Show V o N ws 1 Late New by Wire I There Is n possibility that an Amerl can polo team will go to England next year to try to recapture the American Polo Cup Hurllngham has held the cup for nineteen years and lovers of the gamo In this country have boon I anxious to get It back ever < sInce Capt Henry C Hank HafT who sailed the cup defenders Defender and Vigilant In the International races for the Americas cup some years ago and who has been In falling health for some time past Is now an Inmate of the German Hospital In New York Tho veteran yachtsman Is somewhat Improved In health but Is still far from well and It Is feared ho will not soon be able to resume his usual activities acti-vities Tho Eastern Yacht Club of Boston has received a cable from tho Kaiser Hcher Yacht Club of Klol saying that the German emperor has formally approved ap-proved its plan to establish an international Inter-national perpetual challenge trophy for small yachts to bo competed for by boats representing Germany and the United States and that a letter from the club will be sent regarding a challenge with a boat of its special class of about twentytwo feet rating H J Handy of the Central Y M C A broke thirteen worlds and five American records In the Evanston fill Y M C A tank Nov 22 Handy did not break any records until the 240 yard mark was passed but after that every record up to GOO yards was I smashed with the exception of the 300 yard mark which tho brown Tater devil failed to lower by one fifth of a second Of the worlds records rec-ords broken all save the 360 yard mark and the 540 wore held by Joey Nuttall and were made In London England Sept G 1886 The 360 yard record was held by George Read and was made at Sydney Australia on April 12 1901 Tho 540 yards was held by Howard F Brewer and was made in Chicago Feb 221902 Of the American records broken the 300 and 440 were held by C M Daniels of tho New York Athletic club and wore made at New York City Feb 13 1904 and March 191904 respectively Tho 400 and 500 were held by E Carroll Schaefer and made at Philadelphia Dec 9 and 11 1901 respectively Tho 600 yard mark was held by Howard F Brewer and was made at Chicago Feb 19 1902 I Trotting I I C K G Billings string of eighteen harness horses brought 40270 at the Old Glory sale at Madison Square Garden Thlrtytour trotters acquired records rec-ords of 210 or better the past season and ten of them were bred west of the Mississippi river while the sires of six others were either bred or have been owned there Cresceus the worlds champion trotting stallion record 202 > 4 was sold at auction for 21000 to M W Savage of Minneapolis Minn at the recent New York auction Mr Savage Is the owner of Dan Batch and Dlrectum George H Ketcham of Toledo To-ledo Ohio was the former owner of Cresceus Until Lou Dillon made her unbeaten record of 200 flat at Read vllle Mass on August 24 1903 Cres ceus was the acknowledged leader of the trotting turf I Boxing I I The FitzsiramonsOBrien contest will bo held dt Mechanics pavilion San Francisco on Wednesday Dec 20 This announcement of the date Is authorized au-thorized by Promoter Coffroth It Is probable that Young Erne of Philadelphia and Charlie Neary of Milwaukee Mil-waukee will be matched by the Milwaukee Mil-waukee Boxing club for Dec 8 Erne wants catch wclshts and Neary will accept Sam Berger the heavywolght met with a painful accident while skating at Mechanics pavilion San Francisco Ho was hurried to the hospital where an operation was performed to stop the flow of blood as he had broken a blood vessel Ho came through the operation fjn good shape Marvin Hart has received word from Tommy Han that ho had signed n seventy weeka contract to tour the world This means that the two will not only go on the stage but ns Ryan puts It will meet all comers Honey Mellody knocked out Jack OKeofo at Spokane Wash In the fourteenth round after a hard battle In which OKeofo showed much cleverness clever-ness His blows however did not possess the steam of those delivered by Mellody r Football I Tho athelllc board of the University of Nebraska has taken up n request of Kansas for a resumption of athletic relations brolten off two years ago by appointing n committee to confer with a like committee from Kansas The gross receipts from Minnesotas football games for the season amount to 44090 Of this 5000 will bo added to the athletic clubhouse fund The receipts from tho Wisconsin game alone amounted to nearly 28000 The twentyfirst of the series of football foot-ball matches which the Now Zealand team Is playing In the united kingdom was played Nov 26 at Dublin Tho score was New Zealand 16 Ireland 0 The New Zealanders have won every ev-ery match so far Football games Nov 26 West Michigan 76 Oberlin 0 Minnesota 72 Northwestern 6 Chicago Freshmen Fresh-men 16 Illinois Freshmen Q Beloit 42 Knox 6 Nebraska 43 Doane 6 Wabash 02 Dopauw 0 Indiana Freshmen 46 Franklin 0 Kansas 17 Kansas Aggies 0 Ohio State 16 Wooster 0 Morlngside 0 Iowa State Normal 0 Central Kentucky 12 Kentucky State 11 East Yale G Harvard 0 Penn 23 Columbia 0 Dartmouth 24 Brown 6 Carlisle 11 Wash Jeff 0 West Point 17 Syracuse 0 Annapolis An-napolis 12 Virginia Poly 6 Lafayette Lafay-ette 55 Lehigh 0 I Baseball IAn I-An eight town baseball league to bo known as the Nebraska State league of baseball clubs Is being or DR SELWONK I < l I1t3 wICt a 1 e nlIN1 L V Il r r r rr Mrr dOwned I 11 Owned by Reginald C Vanderbilt and a Winner of Many Blue Ribbons gahlzed including the following towns Grand Island Hastings Fremont Fre-mont Norfolk Mahoo Crete Kearney and Columbus Connie Mack seems to bo doing some comprehensive scheming to strengthen the champion Athletics The Detroit club has signed catcher Charles Schmidt the Missouri Valley graduate who made good with Minneapolis Min-neapolis last season also pitcher Charles McCafferty of the Evausvlllo team Tho baseball world may again have the opportunity of seeing what Amos Russio formerly tho star twirler of the Now York National League team can do in the pitchers box Russle will seek a place with one of the teams In the Three h League he can get It William Hanlon n well known ballplayer ball-player In the middle West and on tho coast died at his home at Los Angeles of consumption which he contracted while a member of the Chicago National Na-tional Leaguo team Hanlon wan known in Chicago as tho hltless wonder won-der owing to the fact that he was a failure at bat while on the team although al-though his fielding was of a sensational sensa-tional order Tho first of a series of new schedules sched-ules for the season of 1906 has been drawn up by Secretary Thumler at Bloomington and submitted to tho managers of the eight associations comprising Uio Three Eyes league This first schedule calls for 140 games instead of 120 as has been the caseIn case-In past seasons It proposes to open tho campaign May 3 and to close It on I Sept 23 I On the Turf J Tho shipment of the thoroughbred I racing stock of the J B Haggln Rancho Ran-cho del Paso from San Francisco to the Now York sale was unprecedented In its magnitude Fortyeight cars wero required and tho shipment Included In-cluded twentytwo stallions and E40 brood marc Y |