Show I igjirc nf > b mxmigjirc U Q r Late News by Wire I Tho annual congress and tournn uncut of the Wisconsin State Howling association will bo held In Oshkosh luring the week opening Feb 19 and ending Feb 23 Tho Grand Uaplds Mich players proved too strong for visiting curlers from Chicago Detroit and Thames ille Ont and won the majority of the prizes and trophies offered at the second annual bonsplcl of the Grand Rapids Curling club In an eSJbltlon match with J Fer dinand Poggeiiburg New Yorks hest amateur player Slosson ran 400 points Suit eighteen inch two shots In balk In twentysix Innings an average of 151026 lIe negotiated tho highest roils ever made on tho Liodorkraiu club tables Ills first run netted 95 points He followed that with a cluster clus-ter of 120 and came back with 49 making the three runs In succession Poggenbnrg scored 211 points averaging aver-aging 8 1C25 Willie Hoppe champion billiard player of tho woild at eighteen Inch balk line one shot In covered the forfeit for-feit posted by George Slosson and formally I for-mally accepted the challenge of the latter to play a match for the worlds title No date has as yet been set and the place is also to be named Th6 details de-tails will bo arranged In the near future fu-ture It Is necessary that tho match bo played within thirty days after the posting of tho forfeits but It Is likely that tho event In which tho whole billiard world Is Interested will come off In the course of a couple of weeks owing to tho arrangements necessary to bo made for the championship tournament tour-nament at the 182 style In Madison Square garden beginning April 9 I Baseball I The prospects are favorable for the organization of the proposed Sunday league of central Illinois Iowa and Missouri cities A 25 per cent tariff will rule in the Pacific Coast league next season hast year the price was raised to 35 cents but it cut down the attendance Manager Mack of tho Athletics possesses pos-sesses enough players to form two teams without pressing tho pitchers Into service as Inflelders or outfielders A H Favour of Now York City former for-mer captain of the Amherst baseball team was elected coach of the Oberlln College baseball team for the coming season by an agreement of tho conference and If this Is not agreeable to the other oth-er confeience colleges 11 then advises that the recommendation of the recent re-cent conference bo accepted with the minor changes suggested by the united unit-ed faculties at a recent meeting This action was taken by tho university senate the highest ruling body at n meeting yesterday and It Is finnl as far as the university Is concerned I Boxing J Palmer says that ns Jack OBilcu Is not willing to meet him at Newcastle New-castle he is willing to fight OBrien anywhere In the United States for tho best purse If OUrlen refuses this offer anybody can have a match with Palmer Kid Sullivan of Washington knocked out Kid Parker of Chicago in tho second sec-ond found of what was scheduled asa as-a fifteenround light before tho Eureka Eu-reka Athletic club at Baltimore Park or mndo a good light whllo It lasted but succumbed to a whirlwind of body blows In tho holiest fight Milwaukee has over seen Jack Dougherty tho local welterweight secured a wellearned decision over Budd > Hyatt of Chicago Chi-cago Doughertys victory makes him a strong aspirant for championship honors and It Is probable he soon may challenge Joo Gans Time first heavyweight battle to bo fought at Tom OHourkes Tuxedo club just outside of Philadelphia will have as principals big Al Kauffman of California and Gus Ruhlln tho Akron giant who has been unable to get on a bout with any of flue big fellows fel-lows for somo time Tho bout Is to bo held tho hitter part of February Joe Gans and Jimmy Britt will fight at San Francisco next month Gans will leave Baltimore for tho coast next week and ho says every detail of the battle will bo arranged by tho time he reaches there Onus agrees to make 133 pounds at G oclock the night of tho fight which Is satisfactory satisfac-tory to Britt The fight will be limited limit-ed to twenty rounds I Othe Turf I W A Clark Jr son of the Montana senator has quite a stable of horses In training at los Angeles and among them are several that will bo brought east In tho spring and campaigned down thc grand circuit The date for tho running of tho AUTO WHICH SET NEW MILE RECORD AT ORMOND MEET N The Cincinnati club has closed a deal by which Charles Street the catcher who was with the team last season will go to the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast league Tho trausatcion Is a cash deal no other player figuring In it Duck Ewing the famous veteran catcher is dangerously ill of Brights disease at Cincinnati He has been a sufferer for a number of years but kept his feet until recently when ho broke down completely Attending physicians say he cannot recover I Football I Tho aimy and nay football game this year will be pin oil on Franklin field University of Pennsylvanias ground for athletic sports on Dec 1 The American game of football as now played Is wholly unfit for colleges and schools says President Charles W Eliot of Harvard in his annual report re-port If Harvard persists in its determination determi-nation to abolish football Penn will meet Michigan next fall and probably another western team said a prominent promi-nent athletic authority of the University Univers-ity of Pennsylvania who attended the recent meeting of the football rules committee In New York At Washington park Brooklyn Feb 1 the Now Zealand football team which Is returning home from a victorious vic-torious tour of England won from a team composed partly of New York players and partly of substitutes of the visiting team by a score of 46 to 13 Fifteen men plaed on each side and the halves were of thirtylive minutes min-utes duration Formal announcement has been made of the marriage In March of Miss Eunice Josephine FIto to FieldIng Field-Ing Harris Yost the famous football coach of the University of Michigan Miss Fllo Is the daughter of Mr and Mrs L B File of Nashville and the family Is socially prominent The future fu-ture Mrs Yost is a pronounced beauty Her younger sister Virginia on Dec C married Daniel McGugln a former Michigan football star and pupil of Yost and fall coach at Vanderbilt unl verslly The University of Chicago recommends recom-mends the suspension of Intercollegiate Intercollegi-ate football for the period of two years I Santa Catallna consolation selling stakes has been set for March 10 All of the entries to the original stake except ex-cept the winner Silver Sue are eligible eli-gible to this event The distance Is ono and onesixteenth miles and tho jockey club will add 1000 The Gravesend race track homo of the Brooklyn Jockey club has been gobbled up by real estate speculators and after the season of 190G tho famous fam-ous Brooklyn Jockey club stakes will be transferred to tho Aqueduct course a contioiling interest In which was secured se-cured by Phillip J Dwyer last winter |