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Show Sporting Gossip This year's scries between the Chicago and Detroit teams differed very little from the contest of last year for the world's championship. Last year Detroit managed to get one tie game and went down in four straight defeats. In the scries played this year for the championship, champion-ship, Detroit won one game out of the five played. In the world's championship contest between the Chicago and Detroit De-troit baseball teams there were 62,232 paid admissions for the five .games, the receipts totalling $94,976. The Chicago players got $27,669, 'and $18,446 was divided amongst the Detroit players. The club owners got $19,681 each, and the national commission $9,947. A New York dispatch announces that the American Automobile Association is arranging plans for a Glidden tour to include the cities of Omaha, Denver and Salt Lake City and western points intervening, and efforts will be made to push it through and make it as much of a success as possible. "Cyclone" Thompson has secured a match with Boer Unholz. The scrap will take place in San Francisco on October 30, the Boer being regarded by the wise ones as the under dog. What is regarded by a majority of the racing men as the death blow to racing in Kentucky was struck last week when the state racing CJ commission adopted a resolution refusing to interfere with the system of betting in force. The quail season closes tomorrow. This announcement will probably prob-ably interest but few, as the shooting this season was not nearly so good, as had been expected before the opening of the season, on the 14th. The management of the All Hallows football team has protested the game won by the Ogdcn High school boys last Saturday, claiming claim-ing that the star player for the Ogden team, Murphy, is over the age limit. Murphy was the whole show in the game, and it was his playing play-ing that won the contest for the Ogden boys. The University of Utah football team comes home without winning win-ning a victory, having suffered its second defeat at Coloradi Springs on Saturday, the Colorado College Tigers winning by a ;ore of 18 to 4. New Orleans, at one time one of the greatest fighting centers in the world, is to again become the scene of some of the best contests in the country. A new club is being organized, and the fights will be held just across the river from New Orleans in a little town called Algiers. There is said to be plenty of money behind the club, and it is the intention to come, in competition with San Francisco and Los Angeles for the big fights. i Push ball is to be taken up by the students of the B. Y. C. at A Logan. A new push ball, six and a half feet in diameter, has been M ordered, teams will be organized and the game will be taken up in B earnest. 'fm Owen Moran is after Abe Attell for another boxing match. It's "Md too bad these little 'fellows are not matched for a finish fight, neither M one to be given a cent until one or the other has been sent to the land of Nod. But it's a cinch that if they are matched again, both will take .. M care that no one is seriously punished, except the onlooker. The Kclly-Papkc bout scheduled for Milwaukee has been called S off. But the coast promoters are after the lads for a set-to, and satis- j9 factory terms arc likely to be concluded any day. , j mm A match is being framed up between Jimmy Gardner, who claims . Kl the welterweight championship, and Bob Mona, of Milwaukee, the ' JP'M New Orleans people having made the boys an offer. Vs--- m Honus Wagner, the flying Dutchman of the Pittsburg club, car- M ricd off the batting honors in the National league again this year, sc- : curing a percentage of .352. This is the third year in succession that m Ilonus has led the major league in hitting. Mike Donlin of the Giants m finished second, and "Kitty" Bransficld of the Philadelphia club was m third on the list. m In the American league, Ira Thomas, the utility catcher of the De- m troit club, carried off the batting honors this year, with a percentage 1 of .327, Ty Cobb being second, with .326. M The National and American leagues were the only organizations in professional baseball in which the race for the pennant was not set- M tied until the final games. In all the other leagues there were some exceptionally strong teams which had a walk-away for the flag. jfl Among the pennant winners in the different leagues were: Southern m league, Nashville; Western, Sioux City; American Association, In- m dianapolis; Eastern, Baltimore; Connecticut, Springfield; Three I, Springfield; Central Association, Waterloo; Western Association, M Topeka. 9 Football players are crowding into the big leagues in baseball, a M number of former football stars having made good the past season. M An eastern sporting writer calls John J. McGraw, manager of the f New York Giants, the modern Jckyll and Hyde. Off the ball field, J McGraw is said to be the kindliest, most generous and most sympa- Ml thctic of men, the supporter of a herd of pensioners, the prop and stay of a long list of poor creatures. On the ball field he is the incar- j nation of rowdyism, the personification of meanness and howling blat- I' ancy. Just which character McGraw enjoys the most, it is hard to say. It's dollars to doughnuts that he is not worrying about the opin- ion of the general public. f Swarthmore college, which abolished football a year ago, is to re- y turn to the game. I jii James R. Kecnc, who cleaned up about $250,000 with his racing 1 string this season, will run no more races this year. I New York is getting to be a great fight town again, two scraps I of more than ordinary interest being scheduled for this week, Packy j McFarland and Lcack Cross and Tommy Miirphy and Joe Gans. The j appetite of the fight fans has been sufficiently whetted as the rcs.ult M of the long holiday given the fighting game, and it begins to look as if m, harvest time has arrived for the boxing fraternity. ml Kermit Roosevelt, son of the President, is endeavoring1 to make 9' the Harvard Freshman football team. , 'M An effort is being made to bring Packy McFarland and Freddie mti Welsh, the English lightweight, together, Coffroth of San Francisco having made these two lads an offer for a meeting on Thanksgiving M Day . if Pete Sullivan annexed a few easy dollars last Saturday night, W when he knocked out Larry Burns in the sixth round of a scheduled twenty-round fight at Ephraim, it being Peter's first appearance in the ring since Thompson took his measure at Ogden. There was a large C crowd present, and the fighting was fast and furious until the sleep- w producer was administered. f Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman with pugilistic aspirations, passed through town last week on his way to Los Angeles, where he is f matched with Jim Barry for November 6th. The Pacific Coast ball players are becoming somewhat conceited. jj The San Francisco and Los Angeles clubs have guaranteed the Chi- cago Cubs $10,000 for a trip to the Coast, and have offered to put up f a side bet of $15,000 that the coast teams will win a majority of the li games with the Cubs. II Fifty thoroughbred horses belonging to James R. Keene, Harry If Payne Whitney and August Belmont, were shipped to England last 13 week, where they will be trained for racing next season in England E and France. IT Danny Maher, the American jockey riding the ponies in the races 1 across the pond, is the king of all the jockies. today, having one day last week won his one hundredth victory this season. Higgs and I Wooten are pushing him pretty close for championship honors, how- H ever, Higgs having made 98 wins, while Wooten is credited with 97. mm |