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Show ' .lack Wooley, went od a fishing ex-' curslon. 'The camp, however, was a routed to lif by the appearance of Jamos .1. Corbet.t, former ehnmplon heavy, weight, who i. to alst In getting J of. fries In proper form to meet Johnson. John-son. t ; , ,'(' Corbctt 'slipped luto the camp unannounced un-announced and immediately went to work in the gymnasium to "limber up" and try himself In. a few preliminary stun's despite the heat. The former champion elicited much favorable comment com-ment from the Jrulncrrt who watched him at work for hi strength, agility, endurance and wind. He made the former record on ih1 Lob Angeles track. In a wonderfully xustalucd dash throughout the fifty mile race, Har-roun Har-roun easily lead his rival and was ahead of the reran! at .".0 and 10 miles and at the finish. Ills time was 42:'H. The former record' which wns ll:IK Harrouu himself set at Atlanta. Caleb Bragg, the Cincinnati amateur ama-teur was tbe third sUr of ihe day's triumphs. He won two ton mile and one five mile free for all rar- and had to put up" a hard fight for each of them with Kirscher in a Darracq. for the national championships the drivers battled with all their skill, forcing tbelr engines to the limit of their power. The leaders were always al-ways bunched in the home stretch and the contests were of derided until un-til the front wheels of the ctnr actually had crossed the wire of the timing machine. I SPORTS' THOMPSON HERE; GOES JO LOGAN Just long enough 10 greet many of his friends here, - Cyclone Johnny Thompson remained in Ogden after his arrival from Sycamore, 111., yesterday and then coutlnued on lo Logan, where he will take advantage of a fine offer of training quarters and good accommodations made ly the live Commercial Boostera' association of the Temple town to the north. Thompson Thomp-son was in good condition when he arrived, ar-rived, but declared that hv waB anxious anx-ious to go immediately into training, a.s he would take no chances with ricato. "I wan t the championship." he asserted, as-serted, 'and am determined to get it If they will give me the chance, but I am not going to refuse any man a match. Flcato wanted to try me and I am ready for him. I don't underestimate underes-timate his ability and from what I have heard ho Is a clover, durable lad. but I expect to take the battle inside of fifteen rounds. Afier that I hope for a match with Hyland and the winner win-ner of that fight should et on with Wolgast. He Is entitled to it." According to Thompson's present plans he will return here Sunday to give an exhibition at Utah Hot Springs for the benefit of his hundreds of Ogden Og-den admirers. WTARLANO FIGHTS WITH WELSH TO DRAW LONDON". May 30. "Paekey" Mc-Farland Mc-Farland of Chicago and Freddie Welsh, the British lightweight champion, cham-pion, fought a twenty round draw tonight to-night before the National Sporting club. The fight was for a purse of ST.no and a side, bet of $1000. Mc-Farland Mc-Farland had the best of 1L JOHNSON WEIGHS ONLY 215P0UNDS SAN FRANCISCO. .May 30. iirco-ratlon iirco-ratlon day was a hig event at the Johnson John-son camp and the colored champion played to a capacity house In the afternoon, aft-ernoon, when he went tbroueh his usual boxing stunts. For all that. Johnson kept his Audience awaiting three-o,uarters of an hour, which occasioned, oc-casioned, much hooting and hissing. It was a good nafured crowd that greeted him when he finally made his appearance and good Judges declare It was on of the most satisfactory workouts since he has gone Into training train-ing Johnson weigbe less today than at any lime since his arrival here. Before Be-fore he .stepped on the scales he said he thought he was down pretty light and Uils was proved when ho registered regis-tered at 15 pounds.' IN SLASHING RACES NEW RECORDS MADE INDIA N A POL1S, May r0. In slashing slash-ing races at the Indianapolis Speedway Speed-way today new records were set for the national championship in stock car classes which will be contested annually; Harney