Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1909, Page 30

I o {4 your fun by not being able to come? Not S IDEAL DAY WITH WILD DUKS Bhooting at the Wapanooa Preserve in Arkansas, oF New York and Lt Birds Can Be Quickly Reached. The mAn of 60 snuggled still lower into the ?.Z'..a. of his comfortable chair in ! the/fibrary of one of New York's most ) minent clubs and removing the cigar rom his lips remarked to his companion that these were the days when his sport- ing blood was stirred by the recollections ©of the fun he had enjoyed as a lad during the ducking season in northern New York when the Inland lakes “of that regfon swarmed with flight birds on their way to the warm waters of the sbuthland. ““Those good old times are a golden mem- ory and now if a couple of days in & bat- téry on Great South Bay or at Havre De Grace yleld a score of birds I think I'm having lots of fun,” he went one. "My, but I would like to have one more good duck hunt! I think I would go some dis- tance to get it, too." “Could you spare a week and go with me to Arkansas? Because If you really yearn to kill ducks I can gratify the long- ing in fifty-six hours from now. The first speaker, after consulting his engagement book, announced that less than twenty-four hours would find him ready for the road, and a telegram was dis- patched to a friend in Memphis that an open invitation extended the year before to shoot at the famous Wapanoca preserve would be gratefully accepted and ‘asked permission to bring a friend who would be congenlal In every respect. A quick reply to come at oncé hastened preparations and the eager New Yorkers reached Memphis on Sunday morning. At 4 that same afternoon the train which pulled lelsurely across the Mississippl over the Choctaw route had a dozen shooters aboard already friends by that bond which the gun cements ko quickly. By the rules of the Wapanoca organization’each of the members of the club is permitted to invite & friend occasionally, but for not more than three davs, and during the time of the stay the member must accompany his guest and pay a fee of $10 a day. lub House fn Wild Region. ‘The famous club, whose roster contains the names of some of the hest known men | in America, is located In the wildest por- tion of the state about forty miles from Memphis, and to those who visit it for the first time it is full of surprises. The shooting is over a series of lakes, or more properly speaking, ponds, for none of them-s more than four or five feet in depth, while several have not more than elghteen Inches of water in them. By some peculiar cataclysm of nature these ponds were formed ‘some fifty years ago by the apparently solid ground sinking, and here and there the shrubs and trees as they #tood at that ume dot the surface of the water and make Ideal blinds from which the birds may be shot. Where nature has | not made a complete job the skilled hands of the Wapanoca expert caretakers have been employed. Fringed with cypress and willow, with bayous or lagoons here and there connect- ing the series of ponds and with wild celery and rice for food In abundance, the place is a veritable paradise for ducks, geese and swans. There are probably a score of spots from which the shooting is good, but of course, @8 is usually the case, the birds | frequently show a preference for certain districts where the feeding grounds may be in particularly good condition, and In order that all the shooters may have an equal chance.a record is kept of the kills, and prospective shooters by consulting it may learn where the best bags have lately been made. The drawings for blinds Is by lot and 0 is the cholce of paddiers. Have Favorite Blinds. Bach blind is known by a name and the man who secures number one in the draw @8 a rule takes the stand where the best shooting has recently been had. Occa- slonally & man who has had uniformiy good luck in a particular blind feels him- self more at home there and takes it when- @ver the opportunity affords. It wes dark when the party stepped trom the train to the long platform where haif & dozen neat negroes In club uniforms and | ® couple of barking dogs were walting to | Welcome them. Lights blinked a cheery | | . Welcome from the splendid club house not | more thun 200 feet away, and through the doorway there was a glimpse of a log fire In an open hearth, for the evenings in Arkansas In November make a