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Show RIGHT OFF THE BAT. Andv Carnegie Is going to be one of the vice-presidents at the Olympic games iu London next year so is Grover Cleveland Cleve-land and Pierp Morgan. Good combination combina-tion of money and brains heavy on the money. Rhodes won the national tennis championship cham-pionship of England 'tother day. and the bally Britishers lost considerable of their bloomln' cockiness. Hamilton. scorched th Websiers yesterday yes-terday in a baseball game. Score: 12 to 3. Wilding of London, won out from Rhodes. American. in the Knglish national tennis tournament yesterday. That cockiness is back again. (See above.) Sprlngville has an athletic club. Everything Every-thing goes but Iwixlng. i Tom Longboat, a Canadian Indian, broke the twenty-five-mlle running record rec-ord yesterday at the Marathon race at Boston, by 6 minutes and 2 3-4 seconds. Some would like to be in tho same boat with Longboat. Eat In' McCloskey is pie to Prof. Eaton, of the high school, who won't let the Saint play 'cause he's too old. The matter mat-ter was discussed yesterday, and disgusted dis-gusted several of those who took part. The Saints' baseball bunch have been given until Monday to either throw down McCloskey or "bust" the league. Jim Jeffries will meet Kangaroo Bill Squires If the Australian whips the winner win-ner of the Burns-O'Brien match at Los Angeles. The eagle agin the kangaroo who wins? Jack Hume has received that thing official notice from President Kelsey of the N. C. A., that the rider Is now a pro-fesh, pro-fesh, and mustn't be anything else. Jack bas a chance to appeal, however, and may do so. They've made it too hot In Paree for Joe Fogler. who says that the beat'U drive him across the big drink this sum-' sum-' mer to try for a bit of the Salt Palace hangup. Young Sharkey of Philadelphia, who was put away so -neatly by Pete Sullivan at Bingham the other night, has challenged chal-lenged Alvarado, the Aztec, and has put up 3100 to clinch the argument. Barney Oldfleld and Bruno Seibel. the Flying rmtchman, will race this afternoon after-noon atSan Diego for a $2500 purse. The event is one of the most important on the coast. Now they say craps is a religious ceremony. cere-mony. Lots of us have lost all chance of salvation because of It. Jim Jeffries and Joe Gans meet tonight to-night at the Y. M. C. A. not the real things, but amateurs who'll make the match almost as funny as the real thing. Rain stopped the U baseball bunch from traveling northward yesterday, and the game with Logan was postponed. Looks now as If there'll be RnmethInK doing- soon between Dubei's Colts and Gimlin's Lobsters. The two angels will meet next week and frame up things, e e e Hardy Downing1 is expected here from Nevada tomorrow, and will at once train for the races at the saucer track this season. Major Taylor, the colored champion, cham-pion, is also expected here. John Hal-vorsen, Hal-vorsen, manager of the track, has sent him a contract, and 'tis thought the human hu-man blackboard will sign. |