Oldfleld with his big llenz broke the American Speedway Speed-way record for the mile and the kilometer kilo-meter and,. Hay Harroun driving a Marmon topped the time for 50 miles for cars of 231 to 300 cubic inches plpton displacement. A crowd of 55,000 people cheered the drivers on to desperate feats of speed anl the companies of mil I tla were pressed hard in controlling the eager spectators who overflowed the grandstands on to the llclds, straining for a nearer view of the heroes of the motors. Oldfleld rut '.In- mile speedway record rec-ord (low n from 3i flat to 35 6 and the kilometer record from 23.7 to 21 45. CORBETT LANDS IN JEFFS MP BKN LOMOND. Cal.. May art Jim Jeffries spent memorial day casting for trout on the San luen.o river, some miles above his training camp The excessive heat caused the fighter lo leave the camp early in the day to seek cool recreation along Ihe ilver and, accompanied by Tex Rlekard and BASEBALL RESULTS AMERICAN. Yron. IjOsL r.C. Philadelphia . . .; ..25 S ;7oS New York 22 10 .OSS Detroit i.22 1R .579 Boston IS 15 .345 Cleveland 14 18 .438 Washington .. ..' ..10 21 .132 Chicago 11 2rt .353 St. Louis ..7 27 .200 Exciting Contest. Cleveland, O., May 3n. Chicago defeated de-feated Cleveland this morning in an exciting game. ' R. II. E. Cleveland 3 10 4 Chicago 4 9 2 Batteries Link, Young, Doane and Easterly; Welsh and Block Afternion game; Cleveland-Chicago game poiioned; rain. Even Break. Boston. May 30. Clcotto strained a cord In his neck today In the second Inning of Ihe forenoon game with Philadelphia and the two Boston pitchers who succeeded him were batted bat-ted hard. R. H. K. Philadelphia 5 9 2 Boston 1 5 ;t Batteries Coombs and Thomas; Cl-cotte. Cl-cotte. Smith, Arellanes and Carrigan. Boston got an even break by a lucky win thi, afternoon fiom Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. 0 to ri. In Ion Innings. In Ihe ninth two singh-s, a two-base hit, a home run, ha?c on "balls and an error allowed Boston to tie the score after two were. out. Speaker hit for three bases in the tenth and scored the winning run when Davis dropped a ball R. II. E. Philadelphia i' 5 12 I Boston 0 7 I Batteries Krause and Thomas; Karger, Hall. Collins and Carrigan. Tigers Get Strong. St. Louis, May 30 Detroit won the morning ganio from St. Louis easily. R. H. E Detroit '. 10 13 4 St. Louis 0 9 5 Batteries Stroud and Schmidt; Powell, Wadckll and Stephens. The score of the afternoon victory was 9 to 4. After Browning was hit hard in the fourth Inning Detroit sent Mullin in lo finish the game. r. ir. e St. Louis , 4 S 5 Detroit 0 .12 3 Batteries -Bailey and Stephens; Browning. Mullin and Beckendorff Highlanders Are It. New York, May 30. Ford outpltch ed O'Berlln this morning and New York defeated Washington, 3 to 1. The Highlander t wirier, while wild, held the visitors to two singles. R. H. E. Washington 1 2 1 New York 3 0 3 Batteries O'Berlln and Street; Ford and Sweeney. The afternoon contest was played In a rain-soaked dlamoud, New York winning. 3 to 0. R. H. E Washington 0 5 I New York 3 fi 1 Batteries Groom and Street; Vaughan and Sweeney. New York 2 7 0 Philadelphia 1 .1 2 Batteries Drucke and Meyers; Fox-en Fox-en and Dooin. Umpires Johnstone and Moran New York again defeated Phllndel phia In the afternoon game, It requiring re-quiring sixteen innings to decide the Issue. 4 to 3. In the ninth inning, Devore singled, stole second and scored scor-ed the tleiug run when Moran and Bates threw wild. In the sixteenth. Devore again led off with a single, stole second and scored on Becker's single. R. H. E. New York -. 4 S 1 j Philadelphia 3 10 fi I Batteries Ames and Meyers ;Sch lei, Ewfng and Moran Umpires Johnstone John-stone and Moran. Pirates Break Losing Streak. Pittsburg. May 30. Pittsburg broke its losing streak today by taking two games from Cincinnati. The morning battle was won easily, 13 to 7, Spade being found for nineteen hits. The afternoon contest was captured. 