fire as | welcome as In New York at the same season. The visitors were escorted to & huge | | room with twin brass beds, a celling of peeled and varnished logs, and upon the floor were rugs that made the realization of the locality difficult. Such fittings | might have been looked for in some of the so-called joyous Adirondack camps, but the presence of so much that was elaborate in furnishings in Arkansas was a genuine . surprise. At dinner, which was served in a long Jow celled room, the walls of which were | ®overed with shooting scenes, painted, en- graved and photographic, introductions were general, and soon everybody was| busy With the splendidly cooked and per- fectly served meal. A Pittsburg millionaire who spends two _ months each year at the place, told the newcomers about getting the “lmit"— fifty birds—the day before at his favorite station, and prophesled o famous daay's sport on the morrow, concluding with the offer of any of the fine guns in his rack and the placing at thelr dlsposal of his own paddler, employed by the season and generally acknowledged to be the best man in the region. . Admirable Spirit Shown. This was one specimen of the spivit of | s Wospitality and true sportsmanship encoun- | tered. Another was seen in Memphis on | the arrival of the mnorthern sportsman when It was learned that the man who had ixsued the original invitation had *been | selzed with a severe attack of inflamma- tory rheumatism and was confined to his home. In his place there came to the club & typlcal Tennesseean, grave and courtly, the bearer of regrets that his friend was | not able to extend a welcome in person, | And conveying an invitation to the secona | New Yorker with repeated assurances that he wanted & few days at Wapanoca in the worst way and that the gentleman " from New York was really doing him a favor in coming to Tennessee. About this time the invalid was on the telephune saying that he would be at the train. Protests were of no avall. He could take his medicine just as well at the club house as in town and anyway be was golog. And go he did, being prac- fically carried from his carriage to the “traln and from the train to the clup house finally, saying when his swollen legs were cushjoned on & chair: “Did you think 1 war golng to spoll « ¥ ~on your lfe." followed by a crowd of colored men. These latter were the paddiers, and they were to be drawn for by lot. Drawing for Position. Inquiry developed that thirteen men were to shoot the next day and numbers from 1 to 13 were placed n a leathern bottle and the drawing began. One of the New Yorkers had first cholce of the paddiers and his host selected a straight- haired man of 25, with high cheek bones and more of Indian than negro blood in his velne. Jim was his name and he stepped out of the ranks at the call of the captain. In the draw for blinds the second stranger was fortunate and his host selected for him a portion of one of the upper bayous through which the birds flew from one feeding ground to the other. They afforded the ideal pass shooting and promised great sport if there was a wind. The other New Yorker had seventh choles of stands and he was advised to try the cypress blind and the wisdom of his cholce was applauded when a tall Memphian told with never a smile of the day he had sat at that particular spot during a snowstorm trying ineffectually to shoot geese, “and there were thousands of them, too,” sald the tall one. “Well, why didn't you shoot queried the Innocent New Yorker. ““Béause there were so gol darned many ducks between me and the geese I couldn't hit them as they flew over,” drawled the veraclous one amid peals of laughter from all save the bitten one, who allowed that he would be glad to treat It he wopld be permitted to do so. The servants were astir long before day- break, fires were lighted and baths were ready and breakfast was eaten by lamp- light. One by one the shooters departed for thelr stations, those who had drawn the more distant blinds leaving first, and soon all had gone-but the innocent of the previous évening whose curiosity about the geese had been-rewarded. His blind was not more than half & mile from the club house and there was no hurry for him, as it was desirable that the others #hould be located before his departure. Wise Decoy, Daylight revealed the character of'the country. The horizon was fringed with tall cypresses with here