Show I Racing Skaters and the Leading Leding Meets Where here Tiley Compete Wood and to Train Eastern Men Billiard UV lown 1111 UL Vl or Tn friction between the Amateur Athletic union and the other organizations organisations trying to con control control control skating has had a most beneficial effect upon the sport and It looks now as ns If JC one ono of tho most brilliant seasons this country has ever seen Is about to Open The Tho A A L U convinced that the skaters would woul prosper heal best If It left to govern sovern themselves scratched the tho sport aport officially off Its list and tho the other bodies reunited to form orm a new asso association association under the name namo of oC Inter International International International national Skating Union of oC the United States and Canada which Is Js s w with Ith tho the A A U This organization has Just given out I Us Its championship meets and following Is the schedule Week Weck of or Jan 25 95 5 to 30 National Indoor championships at Cleveland Cl eland O 0 International Indoor championships at nt Pittsburg burb Week Weck of oC F Feb jb 1 to C G International outdoor championships at Saranac Lake N Y Canadian Cana lan outdoor championships at Montreal Canada Dates to bo be fixed later Eastern outdoor championships at 1 Newburg N No Y Eastern Estern Indoor championships SL St Nicholas rink New York International figure skating cham championship champ p Cleveland O 0 Fob Feb cb 22 2 National outdoor championships at Verona Lake Luke X N J Besides these titular r gatherings hero i will wUl be he many handicap and scratch events held beld and racing men will be bu kept busy bus Almost a hundred clubs will be rep resented In competition and they the are gathering material from Crom all sides I The Tho New York Athletic club has hus In trusted the formation of ot its 1909 teams to Walter alter Lee the metropolitan cham champion champion pion fancy Caney diver who will captain it Lee L c Is himself a crack and he has 1 corralled for 01 tho the Mercury foot fool every high bight class skater ho he could lay fay hands handson on His HI winning of or E A and W M I I Taylor from the fold of or the Irish American Athletic association will greatly sr aUy strengthen the aggregation for tor tho the former Carmer knows few equals at Indoor work and tho thu latter Is a 11 re rc liable and d steady stead all round roun performer In Joseph Miller the New York Ath letic letl club has a youngster of or unusual promise prom Iso who showed championship form torm last lait season G Lyman W V Smith A E and B Higgins are aro all first rato rate competitors s r r L Lt t r rt t 1 r t 3 i rn R l ly y II IIa a ff T 1 f fk r k ir c cIre i 0 Ire I r 4 1 H I f 1 1 fl II I f ys n t ry rya I I y J a rr 1 u r Orf ib ibe e f f TJ fC I AMATEUR SKATERS ERS WHO LEAD AMONG AMERICAN RACERS THIS YEAR i Iii K 0 C l JI t H od I Davo Dave owner of oC Verona I New cw Jersey and head hend of or the ing Interests in this section s of the I country to lave Have It on the Ice a batch of steel binde wielders wrel ers and Morris Wood J and Peter will wilt have them In charge has paid special attention to young joung Whom he thinks has the making of or one of or the greatest skaters In ht the world Tho The other men mentioned as best beat are W V Hugh H ugh and Williams The Saranac Lake N Y Skating I club will again send end forth to conquer I Ithe the great American boy champion I Edmund Lamy Lam Phil old wonder gave gao tho the list of records some Mome severe seere Jolts last season and an swept everything before him winning the thc majority of national and amI international lIonal events with an ease ease that proved him as great a lad as ever eel wore a skate and of truly phenomenal speed There are arc rumors rumors also ahlO of oC other finds Hida at ul Saranac but there has been no chance chanco to try tr them out properly The Wanderers Hockey club of oC New York will be he another of the clubs hav ha r lug a team on the tho ice Phil Kearney the veteran and many time lime champion will be at Its head and lie he will have hav e with him J Wray Vrn C Granger N In Ingold Ingold Ingold gold and several other lesser lights The usual classy class contingent nt will wear the colors of the Saratoga SkatIng Skating Ing Ins club chub of New Nea York city elt Wood Woodward Woodward Woodward ward Sutphen winner of the tho one and an d three mile United States champion championships championships ships of or 1908 1903 will lead the team an anamong and d among Ills his best supporters will be ho Ol 01 Ollie lie llo Wood rood and Herbert Horbert Earle Ohio 1 la Is s a D brother of ot the world professional pro professional proCessional Morris Wood and It Is be bo believed believed ed by b many man that Vero it not for his great nervousness which kills his hla chances at present ho would emulate the tho feats of or his elder Ho He may overcome over overcome overcome come It and Muller will for forthe forthe forthe the Riversides RI this year ear and Kirk will represent the tho Pastime Athletic club In Boston and Chicago several pro prospective prospective short distance champions have hao been uncovered The Pittsburg racers racer who center at atthe atthe atthe I the Duquesne Garden rink have or organized organizes a team to send to other cities to compete In match laces Ia c 01 Cleveland Boston and Buffalo clubs have promised to send entries to the tho championship meet at Saranac Lake LakeN N Y Increased Interest should thus thua bo be glen given those events Billiard Challenge In a recent statement Willie While Hoppe of or New Now York the worlds champion billiard player challenges any uny billiard pla player cr In tho the world to a n series aeries at IS 1 or IS 2 style atle st le for Cor from Crom 1000 to a l side Tho The young expert declares that ho will not be under contract to any billiard concern Following Is tho the statement In part As I 1 have havo just passed my m twenty first birthday and am capable of ot handling my own Interests I wish to place before the public my plans forthe for forthe forthe the future I have havo made up my m mind to sever my connections with any one olle billiard concern I Intend to devote my m timo to ele do elevate vat vate billiards to the standard dard where It belongs Why should there be In Inthis inthis I this country at the present time only two players of ot championship caliber they being Sutton and myself There Theres should s be with all the billiard rooms that we have havo at least six players of or championship class Although I 1 say sa It Ii myself I have havo been the only young player since tho thin Limo of or Ives that has como come to tho the front and become champion In times past I was discouraged at nt the way wa billiards was being b conducted in this country but I never neer gave sava up hope for forI or I 1 knew some day da I would be at nt the top of tho the heap where I am now To show the public that I am sin sincere sincere cere care In n my nw statements to lO help put billiards where It belongs here bore is Js a challenge to Lo the world I 1 will play pIa any auy billiard player pla er In the world a n three four our five fie or six night match 1100 points n a night at nt either style stylo of or game IS 18 Inch balk line one ono shot or orIS IS 18 Inch balk lino line two shots for tor the theRum sum Rum of from 1000 to tho tha match to be he played In any city agreed upon HARRY GRANT |