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Show SPORTING GOSSIP. Athlete. Champion aththe best Probably lete in the world, P. J. OConnor of Waterford City, Ireland, is to retire from athletics. OConnor holds the e worlds record for the jump and is also a noted high jumper. As a mere schoolboy he excelled in all kinds of physical exercise, football and jumping being his favorites. Ho made his debut in Galway in 189ti. During that year he competed in 20 events, embracing broad and high jumps, 100 and 200 yards, and succeeded in winning 12 first prizes, 3 seconds and 4 thirds. The following year he obtained 22 prizes out of six athletic meetings. In 1898 he competed at nine meetings and won 21 first prizes, 13 seconds and a number of thirds. In that year he had the honor of winning the 100 yards championship of Connaught and beating W. J. Newburn in a contest in Dublin in the broad jump. In 1899 he competed at 13 meetings and won 27 first prizes, 19 seconds and 4 thirds. During the same year he won the following Gaelic championships 220 yards, high jump, broad jump and running hop, step and jump. Ho represented Ireland in the international contest with Scotland at Edinburgh in the broad and high jumps. In 1900 OConnor showed wonderfully improved form. He competed at 19 meetings, and won 36 first prizes, 12 seconds and 11 thirds. In the same year he won the broad jump championship of Ireland, and tied with P. J. Leahy in the high jump championship at 6 feet 1 inch. He won the broad jump and tied with Leahy again in the high jump in tho All-Arou- all-arou- A change has taken place in the management of the Salt Lake Athletic club, J. E. McGinnis haying, at the urgent solicitation of the directors, taken full charge of the institution. The choice is a most fortunate one. Mr. McGinnis has been well known not only in sporting circles, but to the general public for years. He is absolutely on the square in all his dealings, a young man of character and ability, just such a man as the Athletic club neeeds. Under his management there will be no fake contests and any fistic encounters which are pulled off under his directions will be fair and he will be on the square with the public. Truth believes he will lift the club on to a plane in the confidence of the public which it has never occupied before. J On Thursday evening there will be a glove contest at the club between Jerry McCarthy and Toung Gibbs, the latter a colored man. Both have records as fighting men, and the lovers of the art are expecting a real good exhibition. The proceedings will open with a preliminary canter by Jacobs and Baker as contestants. 20-rou- nd o long-distanc- Clark to Have Fine Stable. United States Senator William A. Clark is the latest acquisition to the American turf. Thoroughbreds bearing his colors and managed by his son, Charles, will race on the metropolitan tracks this summer. When the late Marcus Daly was alive and the hatred between him and Clark international contest against Scotwas so intense that they sought in land at Belfast. May 13, 1901, at the every way to gain the mastefy over De La Salle College sports at Watereach other, Clark purchased a few ford he did phenomenal jumping, and race horses and ran them on the Mon- shortly afterward at the Irish chamtana tracks controlled by Daly. But pionships his first jump was 22 feet he soon tired of tne inoroughbreds 5 inches; his second 23 feet 8 inches; and they were sold. He has not raced his third 24 feet; his fourth, 23 feet horses for nearly ten years. The suc- 11 inches; his fifth a foul, and his cess of his son on the Montana cir- sixth and- final effort the exceptional cuit, where he was recently elected distance of 24 feet 9 inches. This president of the jockey clubs in Ana- he subsequently surpassed by jumpconda and Butte, induced him, it is ing the extraordinary distance of 24 said, to try the turf again. It is said feet 11 inches, and on the same day to be Mr. Clarks intention to race did a high jump of 6 feet 3 inches. horses on a scale befitting his wealth, At the championships and to become a, competitor of million- in September, 1901, he won the long aires like W. C. Whitney, August Belmont and James R. Keene. ' - Pan-Americ- an WE BUY BOOKS. i Jack OBriens Ambition. Cyclone Kelly a Failure. Jack O'Brien of Philadelphia, who Cyclone Kelly, who burst into the has been very successful as a pugilistic firmament like a whole connow announces his intenstellation by standing off Tommy tion of abandoning the gloves of the Ryan for seven rounds at Hot prize ring for the mysteries of the law. OBrien