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Show TRUTH. 12 Sharkey Is Confident. Tom Sharkey once more stands In the center of the pugilistic stage, on account of his match with Jack Munroe. Sharkey says his main object in meeting Munroe is to open the way for a return match with Jim Jeffries. The sailor believes that he can turn the tables on the champion if only given the opportunity. Munroe is not a new one on Tom, as he saw him spar on the Pacific coast years ago when Munroe was nothing more than a crude novice. Of course I do not claim that I can beat Munroe right off the reel, remarked Sir Thomas to a party of friends recently, for I do not know how much he has improved since I watched him box at Frisco, but I will deal out his trimmings all right A Jockey of Promise. Ryan and Fitzsimmons. Tommy Ryan vs. Bob Fitzsimmons! The offer made by the For Erie Athletic club of a purse of or 50 per cent of the receipts, for a battles between the two has attracted considerable attention among sporting men. Ryan has wired his acceptance, and Fitzsimmons has signified his willingness to consider such a proposition. According to the proposal the men are to meet at 160 pounds. Manas er Herman is confident that Fitz will agree to the match, which, if made, will undoubtedly prove one of the greatest pugilistic attractions ever offered to the public. Fitz is really a middleweight fighter, but there was no one in that class to to compare with him he was obliged to go into the heavyweight division. Ryan, in the event of the match being made, will face the hardest job of his long ring career. He will need to bring his best science and rig generalship into play to escape the terrible blows of old Fitz. If the turns down the offer the same proposition will be made to Jack OBrien. $25,-00- 0, Two promising young jockeys have been developed by the present winter meeting in California. They are Reed and Connell. Frank Reed is under contract with John F. Schorr, who has been offered a good sum for the boys services by representatives of Eastern owners. Reed is 17 years old and comes from Pocatello, Idaho, being McGovern Quits the 8tage. first note of the that probably The old claim so many times made jockey ever hailed from that state. He can that the stage is no place for a fighter ride at 80 pounds, is fairly strong, a is now corroborated by such a shrewd Individual as Sam Harris, manager of of Terry McGdvem. Harris lays all blame on the stage for Terrys defeat at the hands of Young Corbett over a year ago. He says it has made the Brooklyn boy slow, and that to regain his title Terry will not be seen before the footlights again until after Jan. 1, 1904. Harris says McGovern is fast graduating from his class as a featherweight and that when he fights Young Corbett it will probably be his last appearance in that division; that after that he will seek the lightweight Gans, the man who. may possibly hold the title when Terry is ready to challenge for it. Plunger wno Has Cleared Plunger Joe Yaeger has had a most successful career on the turf. His recent winnings have aggregated $100,-00- 0 and have caused him to be one of the most talked-o- f figures in the racing world. Yaeger is a Cincinnati boy and is but 25 years of age. His father is Dad William, better known as for Yaeger, many years a familiar figure on western race tracks. Young four-yea- r Joe early displayed such a knowledge contract with the lad. of the racing business as could only When Guests are Expected. be expected from a veteran followei In preparing a room for a guest, if of the horses. He went to Notre only for a few days, do not neglect to Dame College at South Bend, Ind., foi place a variety of books at his dis- two years, and then learned telegposal, says the Washington Star. If raphy. In 1895 he started out on his there is no bookshelf in the room, turf career. Almost from the start he books and magazines should be placed made money rapidly and was soon on a low table near the window. Many able to gratify an ambition to own s a visitor has gone through tortured, breeding farm. He has a pretty estabsleepless nights in a strange house, lishment at Atlantic, la. Lazzarone, with not a line of reading matter to who won the Suburban in 1895, is at the head of his stud. He kaeps & be got at. stable at New. Orleans. Joe Yaeger is BAT THE an unusually intelligent young man quiet in demeanor and studious to a Maltine-Pepsin- e degree. About two years ago he marRoyal ried an estimable young lady of Atlantic, la., whose wise counsels have been of material benefit to him in his brief and almost