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Show May Match Thoroughbreds. There is talk of a match lace between be-tween Cold Heels and any of tile best thiiroughbtctls In l-ltmlnnd. including Aid Patrick, the winner nf the Ih rby. or Mii'ptio. the clin k Syrar.ild tllly lor whom an offer nf i-junnim wns recently re-cently refused A I ill .if a mile and a half, weight for ge. I the gi'tteisj linipiisitlnii. Jiiinea htnily, pait owner of tiiil.l Heels, la not backward In declaring de-claring Hint fluid Heels Is tile glentest rare burst. In the world, liold HrOls. winner or the Mubuihan. t.n.k the llilgtitim hunt it it in enty style, mid broke the wnrlil s rertu.l for a inllti and a ipinrti r mi a cit-culnr track. Ho tan It In J e.l t Thru- Is tin telling what fluid Heels colud have done hail he I n pin-lied. The time was within two fifths of a aecond or the world s record IJ ".Mil. made by llanquet In IK'.iU wllh In isiiiiuls up, on the straight course of the Monmouth Psrk track. The performance of tlold Heels was renlly wniiderrul, considering that he waa carrying IJti imunds. The beat previous time on a circular course wa by Chnrcn.ua, who ran In S lit at Von kers. Titus Is Still Confident. The defeat of C. S. Titus, the Amor-lean Amor-lean oarsman who contested for the ulaiuond sculls at Henley, was deeply regretted on tills aide. .In explanation of his defent Titus says: "There Is no doubt In my mind that the Knglish know a great deal about rowing. Their stroke certainly Is more suitable to the Kngllah heavy water tnan in tho American Amer-ican style, hut our methoda Just aa certainly are brat Bulled to uur Unlit fast water. I think It is an Imponal' blllty fur atiy crew or sculler to come to KugiBiut and win without acotng the place hefmt' and without a professional profes-sional trainer. As to my race with Kelly, the winner of the illitmonds. although al-though hi Is a very last aeuller In Kngllah nter. I tnlnk I could bent him in amot'th water, w-lth no wind, llud I been drawn against Ktherlngtun Smith Instead of Kelly. I am sura I should have been In tue fiuel at least. 1 ahull leuve my ah ill here and come back next year, when 1 feci confident that I shall wlu the diamonds. At tiny rate, 1 am determined to win them before I quit." Champion Amateur Athlete. As an all-around amateur athlete, Adam II. (limn of Diiffulo has demonstrated demon-strated that ho haa no equal In this country, tluun. who Is a finely built and well-proportioned athlete, heat two formidable opponents. K. 8. Mcr rill of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, the niokt versatile athlete In tat wn and Myer Prlnalelo of the 8 mnin' Y. M. C. A..' In a decisive tnsniior. This makes the sevrmd time Onnn ban scored national all around championship champion-ship honors. The KurTnlo athlete rolled up a total of 6.:i'n points, aiimalnat K.ri3: points for Merrill end 4.nVt nolnta for Prlnstoln. Ounn made his best showing In the half mile walk, throwing the hammer anil the pole vault for height. In the last-named competition he made the lcDirkhlo leap of in feet Inches. Adams a Star Athlott. flngor Adams, who wun eighteen points for the Marinette high arliovl In tho state Interai bolaatVc track and field meet at Madison recently, prom-Ises prom-Ises to become one of the bout ath letes Wisconsin evor produced. At the Madison meet he broke tlie Inter- Roger Adams. (Young Athlete of Marinette, Wis, Who Made a (I real Hm-ord In tk Hecent (lames at Madison.) scholastic record for the discus, throwing the weight 101 feet 8 Inchon. The old mark was loo feet t Inches. Jimmy Barry to Rs-entsr Ring. Jimmy Barry of Chicago has decldrd to re enter the ring. Harry waa, at lbs time of hla retirement, some few yesn ago, the holder of the bantam weight championship, lie was at one time uu-qiieatiotiably uu-qiieatiotiably one of the fastest llttls fighters In the world, but believed himself him-self going back and quit while he retained re-tained bis glory. Now he wants tn come back Into the game. In tli'l parry be nikmc a -.nlsK.V. FMMTS, like hall f'er, aebloiu re-t.re re-t.re voluntarily. Tb-y usually wait until pul He oilnl"H Hi driven them out nf their game. Thry never