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Show T RU T H. : CLIFFORD-QUEENA- CONTE8T. N Eddie Robinson has made arrange- contest between ments for a the celebrated pugilists, Clifford and Queenan in the Salt Lake theatre on the evening of April 18th next. Patrons of the ring will remember the; contest waged for twenty ' fierce rounds, ending in a draw, between Clifford and Queenan in Ogden about It was one of the six months ago. best exhibitions of the kind seen in these parts for many a day. These two fighters have already fought two This fights, both ending In draws. coming fight will be as good or better than any of them, if possible, as each man is more than anxious to establish his superiority. They are whirlwind fighters, good, clean, square fellows, and will give an honest contest for 20-roun- d - blood. . o : . Munroe Outclasses Sharkey. Jack Munroe, the miner pugilist, completely outclassed Toni Sharkey in a contest at Philadelphia, six-roun- d Baird Favors Turkey-DaGames. Manager Charles Baird is out with a statement to the effect that he does not disapprove of football games on Thanksgiving day. lie says the only statement, he has made which might bo so construed is that Michigan would either play in the East on Thanksgiving day or end the season with the Chicago game at Ann Arbor Nov. 12. lie says thero Is a likelihood that Michigan may get an eastern game for the later date. Ho also dey nies that he ever stated that most of the injuries to Michigan men the last two years came in games played late in the season, when the ground was frozen. o d : . - tics of Sharkey. ; 0 standard performers; her grandson, the former worlds champion, The Abbott, 2:03, and Oscar L., 2:08, thd latter being killed by falling when speeding on the ice. Corbett Whips Sullivan. Corbett proved his supera o iority as fighter over Dave Sullivan of Boston by defeating the latter in Old Eli at St. Louis. eleven rounds of vicious fighting at Yale will send some of her giants San Francisco Feb. 29. The contest 4 some of her fleetest sprinters to ended when Sullivan was so far gone an Louis exposition for the Olymthat it was merciful for the referee theSt. of the athletes who to stop the battle. Corbett, had the pic. games. Some from Yale are Edgar better of the fight from the first round. .plain to compete shot putter and hammer throw-- : Sullivan's feints were clever and ef- tG1us, er7i Thomas Lee Shevlin of St. Paul, fective, but the champion repeatedly P. Kinfollowed the attempts to draw him Minn., hammer thrower; Ralph B. out with hard, crushing blows to the ney; shot putter; Charles Ward Long, head and body. Sullivan in one or. middle distance runner; pole vaulter and high two rounds did fairly effective work, but at no time did he have Corbett jumper. o V unsteady or unable to come back and mix it. Grant is the Champion. o Wylie C. Grant of the New York Lawn Tennis club won the title in the Dolly Dillon Goes to Vienna. ; Dolly Dillon singles of the tournament for the In(2:06), by Sidney door tennis championship of the UnitDillon, sire of I.ou Dillon (1:58), is the highest priced trotter ever export- ed States at the Seventh Regiment ed from the United States. Dolly Dil- armory. This is the second consecu-tivejtimthat Grart has been able to lon has been purchased from John Splan by James Brown, a Vienna mil- win 'the title. He defeated C. C. Kelly lionaire, and was shipped yesterday of tlje West Side Tennis club. New in the Hamburg-America-n liner Patri- York, after five hotly contested sets. cia to her new' owner.' The price is The score was o not mentioned, but as $13,000 was refused for the animal, it can readily be New Ice Pacing Record. At Minneapolis. Feb. 27th, with guessed that the Vienna fancier paid well. The mare is nine years old, and, weather conditions favorable and a as under Austrian laws, horses over perfect track. Goshen Jim, A1 Glucks nine years old are forbidden to race, great side wheeler, bettered the Lake her racing career abroad will be brief. of the Isles track record for a half mile tin .two different heats and broke Why- wait so long :for your break-.fas- t the worlds racing record for a half mile on a curved ice track with the when you can have it remarkable time of 1;0Q, quickly by using Castle Gate Young Young HUMOR OF A BIG FIRE On Sunday night a kind gentleman rang a doorbell uptown and informed the anxious mother within that her son would not be home that night, as he was helping his employers to keep off the fire. The mother got very excited. "But he must come home, she cried; tell him I say he must, understand me, he must come home. But, my dear lady, said the man oothingily, "lie (rant come home; 'very one of the employes are in the same fix." Well, I don't can; about anybody else; he must come home. Where is ho now? "He's or. the roof. On the roof. she screamed, and lies got on the. best clothes he owns. "No, my dear madam, lie hasnt on his best clothes,' the man managed to Me-Laijhba- n, . e 8-- - k 6-- 3, 5-- 7, 6-- 8, 7-- But the sand man was too much for her. Gradually her head sank for ward. Sho was tight asleep, but close to her breast sho still clutched the precious satchel. large family living out near Druid park was suddenly awakened about 2 oclock on Monday morning by some kind relative at. the telephone. The good, anxious soul meant to warn them. She had received official notice that the city was all going to bo blown up by a gas explosion. Let them all get up. Let them dress them selves, and binding on their jewels bo prepared to ily. The family he lioved. It got up and hurriedly dressed, hat, coat, gloves, and all, clothed In their Sunday raiment. FIvo minutes passed, ten minutes, fifteen. At last the paterfamilias could stand it no Ho rushed up to tho tele longer. 