Show 41 1L VPOIINES W K Va u < rbllts Escalade won 11 the Herblaj stakes and Prestige the umniuni stakes at MnlsonsLallltte trance Aug 1 James Colvlllo died at his homo In JJoxbury Mass July 31 after a brief illness He was the first man to bring John u I Sullivan before the public Both Iou Dillon and Major Delmnr were worked out on Olcnvlllo track August 2 the queen dotting one mile In OCH and Major Delmnr one In 21 OS Sandy Ferguson erstwhile aspirant for Jeffries championship honors has given up fighting and shipped as a fisherman on Gloucester mackerel catcher 11 II Kleran the Australian ama ten nr champion In a race at South Port England broke the worlds quar ter mile swimming record his time being 522 15 Hobby Walt hour the speedy southern south-ern cyclist has again won the 100 Kilometer bicycle championship The Columbia rider captured the honors at Antwerp covering the distance In 11854 In the summer carnival sports at Syrney C B Simon P Gillis of New York threw the twelvepound hammer 192 feet 6 Inches This It Is claimed heals the record by 4 feet 3 Inches and a record will be applied for Three firsts and a second were ridden rid-den by Mahpr the American jockey In the first four races at Goodwood August 2 The races won Included the Goodwood plate in which Maher piloted Lord Derbys His Majesty to victory Third Baseman Burke has resigned as manager captaht of the St Louis cardinals Burke was appointed this spring to succeed Nichols as manager and Brain as captain Nichols has since gone to the Quakers of Philadelphia Philadel-phia and Brain to the Pitts burg Pirates Pir-ates Charles Neary Milwaukees German Ger-man lightweight was matched with Kid Goodman at Spokane Wash for Sept S for twenty rounds Manager Crawford has an offer to match Neary with Eddie Hanlon at Los Angeles and will accept He will then go after Jimmy Britt and Battling Nelson Paul Dashlel and the International tennis playrs W A Lamed Deals C Wright Holrombe Ward and W L Clothier returned from their tour abroad The team had no excuses to make for their defeat In the Davis cup tournament and had nothing but praises for the Dohertys who won At Ogden Utah August 4 W E Samuelson of Provo Utah broke the worlds bicycle record for two miles at the local saucer track riding from Tho Chicago Athletic association proved an easy winner of the highest number of points In the presence of 2000 people Prot Ono Japanese Instructor of jiujitsu nt tho Annapolis Naval academy defeated de-feated Big Tom Frisbee of Madison county North Carolina In a mixed wrestling match at till Auditorium The men were matched for the best two out of three falls Ono secured the first fall In one hour and twelve minutes and tho second In thirtyfive seconds Both falls were obtained with a strangle hold Frisbee falling to the mat exhausted at the end of the second bout It was brute strength against oriental science While oil the subject of tho superannuated super-annuated ones I see that It Is given out In all seriousness that Parson Davies Is about to take hold of Charlie Char-lie Mitchell I and handle tho English man against John I Sullivan Until this announcement was made I had hoped that the SulllvnnMltrhell fight talk had reduced Itself tojust fight talk Parson Davies is n pretty careful care-ful sort of man one who does not jump hastily at conclusions 1 take It that Mitchell must have satisfied Davies that there Is some fight left In him or the Parson would never have consented to handle him Of course the public Is still In the dark as to Sullivan after It Is granted that Mitchell Is all right again Lou Houseman In Chicago Inter Ocenn Dan Patch was feeling his oats at the Minnesota state fair track Aug 3 and came near breaking record when there was no one to cheer and no official timekeeper In the stand He was taken out for a trial and stepped the mllo In 204 flat finishing the last quarter without the runner and with loose lines Hersey sent the flyer to the quarter In 03U4 Use half In 101 the threequarters In 132 and tho mile In 204 The track Is lightning fast and Pilot Horsey said that It Is today the fastest track In America M W Savage Is certain that Dan Patch will lower his mark of 1BC tills season and to Intimate friends says he would not be surprised If this pacer set the mark nt 1D2 or vicinity before be-fore the seasons campaign Is ended The fastest time ever made by any known boat of motor power was developed i de-veloped In n trial test of Inventor Charles F Herreshoffs torpedo shaped shap-ed craft at Bridgeport Conn Aug 5 1 I A reporter who had a watch on the boat as she sped over her course scored a speed of fortyeight and one half miles an hour for a portion of the trip and nt no time did tho craft speed slower than forty miles an hour Tho boat Is of aluminum with steel COLIGNY i = 1 a a fI S 4 4 A real s r iiO llv This horse won the 5000 Brighton steeplechase and cup and Is perhaps the best jumper in the Widener barn scratch In a twomile lap handicap professional race he did the distance In 348 15 This Is fourfifths of a second better than any previous record rec-ord Augustus Post champion of the touring committee of the American Automobile association has resigned This Is the result of a quarrel be twen tho touring and racing factions of the association Mr Post considered consid-ered that his department was getting the worst of it and consequently resigned re-signed The twentyfive round fight at Col ma Cal Aug 4 between flute Turner Tur-ner of Stockton and Jimmy Gardner of Lowell Mass ended In the early part of the eleventh round with clean right hand knockout for the body which felled Turner as though he had been lilt with a baseball bat The fight all through except the first two the way rounds and a short rally in tho sev seventh enth was all Gardners One worlds record was broken In the Amateur Athletic union meet at Portland Oregon W W Coe of Boston Bos-ton put the sixteen pound shot 49 feet C Inches the best previous distance being 18 feet 7 inches In this event he easily defeated Ralph Rose As was to be expected the easterners took most of the events with Callfor and Portland third fair second < jIt a rigs and has tank capacity for fifty gallons of gasoline Her designer refuses re-fuses to discuss her speed limit hut It Is conceded she Is good for fifty miles an hour In a race and for a short distance Is capable of from fifty five to sixty miles an hour speed She Is thirtytwo feet long less than five feet beam and has an engine capable of seventyfive horsepower A Detroit dispatch says On tho strength of her performance at Grosse Polnte when Sadie Mac 2061h trotted trot-ted a mile In 2OCV4 an offer of J30 OCO has been made for tho sensational trotting mare The offer was made at the Grosse Pointo track to Harry Stln son the successful trainer of the mare While I am not at liberty to mention names Enid Trainer Stinson It Is true that I have been offered 30000 for the mare On two occasions occa-sions this year 25000 has been refused re-fused Miss Wllks refusing to part with the great little trotter Miss Wllks who resides In Gait Ont is tho owner purchasing the mare from E E Smathers for 1S500 It is reported re-ported that the offer was made by George Spear acting for Mr Smath ers who Is said to be contemplating a return to the trotting turf which Is borne out by the fact that he has entered en-tered Lord Derby at Buffalo and has fold out all his thoroughbreds |