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Show The J.nk Detnpey Memorial Fund asaoclatloii met In Han Flancpcu last week and elided the following ohVoia: i'r. sl. ent, J. I,. llTget; e. ci ctury, 'I lm olhy M. .M.Crnth; vli e piesidcnt. John C. Wcl.li- winiiil vice president, Harney Har-ney Fancy, tie.isnrer, Hurry hi. Curbed. Cur-bed. The ol.J. et of the as nn hit Ion I to so-1 so-1 ciintrlliiil i. ns from the former B.l-."crs B.l-."crs of the gr. at Nonp;.ieil all over the i try for the pu:p.i.,n of ereciinn a in. .liiiii,. n! over Id i.....y ll. go-i led grave nt roill..nd. tire. I'art of the fund will l' put aside for the hen. tit of l)ciupry" children, two of whom, daughter, nie living and In need or nimlhtrilicr. When alive Denipscy'B fume wa world-wide, nnd he wna admired ad-mired and re pei i.-d nlllio hy frlenila ' and foe. It I to be hoped Hint thoao who honored the living gladiator will prove tliry are prepared to pay a fitting tribute to the dead hero. j Trn la a Man. Ions Athlete. Arthur Tyntr, the muscle-covered Harvard rlinp who recently Fluttered (illiolliclally) Ihe lllt-rcolleglate treiigth record. I the talk of tho college col-lege world. Ills total, according to th sargent sist. on of inea. urenicntH, la wlille the nl best recorded performance Ii l.mo'J, by Allen of Minnesota. Min-nesota. Tyni! wna born In Japan, the n of a Christian missionary, nnd during dur-ing his eaily day waa not remarkable for his Ftreni.th. lie stun. la 6 feet t, In. he tall, wetshs 172 rounds, nnd In nw 19 )ear of age. Ho haa never mined specially for hln teat, but awniB to have gained hi strength by liking systematic exorcla every day. Hi grit anil agility ar In part re-pnnallil re-pnnallil for hi record performance He hope to put hi record at 3,"UU point before the year I over. Mill King to t'.iaoh Haitian, Phil King, the football coach who till guided the Wisconsin eleven to bo many victories, will return next year to roach again for the entire sen-tm. sen-tm. Blinrtly before the clnse of tho lesion Inst fall King tendered his retlinallon, but after persuasion promised to come back for the latter and of next year. Since then thi committee com-mittee or the athletic hoard haa been rjlng to perma.lo King to return for IU whole sea non. The only other nun who haa been aerloualy considered consider-ed for the place. It la aald, waa Capt Campbell of Harvard, though many candidate have been talked of. Kred 1'aliat, Jr., of Milwaukee, haa prwented (be university boat crew with a new ahell, which la now being built In th east nieyel Hliltng tlylng Oat, The wheel I a thing of tha pant excepting ex-cepting In tha sporting world, and for itrletly utilitarian purposes. Thla waa ibown hy the reports of the L. A. W. looting, whlrh showed that from over K4.000 members a yenr ago thu rganliatlon hua dropped to ono nf ibout IO..MI0 member to-day. It decline de-cline la ruplil, and, with the decline of cycling aa a diversion, hut nut ural. Oddly enough, cycle racing Is more popular and prolltuble now, In those lections where It obtains, than It ever was before. With good Indoor track and big card It prob.ibly would bo rqually popular hero. Cycling future fu-ture serin to be only I). at of a piu-foislunal piu-foislunal sport. Jaanea R, Khsi Honored. James it. Keene of Now York la slated slat-ed to be the recipient of tha highest honor ever given an American turfman. turf-man. According to report from London, Lon-don, Mr. Keone will bo chosen nn honorary hon-orary member of thn Kngllsh Jockey if r-: hj!, Club at n meeting of tho nrlato.rati. nrf body In be held 111 April. It will tat tro licit tune In the lil tory of the lurf that nK.rl.ed oMlcl.il honor Iwa been no 'on!. . I a tiirrninii by tho Jockey club 111 l.llgl.in.1. The president of the Jockey club of New York Is a mein-ler mein-ler of the Kngllsh Jockey club n-oiil-jclo, but f lull courtesy is accorded to the American turf body aa a whole. lletH-era Knler Tana Meal. F.ir the first time In the history of iiterco!b -!ati rpoi t every Hccltou of the ciuir.ii.v will be represented In ono Ml of giiilin lit the University of I cnuei ivatila relay rnces on Frnnkllii Held In April. Ihe i'plver-lty of Wla-.onsln Wla-.onsln an I ihe r..iiv"--itv of California Califor-nia have ii. c. pled liiviiailons and will ha. relay ln-iiis licru tor tha first Urn. Wisconsin l.a ,nterr, a Ju.r. tot In the fr ,,, ,,h lmn(m. ship, and finai the re. or.la of tho four mile runners they el,,,,,!,! K,v, other college entries hard rnce. Against thern I'ennsylvanla nnd Yale will have tho strongest trams, the Quaker averaging 4:40. 