and there a burst of vivid green from oceasional clumps of willows. Jim, laden with shells and., the lvnch baskets, walked in advance to show the way and less than 300 feet brought the boat house in view. There was a tremend- ous quacking apd flapping of wings from half a dozen ducks fn a wooden crate near by and upon being. asked the reason Jim replied: “They knows where they all's goin',” They were live decoys and later they were to give an fllustration of thelr intel- ligence that was almost uncanny. The boat. a broad beamed, flat bottomed affalr, had in its bow a swinging chalr and in this the shooter was told to sit. Between his feet was a tin can containing shells and when the lunch basket and the crate of decoys had been disposed of the dusky paddler pushed into the stream, which at this point was not more than twenty feet wide. He used & long pole to propel the boat and was as picturesque as any gondolier of the Grand canal. His Shirt was open at the throat and his sinewy arms were bared to the elbows. He was rubber-booted to the hips. There was a muttering now and then from the decoys”as the boat passed be- tween the wooded banks of the narrow stream. The sun was rising gloriously, promising. a perfect day if the wind should freshen a trifle. There was a rumble us of thunder in the distance or as of a train pissing over & long trestle or rallroad bridge and this was repeated at intervals, finally causing the inquiry, “What wa: that?".from the man in the bow. “That's a few ducks getting up out on the'lake,” was Jim's reply. The stream wound In and out of the cypress and soon there was the whistling of rapld pinfons and ducks darted with Whirlwind speed through the tops of the trees. From far up the lakes and bayous sounded the chorus of number twelvos ana the fingers of the New Yorker twitched nervously, eager to begin the slaughter. FIGHT BIDDERS ARE VERY SLOW Seem Afraid They'll Be Outbid it They File Early. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Fearing that if they should send in their bld now to Stake- holder “Bob" Murphy for the champion- ship fight between Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson the amount of it might become known and thereby result in losing them the contest by having others outbid them, such cunning fight promoters as Jimmy Coffroth, Jack Gleason, Tom McCarey and Hugh Molntosh have consequently made no attempt to file their incentive with Murphy and wiill not do so untll a few days before the bids for the fight are opened, which will be on the afternoon of December 1. Both Gleason and Coffroth stated that they had plenty of time In which to put in their bid, and on that account they would make no attempt to turn it in until @, few hours before the time slated for them to be opened. Sam Berger, manager for Jeffries, announced that he Is recelv- ing telegrams every day from fight promo- ters all over the United States saying that they will put in a bid for the bout. “I am not worrying over the bids just now,” sald Berger; ‘“the only thing that Is troubling me Is whether I can get enough men to act as sparring partners for Jeff while he is training.” INDOOR SPORTS ON TURKEY DAY Big Meet is Planned for Gotham on Thanksgiving. NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Many stars of the cinder path and board floor will com- pete in the games of the Twenty-second regiment engineers at the armory on Thanksgiving eve. Notwithstanding the fact that all the events are closed to mem- bers, the latter rank among the best in tho metropolitan district. Sheppard, Gls- sing, McEntee, Koch, Driscoll, McDowell, Cassassa, Sullivan and scores of others will be there. The 1,200 and 500-yard races will be the feature of the big meet. Shep- pard, Gissing, Sullivan and Driscoll will meet In the 1,300-yard races, and it Is be- lieved that a new world's record will be es- tablished. While chief interest will be manifested in the 1,20-yard race, interest will not be lacking in the 600-yard race, in which McEntee, Koch, Cassassa and Me- Dowell will run. ~ THREE-YEAR TRACK AGREEMENT Michigan wnd Sfracuse Represent East and West, NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Relations between Syracuse and Michigan in foot ball have been strengthened by a three-year agree- ment for & track meet. It is presumed that Syracuse, having fajlled to meet any response from Cornell, g0t Michigan as