has made up his mind to become a lawyer, and is already studying hard to attain this end. Besides being a pugilist, OBrien is also an insurance broker and a real estate agent. He has made plenty of money .as a fighter and has a lot of property in Philadelphia. OBrien says that he does not intend to abandon the ring at once. He wants to fight Tommy middle-- weight, Ryan first and become the middleweight champion of the world. Jack thinks there is a good chance of such a mill being held at Fort Erie some time in April: Whether he wins or loses, however, OBrien avers that he will quit scrapping for good. The Philadelphia boxer will take up his new following under his right name, Joseph F. A. Hagen. 'CrcXJONEKELLY Johnny Taral a Comer. Johnny Taral,. son of Fred Taral, the famous jockey, is the smallest boy riding a thoroughbred on the turf today. Johnny is 13 years old and Springs and who claimed after the weighs 55 pounds. He sailed, with fight that he had Ryan in a bad way his father, for Europe the other day, and was robbed by the referee, went being under contract to ride for a into total eclipse at St. Louis, when rich at a salary of Mike Shreck put him out in four $10,000. Another wealthy turfman of rounds. Mike makes no pretentions Vienna has second call on his services to Ryans class, so this cyclone canat $4,000. Speaking of his son before not raise much dust he embarked Fred Taral sain: Intercollegiate Whist Tourney. Johnny is the most promising rider The I have ever seen at his period of life. proposed intercollegiate whist I do not say this because he is my son, tournament to be held in New York but as a statement of fact. He be- next month is now a certainty. The gan riding last fall, and showed re- matter was taken up by the National markable aptitude for the vocation of Whist association and the Knickera jockey. Hq learned the elementary bocker Whist club, with the result parts of the riding education as quick- that the first tournament, with at ly as does a young duck its first les- least five universities represented, will sons in the water. My only fear about be held in the rooms of the Knickerhim is, not that he will not master the bocker Whist club at the Victoria hogame, but that his reckless courage tel on March 20 and 21. The Nawill lead him into danger. tional Whist association has offered a cup as the regular championship U. A. A. New Members for trophy. At a special meeting of the board of Joe Tavey is now presiding over the managers of the central Association Elks of the A. A. U. the petition of the refreshment department at thethe aprecently obtained Central Y. M. C. A. of Indianapolis, club having Joe is one of the ablest pointment. Ind., for membership in the A. A. U. dispensers of liquid refreshments in was granted. Membership in the A. the city, and his many friends are A. U. was also accorded to Company pleased that he has fallen into so deH, Sixth regiment, Illinois National sirable a position. Guard Athletic club of Monmouth, 111. The application of the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. to hold the state indoor championship meet at Indianapolis Marcn 20 was approved. The petition of the Company H, Sixth regiment, I.' N. G., Athletic Club of Monmouth, 111., to hold a central association A. A. U. basket-bal- l championship meet was held over for action at a later date by the championship committee. Slosscns Day Is Over. The distinct features of the Paris billiard tournament were the grand showing cf the American, George Sutton, and the sorry exhibitions of his countryman, George Slosson, for whom the tournament was postponed a month in order that he might cross the ocean and compete. That Slosson years ago was one of the worlds greatest players all concede, but that he is now a billiard wreck and totally unable to hold the pace set by such artists as Vignaux, Cure and Sutton, his opponents in the tournament, and for that matter a dozen others, few will deny. Turkish Diplomat a Christian. Stefanaki Musurus Bey, the new Turkish ambassador in London, 'is a Christian. .. . .. Austro-Hungaria- n - P. J. O'CONNOB jump. While in this country he hoped to make new records, but the we books. change of climate and a strained tenLake. Will Furnish don conspired against him. Largest stock in Salt on Earth. Any Book OConnor stands six feet two in training weighs SHEPARD BOOK COMPANY inches and He is built like a greyhound, well formed, wiry and a mass, of sell 160-pound- He lire Hooke gfltoppe" Opposite Hotel Knutsford. sinewy muscles. He is a younger brother of A. W, OConnor, . . i , . . . . |