Show POKTIN6AC ws l Late News by Wire I The first cable chess match between be-tween New York and Berlin today ended in a victory for the Manhattan Chess club by the score of I points I to 2 On only one board were the Ber lintis successful while three wins were recorded by the Manhattan players play-ers tho remaining two games being drawn lacrosse was formally Introduced as a college sport at Illinois Nov 11 when the senior sophonoro team defeated de-feated the juniorfreshmen representatives representa-tives by the score of G to 4 1 Two halves of twenty minutes each were played by the teams before a fair sized crowd Frank Gotch won In his wrestling match with Hllding Ardahl tho giant Swede of Moline III Gotch won the first fall In fifteen minutes and thirty seconds In the second fall Ardahls arm was dislocated at tho shoulder and he was forced to give up the match I Football I Coach J C Purcell of the Maroon Miuad reports that Herbert Offers n famous English player now residing In Boston will soon bo In Chicago to coach several high school teams in socker football College games of Nov 11 brought no changes In the Western championship champion-ship rice Michigan and Wisconsin both played second rate teams and won by wide margins Chicagos do feat of Purdue while the game was hard fought showed that the Maroons had a strong team Princeton began association football Nov C and fortynine candidates turned out on Brokaw field for tho first practice Captain A T Potter 1900 explained to the men the nature of tho now game and then two sides were chosen and about half the men played for ten minutes when the rest next year and according to present plans will remain In this country The dispersal safe of Walnut Grove stock wus held at Cumberland park Nov 11 Imp Ornus was sold to Dr Williams of Hopklnsvlllo Ky for G500 Kitty Gunn the dnm of Olseau went to John Greener of Nashville for 2000 a filly out of Kitty Gunn was taken by Tor Hayes for COO and W O Parmor bought an Alverio M colt for 525 At the annual meeting of the American Amer-ican Breeders Protective association nil of the old officers were reelected The object of this association Is to purchase at auction sales and destroy thoroughbred brood mares deemed undesirable un-desirable for breeding purposes thus keeping the standard high Reports showed that 158 marcs had been do stro > cd this season I Baseball 1 Humors that John J McGraw was to quit baseball were dispelled by his signing a threeyear contract to manage man-age the New York National Leagurt team after n brief conference with I President John T Brush President Hedges of tho St LouIs American League team officially announced an-nounced that First Baseman Louis Nord > ho of the Tacoma < Wash team had been signed for 1900 For the last i two years several major leagues have made every effort to Induco Nordyko to leave the coast Joseph Tsealon first baseman of the San Francisco baseball club has been signed by the Plttsburg National League club for next season Three other clubsthe Cincinnati National and Boston and New York Americans were bidding for tho services ol Ncalon who had a nonreserve contract con-tract and was free to negotiate with any team Robert Carruthors Is thought to be I i I n 1 rt 1 1 t t1 Ili ui 11 11 t t i I a IYLrPl r fl Lh JiJ hi N J Open to meet any man In the world In the featherweight boxing division of the candidates were given a chance The sport seems to bo on in earnest and Princeton will soon arrange a schedule to meet other university teams I Trotting I George W Lederer 218 valuable pacing stallion the property of Sylvester Syl-vester Hilligoss of Hush county Indiana In-diana Is dead of pneumonia The horse was valued at 5000 According to Harry C Hersoy trainer train-er and driver of Dan Patch the pacing phenomenon will never engage In competition com-petition again This statement was made after Dan Patch circled the Memphis track hanging up figures of 1G9V4 which tied Star Pointers longstanding long-standing mark made at Leadvllle under un-der tho old tlrne conditions of having tho accompanying pacemaker follow or run by the side of the Bulky Dan Patch tho pacing champion In an exhibition mile Nov 11 on the track of the Memphis Trotting association associ-ation lowered tho worlds pacing record rec-ord without a wind shield by 14 seconds sec-onds covering the mllo In 158 flat The former record of lfjP4 was held by Star Pointer made several years ago at Readvlllo track Weather and track conditions were ideal for the attempt at-tempt The first quarter was stepped In thirty seconds Straightened out down tho baci stretch Dan Patch passed the haL mile post In 59 seconds sec-onds At the ihreo quarterslhe timers showed 128 and after a drive down the stretch tho wire was reached in 158 Two runners accompanied the pacer and ho apparently was tired at the finish I I I On the Turf I Jockey Arthur Redfern has abandoned aban-doned hIs pr < 1 Europen invasion h dying at his homo In Des MoInes Car miners Is said to havo brought the greatest price over paid for a baseball player when Brooklyn paid 8000 for him Ho was considered tho greatest pitcher of his time Last season ho was an umpire In the Western league and at tho close of the season ho returned re-turned to his home In Dos Moines A few days ago he was taken ill with heart disease and physicians fear that ho may not recover Ills wife and two small boys are with him I I I Boxing 1 I Bob Fitzsimmons and Philadelphia Jack OBrien will fight a twentyround bout at the Yosemite club In San Francisco some time between Dec 20 and 30 The fight will bo derided In the open air Eddie llanlon and Aurello Herrera fought twenty fast rounds o a draw Nov 10 Both received considerable punishment llanlon was too clever to allow tho Mexican to jet in a hard punch Herrera was hi frequently but there was not enough steam behind be-hind tho blows to do a great deal of execution Battling Nelson and Terry McGov ern will fight after all providing Bill Nolan manager of Nelson does not go back on a statement which he sent to Joe Humphreys nanager of Mo Govern Nolan Infol med Humphrey that ho was willing to let Nelson meet McGovern In a six round bout Battling Nelson the pugilist has announced that he Is engaged to be married The fair ono who captured Nelsons heart and who Is in time to share his fortunes Is Miss Marguerite Dallangero of Fairfax Cal a small town near San Francisco Sho Is only 1C and Nelson wanted to marry her Pt once but hpa nl rNd to wait |