Show flL5f r 4 POKFINQ IYS UU W 1C Vamlerbllts Bengal won tho Hermit stakes at the St Cloud Franco races Tho Western Chess Association tournament lakes placo at Lake Mlu nctonka on Aug 2126 Franklo Nell tho American bantam champion has been mulched to fight Owen Moran tho English boxer rite boys arc to fight at Butte on Labor day Canada won tho Kolaporo CUll In tho Hlsloy shoot with a score of 758 Tho Transvaal was second with 7GG England third with 752 Now Zealand fourth with 719 snit Guernsey fifth with 734 Tho Vesper boat crew of 1hllndel jihln which lost by n boats length to Situ English < Leandors at Henley England Eng-land two weeks ago arrived from Rngland July IB on tho steamer 1hlla dclphla Private advices received at Now York nnnounco that William Vnrloy nnd John Mulcahy members of tho Atlanta Boat Club of New York at Hamburg Germany won tho Kaisers CUD In thin amateur double scull event At the National Ulllo association meeting at HlBley England Staff Sergeant Ser-geant Kerr Canada In tho Gregory competition seven shots at 200 yards > made the highest possible l > score and then monde twelve consecutive bulls eyes mud one Inner Twenty consecutive consecu-tive bullseyes aro necessary to bent him Tho fastest mllo and one furlong of time year was run In the fifth race at Brighton Bench July 10 when Uuttllng came In a winner In 151 45 which Is fourfifths of a second slower than the worlds record hold by llonnlbprt nuttllni hind sneed cnloro ONeill coda h him perfectly and ho always held his Held safe The autoboat race from Boulogne to Folkestone and return for a prize of 8400 resulted In Rapierc France winning coVeTing the ninetyfour kilometers kilo-meters In 2 hours 25 minutes Napier England was second In 2 hours 27 minutes Napier finished first but owing to n mistake failed to cross tho winning line Reports from Australia Indicate that Miss Annette Kollermnn who has broken n number of swimming records In Australia will accompany her fath PRESIDENT OF WHIST LEAGUE y Ri A Y v y0 f < y y 2Y 9 v M d W At the session of the American Whist league whose national congress was held at Chicago last week J Kberhard Faber of New York was elected president of the organization er on u visit to England In the near future She also expects to bo In America some tlmo during July or August She Is a fearless and a wonderful won-derful high diver Charles E Courtney coach of the Cornell navy has placed himself on record as emphatically In favor of shortening tho distance of Intercollegiate Intercolle-giate varsity races from four to three miles Ills argument is that no college col-lege man should ho asked to do the necessary training for this distance at the risk of health amid to the detriment of university work The Western Jockey club has deposited de-posited 150000 to tho credit of the Crescent City Jockey club that that its fight I organization might carry on against tho Corrigan track at New Orleans This was tho formal announcement an-nouncement made by the Crescent City officers who said that from now on they would not regard peace overtures over-tures from tho other side Henry Blaiifnss ono of tho best known baseball players In Louisville died at Louisville Ky July 11 Ulau fuss was on tho old Eclipse club when William nacclus was manager from 1878 to 1880 and was the best first baseman In this part of the country Ho was a contemporary of Pete Drowning and Fred Pfeffer and helped to make tho Ecllpso club famous Ho was 40 years old Lou Dillon and Major Dulmnr both owned I by C K G Hillings and driven by him July 1C went the fastest miles of the season In amateur trials on the truck of the Cleveland Driving park Lou Dillon started to beat 200 and made the mllo In 206 Tho fractional frac-tional tlmo was 03131 104 l354 Major Delmar started to beat 209 and made the mllo In 205 Tho fractional time was 031 IOSi 134 This sailing committee of the Royal Canadian Yacht club decided that the trial race for the selection of the Canadas cup challenger from tho three candidates Tomoralro and Ho rayon of Toronto and Nonlwa of Hamilton Ham-ilton will be hold at Toronto It also was decided to change tho skippers of tho two Toronto boats In the preliminary pre-liminary trials of thin week In order to settle the question of the challenger challen-ger Grandma Jefferson p 2134 record rec-ord undo at Denver Colo Is tho fast est 4yenrold pacing filly of tho season sea-son and likewise holds tho bent record rec-ord by a 4yearold of any sex or gait so far SIlO Is an own sister of Nettlo Jefferson p 2 IOlh being by Jefferson Jeffer-son tho Ron of