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Show (SOME SHORT STORIES OF VARIOUS SPORTS Tho . following - are the statistics of j " Jack Monroe, the Montana miner who ; knocked Jim Jeffries down for the first time In the champion's career: Age, 26 , years; height, S feet 11 inches; weight, 185 pounds; chest,-43 inches; waist,37 t Inches; reach (one arm), 27 inches: thigh, 26 inches: calf, 18 inches; fore-' fore-' arm, 13 inches.- Fitzsimmons laughs at - the predictions that Monroe will one day wrest the championship laurels . from Jeffries and declares that he could knock Monroe out in two rounds. The .". chances are that Jeffries was caught oft 'his guard and came near being knocked out before he realized what was happening. hap-pening. -. ' ' . . " The American Derby next year will be more valuable than in any previous year of its history. First place will carry more than 370,000 to the winner. Having recovered from the injury to ' : ' his left hand which he sustained In a recent scrap, Joe Choynskl is to fight . again. The veteran heavy-weight has signed articles to box Morgan Williams of Denver twenty rounds before the Cripple Creek Athletic, club, Cripnle VCTeek, Colo., during the first week.in January. Williams Is no novice at the -A fame. A few weeks ago he knocked, , . out Jimmy Handler of Newark and is looked upon by Westerners as a likely man. . ' . . m '' Michael Fox, a turfman of San Fran- ; Cisco, is suing J. B, Haggin, John ' Mackay and Walter Jennings for possession pos-session of the racers Canmore. valued at .$7500;' Andrlsa, $5000, and Sister Jeanle, $3000; also to secure an accounting account-ing of the earnings of two other horeea, " all of whom he claims as his property. Fox alleges that the defendants assumed as-sumed control of the horses in May, 190L and refuse to give him an account- - "V-. :- There' will be only one baseball league in the South next year. William. H. V . Xavanaugh of Little Rock, Ark, has been re-elected president . Cincinnati has eleven pitchers signed ; for 1903 Hahn, WAggs. PhUUps, Poole, Harper, Thlelman. Vickers. Allemang, Ewlng, Hooker and Sutthoff. , On January 14th next the New England Eng-land Baseball league will hold Its annual an-nual meeting in Boston and on the 20th the Western league will hold forth in Kansas City. , . Terry McGovern has answered the in-vitation in-vitation of the Pittsburg men who want hint to have his fight with Corbett in that city by saying that they will have to post a forfeit of 35000 or he will not start a step. Tho two fighters divided lip a forfeit of 32500at Louisville be- cause of the failure of Bob Gray to pull oft the, fight They made--the' same amount at Detroit It Is quite possible that the two pugilists can make more money on forfeits than they can by '", lbttag,;.. . . , , fc VKld Broad is matched to fight Spike I Xeroy Of IndianapoUs at St Joseph, lio, on January 9th. ; ' . Frank Erne, the former light-weight ' champion, denies that he has retired .from flie ring. He is ont with a state- ment saying he is ready to Uke on any fighter before the International Athletic club of Fort Erie '- fFranlt Erne will leave San Francisco " tor the East soeiu - He has saved some TOoney and expects to go into business 'In New-Tork. .. . -.... " Wlle Lewis, the New York llght- weight 18 out With a sweeping defi to meet any one at 135 pounds. He is not particular who the man is. ' Abe Attell has two brothers in the - firhting game out on the Pacific coast, Caesar and Monte Attell. Both are said ' to be promising youngsters snd both - have been returned winners more than , : once. . . ; ; , Eddie Hanl'on has made a host of ad-' ad-' jnlrers In San Francisco. Some of the sDorts are willing to wager large " amounts on his chances with any or the 315-pound boys. One man is, willing to : back him for $1000. - ; . Abe AtteU of California says that "whether he wins or loses with Eddie Hanlonhe will arrange a "go" with Tim Callahan, who challenged him some time ago. - j;- |