7 to 4, In a seventh-inning rally of sinlvs, aided by Mitchell's wild throw and a base on' balls. . II. E. Cincinnati 4 S I Pittsburg 7 1.5 3 Batteries Beebe and McLean; Mad-dox Mad-dox and Clbson. Umpires Rigler aud Emslle. Afternoon game R H. E. Cincinnati 7 10 4 Pittsburg 13 19 3 NATIONAL. Won, Lost. PC. Chicago 22 12 .G 17 New York 22 14 CI I Pittsburg IS 15 545 Cincinnati .IS 1G .529 St. Louis IS 20 .474 Philadelphia H 19 .40ti Rrooklyn 15 22 .405 Boston ..II 22 .3SU Boston Loses Two Games. Brooklyn. May 3i. Bells masterly pitching shut out the Boston National league club this morning bv 2 to 0. R. H. E. Boston .- 0 1 0 Brooklyn 2 4 1 Batteries Frock and Crahain; Bell and Bergen. Umpires O'Day and Brennan. Brooklyn won. the afternoon game with Boston. 3 to I. through sensational sensa-tional fielding behind Rucker. In which Hummel was tbe star. R H. E. Boston 1 10 2 Brooklyn 3. S 0! Batteries Curtis. Burge and II. Smith; Rucker and Bergen. Umpires O'Day aad Brennan, Cubs Break Even. Chicago, May Chicago won Its eleventh successive victory today hy defeating St. Louis, G lo 1. In the morninx game. R. H E. St. Louis 1 7 2 Chicago 0 II 2 Batteries Lush, Relger and Phelps; Brown and Archer. Umpires -Klem and Kane. Chicago lost to SL Louis, 3 lo 1, in the afternoon game today. Manager Chance was out of ,np game on ac-count ac-count nf a flncer which was spiked by Hugglns in, the morning- game. Chance shook up his line by sending In several pinch hitters, but they failed fail-ed to connect. B- H E. Batteries Spade, Anderon and Mc-Iean; Mc-Iean; T. Clark, Adams and Gibson. Umpires Emsllo and Rigler. American League. At Boston Philadelphia, 5; Boston, 6. At New York Morning game Washington, 1; New York. 3. Afternoon After-noon game Washington, 0; New York 3. At Cleveland Cleveland -Chicago garni postponed; rain At St Iinis St. Iouis, I; Detroit, 9. At Minneapolis SI. Paul. I; Minneapolis, Minne-apolis, 5. Western League. At Denver Denver, 1; Wichita, 7. t St. Joseph St. Joseph, 11: To-peka, To-peka, 7. At Sioux City Morning game-. Sioux City. 11; Lincoln, 5. Afternoon game Sioux City. 10; Lincoln, 9. At Des Moines Om.iha, 10; Des Moines. 1. At Denver Second game Wichita, 5; Denver, 11. Northwestern League. At Spokane Seattle, 2; Spokane. 4. Cojfit League. At Oakland Morning game Los Angeles, 4, San Francisco, 5. At San Franclfco Afternoon game San Francisco, 2;" I.os Angeles. 1, At Ios Angeles Morning game Vernon. 5; Oakland. 2. Afternoon pame Vernon. 2; Oakland. G. ; At Seattle Tacoma, 1; Vancouver. 0. College Games. At ','thaca Pennsylvania. 2; Cornell, Cor-nell, 1. fContlnued on Page Five.) St. Louis 3 1 Chicago I 0 3 Eatterles Sallee and Phelps Pfe-ii?ter Pfe-ii?ter and Archer. I'mplrcs Klem and Kane. Ciants Win Double-Header. Philadelphia, May 30. New York defeated Philadelphia In this morning's morn-ing's game. 2 to 1, in a great pitchers' battle, which went ten Innings, between be-tween Foxen and Drucke. R. H. E. pFt (Continued From Page Two ) At Andover Harvard, 7; rhilllps-Anduver, rhilllps-Anduver, 1. NAiHTOifSVO OF JHJBTHES fRy W. W. Nauphton ) San Francisco. May 21. The big fight is barely six weeks away, and It might be as well to engage In a little stock-taking. One of the ipiestlons most frequently frequent-ly asked is: "How has Jim Jeffries come along In hl9 training''" The answer, ans-wer, I take it, should be; "Very well. Indeed." Jim has thrown hU whole heart and soul Intii his work and has proved a yood many things. First of all. he proved that he was able to reach fighting proportions without Incurring any of tho ills prophesied If ho attempted at-tempted such a wholesale redm tlou of flesh after years of Inactivity. In tho next place, he has proved that he retains his crfd-tlmo. strength and enduranoo and that his wind has do flaws in It. You have only to look at Jeffries, of course, to know that he Is down to his fighting notch In weight. As for his endurance, the tales brought back to camp by those who have tried to keep stride with him over miles and miles of monnUiln trail are convincing convinc-ing testimony The endurance displayed dis-played by Jeffries In trudging, sprinting sprint-ing and running would ho In