Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 30 | Where Packey and Mike will Clash

I WHERE P AC KEY AND MIKE WILL CLASH BRIGHTON BEACH HIPPODROME. Near-by farms supply the "eats." Windber is ten miles from Johnstown, Pa., anl on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad between Pittsburg Pitts-burg and Altoona. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Miss Clare Cassel, the New York girl who created a sensation last year by her tennis playing, is b&flfci in the limelight. lime-light. Since the 1915 season opened Miss Cassel has won the New Jersey state championship, the Pennsylvania state mixed doubles with Wallace Johnson, John-son, the Pelham invitation doubles with Miss Molla Bjurstedt, the Crescent Athletic Ath-letic club doubles with Miss Marie Wagner Wag-ner and other events of lesser note. She and Percy Severd were runners up in the national clay court mixed doubles dou-bles at Pittsburg, losing to Mrs. George Wight man and Harry G. Johnson. Miss Cassel learned the net game from a professional named Fleming at the Queen 's club in London, and nas played in England, Belgium, Germany, France, Switzerland t Sweden and Italy. Her style is similar to that of foreign players. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Tickets have already been placed on sale for the Packey McFarland-Mike Gibbons ten-round bout to be held at the Brighton Brigh-ton Beach motordrome on September 11', and the huge racing saucer has been converted into a vast arena which will soat 52,480 persons. A capacity audience audi-ence for the match, the biggest bout pulled off in New York in years, will bring" in a revenue of $126,752. Seats are Belling at $1, $2, $3 and $5 each. Exports have figured that about $50,000 will have to drift into the box office before the promoters begin to make money on the bout. McFarland is to receive $17,500 for his end, Gibbous $15,000, and the other expenses of the match will total about $17,500. The contest is the talk of the sporting world all over the country. Ten special trains will be run in from Chicago and members of the sporting fraternity from every large city in the United States have signified their intention of coming to see the ten-round go. William C. Marshall, the man who put up the $32,500 to get the fighters together, is making his first plunge as a fight promoter. pro-moter. He has never handled a match before. He is a business man, pure and simple, and is running tbe match on a plain business basis. He expects to make money out of it, even after pav'ing the large amounts to the fighters fight-ers and footing the other bills. AOAMP in the mountains operated solely for the purpose of conditioning condi-tioning its football athletes that's what the University of Pittsburg has, and the camp, as a conditioner, has proved to be a wonderful success. Three years ago A. R. Hamilton, a Pittsburg graduate of 1894, donated a plot of ground in the mountains just outside of Windber, Pa. "It's too hot in the city early in September to enable football men to work out?" said Hamilton. "That's whv I am donating the camp. ' ' The football teams that Pittsburg has turned out during the past three years have been the very best that ever represented the university and among the best in the country. After two or three weeks at Windber the men come back to the city as hard as iron and in; perfect condition. In tbe camp known as Camp Hamilton Ham-ilton there is a regulation football field, laid out in the valley made by two mountains. Tents are e'rectod that accommodate sixty men. Expert -chefs are part of the camp equipment, and every modern convenience is at the disposal dis-posal of the men. The sanitary arrangements arrange-ments are perfect; there is a system of hot and cold water Hhowers, and the drinking water is chemically tested.