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Show ie 4 ago, pal Fred Gilbert of Spirit Lake, Iowa, mado tho phenomenal scpro of 199 out of a possible 200 In tho third day's shoot of tho Dubuquo dun club. Tho Marylebono (Kng.) Cricket club has arranged for Its amateur-cricket-ors this year to go to tho United States and Canndn. Tho team will pall early In July TBo American Freebooters' polo team will compete for tho Cordon Bennett Ben-nett International polo cup at Paris, not with tho French tenm, but with tho All Continental team. Charley Fox's Go Between, backed heavily at 8 to C, had things nil his own way In tho Brookdalo handicap, winning by flvo lengths from Dolly Spanker. Buttling got third money. Carl Vandegrlft has been elected captain of tho Illinois baseball team for 190C. Vandegrlft played third baso nnd mado nn excellent record this season. Ilothgob will be the only player missing next year. Charles C. Burnes died at Evans-vllle, Evans-vllle, Ind., Juno 13, aged 80 years. Ho was formerly ono of tho best-known horsemen In tho country, owning several sev-eral valuable- stables. Ho was at ono time manager of Tattersalls, In Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. Tho crow of tho Vesper Boat club pf Philadelphia arrived at Plymouth, Eng., Juno 17. They wero In tho best of health and spirits nnd confident of taking bnck tho grand challenge cup for which they aro to competo at tho Henley regatta. Tho world's competition flvo mile motor record has been broken by E. D. Heagrcn of Salt I.ako on tho Greenwood Green-wood track. Tho tlmo was 3:69 3-5, which Is 23 4-5 seconds faster than Hcagren's former world's record, mado in Salt Lnko City Juno, 1904. Tho Cornell football schedule Is announced. an-nounced. Among tho games arranged are: Oct. 21, Western university of Pennsylvania at Ithaca; Nov. 4, Swarthmorc nt Ithaca; Nov. 11, Princeton Prince-ton at Princeton; Nov. 18, Columbia nt Ithaca; Nov. 30, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.' Paris nowspnpers nssort that during tho race for tho Grand Prix de Paris on Sunday Edmond Diane's colt, Vol d'Or, was hit heavily on the head by one of tho Jockey's. Vnl d'Or's failure fail-ure to win tho rnce Is ascribed to this. M. Blanc has complained to tho stewards stew-ards of tho Jockey club Tommy Mowatt of Chicago and Kid JOCKET CWZ2ZZ Among tho high-priced riders on tho Amorlcan turf to-day Jockey O'Neill holds a prominent place. His latest victory Is with Beldamo, which won tho blggeBt turf event In tho country Sayers of Milwaukee fought eight fast rounds at Green Bay, Wis., June 14, to a draw. It was a contest between a clover boxer and a rushing fighter, and, whllo Sayers landed ottener, his cleverness was offset by tho aggressiveness aggress-iveness of tho Chicago man. I James It. Keeno's 3-year-old, Syson-j Syson-j by, son of tho English slro Melton, I carrying 12C pounds, won tho $20,000 Tidal Btakos at Shcepshead Bay Juno 17, running tho milo and a quarter in I 2:05 and doing It in such easy Btylo that it was apparent ho could easily havo equaled If not beaten tho track record of 2:04 3-5 held by McChesney had ho been let down. Rollo Helkcs of Dayton won tho championship of Ohio and tho I. C. Smith trophy at tho state tournament of tho Ohio Trap Shooters' association. Helkes was compelled to break fifty straight to win. Hulshlzer and Orr of Newark, Ohio, took tho Sportmans' review trophy in tho two-men team Bhoot. Crosby, tho Illlnola oxport, accomplished ac-complished tho feat of smashing 158 targets in succession, missing tho sec ond bird. Tho riflo team from tho Seventh rcg-lment rcg-lment National guard , Now York, which will meet a team representing tho Queen's Westminster volunteers In a comnetltlvo mntch at Bisley, England, July C and 7, havo sailed from Now York. Tho prize Is a trophy offered by Sir Howard Vincent, honorary hon-orary colonel of tho British organization. organiza-tion. Tho Amorlcan team is composod of eight men, under tho command of Capt. Robert McLean of K company. For twenty rounds Jack O'Keofo and Jimmy Gardner fought fnst and cleverly clev-erly and at tho end of that tlmo neither neith-er had, gained a perceptlblo advantago nnd tho bout was declared a draw. Both men woro on tholr foot at the end of tho fight, both woro strong, and nolthor wns knocked down during tho entlro