| Show TC WORL W 11 YV N the pass ng of frank erne the recent defeat of erne in san francisco by jimmy britt the pacific coast chan pion relegates the buffalo boy to the has been divis division loll erne has not fought in the dashing style of a few years ago in any of his recent battles since his defeat by terry me mc govern in new york a couple ot of years ago when the buffalo boy took away much of his strength by training down to pounds to take on the then in terry erne a worl in the ring has been of the mediocre order he ile fell a victim to rube ferns at fort erie and only a few months ago lost the championship to joe gans in a bat tie which lasted but one round now comes his defeat at the hands of britt after a game but ineffectual struggle surely the clever Buffa lonian is no longer the star that he once was erne has not lived a fast pace years of hard training and many gruelling gruenling gru elling bat ties have robbed him of his former speed he passes into the list of sec ond raters to the regret of thousands of his admirers no boxer in the arena to day stands higher with the frater anity than the former lightweight cham charn pion he has always been a credit to the profession and there is not a blot on his pugilistic escutcheon one of the cleverest boxers who ever faced an opponent he was as game as he was skillful with the gloves and always fought a battle to win he gave away too much in some of his encounters and this contributed greatly to his un doing eme erne declares that he will fight no more it Is said to be his intention to engage in business in new ork lork state A veteran horseman new england possesses the most remarkable figure to be found on the turf his name is charles taylor and he is well known in his section as a harness horseman taylor Is now 96 years of age and for the great er or part of his life has been dri driving ving trotters and pacers he knows the good points of a horse about as well as anyone the veteran horseman in spite of the fact that he is within but four years of the century mark still takes a seat in the sulky when ever opportunity offers dal hawkins in england among the american boxers wao wilo have gone across the water to seek dollars and glory in the dominions of johnny bull la is dal hawking hawkins the clever california lightweight yankee fighters have had no trouble in clean ing up the best exponents of the art on oil the other side and these have been of a pretty low caliber there are no really first class elass fighters to be found in england to today day it was not so long ago that an american boxer who was not regarded as anything more than a third rater here hero took a run over to the tight little isle and whiled the best men they could put before him he won the champion ship of england without half trying this yankee scrapper who proved a terror to our english cousins was jack 0 brien of philadelphia who today is regarded as the best middle weight in the world with the ble exception of tommy ryan dal hawkins should not find it hard work scoring over any of them beyond the atlantic in his class dal was at one time regarded as the probable champion in the light weight division but while bis his work was of a high class he tell fell short of coming up to the expectations of his friends hawkins is one of the most graceful fighters who ever stood within the ropes some of his bat r dill PAZ I 1 ties with joe gans have been the shortest but fiercest on record jack mcauliffe penniless jack mcauliffe the old lightweight champion who shone in the palmy days of john L sullivan and jack dempsey has not a cent left of the fortune he earned in the prize ring when he was the king pin in his class mcauliffe who Is now as big ai ar s heavyweight finds it hard work making a inong in ing in the metropolis like old john I 1 jack did not appreciate the value of a dollar when he had one As an instance of what chances the once popular boxer would take with his corn coin it is only necessary to tell of the big vager nager he made on ak ata S 1 l the sullivan corbett fight at new or r leans he ile had just won a purse ot of 10 for whipping billy myers the streator cyclone when the coming fight light between sullivan and california jim was mentioned john L will whip that fellow sure said jack to show you what I 1 think of hia his chances I 1 will just bet this wad I 1 am after winning he ile bet the entire purse sullivan as is s well known lost and jack went home broke mcauliffe had dropped out of sight completely la in new york until the other day when he was arrested charged with theft but was later exonerated michigan s football captain curtis G redden captain of mich igans igan s 1903 football eleven Is an 1111 nois boy and received his preliminary education and football training at rossville III while at school he played end and full back on his school team in 1900 he entered the law department of the university of michigan and made the varsity team in his freshman year playing appo site end to nell snow this position he has filled for three years so well as to make him a prominent bandl date for end in all the all western elevens selected in the last two yeara years he Is one of the best men in going down the field on punts and a sure tackler 0 famous football family of poe football in america apparently runs in the blood jurging from the number of families who have produced experts in the game at the head probably stand the descendants of the famous poet poe who have probably done more to give the tigers their deputa tion on the oval than any other set of men who have passed and kicked says harper harpers s weekly for nearly 20 years the princeton team had a poe upon it the only gap being three years between 1884 and 1887 johnson the oldest brother entered the university in 1880 and his skill immediately at attention to this name edgar allan the second brother played berback and acted as captain in 1889 and 1890 john P jr being the next brother to go upon the oval in 1895 princeton was fortunate in having two poes john and nellson neilson upon its eleven in 1894 then came arthur in 1898 gresham wearing the colors lit 1901 after world worlds s record the abbot 2 03 ex champlon champeon ti otter will be sent against tha the vv world orld st s trotting record next season he has been sent to the patchen wilkes farm at lexington icy to get in shape for his trial against time john J scannell of new york owner of the abbot Is confident that the horse can improve upon the present record the abbot was not at his best last season in fact he only started once and in that time was defeated by chain shot in slow time his ills poor showing was due to sick ness contracted early in the season while training for the proposed match with lord derby which waa was to have taken place at brighton beach the abbot went lame and the match had to be declared off he has come around all right now however and his good condition leads his owner to believe that after a rest he will be better than ever before last years champ ons absent the bicycle team that carried off first honors in the six day race in new york last year Is not represented in this years year s contest the victorious pair in tit 1901 consisted ot of archie me Ear chern and bobby and that they would have made a formidable team in this weeks week s long grind there Is no question they have planned to ba be competitors in the 1902 race but fata fate ruled otherwise mcearchen met a tragic death through an accident while riding at atlantic city last sum mer and broke his collar bone at atlanta ga a few months ago there was general regret on all sides that this pair was missing as they were both great favorites with the crowds that assembled in madison square garden to watch the plug gers they all smoke tobacco and every lapp has a tobacco sack suspended from rom his neck tead its |
