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Show t WOBis',-'.--'1 sA " -- '-'' w.lom 'J tcstened with brass knuckles. Two of thesp were broken in the early part of the match and the brass points' dug into his flesh until the pain was unbearable un-bearable and he. was afraid ef further blood-poisoning. He had wrestled twenty minutes in the thiH bout when he told McLeod the condition he was in and said he was willing to quit and call the match a draw or go on wrestling. McLeod insisted on continuing, but Jenkins' manager refused to let the big fellow go on and forfeited the match. Jenkins Jen-kins won the first fall by a three-quarter Nelson in fifty-nine minutes and McLeod got the second in twenty-four minutes on a crotch and half-Nelson hold. The match was fast from the start, McLeod being on the aggressive almost all the time. ' jf New Boat a Compromise. Any, information regarding the Shamrock 111. comes out very indirectly, in-directly, so strict is the secrecy with which . she is being produced, but some of the things that are being said about her are at least partly true. . She is going to differ in one direction, at any rate, from both the 'other-Shamrocks and from., what can be learned it .seems she is likely to nrove a compromise between the fin and the Keel type. The change may prove to be not so great as reports for the moment, indicate, but it is highly probable that Fife has modified the fiat floor and shallow hull and drawn the bodjof the boat with an easier turn and deeper draft toward the keel. . There will be some slight modification modi-fication of the overhangs and the mistake mis-take of the extreme spoon bow, as New Sailor Pugilist. The Jack-tars of the receiving ship Columbia, at the Brooklyn navy yard, seen In the Shamrock II., is certain to be avoided. - As is well known, the Shamrock HI. is being constructed of mild steel, while the Shamrock II. was built of the more expensive manganese bronze. This will entail one marked difference in the two cutters. Below the water line the Shamrock II. was polished till she glittered like gold. The Shamrock III., on the other hand, will be painted from keel to rail. The Amateur Golf Championship. The'. Baltusrol Golf club of . Short Hills,i N. J., is now spoken of as another an-other aspirant for the honor of holding the next national amateur championship. champion-ship. -;' No direct statement has been made officially by the club that it will apply for the event to the U. S. G. A., but. the assertion; comes from an authoritative au-thoritative source that it will offer its links for the contest at, the annual meeting in February. The officers of BOfMT C. CALHOUN . i. . - are prophesying a great future for their shipmate, Robert H. Calhoun, when .be makes his debut as a professional pugilist. pu-gilist. Calhoun has already made his reputation throughout the navy as a fighter of skill and endurance. Tom Sharkey, ' the heavyweight pugilist, was also a sailor: He has fought all the big fellows and made enough money to open a paying saloon. Cal-Jiounhimiitesa-u key's success in the ring,, are eager to push him forward. They all believe that the little fellow, in his class, from his past record, can do even better than Sharkey. In about three weeks Calhoun's term of service will expire, and he will then go to Philadelphia, his home, where Monte Cross, second baseman of the Philadelphia American league team, will try to arrange a bout for him with some prominent featherweight feather-weight before the Broadway Athletic club. Calhoun is 20 years old, about 5 feet 6 inches in height, and weighs 127 pounds when in condition. His shipmates are willing to back him against any man of eaual weieht in the Baltusrol club are waiting to see what the Nassau Country club intends to do about the matter. If the' latter club wants the event there will be little lit-tle effort by Baltusrol, but if Apawa-mis Apawa-mis enters the field a stiff fight by the New Jersey club will assuredly be made. The Baltusrol club, by the way, has decided to keep the regular 6,000-yard 6,000-yard - course, with all of the greens, open through the winter. There will be no covering of the regular greens -until - -rtd-strfngrwhen7-in6Her-Tr protect the new grass, they may be temporarily closed for about a month. Princeton's New Football Coach. Arthur T. Hillebrand, who will be the head coach of the Princeton football foot-ball team next year, is now a power in tiger athletics all the year round. For the last two seasons Hillebrand has been coaching the Nassau nines, and he is to keep that position, but he has never before done more than to assist in the coaching of the eleven. He met with success last fall, however, how-ever, handling the Annapolis Naval Cadets, and it is predicted that he will bring out a great football team for the the country. Johnny Nelson Made Money. It was known that Johnny Nelson, the little Swedish pace follower, who died from injuries received during a race at Madison Square Garden a little lit-tle more than a year ago, made a considerable sum of money during the few very prosperous years of his professional career, but $75,000 seems to be an extremely high figure to place his earnings at. Yet that is the sum which his former trainer and his brother say that his parents, who recently arrived here from Sweden, have collected from his estate. How much of tnis was represented by insurance in-surance is not known. Sporting Chat. There is a movement under way to form a national association of cricket clubs. ' ' '- - Ping pong on the ice is about the limit. Yet the craze has "caught on" in New York.' . ; Philadelphia will make a bid , for the annual regatta of the National As-' sociatioa of Amataur Oarsmen next' summer. , ', '' Intimate friends of James ' J. ' Cor-bett Cor-bett assert that the ex-champion has been taking the best of -care of himself him-self for six months, and that he is in splendid .physical condition.' Joe Choynski is credited with be ing worth $30,000. Joe has been boxing box-ing for" nearly fifteen years, and during dur-ing that time, according to himself, he has figured in over 200 fights. Harry Boakes of Chicago and George Standing of New York have arranged for a series of racquet matches to be played at Detroit when the new club in that city is formally opened. tigers next year. Hillebrand is one of the greatest athletes ever brought out at Princeton. He held the captaincy of . the varsity nine and the varsity ! eleven' while in college, and both his teams defeated Yale when he was leader. . McLeod is the Champion. Daa McLeod won the championship of America at catch-as-catch-can wrest-Mng wrest-Mng and the $1,500 end of a $2,000 jurse by getting the better of Tom innkins. Jenkins had a bad leg, caused by blood-poisoning, and the pain caused by the points of a brass knuckle entering the flesh of his leg made him quit in the third bout In order to protect the injured part Jenkins had a leather bandage with a tteel strip down the front of the shin |