meteoric career. He WRITWMOLSSOMS AND is an admirable specimen of the conservative turfman. Professor Condemns Football. Prof. Marshall L. Perrin of Boston University, says that football is far more brutal than bull fighting. Prof. Perrins opinion is that football develops a spirit of bullying in school boys; that is brutal, bloody and barbaric; that it is less scientific than baseball; that it is no more manful a sport than duelling and prize fighting, and finally that it must become a strong and retrogressive force to antagonize the sentiments of human The excitement of a brotherhood. fobtball game, Prof. Perrin maintains, Inconsists in seeing blood spilled. deed, he says, a bull fight is not to be compared to a football game. In the former the toreador is rarely injured. The excitement consists of the How cruel torture of the animal. much more stimulating and delightful it! is to know that human arms and legs and ribs are being broken in the melee, faces kicked to bleeding, heads smashed and promising young men maimed for life. New English Boxer. Andrew Tokell is the latest English boxer who has come to this country - : XiinimiTKi -- -- og pnoos m Hat 'XIH -- luinao gg moo?j axv Ari'iv-taoiasNfioa ABNhOXXV unuoa SAisoaoam t Pennsylvania; Arthur Duffy, Georg town; John Dewitt, Princeton; 8. S. Jones, New York; F. S. Moulton, Yale and Fred Maloney, Chicago. 8addle and Sulky. George W. Saunders is training sixteen head at the winter home of H. Hanna, at Thomasville, Ga. The stallion Horatio, by Cromwellian, is dead at Atchison, Kan. He was owned by W. J .McShirleiy. John Dickerson is now trainer at Hillanddale stock farm, near N. Y., the home of Bellini, 2:13. His brother, Will Dickerson, -' Mama-ronec- Y., 2:01. at the Parkway farm, k, Goshen-N- . the home of Joe Patchen, Nutwood, 2:18, is represented in the 2:15 .list by but four trotters, as follows: Lockheart, 2:08; Commodore Porter,. 2:13; Blake, 2:13, and Saleiia F., 2:14. Euxine has produced three trotters two with recby Expedition, 2:15 ords better than 2:20 and the third as a worked in 2:20. They are Eiixines first three foals. American Generosity. Under the title, Gifts and Bequests, Appletons Annual Cyclopedia enumerates gifts and bequests for public purposes which were made, became operative or were completed in the United States to the amount of more than $85,000,000. This list does not include amounts less than $5,000 ANZ&EW TOKELL not denominational contributions for educational or benevolent purposes, nor state or municipal appropriations. to' earn dollars and fame. He is Among these excluded contributions matched to fight Harry Forbes at De- are those to the American board of troit Tokell claims to be the cham- foreign missions, over $18,369,163. of England. pion bantam-weigh- t Suttons Phenomenal Billiards. According to a letter received by Thomas Foley, George Sutton is playing wonderful billiards in Paris and looming up as one of the favorites for the coming worlds championship tour- nament In two academic games recently with the great French player, Cure, Sutton averaged, respectively, 100 and 125 at 18.2 balk line. In the one game of 300 points he ran out in three innings, and in the oiher, a game of 200 points, he finished in two innings. The letter says that the Frenchmen marveled at the speed of the portly American, who has already made himself popular with the academy patrons. About Diamond Carats. We talk of a diamond being so many carats in weight The carat was originally the seed of the Abyssinian carat Reward for Brave Messenger. flower. These seeds are very equal In William Byl, the Adams Express size, and so were at one time used in companys messenger, who made so weighing gold and precious stones. bold a stand against the Burlington y the carat as applied to gold train robbers near Marcus, 111., will means the twenty-fourtpart be presented by the company with of the simply of of gold or weight any piece $1,000 in gold. of alloy of gold. cool-heade- coming summer season. The members of this team will be taken from various colleges, and It is practically the first time that an college team has gone abroad, it i8 proposed to hold a series of games with the best teams that can be got together in Great Britain, Ireland France and Germany. George A. Orton, the former University of Pennsylvania crack, will captain the team. Other athletes who will make up the invading party will be A. C. Kraenz-lein- , Pennsylvania; Alexander Grant is still . ...BREAD... Collegians, to Visit England. A team of clever American college cracks will invade England during the d, To-da- h |