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Show I JAZZY SPORTS Warden A. V. Anderson, of Leaven-worth Leaven-worth penitentiary whore rornier i Champion Ja k Johnson is Incarcerat-ll od. has replied to those who criticised ! him for permitting Johnson t- take j part in boxing contests In the i" n, bj stating that all Inmates are required to take some form of exercise dailyli ! md Johnaon s perfectly within his . ights In adopting boxlne-. lie added I i hat tho former heavyweight cham-Jl : j.ion is not accorded any more favors, i ban other prisoner Tho English Thoroughbred aasocla-j aasocla-j ion has interested itself In Ihe proposal pro-posal to have .Samuel Kiddle send thej super-horse Man O'War to England, lext year. A recent communication from the officials of that body to Mr. Blddlc. stn'fj English fans would lei .?lad of an opportunity to Bee the cell ' brated son of Fair Play in action. Tho officials offered their acrvlcca In on-' terms; the thoroughbred in the English I .lassies, and assured the American, owner a square deal at all times. The removal of the Brown University Univer-sity game from the Hal Lti r gam 8 by Dartmouth may result In a complete com-plete severance of relations be! i i n ihe two colleges. Recently the Dartmouth Dart-mouth athletic council named the Pennsylvania. Cornell and Washington University games as the letter con-j testa. Players will be required to play it least 15 minutes in one of these, panics in order to he eligible to receive re-ceive the letter The dropping of Brown is taken by the Providence in--tuution as an indication of th lack Of importance of the meeting, in the -es of the Dartmouth officials. Brown J cohort declare Dartmouth is honor-' 1 ing Washington Unlveraltj with more, I Jignlty than I? called for In making y :h? western clash a Iftt.r game. Soin-' Soin-' interesting devciopmenta are expected when tho 19-1 achdulea are brought up for adoption at Brown. Connie Mack, of the Philadelphia Athletics, says be has his spring campaign cam-paign already mapped out. Connie I Pinks his crew is goo, I enough in ihe bitting department, but he says, they M re lamentably weak on the finer M, ,.oints of the game and especially on I Wen!e. The tall leader is going lo j give his youngsters a course of lee I cures on 'inside baseball" and fleld-! fleld-! i ,ng practice, with the hope 'h;:t the j hitiinc department :;i ik.- care of i ileelf. Unels Wilbert BoMnson of the Dod-j gers, has whittled out an tnieresling; .'. toe himself for next season Rob-I iaou lias taken over "Buster" i r.'onj from the Pirates at the waiver pries. j Hobinspp declares Caton is one .f th moat natual shortstops he has ever: b .pen in action, and that within a short time he can have hirn playing the kind of ball Brooklyn fans will raVe abou Rbbfnson pays not atten- , 'Ion lo Caton'a failure at Pittsburg Ialming the diminutive lad never was iccorded the proper treatment in the Smoky City. Caton left the Plrate-last Plrate-last season unceremoniously and i Owner Dreyfuss immediately placed, 1 1 id on the market I in ! l-...bb.." he always had good luck with Pittsburg cast offs Maybe he is play-1 hunch on Caton. Veteran Tom ' Kourke. t'oi nn'i manager of George Dixoji. Joe jWolcott ,nd many other fistic s'.-r .if a former peflod, witnessed the Benny Lconard-Joe, Lconard-Joe, Welling battle in N'ew York lasi , 1 eek, and was completely won over o Welling by the Chirac., hoy s dls-play dls-play of gamenesa Thai lad don't iave. io worry about a championship." H aid O'Bpurke, "becauae he is the :amest thing in th lightweight dlvi- ' H slon today. 1 have seen a lot of battlers pike a boating, but 1 never jw s bo: il8flmilStjB as much as he .Jul and keep coming back for more. He is Uic firs', fighter of recent years to show the dd stuff that made the last of a quar-tor quar-tor of a cehturj ago famous." ij'Kourke believes Lebnard Is one of! he gi eatest haulers the lightweight i llvlslon ever liad. but be adds that he champ did nor win any laurels bj : ,H showing against Welling becausi ne failed absolutely In his efforts to -top the Chicagoan. O'Rourke sides uli the Welling followers w ho be -lse their favorite would have weath-'red weath-'red the storm and gone the .IHtance tad thf bout not been stopped. bbbbbB i |