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Show th wirld. was defeated in Paree recently by a frofj-eater named Daragon. Sounds like a tooth-wash, Bobby races here this ! season. That proposed match between Dick Hy-land Hy-land and Muggsy Scholes Is off in fact It never was on. Hyland and what goes with him will leave today for Chicago, where they will enter the game. This Is the limit. They're going to hold a pinochle congress In Noo Yawk soon. Next they'll hold a pigs-foot fest or a tooth-pleking contest. On June 10. motorists from all the world will take part In the greatest event of its kind the world has even seen n overland trip from Paris to Peking. The Governments of both countries are supporting sup-porting the match, and China will have camels laden with gasoline all along the way. There's no need now for a peace congress. I RIGHT OFF THE BAT. t Tex Rlckard Is proud of his figure $40,000 for the Gans-Nelson fight, July 4. And the Elyltes are willing to make It $100,000. Alongside that bunch Jack Reid's $5000 purse looks like a butterfly in a hailstorm. Bike road-races will be run here Dec oration day under the direction of the old, reliable Hugh Rlppeto, and over the old Lagoon course, fifteen miles from start to finish. There'll fie about 100 riders at the start, and nobody knows how many at the finish. There'll be no cash prizes, but there'll be prize bikes and other things, besides the glorv, which is the best of It. Fred Mitchell was elected president. B. M. Harmon, vice-president, George Dahl-stead. Dahl-stead. secretary and treasurer, Tony Wheeler. Oscar Evans, A. O. Haywood and Thomas Gillespie directors of the Blackslough Gun club, organized recently. The club Is going to lease 900 acres of marsh land near here, and plant it in duck feed. Emeryville will run until June 22 plenty plen-ty of time to go broke In. Abe Attell was bested 'tother night In Philadelphia by Tommy O'Toole. The Shamrock put It all over the three-ball kid. Colored baseball Is a new tunt In this man's town, introduced by the Railroad and Walters' Athletic club, organized by local negro athletes. . Frank W. Elder, amateur bike champion cham-pion of the East, wants to ride here on the saucer track. Come on, Frankle, the water's fine. ... Fort Douglas web-footers wiped the earth with the Dubel bunch yesterday afternoon. Score: 12 to 7. Crabbe's team crawled all over the Short Liners yesterday on Fort Doublas diamond In a baseball scrap. Score: 16 to 7. . Al Reed, about as big as a minute and a blamed sight faster, is one of the speediest riders on the saucer track. Al Is about 12 years young, and makes some of the grownups look like mud-turtles. He may race exhibition miles on the saucer track this season. Bert Fuller, in an auto, and Charlie Wilkinson, on skates, will race tonight at the Auditorium rink. Nothing extra for accident insurance policies. " Local baseball teams want fo organize into a city league, and will meet soon to talk the matter over. It'll be a good thing. Five gallons of oil almost killed Ooudy, the" ballonist, at Salt Palace yesterday, and about three Inches of green poplar tree saved him. Goudy went up In his balloon about fifty feet, when something went wrong, and wallowing around In a poplar tree, he grabbed hold, and came down while the gas-bag went up. He'll try it again today. Tomorrow night Mike "Twin" Sullivan meets Honey Mellody at Los Angeles. Mellody claims the welter-weight championship, cham-pionship, and Mike wants to take It away from him. Hugo Kelly, the Italian with the Turk name and Jack "Twin" Sullivan will meet In Los Angeles early next month, for the middle-weight championship. The two fought a draw at the .same place last year. Leo Talbot, at Princeton, broke the world's hammer-throwing record, by heaving It 190 feet, 9 inches. That's where using the hammer proved to be a good thing. Tommy Burns and Jack O'Brien and Abe Attell and Kid Solomon meet at Los Angeles next month at Tom McCarey's great fight fest. It is expected that 60,000 people will ace the show. Bobby Walthour, one Urn champion of |