Show the IVI and M stakes the first two important fixed events of the grand circuit the M and M for trotters and 5 ber of commerce purse tor pacers tobe decided at the inaugural circuit meeting at detroit have closed their entries and the lists received are need satisfactory the M and M has recen ed twenty one nom inactions which is six more than a year ago the number in the cham bei of commerce falls a trifle short of 1903 but more than makes up for this in the splendid q bality or the nominees the mand M horses are as fol lows stanley dillon emma Lison jero blue wood bodle baraja ned S edmee J Bor eazelle field day medium lady babbie italia jolly bachelor fred D alaci tl orn johnny miss gay miss rosedale Po sedale and lly mac detro t dr v ng club meet W J snyder secretary of the de troit driving has announced the for the five early closing events offered tor the blue ribbon meet of the detroit driving club J ly 18 2 the historic 10 and manufacturers stal e tor 2 4 class trotters has been pat ronile I 1 more than tl e other events t horses being nan ed the a chamber of corn merce stal e 2 24 class pacers atas gwei tj enar es other three stal e each of which is worth ditl the number of entries are as follows 2 12 pace thirteen thi iteen en tries 2 09 pace eigl t entries 2 17 pace tl arteen entries roe makes great hammer throw aalph rose ane giant shot putter of the university of michigan tried his hand at throwing the sixteen pound hammer and succeeded in harl ing it feet 5 inches which Is near ly thirty feet better than the western intercollegiate conference record held 1 by A pell oi course the perform 1 ance was done in practice and Is in no way a record trainer fitzpatrick says those figures will be materially improved by ross who has yet to learn the proper form in the hammer throw begin on libertyville Libert track work has begun at libertyville Libert on the new grounds of the libertyville Libert trotting association in which several chicago business men with country places in lake county are interested the plans call tor an expenditure of of this Is to be spent on the new mile track A steel amphitheater stables and other build ings will bring up the cost and require six months to build the alphi theater is to seat 5 cornell crew not wanted the athletic board of wisconsin uni versley has decided to recall its inalta alon to cornell to send an eight and a tour crew here to participate in a regatta to be held june 6 this ac alon was taken because the navy de apartment part ment already in debt 6 conid not stand the expense and because cornell would not send its first crews the races arranged with the duluth crews for june 6 will take place corbett to stay in america young corbett has abandoned his trip to england and has called off all negotiations for a fight with ben jor i I 1 dan the english champion corbett was offered a purse of 2 and hie expenses to make the trip ut he come to the conclusion that he could make more by remaining in this coun try and filling theatrical engagements corbett declared that his next match will probably be with terry mcgovern whom he expects to meet in a sax round bout in philadelphia ame time next month lie Is conal dent jimmy britt will give him a re turn fight foss returns home witson P foss arrived in new york april 9 from paris where he was beaten by for the world s am ateer billiard championship fosa said that his trip to france made him and when he met he was not in the best of health he said re rolle is the best amateur he ever met but believes 1 e is the frenchman s superior as a placer V II 11 hold trials near new york the elimination trials in this conn try for the james gordon bennett cup race to be held in germany in june will be run not at armon but at a point not over fifty miles from new tori it is said that a course in new jersey is considered the exact lo 10 cation of the proposed course could not be learned shot rifle record 1 M pope of springfield mass tied the worlds shot rifle record with a score of the record is held by D V king of denier mr pope shot at lards offhand stand ard american target all the shots were in the bullseye and 94 of them in the eighth ring M valley circuit the following dates have been fixed upon by the mississippi valley short hau the things that kid mccoy did to henri jan josef can never be told in print the blows flew so thick and fast that you might as well tr to count the stinging snow flakes in a blizzard and when the end mercia illy came in the first min ute of th second round poor mn beer was moved to tears the fight by rounds shows what a farcical exhibition vas offered the philadel phia sports round 1 led with left but fell short mccoy landed a left on jaw and repeated with a right me coy sent down with a straight left to the chin and the latter took the count of eight mccoy landed an other left flush on the mouth drawing blood mccoy drove a hard left to nose and the latter was all but out A left and right to the face made look like a piece of raw beef he was hanging on to avoid punishment mccoy dived in with a right and then with a hard left in his was blinded he could not A vicious left dropped the hollander but the gong saved him mccoy had not been touched s exhibition a miserable he was bleeding from the mouth and nose round 2 mccoy drove a vicious right to mouth and the latter dropped to his knees and refused to get up s face was a horrible sight and his right eye was closed completely and his lips were puffed up four times their normal size As he knelt upon the floor the police walked to the ring side and stopped the bout the second round lasted less than twenty seconds ship fair circuit july 26 to 29 left open tor quincy aug 2 to valle aug 9 to 12 mount sterling aug 9 to 12 bushnell aug 15 to 19 macomb aug 23 to 26 galesburg aug 29 to sept 2 open sept 6 to 10 princeton sept 13 to 16 kewa nee fine sport for columbus the stakes for the grand circuit meeting at columbus sept 19 to 23 have been announced as follows 2 10 and 2 23 class trotting and 2 08 and 2 19 and 2 24 class pacing each stake is worth 2000 and will be decided by three best beata out of five nominations close may 18 the columbus driving association will offer a total of in purses for the grand circuit meeting mrs patterson the champion the w omens championship event in the united north and south amateur championship tournament ended at pinehurst N april mrs M D patterson of the englewood golt club of new york winning the final round up for the cup from miss M eleanor freeman of the montclair golf club of new jersey five up and three to play colonel page Is dead col charles H page formerly a member of the board of review of the national trotting association and well known to turkmen throughout the united states died at philadelphia of heart disease he was 70 years ol 01 age 1 |