a_ rival worth while. Whether Syracuse will meet the Indians and Colgate, 100, is not yet certain, but a track team can stand three meets in a season. This also will give Michigan a fair try- out before the intercolleglate champlon- ships. Hitherto the interstate games and them " After the coffee and clgars and when “the . party, which aumbered upward of , Were gathered in the great living B of the club the captain of the or- \‘F--wmolmuunty which Wapanoca 1s located, appeared, the O. 8 Y. meet have been about all the Wolverines had, and those two meets weren't test enough. With Syracuse to tackle, there will be something for the Michigan men to work for, - |where he and his partner were beaten by { IHE OMAHA' SUNDAY BEE: JAMES C. RICE OF COLUMBIA The Rowing Coach of the New York Oarsmen. MASTER OF ‘WIDE EXPERIENCE Lived in Great Professionals. When & man had fifteen uncles, not to mention a father, who followed the sea it Isn’t at all unnatural that he should have & bent toward the water. And it lsn't an 0dd thing, either, that although all fif- teen uncles came to be drowned while they were sallormen that a man should still stick to the water, even if he did heed his mother's requests not to §o to sea. Al- though, to be sure, James Campbell Rice, Who coaches the Columbia university oa men, doesn't get his living from the high seas, but rather on the fresh water, some may object that the Hudson is salt, even as far north as Poughkeepsie, where the intercollegiate rowing regattas are held an- nually, but that hardly spoils the point. Rice never has been a sallorman in the strict sense of the word. He Is keen on ice yachting. He thinks sailing an iceboat is his strongest point, although there are folks, particularly at Columbia, who fancy that he doesn’t do anything else as well a8 he does teaching the art of pulling an oar. When Rice was coaching the Detroit Rowing club some years ago he had a lot of amusement in the winter time salling boats in the races around there. When Rice first came to Columbla, or, rather when he was just engaged by the crew there, many persons spoke of “young Jimmy Rice,” and the casual mpression was that he was a newcomer in the rowing game who was getting his start with a college crew. As a matter of fact Rice is 3 years old. Furthermore, he lsn't a Canadian, #s many persons belleve. He was born in Dundes, Scotland. His mother was Bcotch and his father Irish. “And I guess I'm an American citizen, all right,” says Rice. “My father fought under Com- mander Stringham in the old Minnesota, and if that doesn't make me an American citizen I don't know what does.” Raised on the Water. When Rice was really young Jimmy, the tamily came to this country to live. For a time the Rices were in Philadelphia and then they moved to Toronto. There they lived at Harlan's Point, a place named for the great sculler. All the early part of his life Rice was very friendly with the renowned oarsman and the rec- ords show that in 18% Rice pulled two races against Old Ned. “I had him In the second race, the one at Sault Ste. Marle, that year,” says Rice, “because Ned had a big heavy boat and I had a light one that Wallace Ross owned. But I couldn't afford to beat him, because I'd have lost my job training the old fellow if I had. So we bluffed ‘an exciting race and Ned ‘won." * The very alr of Toronto was full of row- ing In those days and Hanlan was the great man In the times when Rice was a very small boy. “I remembered we once s0ld an old fellow @ towel for §1 that we sald Hanlan robbed down with,” says Rice. ““Whenever a boat got broken up we took the timbers, broke them up smail and sold them for souvenirs to the folks who wanted to get them, as if they were pleces of Hanlan's shell.” It was the most natural thing in the world that a boy reared in that atmos- phere should be keen on rowing. The very slght of the great turnout of folks to wel- come Hanlan whenever he returned to his town would be enough to make any boy resolve to become a great sculler himself. 8o Rice knew very well this man, whom he followed by not so many years as coach at Columbla. There was another man whom he saw in those days. It was on one nccaslon when Rice was & very young lad that he was going across the ferry at Toronto in company with his father | and they saw a sculler coming down the water in a shell. Early Glimpse of Courtney. “He was a big, handsome man,” says Rice. “He wore a white rowing sult with a large blue star on his chest, and he had a white skull cap with a blue tassel. 