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Show SPORT GOSSIP ffi. 1 niHko up a purse of $r0.UP0 for tho Mar land Futurity. And tht-n t.hcre will be a Kt.artin fee $1000. There will never bo umler h doy.t starters in a moo that will have a vah of $60,000 in added money. .So il in ee tain that the va hie of this pre.ui t wi yejir-old race will be greater than $70,11 annually. LEX1XGTOX, Ky., Oot. 27. At the of yearlings bred by Miss Klizaheth Da i 1 gerfield, of Lexington, held at 811 rat of August 6, "W. R. Cole obtained a bay fil by Ultimus, out of Torpnhow, by To point, he by Trenton, out of I loucast Beauty, for ?9.300. At Kmpire City it was announced Hi 1 this filly had been resold to KYederi' Johnson for $25,1)00, a figure Hint equal the American highest price of Ibo ye for a yearling, esta bUnned August when tlie chestnut colt by Sun Star, o of Marion llood, offered at auction I Kniil Herz, was sold by Capt. IJ. M. Wal cr, acting for the Canadian turfman, J. L. Jioss. The filly, now called Summit, h worked a trial quarter in :22 3-5 st-enm which accounts for her increasing valu tion. Jack Dempsey seems to be completely under cover. The latest dope bad him on his way to the coast and the rumor still persists that San Francisco will be his next stopping point, with a twenty-round battle at Tijuana, Mexico, his object. Willie Meehan has posted $1000 to guarantee guar-antee his appearance against Carl Morris in Oakland on October 29. Meehan has been training several weeks and will make a desperate effort to upset the Oklahoma giant. Ole Anderson, the Seattle heavy, did not find any trouble knocking the tar 1 out of Morris in Seattle Wednesday last, so Meehan should be able to register a comeback. Newark, X. J., and its environs is soon to have seven fight clubs. The organization organiza-tion of these clubs put Newark on the map as a boxing center of the country. No-decision bouts of eight rounds duration dura-tion are allowed under the New Jersey law. Redmond Barry, the English boxing promoter, did not. succeed in getting Jack Denipsey's "John Hancock" affixed to a contract to fight Joe Beckett in England, but he did sign up several of our leading pugilistic lights. So far he has arranged with Lew Tendler, Johnny Dundee, Ted Lewis, Pal Moore, Joe Lynch, Johnny Griffiths and K. O. Brown to appear in the London arena. Benny Leonard also may make tlie trip. Barry has made the lightweight a tern pti rig offer and Benny may accept it. Johnny Kilhano was approached, ap-proached, but the featherweight liiam-piun liiam-piun will stick to this side of the world. Football players may do well to remember remem-ber the wonderful achievements of the great Pennsylvania team of 1 905. This great eleven, ripped to pieces by accidents and faculty rulings, remodeled a team which defeated Harvard. Pennsylvania, without the services of several of its best men, won nil its games and came down to the struggle with Harvard. At half time the score was tied 6 to t. H was on that day that Mike Murphy, coach of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, made his immortal speech between be-tween the halves. "I've only a little while to live, boys," said Mike, who was a sick man at that ! time. "Win this game for me." And j Penn, fired by the words of the great coach, went out and won. Norman E. Brookes, who won the tennis ten-nis championship in 1914, the last occasion on which it was played for, has cabled the committee of the All-England Lawn Tennis club, from Melbourne, stating that he will probably defend his title at the championships to be held at Wimbledon, England, Juno next. i ! Ira Dern, the Salt Lake middleweight, who- won the middleweight championship last week from Wal no Ketonen, has agreed to wrestle any 160-pound grapp'er in the east. Who ever accepts the defi will have a chance to pick up some easy money if he stays the limit. Dern announces he will give any man who stays ten minutes w i th h i m $2 f o r each minute, an d $3 1 o any man for every minute he stays after the ten minutes previously mentioned have elapsed. There is a fifteen-minute limit on the $3 offer. BALTIMORE. Md., Oct. 27. Mary-j Mary-j land's Fut urity, which will be run next fall for the first time at either Havre de Grace or Laurel or Pimlico, will surpass in value any horse race ever run in the United Slates. It will be approximated as regards value only by the Grand Prix, the greatest of French races, which, when William K. Vanderbilt's Northeast won in 1908. paid a matt er of ?7i,000 to the winner, and when Sardanapale won in 19M paid nearly near-ly $72,000. The Maryland Jockey club, Maryland St ate fair and Hartford Agri-cult Agri-cult ra 1 and Breeders' association will |