evldenci-ol' evldenci-ol' course. If the strain was of a differ cnf. character, for It is his muscle, lung power and faultless heart aetlon that enables him to perform prodigies of out-door work and these samd qualities would stand to him in other tests of stamina. For that matter, Jeffries' gymnasium gym-nasium exercises are generally of a gruelling character, and the way he winds up his dally grind proves that Jie Is capable of sustain"! exertion and that his breathing apparatus Is In the best of shape. As for Jeffries' strength, it can only be guessed at; but the way his sparring spar-ring partners crumble when he rushes rush-es playfully, and uses his massive shoulders as a battering ram, suggests that he Is resistless from the standpoint stand-point of force as he was In past campaigns. cam-paigns. I guess that is about as far as anyone any-one can go for Big Jim at present. He has endurance, strength and good wind. Some may claim that he also has speed, but many a man who has been lieu-edited with this attribute has been made to appear as slow as an Ice wagon when he stacked up against the man he went through all his training for. Sam Rerger, Jeffries' manager, says that all Jeffries needs now Is plenty of fast work so as to accustom him to hitting, blocking and dodging dodg-ing with his old-time raplditj. True, Samuel, but there will be no way of gauging whether Jeffries has regained these faculties until he tsbapes up with Johnson. Training camp standards and comparisons com-parisons are unreliable. A man can extend himself to the limit out on the roud and show all that he is capable of in the line of exercise, but he must of necessity be undr wraps when boxing with bis partners. If he were to cut loose "without reserve he would find It hard work, probably, to keep any help around hirn. Such a thing as hiring a human punching bag who Is willing to endure all the discomforts and rigors of a private tryout, or purseless prizefight, prize-fight, for wages is talked of occasionally occas-ionally when men are in training, but Is seldom put Into execution. Therefore, There-fore, the best we get while watching Jertrles In his daily spars is the sight of a human giant setting to In a halting halt-ing way with men who palpably are no match for him. For an Idea as to what extent Jim tan ladlo out really swift and punishing blows, we have to draw on our Imagination. This much can be said, however. Then is nothing about Jeff's indoor program which suggests that ho Is not as active on his feet and with his gloves as be was years ago. There Is nothing to hint that he dees not retain, his fighting abilities, that his Judgment of distance Is Impaired, or that he is not as quick brained as he used to be in dealing with emergencies. emergen-cies. Ry the same token, nothing short of the right Itself will prove that he Is tho Jeffries of old In this direction. That six years' layoff is always a wet blanket to those who have enthused en-thused over Jeffs work and training. They niay ?ny they are positive ho Is the same old Jim, but the possibility possibil-ity that time may have slowed him up and nffected hl.s fighting talents in a more or less degree will Intrude it- PClf In this connection one hears some strungtj arguments and similes During Dur-ing one discussion of this particular point I heard a man contend that five years of disuse operated to the detriment detri-ment of inanimate objects, as well as human beings. "A railroad man once told nn lhat If a locomotive was left In the sheds Tor u Jfar It acted ns crazy as a bedbug when taken out and put to work aealu," ald the fellow In question. "I also knew a mau who kept his yacht In the estuary for a couple of years, and he swore to me ho never could get it to sail straight afterwards." after-wards." In conclusion, if the clean-cut wai .Nifties has rid himself of overweight nd has sharpened his wind conveys mi.v hint as to what more he may accomplish ac-complish In the work of restoration, those who are picking him and backing back-ing him to win have reason to fee) cheerful over the prospect. |