1 re- member now how he looked, a powerful, great man, with black curling whiskers. | He reached away out for the water and | caught it hard and swung through with power and grace. A splendid looking man he was in a boat. I ausked my father who it was. ‘That's Charlie Courtne; et That was Rice's first view of the man, whose chlef rival as a rowing coach he is today. Some folks, Columbia folks, of course, may be suspected of prejudice in the matter when they say they think Rice 1s fully Courtney's equal as a coach. When Jimmy grew up and was just in| his teens he got Into the rowing game. He rowed a number of races, in particular one with Ralston at Orflla in 188, which ho won. In 1889, when the Canadlan Row- Ing association held a meeting at Hamil- ton, they threw Rice out of the amateur ranks, saying he was a fisherman. So as s00n as he was no longer an amateur he went into the professional game with spirit. It was the thing in those days, when all the money chasers got their re- wards large in money and popularity. Even when 80 young Rice turned to the coaching game, so that his record a coach goes back twenty years. It seems 0dd that this lad, not yet of age, should have been coaching such men as Hanlan, Durnan, O'Connor and others, as well as rowing fn races with them. He was with Ryan and Durnan in 1862 In 184 he and Jake Gaudaur competed in the greatest race of Rice's career. This pair beat Ras Rogers and Eddle Durnan. Rice was in a four that rowed In Texas in 15M, Hosmer being bow, Rice 2, Teemer 3 and Gaudaur stroke. The English crew beat them. He rowed around a great deal and In a great many places, fifty races altogether, his last race belng In 189 at Halifax, N. S,, the Lynch brothers. His nine-year career as a professional covered races with and against all the great men of that time, and he and Hanlan were a strong pair. What You Are Counts. “Folks don't care so much to know what you've done, as what you can do,” Rice {told & man once who asked him for & his- tory of his career. But it Is Interesting to |know that Rice had charge of the Argo- naut Rowing club from 184 to 1597; w wiih the Brockville Rowing elub in 159 and 1869; went to Detroit to the boat club there until 1904, coaciing also when not engaged at Detrolt the Ottawa Rowing club and the Toronto Rowing club, and eventually en- tered upon his college rowing career with |an engagement with the Weld Boat elub at Harvard. This place he held until 1306, It was in 1599 that Rice was in Brock- ville for the Canadian regatta there. His Brockville club was contesting against crews coached by Hanlan. The two met in & hotel and old Ned boasted of his oarsmen. Rice sald his men would win and the wvatural outcome was a bet. Rice’ men cleaned up. At the time there was present a man who took no part in the discussion, but looked Rice over carefully. This man was lumunm-mum Francis 8. Bangs of Columbia, who was known for several years. Mr. Bangs en- gaged Hanlan the next spring for Colum- bia’s coaeh, but he didn't forget the younger man, and it is to Mr. Banks that Columbis owes, having jthe rowing coach Who has helped to raise the standard of p.rformance of the Blue and White to something like that of the old days, the very old days now. It wag, in 1906 that Morton Bogue and Frederfck B. Irvine, both of them much interested in the direction of Columbia rowing, were up in Toronto visiting Han- lan, and there they met Rice. Hanlan had been out of Columbia for some time, his contract having expired in 193. Columbia went in for graduate coaching for a time, Jasper T. Goodwin having been in charge from Hanlan's leaving untll the end of the season of 1906, There was some talk then of Rice coming to Cplumbla and that, added to some other things that had been said before by Mr. Bangs, ended in Rice's coming down to New York to see about things. Ht got a contract to coach at Columbla for a year, both sides to see how they liked the ar- rangement. Columbia Scared Cormell. The Columbla crew of 1907 is history. It rowed Cornell to three feet in four miles. Incidentally, it may be sald here, that was the first crew of eight men that Rice ever taught to go four miles. He came to Poughkeepsie that year, not knowing & thing about the course and not having had & chance to