The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1900, Page 8

Likely to Come Here. was a member of the New York team some yea Henides being a fine flelder he ‘s an excelient batsman and a run-getter of the first order Ewing i» also dickering for a Boston player, so Mr. Soden says, Who the ‘There was a deal of “rubber-shoring’ foing on among the heads of the New York Baseball Club yesterday. No one would say a word relative to the team./ Bven Buck Ewing was sphinz-like. Jesse Burkett One of the Few! ows eee ener rene Glaate oMicinis are| Mat is the President of the Heaneaters shows te dasers. | wonle not condescend to say Frank de Haas Robison, of the St. BR dis, exe henetintions are vader! EWING CAN'T TALK YET. way between New York and his club for) Ewing and President Freedman were ‘i th purchase of one of the best players/to have had a long talk yesterday bie ti Robison would not tell) Then Buck was going to tell the eager which Pr he referred to. The im-| public the plans of the club, Mr | Knowles, secretary of the lub, preasion gained is that the man is Burkett, the clever | lett-n elder. Burkett TWO YACHTS | NT TRY Lipton’s Plan Not Con- sistent with Cup Race Conditions. t Hing would not have anything to @ay —~-— Sailor's Wealth is Esti- mated Now at About $85,000. Tom Sharkey, the ex-satior pugilist, i9 | a rich man to-day by reason of his economic living. This husky fellow, who has followed the fighting game for a liv ing for but a few years, is worth at Jonst 95,00 now. Few fighters of years and years experience can boast of the fh, Mharkey is not a spend- thrift. and therefore cannot be put in the category of “good fellows.” He doesn't indulge in the owing bowl, and to these two things can be accredited his “hanke-roll.”’ | the big boxer been in | jer wince his fight with | Fitasimmone, when he won on a foul, | and which fight gained for him his repu- | tation, he has participated in events none of which netted him less than | $1.0, and in many the amounts ex- ceeded $5,000. Out of these purser a few dollars are always given over to cole: | brating a wetory, but in each and every | one there is a limit, and a e of Inebriation is rarely reached by the par- Helpanta of the celebration if Sharkey is buying. SAILOR IS BIG HEARTED. | i While Sharkey by many might be considered close-fiated, yet he neverthe- lems has « good heart and home and the old folks are not forgotten in his fing cial successes, Besides the amount! which he has in shape to be called on in| cagh or bills at any time and which In-/ cludes a houne, he only a few days ago purchased at Bheepehead Bay for $1,00,) the eatlor-pug has presented over $10,000) to the ol folks. | AREAL ESTATE BROKER. | Bhrewdnese is one of the ex-satlor's the | Characteristics, as will be eked from the foregoing, al ‘The proposed plan suggested vy Sir ‘Thomes Lipton to bring over two boat# and run his trial races off Bandy Hook, ‘York Yateh Club yesterday. These who ‘know every condition of the cup races pointed to one of the paragraphs of the aying the ten months’ notice there must be sent the water line, beam at load & sum is too siow a@ manner of ac The Bow wilt ne on Re Only a A@air of Six Re lo—Takee Place in Philadelphia. Bob Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher have been matched to fight in a six- | round bout at the First Regiment A) mory ‘n Philadelphia on March 7. Fis! says he will prove by this Mght that he! hasn't gone back. Fitasimmons and Ernest Roeber, the wrestler, have buried the hatchet, and now Fits is training his former partner for his wrestling match with Olsen at the Garden March Th return for hie services Fits will) have Roeber train him for his coming matches with Maher and Sharkey RILEY GRANNAN ILL ed Plaese Lom sald te Be Seriously Laid Up. Riley Grannan, the noted turf plunger, whore fortunes on the anything but good of sertously il! in London. V friend of the great bettor, letier from the other side ago in which Grannan's ed but despite his eased financial standing it w: id that he had enough money with which medical attendance. with him and looking TOD SLOAN’S VILLA. deockey Arranges Brection | ef @ Palatial Home at Sheeps- bead May. Tod Sloan, too, has begun to think of the days when he will not be the star Jockey he {p to-day, and is putting some e a easily ‘required ‘dollars way to used when ( La tag day fg Mes Fouoeing the exam | Sharkey, he has pure! sed pearly i Bay. Ten | pure um of the work of beginning the villa on one of the fo The ‘lta, it ls said, be one of the prettiest that built and | will be & mixture of English and Italian styles mite of the bullding will be at Avenne T and Ocean avenue, ale The committee of thy Harlem Ke- gatts Association having in charge the errangements for che National Hegat be held on the Harlem River on July 9 and ® held & meeting jast night at the Nassau Ciub, One Hundred and Twonty-mzth street and Seventh ave- bee. It was decided to appoint commii- tees to make the necessary arrange- and to employ several banda. mativnal headquarters will ve ut the Hoel Marlborough. Nan apd of the committee will ont ev ening of March & League President Yo to Muey Trying to Please Ant Clabes. WABHINGTON, March 14.