Show ro d J CL J JJohnson Johnson to Fight Nev Record For Pacers on Ice Dem Demaie rest After Pl to Quit I 1 HILE Jim Jeffries the ro re retired WHILE tired heavyweight cham champion champion champion pion Is loosening up his w muscles in exhibition bouts with Sam Berger and tho the fol Col lowers of or pugilism aro are anxiously await a lag ing a definite answer as to whether he Intends to reenter the tho prize ring or not Jack Johnson has agreed to give glo N Sam Langford Lansford the colored heavy heavyweight hea I weight of oC Boston a crack at tho the cham championship champIonship championship I The pair are aro scheduled to fight light before the members of or tho the Na Nn Sporting club of ot London on tho Queens birthday May 24 next Lang Ling ford while considerably smaller than Johnson Is Ig a great fighter and will surely put up a bettor battle than Tommy Tomm Burns did but he can hardly har lY 7 bo be expected to win It will bo be tho first time In the thc history of 01 the tho prize ring that two colored men hao have fought for tor the worlds champion championship champIonship ship Two other American colored fighters Joo Jeanette Jennette who has tho the credit of decision a oer over Johnson on a afoul afoul foul Coul and Sam McVoy w with Ith whom Johnson battled repeatedly In his early earl days In tho the ring aro now abroad awaiting coming comins and both will willI clamor cIa mar for 01 a tIght fight I McVey has been located at Paris for Cor fora Cora a year ear or two and Is the present champion of or France In which boxing Is something now new Johnson McVey McVoy Langford and constitute a aall an n all black fighting quartet that la is pretty prep hard to beat and they the may ma bo be exp l to play pIa battledore and shuttlecock k with the tho worlds championship title e r h to 1 f rC s 1 r f z r rt y t t li i l lb 1 b t i r 1 e h hyi tj M Kl V J I J I KB rT T i if yi r er I II fe f t f vV SS q Jf X Jl V j ti i 0 n x m ik y I y l J i JEM DRISCOLL ENGLISH FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMPION WHO HO 7 I HAS REPEATEDLY CHALLENGED ABE ATTELL I I THE PASSING SHOW I Lillian Russell sold her Now New York house for tor Mr and Mrs Frank Prank havo have started for r r a n trip around tho the world I 0 i Charles 8 Frohman will tar Ex Eva Ea a Tan guny In a now musical comedy Billy Clifford and Maud Lambert LambertI I I wille h ad a company to play Tho The Girl at the Helm Arthur Dunn Is to bo starred by b Askin and Singer In Algeria Edna dnn Wallace Hopper has received an nn offer to star In Australia Denman Thompson the original Un among themselves before giving an any white man who appears nt at all dan dun dangerous dangerous a u chance chanco to win It U back Sam Sant l the new cham champions pious manager will not forgot forget In a hurry how long he had to wait walt before getting gotting a match for lor Johnson and now that ho Is In a position to dictate lit hn will have something to say 83 In picking opponents PJ Eventually however John Johnson Johnson son Ion must fight tho the best man that can be bo procured and that man Is pretty J rett sure suro to bo ho James J Jeffries tho the re retired retired retired tired unbeaten white while champion and nd Kaufman Thero There Is no other white whito boxer now no non In n eight who seems likely to develop sufficiently to win wun back tho the title from the negro Stanley tho the mid champion who Is taking things easy in order to 0 take on weight so 80 ho lie can enter the hea heavyweight eight class Is tho the most promising but he ho lacks boxing skill as IS well as tho the requited required weight wel ht to tackle a lighter fighter of the John Johnson Johnson Johnson son stamp Stanley Stanle Is a rugged fighter r rand and has a n punch that makes him al nl alwa always wa ways s dangerous but ho Is not a master of tho the art of oC self Belt defense It would take several years of careful training and much experience to make mako a champion tighter lighter n of If Ie ho he Is sincere In its his desire to become tho champion he v will Ill place himself In ht the tho hands of oC some somo one capable of or develop Ing InS him AI Al Kaufmann the tho California Call Cornia heavy heavyweight heavyweight weight has hns tho the size sizo and weight and IE is 1 In the tho hands of or tho the man who brought out Jeffries but Billy BIll Delaney Delane finds AI Al a n different sort of pupil than Jolt Jeff was slower to grasp tho the possibilities I of or the tho game and find j I more moro likely to go up Into Inlo the air all under 1 fi firo ro Chicago Stars to Quit QuitIs Is that great baseball machine the Chicago Nationals to bo be broken up next nc t season semon With Johnny Eora Evers the tho Cubs star second sacker likely to stay sta out of or tho gamo for the tho entire season Manager Chance Chanco dissatisfied with tho the money monc consideration Shortstop Tinker unwilling to let baseball interfere with his theatrical tour Mordecal Mordecai Brown talking of taking a 0 season off Johnny Johnn Kling tho the Cubs stellar backstop hacks top thinking there thero la is moro more money monc In tho the pool and billiard business than thin thero there IB Js In baseball tho the worlds champions are arc likely to present u II rather crippled appearance not next spring In lust last i years cars pennant II race raco the tho Cubs had but to spare Both the tho New Now I clo do Josh of or Tho The Old Homestead w will retire after aCter this season Carlotta Is s