learn by experience how to coach carsmen to cover the four-mile dis- tance. But his crew was right, and so have been the succeeding boats of Colum- bla. The men never have been in bad physical condition through overtrainipg or under- training. Such mishaps as have been suf- fered have been because of things beyond the control of any trainer. The varsity eights of 1908 and 1909 both finished sec- ond, and at the end of the race this year Columbia raised Rice's pay and gave him a contract good until the end of the 1913 season. If both sides are pleased then the probably the best paid rowing coach in the country. can be learned by observation, consists in keeping the men in good humor. “Rowing is thousands of years old,” said-Rice, “and no one man has a ‘stroke’ of his own. The tling you have to do s to keep the men wo.king, and you have to be sure you're not driving them too much. These fellows have a lot of life before them, and I don't want to send any man out into the world anything but better for the physical ex- ercise he gets from rowing.'” And most of them are testimony to the good effccts of careful training. This year's varsity boat contained two men, Renshaw, bow, and Hamann, two, who when they entered college weighed about 142 pounds each. In the race in July, three years after their first race, they were both 170 pounds, perhaps & trifle over. These are jyst two. That ls regarded as the way to bring men up. They don't feel overworked while they are training and the Columbia crews have been able to go the distance. Coaching by Innuendo, One day In the rowing room Rice bent solicitously over a freshman on the ma- chines and felt the end of the oar handle the lad was gripping. "Hey, the sap's running out,” he said. Better loosen {up a little on it Another lad was rowing | with arm rigid as could be. Rice de- tached his hands from the oar handle and worked them back and forth so that they |erooked at the elbow. “They do bend,” |he said, looking around to some other freshmen who giggled. “I thought he had & ramrod through 'em.” “Don't work your arms out so to the side,” he told another oarsman one day. “That's the shoemaker's stroke,” as he fllustrated the movements of a shoemaker pulling threads through. “That's the fourth today,” remarked one of the can- didates for coxswain. “He's had the crawl lnmx. and the banans stroke—the one contract may be extended to 1918, Rice is | The Rice system of coaching, as far as| “The Safe Road to Travel” Electric Block Signals “Best in the World” call on o r address Union Pacific 14 Electric Lighted Trains Every Day Dining Car Meals and Service New Steel Passenger Equipment Dustless, Perfect Track. For literature and infermation relative to rates, routes, etec,, City Ticket Office, 1324 Farnam St. PHONES, BELL DOUG. 1828 AND IND. A-3231 that comes in bunches—the wet and dry stroke—the one that keeps the oar drier than it's Wet—and now it's the shoemaker's stroke. Rice's strong point is frony. “Pull, now, No. 2; you couldn’t pull a hen off her nest,” he rips out at some unfortunate. When someone is dumping the boat after a rough water row tries to dodge out from the boat as it is tossed, to escape the drenching: “That's right. Be sure not to get near the ter. You might catch cold,” Rice is likely to say. In spite of it, however, he isn't really mean to the men and he generally manages to say something to the sorest of them just when he's most angry, that puts him back in good humor agein. In other words Rice s rather a diplomat with his men He doesn't rule with an advertised rod of iron, but his word goes just as effec- tively. It takes & man who understands men to be & trainer of athletes of any kind. Rice knows ‘em. It may be mentioned that there is a Mrs. Rice and a James Campbell Kenny Rice, the latter 3 years old and weighing forty-eight pounds. KLING MAY QUIT BASE BALL GAME 014 Friend Thinks He Will Not Again Don Uniform. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Jimmy Callahan, the ex-Chicago ball player, s in town for the purpose of trying to get Jim Jef- fries to sign a contract to appear with a big athletic show for several weeks In Chicago and other cities in the west When Callahanwas asked what he thought of the chances of Catcher Kling playing again he said: “I would not be surprised if Johnny never played professional base ball again. If he does i1t will not be with the Chicago club, for he and Murphy are bitter ene- mies and you can bet that he will never again be & member of Murphy's team. Kling has enough to keep him for the rest of his life. In the five xames that he played with my club, the Logan Squares of Chicago, I had to pay him $1,80, and besides he made 350 a night glving exhibltions of pool playing at one of the big billiard and pool parlors in Chi- cago. ““The only chance I see of Kling playing again is for Charley Murphy to let him g0 to some club in the east, like Brooklyn, where he could be the manager. I think that if any club secures him they will surely have to pay him $10,000 for his serv- ices, and he is worth every bit that money, as. he is & wonderful catcher, hit- ter, thrower and, I might say, & great manager." JOCKEY CLUBS I.IKE—THE DECISION Layers of O op May Work in the Next Year. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Jockey club mem- bers, turfmen and persons indirectly in- terested in racing are apparently well satis- fied with the decision of the court of appeals, which makes oral wagers and the displaying of odds legal. It s generally agreed that the verdict would clean the atmosphere next season in that the various | officlals and the police would have a line |to g0 by, but it was also admitted that betters have no greater privileges than those enjoyed this year under difficulties. The point has been made doubly clear, however, that a man may write odds on his program and display them to his friends, who may be willing to make oral bets with him on the races. In a word there can be no legal restrictions on bet- ting execept in the wagering of cash, & point that will probaby be raised later on. | Persons who believe in racing and like to make & bet under this ruling can visit | the tracks next season and back their opinions without fear of arrest. Other persons who prefer to bet against a horse's NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION, OMAHA, NEB., DECEMBER 6-18, 1909. NEW RECORD FOR BIG FICHT That is.Looked For in Coming Jef- fries-Johnson Bout. ONE PUNCH MAKES A FORTUNE Jeft Has Been in Four Bouts Which Have Brok the Record on Receipts and This Wil Be the Fifth, NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—A fortune in one punch. There isn't any doubt that the winner cf the Jeffries-Johnson tight will establish a new record in the amount of money won in a single encounter in the ring. The fighting game is the most lucrative voca- tion in the world. Joe Gans went to Fort Erle, stepped into the ring with Frank Erne, shot out his right, and right there was created a new lightweight champlon. That one punch netted Gans at least $100.000 worth of engagements. Although never officlally given out, it is said that the gate receipts for the fight between Jack Johnson and Tommy Burns, pulled off by Hugh Mclntosh, the famous Australlan promoter, at Sydney last De- cember amounted to considerably over $100,000, 80 it would not in the least surprise the club managers of this country if some one should be compelled to offer more than §100,000 for the Johnson-Jeftries con- test in this country. In fact, a well known ‘Frisco promoter is willing to give that much, If not more, for the battle, which will undoubtedly break all records in this country for attendance. This will be the fifth contest in which Jeft engaged that broke the record. When he whipped Tom Sharkey in New York, the Coney Island club announced that the gate recelpts totaled $66,000, of which the fight. ers recelved over $36,00. The Jeffries-Cor- bett battle in San Francisco drew a $06,000 house, and their contest in New York City also drew a big house. The Jeffries-Fits- simmons fight for the world's champlon- ship also drew heavily, the receipts being 63,000, Although In no way official, the follow- ing table of big purses received by the fighters will be found very interesting by the fight fans: FIVE BEST FIGHTS. Gate Rec'pts. Goldfield..... 369,716 y, at Coney Island.... 67,000 Fitzsimmons-Jeftries, at Coney Island 63,000 Corbett-Jeffries, at San Franelsco.... 62,40 Corbett-McCoy, at New York 67,000 IN SAN FRANCISCO. Jetfries - Corbett. Britt-Nelson (106) Gans - Britt.. Britt - Corbett. Jeffries - Fitzsimmons Jeffries - Ruhlin.... Briy-Nelson (1904 Burns - Squires O'Brien - Fitzsimmons. . Corbett-Nelson (1904) Corbett-Nelson (1906). Britt - White O'Brien - Kaufman Neil - Tenny... Neil - Hyland o o | Hart - Johnson.. f | IN NEW YORK. Jeffries - Sharkey. Jeffries - Fitzsimmon Corbett - McCoy. Corbett - Sharkey.. Ruhlin - Fitzsimmons. . Rublin - Sharkey.. Sharkey - MeCoy... Jeffries - Corbett. MecGovern - Ern Sharkey - Fitzsimmon McGovern - Dixon Choynski- - McCoy. . _Contests. 