--President Young, of the National League, say« in Telation to the new American Associa- tow hat he is personally ignorant of fite formstion, ax since tne League meet- tire heen 'n retirement making ve the echedale He states that Mr, Werner tare he got word direct from the Clfentt Committee 1o ao ahead, and stye, viewing it in a baseball sense, he | ‘ Hopes it is « mo. as it will make baseball Porter, the schedule wit! this week, as he has Rearly one hundred applications from teame to fix certain dates, and he re- @wires time to fix them all satisfactorily Vermer Sew York Twirler, sold Benneaters Last Year, Yew Out of Jer. Jowett Meekin, the crack pitcher. wi Bheepe tent of bi posited a Company, for draw up plans for it | LBWIS BILL PUT OFF. ALBANY, Mareh 1¢—Chairman Mal- by, of the, Committees on Codes, to-day reported the Lewis bill, repealing the Hort eth, denetey ‘Buiivan without a Bal ovjected, a ai noe to the Com- i lore ia SHARKEY, THE RICHEST PUGLLIST, TELLS HIS PLANS TO BEAT FITZ. quiring Teal est ne KID GLEASON. nh gets read suffering ye served them ld he will resort to Interest from # bank or banks on such! beginning Iy_ attached to the juicker rate Bharkey for him to draw merely! bu: his Sheepshead Ita hax not such place ikl be hh to whic Heves “WIN” MERCER. nd thinks jt i# the greatest that 1 in the vieinity of the city that It ts only @ course many others will think verified this story an he a purchase If the At oresent, between times, when he 1 Hed- ix working Keeping himself in condition athor f hi w for ehte he has on hand, Shee ies $5 Prize. arene Corben 1 am not a very poet bener others Just the mame. wie during ge on im the rchools, sign home to debat eentvge. buten oa | See atest ore one whe might tack! new ta 109 rvets ot exp fon, Which “he Int ether place. vements. aiigrit sot come) Rot come $00 Wesningivn trees, new York we ATs 70 MBBt MAHER /SHOULD SCHOOL BOYS BE TAUGHT TO BOX? Greater New Vork and ¢ publication on the talked and send them The & THE EVENING WORLD W BEST LETTER ON THE SUHJEOT PROM A sCHOOLHOY WRITE OVER 150 WORDS. ready an architect has been engaged to! To (ne Bporting Batter ® | to end my setement | thewlt be | phowld be tauane boxing. er ee would be ae badly the Beart of Bivcttion aber but if our dors sboukt be ta ought ot to become babiers to I alm agree with the matament of 2. J mywit oss onere| COMISKEY PICKS GROUNDS. who qbarge of the team enicn ist the aught ening World will be gin 9-0 ee P‘RENTS AND PUPILS, SEND IN YOUR OPINION iume of our school the Sporting Kel ender boning. * take up iter, ng and protege we) Charley Comiskey, wy, | in. the new U thtek whee all the people rend my ree jon take ap the subject? ELLIS COHEN. This Boy Againet It. To the Rporting titer af The Rvening World: ih CLApERERINg MY opinion on the eubjert of fee 5, $5 Prise. GIVE A PRiZzk oF a FOR THE powt NTT Chryetie street Teeoty third Street Sebeot, fermeriy of Public became . oe . A, JACK DOYLE. would talk on the proposition of form- ing another league to be run under the protection of the biq league. NEW LEAGUE TALK. From Baltimore, Washington, Louise! ville and C! leveland, the tour decapitated triously to have the scheme go through b better, The question among” the “tans! city. “The league has cut down its circuit,” the Chicago magnate is reported to have said, “and is morally bound to look af- ter the players who were made so much excess baggage. This statement, it {» known, ini neal under serious discussion by some of the league magnates. ‘ ‘The achems in itnelf seems feasible. GRORGE DAVIS. With teams playing in New York, Chi- | cities, come reports that make the idea] cago, St. Louis and Philadelphia on look genuine, and President Hart, of the| dates other than those fixed for the Chicago club, the original whisperer of] big ‘uns, there certainly should be this report, seems to be working indus |enough ball. It good ball, #0 much the} _— Will Rush Lanky Bob and Take a Punch to Land One. * a little housecleaning, as 1 |s rapidly fitting up the id intends, he says, to make it A veritable palace. Then’ he intends | pete his folks over from ireland for good to make it their home. Relative harkey has not ses not to care champlonshi; onstant appeals to fight for the title is due to the fact that the harder a fight ie the better he Likes It, and that ts why he wants to do battle with Jeffries again, Next to this \desire, he says nothing better could the recently: mateh Fitzsimmo: be: to the lanky Australian. he will beat yam, hi and, as fh monstrate to friends that he ix not the luckiest fighter in the world, but that his victories are acileved by his powers | HOW HE’LL BEAT FITZ. ‘The Bailor is not reticent In telling of the manner in which he expects