'dge in. and called up police headquarWhat's he got. on. then; hasn't he phone ters. Tho rumor was false. "It ain't .inything on? so," ho yelled down the steps, and man blushed. The j; stamped into his room slamming the I "lie has on a pair of overalls, a pair door after, and the family with avertof rubber hoots, and lie is handling a ed faces went slowly upstairs, unhose like a fireman. dressed again, and went to bod. Then the mail tied and the mother Jenkins Seeks Wrestling Bout. Tom Jenkins, the champion wrestler of the world, has sailed for England. Jenkins Is on the trail of Georges Hackenschmidt, the Russian, who threw Ahmod Madrali, the VTerriblo Turk, favorite of the Sultan, in forty seconds, breaking the Turks arm In the toss. "Wrestling is on the boom in England, and the American is after some of the big purses they are hanging up in the tight little isle for this kind Hackenschmidt and the of sport. Turk wrestled for a guerdon of $11,-00- 0 something worth while. Theres not a grabbler in this country who wouldnt risk his neck for half the .fell . e f ex-ictl- - The miner narrowly escaped a decisive beating in the first round-by- ' running into a vicious right-hanlead. He took the count of nine, and rose to his feet in a dazed condition; and, to the surprise of the 7,000 spectators who completely filled the hall, he went at the sailor and when the money. o round had ended he had almost evened up matters. Deaths Hand Heavy. From the first round until the finish Death played sad havoc in the ranks : t the contest.it was all Munroe, and of trottirg horsedom recently, J. Malnad a decision been rendered the colm Forbes, the Massachusetts breedminer would have justly been entitled er,' and Mrs. B. P. Johnson, wife ol to the verdict. of the National Trotting Munroe showed a great improve- the president most ment over all liis previous contests. Association, being among the were Several taken. The tutelage of Kid McCoy had prominent that celebrities also died, including shewn its results, as the miner- used equine brood mare, his left and right in a straight fashion the. worlds greatest' Beautiful Bells, 2:29, dam of ten tacwhich met the rough bulldog-likFeb. 27. II A Hill y When told by her mother that tho . ?.re had destroyed her fathers busilittle girl heard the rumor that ness a little girl was heard to Ray: the whole city would burn up, so she "Oh, mamma, will wo lie very poor, determined to prepare. She got down then, and must I come in through the an old satchel and in it she carefully back gate so the other girls won't see packed away a few cents that she had my ragged dresses? that saved, small pieces of A little hoy who had watched the she prized, her limited amount of jewfor Boston and from a high building told hit ticket the flames her elry, Symphony concert. With tie satchel nurse that some ono had made a hole clasped in her arms she determined to In the earth and ho had seen hades. stay up all night and await the worst. Baltimore Herald. A bric-a-bra- c A Heroine of Lucknow An interesting figure in English history has passed away in the person of Lady Ingiis, who died recently London after a short illness. at .Lady Julia Selina Ingiis was tho second daughter of the first Lord Chelmsford and was born in 1833. She was the widow of the famous defender of the British residency at Lucknow, Sir John Eardley Wilraot Ingiis, K. C. B., who died in 1882, and in memory of whose services in the Indian Mutiny she had been in receipt of a pension. Lady Ingiis herself went through the siege of Lucknow, and in addition to the terrors of the siego and the subsequent journey to the coast she was shipwrecked on the voyage home to England. Sho afterward published the diary she kept during her eventful life in the besieged city, where her husband, then Brigadier Ingiis, commanded the garrison throughout the eighty-seve- n days the place was Invested. She describes the entrance into the residency, on a day when glad shouts rang through the. tortured city, of a short, quiet looking, gray haired man, whom I knew at once was Gen. Havelock. He shook hands with me and ' You cant - . ' ... great deal. I could hardly answer Mm. . . . It was. a moment of unralxed happinenot lasting. I felt how difss,-but ferent rny lot was to others. . . I tried to write home, but could not. The relieving force had suffered most severely. . . . The wounded had been abandoned. . . The enemy had loopholcd the houses and shot tho poor fellows down by scores as they passed through the narrow ' streets. Once while on the daugcrous march from Lucknow to the coast the sudden command Halt! rang out In the night Lady Ingiis had a baby with her at this time, and thus she writes: Silence was ordered and all lights to be ... I shall never forget put out. my anxiety lest baby should commence crying again and perhaps be Fortunately tray our whereabouts. not cry. baby did On the way to England her ship was wrecked near the coast of Ceylon, and hope had been almost abandoned when the passengers, who had been drifting about in small boats, were picked up by a native vessel and taken into Trincomalee. j He started the day right by using Castle. Gate. rattle him. said he feared that we had suffered n o The Shepard Ca, Com. Blk., Chemulpo. Chemulpo, the port of Seoul, the capital of Korea, looks out over a vast shallow bay, where the tide rises thirty feet. . . |