11 l lloolln, Tonrnameaa. Ofncl.il of the llllnola Howling association asso-ciation are beginning to plan for the annual slate ch itnpionslilpa. which. It le expected, will bo held early In April. With the Increased number of club th problnn nf running the tournament off expeditiously I serious. It la expected ex-pected fully forty of the leagues h- lontlug to the association will enter team for thi team cha.np. unship and that ev iy league will have a repreaen-tutlvo repreaen-tutlvo In the Individual competition. Tha Irish Tarrlar. The history of the present tyre or Irish terrier date from about tho year IK75, that being the llrst year that these dog were exhibited, which waa nt Del. fuM, Ireland. The Initial exhibit of them In F.nglani' waa at tho brighter, show In 1 ."lit!, when 0. Jamison of Moving, Mo-ving, Newlowniirdi. showed Hnnshee, by Iluffer, out of Jcs, and Hpiida, by Jack, out of Vlrgle, and from theae show It mny be eald that our modern doga date KnslUh llolfar Coming la Amerlea. Jaiiie Ilrald, the open champion, ha announced ills Intention of making a tour of the United Ktate next aummer after tue close of tha Kngllsh championship cham-pionship tournament. He may be accompanied ac-companied by hla cloaeat competitor for golf honors, Harry Vardon. Camp tor rhysleal Director. Walter Camp, the foremost authority In tha United Htate on athletlra, Ii likely to be director of the department depart-ment of physical culture and national games or the world's fair. It la ba-lleved ba-lleved that the Identification or this expert with the exposition'! department depart-ment of physl.al culture will result In one or the rni.it nttrnctlve departments or the expoaltlon. Ilarmsworth (let Aalo Kaeorit Alfred HarniHworth, owner of the I,ondoii Mull, now hold tho automobile tourist rond record between I'arla and Monte Carlo, llo covered tha distance In four days last week, never traveling more than nevin hours In a duy. He arrived In Monte Carlo In lime to attend at-tend a prearranged bampii.t the London Lon-don Dally Mull was glv.n ; to M. Ban-toa-Dumont. Cloailp of lha llotars. Casper lon tins been appointed boxing box-ing Instructor of the I'olo Athletic club of New York. Another effort will be nindo to got a boxing law through the New Yurk legislature leg-islature thn coming week. Frank Craig, tho "Harlem Coffee Cooler," I planning to give some boxing box-ing exhibitions In South Africa. i'eter Muher ha quit the ring again nnd gone on the state. Horcnlly In rtilladclphla ho appeared aa Charles the Wrestler In "Aa You Uke It." lien Jordan of England has accepted a rhulliiige from Jack McClelland of I'ltlsourg The Knrlleh lad ofler to light McClelliui l either ut home or In this country. Tho ol.l-tln;-r. Casper U on, tins recently re-cently cioi e out with a cbnlleiige to meet Ja.k Waul, or. fulling In that, to box Hurry Forbes, Abe Attell or lioorge iJlxon. Joo Humphries, the woll-knnr.-n boxing box-ing announcer, has a good tenor voice, which his friends say would bring him a good Income ut any tlmo that th boxing game Flint down. Hilly Madden recently made the stutenietit that If Hob Armstrong la really anxious to meet "Denver Kd" Martin, lie will make a mntrh for the men ut 1'hllail.dphla, Chicago, or Louisville. Louis-ville. There l stin talk of a meeting between be-tween Hurry horhe and Tommy Felti. The latter aeenm to be the most likely like-ly aspirant for Forbes' title, and the mutch. If brought about, would be a good card. Terry M.-Ciovern la reported to have Invented a new blow called the "landslide "land-slide " l s to be hoped that It meets with better success that "Wild Bill" llaiirahaiia niiicli-ndvertlaod "Mary Ann punch." Mayor Harbison of Hartford has refused re-fused to grant a license to William U Crowley, tho iimtchmakor of the Nutmeg Nut-meg Athletic club. Manager Flaherty of thn Empire A. C. was also refused permission to run builng shows. |