late in the summer with tho "bacon." If Ihey don't come falling back from the other side of the world with International honors they will havo shown the antipodean Rugby players that the United States can turn out some protty husky material. But, according to D. W. Burlmnk and Coach James G. Schnof-fer. Schnof-fer. there will be no "if" about it. The fact is that the western players want to establish the suprcmncy of Yankee Rugby. Just as othor American athletes have shown supremacy In othor lmes of athletics, Western writers are not optimistic opti-mistic about the team's chances In winning win-ning the games they will play In Aus-' tralla and Now Zealand. When "Mother" Howo. an Australian, was coaching tho California Rugby team last winter, ho decided that the Yankee lads would be able to put up a protty stiff battle ngnlnst tho Colonials, so when he went back homo he nut tho proposition up to tho New South Wales Rubv union and li appealed to them. It looked like good gato money, so the invitation was extended. The players who have gone with the team aro: University of California Forwnrds Phlcgcr, Hardy,- Schwartz. Pauley and Ashley. Backs Cuff, Harris, Watts. Morris. Dwlgglns and Allen. Loland Stanford Unlverally Forwards Dole, TTorton. Mlnturn, Fitting and Clicdn. Bucks Erb. Roth. Kern. Brown and Sanborn. University of Nevada Forwards Lcav-Itt Lcav-Itt and Bennett. A. A. IT. Moot, Secretary-Treasurer DlbencdClo of the Southern association of tho American Amateur' Athletic union In New Orleans Is pcovod at somo of the things eastern papers havo said about athletic conditions In the Louisiana city, so far as they per-' tain to equipment for the championships which will be hold in the Crescent City October next. Mr, Dlbenctloto says that In the past three years New Orleans ban done more for amateur athletics through the Southern branch of tho A. A. A. IJ. than anv othor branch of Its sisse. Ha Is right, and evidence of this assertion Is contulned in the fact that the championships champion-ships wore awarded to that city. Tho Southern branch now has about twonty-tivo twonty-tivo clubs, whereas several years ago the number wau less than ten. For a short time past work has boon going forward In New Orleans upon a olndor track of 220 yards stralghtawav for hurdles and dashes. Tho track will be completed by oarly In August, and will likely bo used before the bjg meeting In tho middle of October. |