Show Sport SoKi Gossip By F. F V V. FITZGERALD r I No announcement h has s as yet been made that a manager has Las been appoint appoint- appointed e ed for the Salt Palace saucer track forthe for forthe the cOlUin coming coining season In ln the meantime the fast last bicycle rulers riders are aro bein being signed i ned up for other tracks and the prospects for foi a successful sea season on at tho the Salt Palace arc diminishing The fans are e still h hoping pin that Harry Hairy may be induced to mana manage e the track a again this season John L L. Sullivan will sail f for r Europe on February 8 8 There is is said to be bo a roguish intention in in the mind of the thega theay ga gay ay old Lothario On the same sarno boat boit so so the tho gossips say will rill sail an ola old oki friend of John L L. Land and the thc marriage e will take place lace on the other side The identity of of the bride brid to be is is somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what of f a question Some Sonic sa say Y she is is a Utica Uti-ca widow and somo some that sh she e is is a Roxbury spinster John L L. L was recently divorced divorced from front the wife whom he married maried twenty twenty six six years years' ago and ond d fr whom he lie was separated a year yea r after his marriage c. Matrimony is said sai d to have been contemplated when th the e divorce was secured Because George Little has not advised ad ad- wised his frien friends s to bet beton on the sable e champion a rumor minor has been started that tha t J Johnson has been fixed and that tha t h he e will submit to a beating from Jeffries Jeffrie s in in order that those on the inside ma mawin may maywin maywin y win win a II fortune fortuno from front the backers o ot of t Johnson To the follower of the game gam 0 such a story is rot It is is conceded I b believe lieve by eve everyone yono familiar with the two men that there is not enough gold in in the world to bribe either in in the time coming contest I Certainly tho the white whiteman whiteman whiteman man will not submit to a beating from the black one no matter what the reward reward re re- ward And just as certainly the racial racia I pride of the black blad one will prevent the thought of turning traitor If Johnson Johnson John John- I son wins wins he will reach a throne in in the pugilistic world to which no negro o has ever even aspired and that he ho will bethe be bethe bethe the idol of ot his race is is a certainty Louis Blot matchmaker for the Metropolitan Metropolitan Metropolitan Met Met- club of San Francisco has been trying for some time to match Billy with Sam Sim Langford Of course course Sam Sara was willing but very wisely decided to ignore the match matchan an and while Blot was waiting to hear from him P sailed for Paris Frank Picato and Georg George e meet tomorrow night in in Los Angeles ina in ina in ina a ten ten round round go to o. o A though he ho has seen his best best best days is is still a tough tough customer cus ens- tomei tomer and will not be cas easy for the ruing ris rising ru- ru ing youn young light weight Wolgast had hid his bis hands full all of the time a week or two ago with and land if I Picato does better than hold hoM 1 even he will prove himself to bo ho of the best beet of the light weight division South Africa has a anew new sprinting marvel He i J. J Donaldson of f Cape Cap C Colony lonY Don Donaldson Donaldson lason is is said to have have run runa a hun hundred ired yards aids in 9 9 9 16 10 seconds seconds ds which is is a shads shad's better better than tho the worlds world's record record rec rec- ord of 9 3 5 3 3 5 seconds Yokel and Karp have commenced the heavy training for their wrestling bout scheduled for the Salt bait Lal Lake e theatre for far February 8 8 An unusual amount of interest has been arous aroused d in in the match owing to the tho fact that both fro aro ro well known locally and that neither has ever been defeated by a man of his weight Preliminary to the main mam event Gu Gus Anderson tho the fast welter weight who st stayed fifteen minutes with Farm Farmer er Burns will endeavor to throw Dad Conville Glenville the former football star twice in ha half haf f an hour The Occidental team learn eam of colored play play- ore ers from Salt Lake has just lust closed a successful winter season season in in Los Angeles An An- gees geles and started on a southern tour The boys play at Santa Ana Saturday and Sunday and nd in in San Diego next week 2 1 While in in Europe trope Coffroth is is said to have arranged to bring back Jam Jem Dris Dris- roll coll feather weight lit of EfI Eng land to meet meet meet-Abo Abo Attell for the worlds world's feather weight title as tho time opening card of his new San Francisco pavilion On tomorrow night Cyclone Johnny Johnny John John- ny fly Thompson will Thompson will meet meet Tommy McCarthy Mc- Mc Carthy tho the pride of the bricklayers' bricklayers union union in in San Francisco McCarthy should be ver very y ras easy picking for the Cyclone ai an and t. t b he is is fi figuring on another another an an- other match of a similar nature in in the Bay City As lon long as Thompson can can pick up easy easy ones in in Frisco he lie will probably sidestep Pete an and theother the tho theother other tough ones ones' that want to meet him Farmer Burns Bums picks piths Mike Yokel t to win the coming match with Karp The Farmer is is familiar with the stylo style 0 ol of wrestling of both men especially specially with that of Yokel whom ho failed to to throw in in an hour of wrestling nestling |