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Show Tlghtere Ott Good Purssa. The gross receipts of the Jeffries' Munroe fight were 121. son or which Jeffries received IS.ir.H and Mnnroe 18.104, the remainder gnhig to tho pro-motere pro-motere ot the contest. All who witnessed the contest agreed that the champion la In a dsns by himself and that no other living pugilist la likely to dispute his right to the title. Throughout the round and forty five seconds that the flsht lasted Jeffries chewed gum and smiled. He waa perfectly calm and entirely at his ease, while Munroe waa pale and evidently nervous. Never for a moment did he stand the slightest chance to win. but he waa game and determined to fie lit to the end. Had not Referee Uraney Interceded In-terceded as Jeffries waa preparing to land the decisive blow, the bout might have ended In a tragedy. Munroe finds consolation In the belief that be went aa far with Jeffries as anyono could. .. Artful Wlna the Futurity. Artful, a brown filly, bred by the late WJlllam C. Whitney and bearing tn-i colore of Herman H. Duryca, won the aeventeenth renewal of the Futurity Fu-turity at Bbcepahed bay. Tradition, bred by Jainea II. llaggln and running In the nemo of Hydncy Paget, waa second, sec-ond, while Bysonby, from the atable of James R. Keene, and bred In England, Eng-land, finished third. Hysonhy'a defeat was, however, hardly expected by the Immense throng that crowded Ixmg Island'e tainoua race course, and ea-peclally ea-peclally by a Ally which had aa yet never won a race. The time for alx full rnrlongi or the Fulurlty course was 1:11 4-6, the fustest time on reo-ord reo-ord fur tho alake. Purdu to Have Football Team. Handicapped by the loss of fifteen players In the wreck Inst year, the Purdue foothull team Is busily preparing prepar-ing for the season a srhedule. Coach Cults has been spending the summer In Mlnnesotn and Texas, and haa written that he will bring home a consignment con-signment of Texas beef for the Purdue eleven. It is understood that Cutis has picked up some promising material ma-terial from tho Western school! and will have a good allowing at tho Bist practice. The fretdimaii cIhhs at tho j university will be the largest In the lilslory of the school. Faster Time by Oldtield. Harney ajdlleld Aug. it clipped four-flit four-flit hs of a second from hla record of 01 :13 3 6 for mile on a half mile track. The new time la 01.1.' 4 6, and was made In competition In a uvo-mllo race on the track of the Omaha llrlv-liiK llrlv-liiK association. Valonzo Webb bad a narrow escape from a serious accltioiit in hla attempt to establish a new record rec-ord for touring cars. Rounding ono of the turns in the track at a high rate of speed a tire came off one or tho wheele and the car crashed through the rence. Webb escaped unhurt. Peculiarities of Great Trotter. Wonderful and significant as are the speed and stamina of tho great trotter Angrola, 2:08i, who tins won to her credit live beat! In better than 1:10, In the last two weeks, there ia something some-thing peculiar lu the lack of enthusiasm enthu-siasm as to her accomplishments, aaya Palmar L. Clark. Hhe la not a hand-lorn hand-lorn mare ,aa the term goes, yet one wonders bow he could butter her looks. Her gait Is probably not perfect, per-fect, yet no suggestion as to Its Improvement Im-provement can bo readily mado. Set New Automobile Record, Jerome A. Kills and Arthur O. Bchmltt, the Chicago automobile enthusiasts, en-thusiasts, succeeded in broakJug Uta ,.Tnr automobile record between Oilrsc and New York. They arrived at tha ' eastern metropolis at S 48 o'clock. Aug. 7, more thsn three hnura ahead of the record. The lime between tho two cities was seventy two hours and forty alx minutes. The obi record, the one made by It. n. Ilolcomb and J. T. Adams of N,.w York, was seventy six hours. Plan National Hockey Team. Plan for the formation of a national nation-al hockey league are under way. It It proposed tn have teams In Chicago, Plttshurs, let roll. New York. Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. HnfTaiii, Houghton. Mich., and either liuiuth or Haul! Hie Marie. Promoters in St. IjmiIh, Ituffalo and Philadelphia are talking of building rltike this fall and putting In horkey teams. The league will be profi s-slonal s-slonal and will Include the best hockey playera In tho United Htatea and Canada. Klsrr Break! World! Records. Six thotmsnil spectators saw the first dny s rsces of llie American Automobile Auto-mobile aaoclntlon at (ilenvllle track. Cleveland. Aug. 22. Karl Riser, driving driv-ing gaollne machine, broke two world's records, ono In the live mile race, when he made tho last mile In fifty-lour seconds flat, ami the second when he broke a record In an eight cylinder machine by making the last mile lu u:62 i'o. Fletcher Takea Championship. R. I. Fletcher, the young (lalesburg, 111., tennis player, wrested troin Frank K Khcrhnrdt of Halloa, Kan., the tennis championship (,f tho middle West In a closely played and hard-fought hard-fought live-net match at Omaha Aug. 27. Doth men had been pitted against each other lu the doubles, and tha (lalesburg mini hnd shown himself to he a flat aniiigonlKt of the champion. Nineteen Innings Without Score. Jackson nml llrookhsveii of the Delta Del-ta Hnsehsll Icauiic broke all baseball records for minor league clubs In the i i A . f. Ill Principal! and Referee In Fight for ' '!' VVorld'a Puglllstlo Championship. Hniith. Nineteen Innings were played without either sldu making a score. Kllno pitched for Jackson and allowed only rour hits, while Hehluter pitched for llrooklinvon and allowed only six. Only twlco did cither team get a man to third base. Rose Makea a Long Throw. Hose, tho record breaking 'Wolverine 'Wolver-ine weight man, at Chicago Aug. 27, s'.rpasard all his previous record sma; hlng exhibitions when be hurled thi rilirua I SB feet, hollering tha world s record by seven feet four Inches and stretching his previous bt t mark alx feet, Newklrk Breaks Auto Record. At Aurora (III.) driving part Jed Newklrk, driving the famous automo-b'lc automo-b'lc "lii,9," broke the worlds record for one, two and three miles on a halt mile track, making the three nillii In a:3N. lowering Oldfleld's mile record of 1:13 3 6, undo at Omaha, to 1 12 4 8. Speedway Champion Drops Dead. Hwift, the n,w York speedway champion, for whom John F. Cockrcll several limes refused lin.nno, dropped dead on the road near the summer home of the owner at Hahylon, Jxing Islund, whero he was being exercised, exer-cised, Jeffrlea to Go on the Stage. Champion Jeffries hua decided to go on the road In the famous play, "Davy Crockett." the last ot next month. He will play the title role, and there will bo several good fights put Into hla part. Oahkoah Want! the Cup. The yacht club of (Jhkoh, Wis., has challenged the Royal Ht. Lawrence Law-rence Yacht club fur the Heawanhaka cup. Munager Jack Carney, of the Now Kngland League, la said to be poe-liblo poe-liblo future member of the NaUtLkl umpire staff. i |