Charles Cattery dam Confidence Game dam of Nottlo Jefferson Jef-ferson p 210Mi > pedigree untrnccd A full sister a year youngster Is owned by C M 1 Darling ot Lyndon > vllle Vt C K G Billings owner of Lou Dillon Dil-lon and Major Dclmnr announced that the king and queen of trotters would make their first appearance of the season during the Grand Circuit meeting at Cleveland which will ho held from July 111 to August 4 Ho said that limo announcement that they would start In Detroit at tho Grand Circuit meeting was erroneous adding that their present condition will not warrant either of them starting beforo tho Cleveland race moot lImo greatest athletic event In tho history of the Northwest will bo tho A A U national championship games at Portland Ore Aug 4 and 5 A great deal of Interest Is being manifested throughout Die country In tho games and largo entry lists have boon received re-ceived from tho leading amateur athletic ath-letic clubs lit time United Stales Teams from New York Chicago and Milwaukee are expected In Portland to competo In these championship gamed nnd elaborate preparations aro being made to receive nil visiting teams Herman Hultgren of Chicago took the first time prlzo III tho Milwaukee Wiiukcshn road race July 1C John Diet of Milwaukee took second place Hultgrens time was 3231 and Dletza 3301 Tho roaus were In such condition con-dition that tho record was hover In danger Tho winner of tho race was Joseph Dlotz n fourmlnuto man whu camo In away ahead of all tho others Ewnld Porch nn eightminute man was second and Charles Welch with seven and one iualf minutes handicap third Both are from Milwaukee For tho sake ot science In the prize ring It might bo well to wlHh that > io such perfect man physically as Joffi rles will over step Into tho ring lignin Tho Ideal weight In tho heavyweight division would no doubt bo about 175 to possibly 190 pounds Unless tho man In this case were by nature aWKward aWK-ward It would not prevent him In showing shiftiness In the ring which is a delight to the average spectator The spectators do not care so much to alone see ono win on brute strength They want some action for their money and for this rcnhon It IB no wonder that some promoters can afford to offer 20000 purses to fighters fight-ers In the lighter divisions Chicago Record Itraltl Aim Attcll Is to sail for England tho latter part of this month accompanied by Fred Ashe n New York sportsman who says Attell will visit Ireland Scotland Wales Germany and Franco His main purpose Is tn get the Bn on a bout with Joo llowkcr gllsh bnnlnin champion I undernlnnd that ho Is coming to America mid Attoll I am going to anticipate his visit and find out exactly how I stnnd In tho way of a match I have boon trying to locate this Briton for soma tlmo But strange to say ho has no far given mo tho cold shoulder But ho cant crawl when I corral him on his own ground It Bowker refuses to do business with me I will try to HOC what I can do with some of the other men In my class The ranks of tho sons of George Wilkes 222 aro gradually depleting The latest to Join the great majority Is Erie Wilkes really ono of the least successful of the get of his noted Iro as a progenitor of speed Ho Is credited cred-ited with only four standard performers perform-ers the fastest being Polar Wilkffe p 211 and Turco p I 212 But two of his sons have sired speed and two of his daughters have each produced one It was not exactly lack of opportunity oppor-tunity either which accounts for his poor showing for ho was a member of the Jowett farm stallions for a number of years Ho was 23 years old George Wilkes was 25 years old when ho got Erie Wilkes Old ago did not avail much IP this j case Announcement has been made pf tho dales for the elimination trials In the Vanderbilt cup race and of tho date of tho main event Robert Leo Morrell chairman of tho A A A rac ing board has applied for the use of tho nowly selected racing course on Long Island for Sept 23 as the dato for the elimination trial and for Oct J 14 as tho date for the main contest 9 i In the elimination trial thero will bo thirteen cars from which five must bo v selected to represent America In tho 1 blue ribbon event Included In this d list arc tho two PopeToledo cars I which Lytlo and Dlngley drove In the International cup race abroad and two J Locomobiles ono of which Tracy used In tho foreign contestt Teams havo 7 also been nominated by France Germany I Ger-many load Italy The course selected for this years contest Is In tho same region of Nassau county Long Island as the one last year fi I |