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Show ' Papke. I also In Manhattan express- Ing the hope of a inceiius with the eAtiiln In the Dear luiu.e. 1'apku t.aa Juhi ic-turnc-d Irooi Gay l'aiee. v Lore he became disgusted wltn everything and every body through hl3 liability Oj net enough fights. If 110 U banking on Kctcfcell as his next opponent he will be wise 10 make a match beiure the Boston Tar Baby gel a chance at the n.-i.-asMO, or there may be no Ketcbell. Six rounds Is not much, hut then It Ukfj less than tlx nips of a second to run into one of Lajigf.rd s haymakers. Some lighters light-ers get over the results In six weexa and su mo never recover. CoailDg after Uie wallop he a.riuiilated from MIsUli Jaw lining, and w hich caused his retirement re-tirement for months, another of the some kind from Landlord would about hniau the championship aspirations of Kt tcbell. Press reports say that Stanley Is having hla hand, which he Injured In hla light at pltt-.uurg with Frank Kluuxe, repaired. He'd better put a horseshw or part of an anvil la It when ho meets Laugrord. A Salt Lake paper announces that Pc-uniHs Sinclair, the game little foitiierwelght of that city, and Young Erienborn of Di-nver, v,h appeared In RICKARD ANXIOUS OVER J J01S.0N (By William J. Slattery.) "Jack Gleason. Albany Hotel. New York: Dn't come back to San Francisco Fran-cisco UDless you bring Johnson wltn you. This Is final. Tex Rlckard." This Is the message that the Nevada promoter flashed across tho wires to his associate yesterday artermion. end he meant every word of It. The Cicl Is that Tex is sick and tired ol Halting for that black tormentor to fclmw up, and every time he hears of tho champion bring tossed out of his ruclng machine he fairly writhes In agony. That scare he received about Jens nroKon arm Is plenty to hold Tex for a long time to come. "We have had about nouvh of this fcorcoplay from Johnson," tald IUck-orr, IUck-orr, yesterday afternoon, 'it's nbout time that ho should think of gettlog down U serious business. I don't caro whether ho does and hard v.-ork at first, but 1 want him out here, and now it's up to Gleason to grab him aud turn the trick. Johnson Is doing nothing but getting Into trouble all the time, and this sort of thing will not help us In the least." Would Boort Johnson. Rlckard hopos to hav Johnson at his training quarters at tho Seal Rock house by the middle of April. He believes that the big black man will stir up a whole lot of Interest once he arrives. Rlckard, like many of the other wise ones. Is of tho opinion tout thero Is too much Jeffries boosting boost-ing and not enough of It from tho Johnson end. With Johnson on the f.round tho tablos might bo turned In fhort order. Rlckard hopes to take out a 30,-COO 30,-COO accident policy for both the big fighters today. Ho spent most of jefiterday in consultation with Clarence Clar-ence CoLman, the local representative of tho Lloyds of London, who havo expressed a willingness to handle tho r-ollclos. Rlckard says that ho will elnfHj a deal and then his worries will cease for a while. Jeff Hard Luck Fighter. The Nevada promoter believe that this Is tho only w-ay he can properly guard himself against loss. It s a matter of history that Jeff Is a hard luck fighter, or ono who generally meets with some sort or an nccldeDt while training Tho negro Is erratic and reckless and nobody Knows when he will met with an accident whllo flying around in his auto. a burlesque with his fparring partner i In this city on the night of the Tommy lJawson Joke, have been matched at last, and will meet In Ogden on April 19 for lh featherweight championship of the Intermountaln country- Wltu the rumor that the well known and popular local promoter who managed to make a fizzle of tho lust malcn arranged to take place m this city Intends to take a trip abroad, fight fans are beginning to coiun out of the apathy Into which they wore thrown when tho Examiner announced to the public tho name ! the bungrer In tho Dawson-Sullivan affair. Should tho Ulj abroad materialize. Uie boxing game may be revived, but oth-rwls) tho chances for seeing Erlenborn and Sinclair In this town are looking ellm. Good-bye, bill, stay as long as you can. By defying the Wasatch High School basketball team of lienor at tho Salt Lake V. M. C. A. on Saturday night by a score of 29 to 17, the Weber We-ber Academy team effectually clinched tho state championship and brought homo to Ogden an honor in athletics that has been bitterly contested In all parts of tho state. Should tho local schools be able to iput out a track tam which will slzo up In ability with their basketball aggregation, tho chances for further honors to the Ogden Og-den Institutions will be so good as to cause a great deal of uneasiness among tho high schools throughout the btate. An instance of tho easy way in which some men get their money Is given In a recent sporting article appearing ap-pearing In various papers, written by a recognized authority on boxing. It Is supposed to bo a forecast of the flrnt rrtnrwl In tha shnrlnlori Ic-ffrloa. Johusvn 15-round contest on July next. It deals at great length with tho exprebslons of tho fighters' faces and ends the round without one fair blow being srmck. leffrles Is the ag-grexsor, ag-grexsor, while Johnson ts content to tall Into clinches and try to land his famous right hand uppercu'. In trtr?, however, he fails, Jeff bo;ng "too old a bird to bo caught at that kind of a game," according to the writer of tho article. Now wouldn't It be a snanie If something turned up to prevent the fight taking place, or If tho great fportlng public should wake up to find, during the first round of the flgbt, that Jeff failed to ci-mo back.' Making any kind of a guess on a flKht Is a rather hard proposition, but when It comes to detailing the blows slpjck, round by round. In advance, a lot of hop Is needed before must, writ-em writ-em would attempt It. Although officially reinstated, with the expense of several hundred dollars aa a fine. Catcher Johnny Kilns Is said to have not received any ofllclal rotlflcfttlon of the fact as yet. Ho is reported as having declared himself ready to rejoin his team ar any moment mo-ment .and It Is to be hoped that action looking to getting the star back Into tho national game will he taken quickly. quick-ly. Men like KJlng cannot be easily replaced and should be carefully guarded. Fans all over the country are expecting to see Napoleon Lajolo give tho youugster a groat race for batting houors this year, as It Is claimed that he Is feeling twice as spry as when tho responsibility f...r tho management of the Cleveland team was on his shoulders. FORMER CHAMPION IS BILLIARD WINNER NEW YORK. April 4,-Chas F Con-lin Con-lin of the Chicago Athletic Association a former National champion, won the opening gain of the tooth annual tournament of the National Association Associa-tion of Amateur Billiard players ol the Hamilton club. Urooklyn. tonight from Dr. V. E. rfTenhelmcr of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. 400 to 246. |