contest. Tho decision of Rof-oreo Rof-oreo Wlllnrd Ben was cheored by 3,- 000 persons present, although somo declared O'Keofo was lucky to get a draw. Morris Levy has decided to put on the Brltt-Sulllvnn bout for July. This Is a much better proposition than putting put-ting tho champion up against Eddie Honlon. Not much Is known nbout Sullivan, except thnt sports In the east think ho has a show with Brltt. In such case, If the San Francisco boy has an easy time, It will help strengthen the respect for California athletes. On tho statements of the "honing Sullhnn made with Nelson, llrltt should tnke the easterner Into camp. Texas' state fair, Sept. 30-Oct. 15, at Dallas, will have speed purses aggregating ag-gregating $30,000, with a good share of the money for bnrness horses. Henry Hen-ry Exall, Grorgo King nnd William M. C. Hill, the committee appointed by President Mangold, havo decided to havo Ave Installment purses of $1,-00 $1,-00 each, and will soon announce tho classes and list of open purses A racing boom is on In Texns, which will last well Into the winter months, and northern horses will find the Lone Star stato a profitable field Tho mntch between tho American and French polo teams for tho International Inter-national cup resulted In a victory for France by C gonls to 4. Tho match took placo at Bagatclto In tho Bols do Boulogne nnd wns attended by many prominent members of society. Tho American 'team was composed of Crnlg Wadsworth, Frank Mackny, Robert Collier and J. Insley Blair. Tho International polo cup was first offered by James Gordon Bennett two years ago, but as there were no American Amer-ican entries It has never been competed com-peted for until tho present match. A now world's record In tho twelve-pound twelve-pound hammer throw was the fcaturo of tho twenty-fourth annual handicap games of tho Pullman Athletic club held at Chicago Juno 18. Ed Parry, tho glnnt hammer thrower of tho University Uni-versity of Chicago, mado tho now mark with a throw of 18C feet 6 Inches. Tho performance of tho big maroon Is tho more remarknblo when It Is considered ho used but one arm in throwing the weight. Tho new mark surpasses by flvo Inches that of John Do Witt of Princeton, which has stood as a world's record for several years. Tho Fltzslmmons-Schrcck fight, when sho came In first In tho suburban suburb-an handicap at Shcepshead bay last week. O'Neill also rodo thrco other wlnnora that day besides tho ono in the big classic. sclwdulod to tako placo at Salt Lake City on July 3 Is off. Fltzslmmona declared tho local club failed to post Us forfeit money. Efforts were mado to induce Fltzslmmons to wait for tho mbnoy, but ho gavo the club ono hour to deliver tho goods. Tho club could not reach him. Fltz declares tho club deceived him. Ho says ho is In the game for tho money there 1b in It, and not for a reputation. Ho expressed express-ed his willingness to go alono Into room with Schrcck with five ounco gloves and fight it out for $5,000, tho man leaving the room to bo refereo. After many months of discussion and agitation In fnvor of radical changes in tho collcgo gamo of football, foot-ball, tho rulomakers met last wcok and decided to double tho penalty for coaching from tho sido lines, and to ollminato somo of tho chances of "stealing tho ball" and of piling up on a player by directing the reforeo to blow his whistle as soon as tho forward for-ward motion of tho ball has been stopped. Perhaps tho rulemnkers realized real-ized that association football may dls- placo tho collego gamo entirely In so short a tlmo that it was not worth whllo to mako radical departures In tho rulofl of tho lattor sport, Chicago Tribune. Tho big Kaiser Wllholm II when sho sailed out of tho harbor at Now York last 'week carried tho four Amorlcan lawn tennis champions who aro to play in England next month for tho Dnvls cup, emblematic of tho international interna-tional championship of tho world. Tho team which carries tho hopes of all Amorlcan players Is composed of tho flrBt four players in last Benson's ranking rank-ing Holcombo Ward, national champion cham-pion in both singles and doubles; William J. Clothier of Philadelphia, twice runner-up at Newport; William A. Larnod, twice champion cf Amort on lit singles, and Bonis C. Wright, Ward's partner, and ono of tho national nation-al champions In doubles. |