62,340 16,407 14208 L 11,368 | 9, |\‘l‘ WELSH IS AFTER BAT NELSON Coming to America Expressly to Meet Him in the Ri NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Freddle Welsh, who recently defeated Johnny Summers for the lightweight title of England, is coming to America soon for the expressed purpose of forcing Battling Nelson to fight him for the lightwelght champlonship of the world. The little Englishman has been vainly seeking a match .with Nelson for two years, but in view of his grip on the British champlonship he believes that this time Nelson will have to either fight or crawl. Welch is well known in this country, where he has boxed in all the large cities He humped Into the limelight when he boxed & twenty-five round draw with Packey McFarland at Los Angeles & year ago last July. In that affalr Welsh, in the opinfon of many competent critios, had & distinct advantage and should have re- celved the verdict. Later the Briton made Abo Attell look llke a selling plater in & fifteen round bout in the same place, It s true that Welsh had the advantage in weight, but the way he outboxed the sclen- tific featherwelght champlon left no room to doubt his quality. Welsh has challenged Nelson repeatedly, but without recelving recognition. He has posted $5,000 in cash as a forfeit, and side bet on several ocoasions, but Nelson has ignored him. Ho has threatened to olaim the lightweight champlonship by default, but the Battler has merely laughed. Once or twice Nelson, when cornered, has ex- pressed a willingness to fight Welsh “some but that is about all. Now Welsh is coming back to this country with increased prestige and a just demand for a mateh. He says he will post a 35,000 forfelt upon his arrival here and will issue & challenge to Nelson to fight twenty rounds, forty-five rounds or to a finish at 133 pounds ringside, the American light- welght limit. He says the $5,000 can go as a side bet and that he will let Nelson decide upon the division of the purse. Welsh declares that he will agree to California as the battle ground and will be ready to fight within two months after he reaches here. The English champion also sets forth that he has first call on Nelson and that the latter will not be called upon to meet the winner of the Wolgast-Powell fight on November 33. In a battle to a finish Welsh might be a hard proposition for Nelson unless the latter possessed his old endurance. There Is not a sclentific thing ahout boxing that Welsh doesn’t know. He has & phenomenal defence and is lightening itself in landing blows with either hand. But he lacks a knockout punch, as his recent mill with #ummers well {llustrated. He is physic- ally strong, though, and has undoubted stamina, being generally regarded by fing sharps as essentially a long dls fighter. With superior endurance he mifht be able to tire Nelson out uniess the latter happened to reach him with a knockout blow. In a twenty round bout, howeven Welsh might be an easy winner on points, as Nelson Is not a boxer in the strictes sense of the word. At any rate it {s the prevailing opinfon that Welsh s entitied to be heard. PROFESSIONAL TRACK COACHES Cartmell Returns from Engla Train North Carolina. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Nathan J, Cart- mell, the former University of Pennsyl- vania sprinter, who turned “pro” a while ago In England, is to coach the University of North Carolina track team next spring. Cartmell has a formidable record from sixty yards to 40 yards. He is one of the few colleglans who have entered into the busi- IN PHILADELPHIA. Nelson - McGOVErn........ocvvues IN GOLDFIELD., Nelson - Gans, chances can do so freely and can offer| odds without Interference just so long as | they do met record transactions. l 1 IN TONOPAH. Herman.. e r IN NEW ORLEANS. Corbett - Sulll Gans_ - 20,706 ! . @,000 Although, he has other duties. ness of coaching track athletes after they tinished thelr col work. Dr. Williams, at Minnesots, a Ya! preceded Dick Grant of Harvard ss track coach of the Gophers. 'Lonzo Stagg of Yale looks after the track men at Chicage, of mane 3v (V%