rehearsing a now natty Play pIa of or which no details ha have o beon been givers out Cameo Kirby In which Nat C Goodwin began his season Is to bo be revised and undid Rachel l Croth rs the tho author of or Tho The York and teams havo hao been I greatly strengthened ned tho past winter especially Now York and should the Cubs got sot a bad start next nc t spring bo cause oi or the tho absence of several of oi thou theil stars tho the pennant Is almost sure to be lost to them Chance Wanto Wanta More Money It Is very ory r evident that Frank Prank Chance Chanco will Insist upon a larger compensation com compensation compensation than ho has received here hero heretofore President Murphy Is responsible sible for tho the statement that the tho Cubs leader has made more than a season eason for Cor the tho last three years This may mayor or may not bo be true but Chance nevertheless seems to think ho Is la worth moro more money mono Tho The effect of or Chances Chancos holdout plan on the tho other members of the team Is plain If It tho the manager of tho the worlds w champions la is making a season the other players will also want Increases for tor ball players refuse to give glo credit for tho teams victory to any an ono one man Demorest Demarest After Scalp Eer Ever since Calvin Demarest the Chicago billiard expert export Joined tho the pro professional professional ranks ho he has been camping on Willie III Ie trail Demarest does docs not pretend to bellevo that he can cnn beat Hoppo Just now at nt tho the IS 1 game He does think that ho could mako malo It mighty might Interesting for tor Willie Willieat I at al or IS 18 2 after aCter a it few low months more moro of practice Hoppe while a star al either game Is la it at al his bos best t at IS 1 Demarest has never ner gone gono very er far ar arInto Into the tho moro difficult st style stylo I but his play would lead ono to believe that If Ii ho he ever docs does take U It up ho lI will bo hard for any un ono to float beat Ills Ilis style of or play Is well sell adapted to Lo IS 1 and his hi long runs arc are always marked by his out of balk ball play pla New Record For Pacers P on en Ice lea Pacing and trotting races on tho the Ico ice have hao been ono one of tho the loading sports In its Canada and mill In the colder cold or section of ot the tho United States for tor many years earn Tho The novelty of well bred horses per performing performing forming w with spikes oh on their shoes at attracts attracts tracts many mam hundreds to tho the scene of or orthe the contests Recently at park Toronto the Eel Eol Frank Prank W great pacer driven by bv Dan Dnn McEwen mado made a n now worlds record for pacers on Ice and then he lie was not doing his best besL McEwan had his hi watch In his hand when he started star led after aCter tho the 2 17 track record of oC Black Blacic birds Ho drove droo the tho Eel carefully I never urging him a portion of or tho the clis 1 of Us I reo has written a 0 now new so clet drama William Faversham will remain In Now York until next Mav Ma Rosalind Coghlan the tho daughter of ot Rose Coghlan has been ben engaged for forthe forthe forthe the cast of ot Tho The Traveling Salesman Dorothy Doroth Donnelly w who ho Is a CI Shaw en enthusiast enthusiast thu and ha has been boen giving clever cleer tance anti and went vent to the first quarter In only 34 31 1 seconds tho second quarter tor ter being covered In 33 seconds tho the time for Cor the half haIr being 10 tho the third quarter was tolled off In 34 seconds and the next eighth he ho step stepped stepped ped In less than 16 10 seconds When t r 1 t ta c a 1 q i iI j ij iI iI I I y d r I t I I t ft i 3 3 Al x 1 Lit t h 1 I n f i h ll w i hit lit M r t ti tic fl c I I 4 I a J TIL J 1 FINISH OF ICE PACING CONTEST AT DUFFERIN PARK TORONTO i lectures lectura about this thin writer will spend tho the summer with the tho th English drama dramatist dramatist and his wife at their summer Bummer home In Sussex England Bertha Kalich tonics denies the tho report that sho she Is going Into vaudeville Henry Honry B n Harris tho manager who produced The Tho Chorus Lady Lad Tho The Lion and tho Mouse and other sue Driver McEwen saw that ho he had the record well In hand he eased up at tho the end and the tho last quarter was paced in 33 seconds tho the full Cull time for tho mile being 2114 H This ThiEl Is better time than that made mado I by the tho great trent Cresceus 2 15 In his fa La Las CaI s I plays devotes two days daja a II week to reading tho the plays plas sent sont to him Somehow a report got about that Henry Hen Miller was to retire from tho the stage In a 1 couple of ot years ears Ho He cm ph dented denied tho the report Grace George Is shortly short to appear In Ina Ina ina a new play pIa A Womans Wa Way ny Lillian Russell has saved up all the tho I f mOUR moult exhibition mile at Ottawa somo some years jears earB ago aco It broke broko tho Toronto rec ree record record ord and Incidentally created a now i worlds record made by b Miss Syra Syracuse Syracuse cuse at Plattsburg last winter on Ico ice r over ocr a 0 half mile track JAMES JA ES MILES love letters sho she over ever got and Is going to publish them It Is safo to predict predicta J JCL a CL big sale for tor the tho book bool t The have extended their 1 operations Into Canada having ac IlC acquired qui red a n theater In Toronto Seymour Hicks Is to appear In a n mu musical steal version of ot The Tho 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