believe) that they have hack, or. It they do shelter Hint ttraitht (r K short wbll". they soon ft'sdmlo that Ihey arc as good aa c-vtiM get buck Into the game, only to he cmiinrril by e-porleurc e-porleurc that thef ,rc not w hat they used to he. Ilsrr) had the chance In remain the only f-tirt-.l i hninplnn. but he secma determlM not to retire with this honor. Predicted Actident to Jockey. A, peculiar nn-Ment happened t( Jockey Wlmilf O Connor Bl the Hrlghtnn lleach nit'irack. tho Intuitu Jot key havliKtitnc broken when his niout.t was JaintiM ai-nlhst the fence. O'Connor "I" Mine: KMtnnlng In the II rut raw at lime. Inclileuinlly Kitlnnlng'sJi'isiN'r whs "l:t" The aivlilcnl illiltit ciilno entirely without with-out wart lug knwover. for O'Connor re. elved a b t'T In the morning from sumo cretilt. trllirg him thai hn would ride a hciv-te i the first race number, ed "13." Tin suiinrslltloiia rlaaa of raioiriick. foitiaerB. when they heard of Iho letter veie aomewhat worked .y,.i ttY , vw , ': .'.'r'.7"1 -5 ! w r. i icim v.... up. mil A. Feallierati nn, the emiiloy IT of the Jin l.ey, offer: ll lo give Jl.tliK. to Wri. the idenlliy '. the writer ot the Inter. A Great Weight Thrower. hll It. HeWlfl. tie lllleicillleglste f lamiilon weight thrower, la nn ath-lelr ath-lelr wlio Is growing morn popular earn ilny. His fine work In the Ama-tcsr Ama-tcsr Athletic Union all-round weight throwing competition at Celtic Park. 1. 1., on the Fourth of July wna one of Ue attraetlora of ttio day. Although sr waa beaten by Flanagan, he was the recipient of generous applause tliniughotit the contest. On the ful-j ful-j n.srlnsr day he took part In the Jinlghta of Columbus games at the auaae purk, and won Iho lii-pound ham-inrr ham-inrr throw eai-Iiy. although he had aone atrong opiKim-utB lo face. Ills Surk was also a feature at these lnli'. DeWItt I a Princeton man ar.d Is of herrulran build. Amateur Osrsmen's Regatta. The thirtieth annual regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmos will be held at Ijike Uuln slgnmonl, Worcester. Mnaa.. Friday and Saturday, Annual H and 9, for which tht following list events will Intcriiiedliito, senior and championship champion-ship single sculls: liilornieillalu and senior double sculls; Intermedials and senior pair oared shells; Intermediate, senior and International four-oared ahvlls, and Intermediate and senior elght-osr rd shells, for which the usual nnllnnal die gold medals are given lo every winning oarsman or sculler and s hsudaoiue atlk banner to hla club. Michael Quite Turf. Jimmy Michael haa permanently abandoned horae racing, has cancelled his engageuieiita. haa paid forfeits, has moved from Chantilly to Paris, has taken quarters at the Pare dea princes track and baa begun to train In ear-neat ear-neat for bicycling racing. He la In poor shupe. hut extiects to regain his form quickly. He has ordered two motor tandems, callable of giving a laiee of fifty-five miles an hour. He will nut race before tlm end of August. Au-gust. Charley Mitchell Is Dying. When Charley Mitchell toured thla country with Hilly Madden years ago, he became the talk of thn aimrtlng world on account of bl line athletic figure. He waa young and hundaome and the very picture of health. Now be la said to be a physical wreck, and may never leave his bed. The severe Illness through which be has passed haa made isil Inroads on his once mag-nlllt mag-nlllt rut constitution. Thoroughbreds of 1t02. A compilation by a noted turf statistician statis-tician develops some startling figures oq the yearling crop of thoroughbreds for P.IU2. At public auction t! have already psssed under the hammer for a total of M 2. Jill, or an average of 11,118. Kstlmates place the yearling crop at fully I.""" bead, and It Is safe to say that the total valuation Is nol leas than f l.nnO tmn. New Amateur Oolf Champion. liul N. Jumna, a Chicago hoy to yeara old, is the smateur golf champion cham-pion of the United States. Playing on Ills home course at tllen View. In the thirty-six hole finals of thn eighth tournament tour-nament of the United Slates Gold as-softatliin. as-softatliin. Jamea defeated Khen M. HyerB of the Allegheny Country alub, Pittsburg, 4 up, 2 to play. |