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Show so;;e short-stouies : of various sports i- :. - PugHigm. : -v : "Kid" McPartlaad called off his bout with Matty Matthews. Th men irer i to have met for twenty rounds at Horn j to have , met for twenty rounds at Homestead. , j Pa, McPartland pleads i lack pf cpodiuon. -. - V . - " H - Matchmaker Herman of ' tho Fort j die A C, has called off. the match bo- j tween Jack Root and, George. Gardner, ' which was -scheduled, for March' SlsLj He is trying to arrange a bout between ; Gus Jtuhlin and "Kld7 McCoy, - The bout between Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Joe Cboynski, which was scheduled to take place In Philadelphia, March 30th, has been postponed until some time next month at the suggestion , of Cboynski,. as he would be unable to get into condition for such an important impor-tant contest, t James J. Corbett caught a Tnrtar Saturday Sat-urday night In New Haven. Conn. He was playing at on of the theaters and was introduced to Shevlin, a Tale student, stu-dent, and the pair donned the gloves, and th Tale man kept Corbett busy for thre rounds. . . , Tommy Sullivan, th Brooklyn fighter who has been living In St. Louis for som time, ha Issued a challenge to tho winner of the McPadden-Yanger contest. con-test. McPadden beat. him recently, la right rounds after a hard fight . . Replying to Joe Sullivan's offer to get a match in Louisville for some Chicago Hght-welght iwlth George huh. M. J. Fltpatrlck. manager of Dick Fltxpat-rlck. Fltxpat-rlck. says he will match the latter with th Louisville champion at th weight named.- I Martin Duffy's fight In Butte, Mont, before th Broadway Athletic club with Young Glbbs has been declared off. The club manager telegraphed: "All off. Zlddy Bishop killed game. Letter on way." Bishop recently, got Britt to. go there to box. Herrera and "when Britt arrived refused to go on with the match. Duffy had signed articles and posted a forfeit of $100 in Butte. - Billiards, - f'-:-; William Fi Hatley. the well-known expert, created a new record from th break In a fourteea-lneh balk-line game at Duluth on Saturday by running 214 points. Hatley already held the record for this, bia former score being 194. TsnniaT. ' - ; - ' C. H. Howard and J. Ross Curran-von their matches In the New Tork A. C hand tennis tourney at New York on Saturday. -. k The Dpherty brothers defeated Burke and Kerr at Nice on Saturday In the finals for' th Eugen Higgles tennis competition, h - .... - , BaahaJI.;.'jl'-;; ' t MoAleer aays he looks for a new champion batsman this year to top De-lahanty. De-lahanty. Lajoie Keeler and Burkett. "He will have to be a good one." : George Tebeau. manager of the Kansas Kan-sas City American Association dub, has decided to spend 11 0,000 la Improvements Improve-ments to his grounds this season. A meeting' of the National League umpires has been called for April 12th. at which th rules of the game will be considered and uniform interpretation reached. ; George Van Haltren says his leg Is well again and he feels fit to play the Stme of bis career: This will be Van altren's eighteenth year in the National Na-tional league. 1 . ' President Pulllam has called a meeting meet-ing of the National lesgue umpire for April 12th, at which th rules of the game will be considered and a uniform interpretation reached.. . , , .. Manager Callahan of tho Chieago American League club. Is in a quandary over the non-appearance of Harry Glea-son, Glea-son, and unless the young man reports at Mobile, Ala., ta th near future th manager will have to develop a new third baseman, , -(Scintillations, s ' : ' : ' To make a hatter better, tak out.th 'V and insert an "e." V Th hot tip does sot always seoreh tha betting ring. We suspect that most of Corbett' added muscle is on his chest. - Tommy Ryan is saved. He has signed a contract to fight no more. , . Strange that more barbers do not' be-com be-com pugilists. They deal in tipper-cuts. tipper-cuts. j - An automatic dummy catcher has been invented. The automatic part of it is new. . ; ; i ' Legally speaking, ball-players who practice at the bar generally wind up on th bench. ; -r . : - ' . . |