Show SPORTING GOSSIP Who Will Succeed 3IaIculm AV Font as Our Champion Amateur Athlete I Special Cornspoiideiieel > EV Yom July C Now that Malcolm W Ford ha ended the squabbling about his standing L an amateur i resigning hisiueniDei > hipin the New Voi k thletic club tho question which is the rM 1 absorbing one among the amateur athletes i rs to tuuu wilt be Ills Successor n all roumud champion athlete Most persons i incline to the belief Unit Mike OSullivun of the Pastime Pas-time t thletic club will b tho man upon whose shoulders Fords mantlo will descend but I am of the opinion that Aleck Jordan is i now the best all round amateur athlete in this country Of course I do not mean to n scut that one competition will settle the question then of between these but 1 ton i < uiieinac uetwcn tbee len lo pi edict that at the end of the present sea on Jordan will have a greater number of w ins to his credit titan OSulli van will have to his Jack Gibson want to run ether Harry thule or I M Johnson or both of them a 75 10 or 150 yards for 1000 a side or a bweuiisiakes of that amount each with theft the-ft money added I such a race could bo 1 oiifrht off at tho 1 > per place the value cC tike to the winner wjjuld certainly mi id li h s than f5000 n the three best sprinters sprint-ers in this country if not in the world could lot fail to attract an immense crowd I 1 1C Ivittleman Kiting Kit could b also iiumced to enter it woud make the event doubly interesting and would at theme the-me time render the picking out of the probable winner additional difficult as it would not b at all remuikable if Kit cbouid be the first to breast a the tape I Mary persons i wonder why it is that with u ii an u nHOJ 01 basebua sniggers ass as-s possessed by ooklyn to w hich may also 1 j added nt least tao very strong batteries i iy should hold no better position in the race for the American association pennant than they do I have very closely watched the playing of Byrnes Babies lately and my solution of the problem is I feel confident confi-dent the only one possible I is this They have an excellent team of fielders and batters bat-ters bu their base running is so execrable I that it would cause Baby Anson if ho were captain of the team to use enough oaths in one single game to lose permanently t hj patronage of the ministerial contingent > iiillilis for instance who is an excellent I ict baseman inns bases worse than the rage schoolboy mid Swartwood is litiJi I I tier I have never even heard of Phiilir I Laving the temerity to attempt to steal abase I a-base but I saw SwurtwooJ try it the other day in a game with the 1 luletics He came lumbei ing along toward the home plate from third and was of course put out His feeble attempt at a slide was something excruciatingly excruciat-ingly tunny McTanianyis one of the best center fielders and a hard but not a safe almost invariably strikes into hitter as ho inaabl trkes int I the air and not infrequently strikes out By I I ng odds and beyond all cavil the best of is Smith their ho Brooklyn players i George magnificent short stop George is not 3 gi rand stand player and consequently once in o while makes un error but his errors are very seldom serious and his contribution tote to-te work of demolishing the other side i always abnormally large Frank Howson one of the ba weights rom 140 to 145 i the latest English importation im-portation I had a very interesting conversion conver-sion with him in regard to Toff Wall the English middle weight champion He says hat all reports to the contrary notwithstanding notwith-standing Wall did knock Jem Smith Oln i a recent set to and in fact bested him IK says that Smith i a good man but would iavo no chance of winning against John L lie thinks however that he will demolish Jake Kilrain should they ever cOle together As for himself Hon i open to fight any middle weight iu the country bar none for a purse He recently stopped Bill England in two rounds with gloves He will b given a trial against Jimmy Carroll shortly and if he comes up to expectations ho will b backed against Reagan Henry Files or Chauibcib latest importation Ocrr COhEN cv1 jtumun amr went at T T VnliUllnwent I J |