co Fitz, and no doubt will carry out his plans when it comes time for him to be- in the battle. He credits Bob with be- ing clever and a hard hitter and a man who can give the best a hard fight, and cmt he will beat him, but to t in his own words will better explain the i ntended mode “Lam shorter, more compactly built, and much more heavily *m stronger, more Tui can take more punish- \closer knit muscled and certainly it my man without thinking of the coat to myself. “In this battle with Fits shine he y to Jab me fs & just where I live. 1 by Fatt long even if T have to take a punch to and then at close quarters I wilh allop over on his jaw, If T {ana all right it will be all over with Fitzsimmons. I will rush him and he is too frail to withetand La In but a his long arma whl go around my neck and then 7 Fit rie rig oe and left to his body. He can't stand if th a aaa T can send Into bim in this, and when fn a rail 1 find T have him Pa weaker winded ean fntah him with « a jar on the Jaw. NO CHARGES On BIKES. | Ferries Carry Wheels Without | Extra Fares. Assemblyman Adame, of the Twenty- first District, is getting In line for the York. He ts about to offer a bit! in the Legislature putting an end to the ex- tortionate rates of ferrtage charged wheelmen by some ferry companies, notably that running to College Point from East Ninety-ninth street, |The proposed act, ax prepared, reads an follows: An Act.—Te reguiate the fares for foot passengers with bicycles on the ferries operated between the Boroughs Jof Manhattan and Brooklyn and the | Boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, in | New York city. The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1.—The rate of fare for foot passengers with a bicycle on the ferries to] Were not. then he tells how, despite these qu: ia t Romney, with his | ‘ 4] want you to come an eg ae Stalk with a a ves to; END OF New Manager Is Also Negotiat- ing for One of the Boston Players. ° )F THE COLOSSUS. is whether both wil] be put on at the same price or not Pes Hart's main reason for Pa another team in Chicago is a Ben Johnson and his in the West. Johnson intended estab! a team in ley Comis- the Windy City, under Chai DOHENY HASN'T SIGNED YER. key’s management Ed Doheny, the crack left-handed ne f the New York tor th has not * ye for the coming seas id is not Ikety lo 80 either Balen Presi ent Freedman ves him an creare 0} would like gry! tome’ othe 9 club, as he Is tired” i playing in BY MORLEY ROBERTS. Copyrighted, 1900, by Harper & Brothers, CHAPTER IX. Hut, as he Hatened his mind worked. after that unused pause; and she ¢: Gertrade Wi me!" commanded Komney. “Get) the door atau ian omnes win | 1S over with. Remember she's & wom-| terness, open with @ helt laugh ol resort an “Come. asked to intercede with Gertrude! “But"— She rt the way after B ‘e failure. u've got it to do. Go to her and Mehiy He was eind he st goon He went, instead, to Loder. Leave—leave me alone a moment. ‘Yen, Ming Brotentont” “Well, what is it?" asked the chief we vT' growled Loder. “I want! «Please come y, when fo think, 0 grumy, he naw who 1 wae He minutes later the Colossus Romney. ere as was in a very pretty temper, and was Just considering how he couid carry off matters with Casoule, then getting im- patient in the nest room. “What is it?" asked Romney flercely; “well, what the devil do you suppose it tot” Now, even if Loder was not courteous, it was surprising to him to find others So Romney's attitude struck him at once and made him pause. “IT hear make you give way,” with his hands in hie pockets, suppose the entire corridor {# packed with failures. On my word, Loder, I never thought you were t.e man to cut off your nose to spite your face. Loder vurned on him. * he sakd with @ I didn't send peared in the corridor. “Where will I find Miss Broughton?’ he inquired of Hinton, Gertrode Broughton he chief « slow! Fh he heard him And then he came in. stood fore him with her Read Was this, then, triumph? She Looked at him for a moment and great big man he wa her > Ney © ani le mind. Hie mali his eyes, and it salu come becau Ought to, come, » and I don't itke it; i its a devilish w departure, and I feel at sea—quite nea Bhe had expected a nar aray Aah and a ready biting eae with Its tip, and now before her w ot man of the ire, lookti barrassed schoolboy, whose natural humor was aight: by the great con- ae eek a full drawing-room. “Look here, Romney, if you act like a sensible Ing’ done, Just then, and she knew what ‘would do. And he was trying to speak, and was coming toward her with both hands out. “Miss Brot let us—let tears said Loder. He knew Romney feared neither man nor devil, but it had ulte so Infernally te. like a sensible man. peated i 1 it he had come just becaure it wes} Put when he turned hos had gone, an the chief sighed heav! Now ts hear jt.” going to come, and that ac known all _aiong.” He told Sir Aey-sd and Romney what had hay ‘es. he know! I bound him not T know, st halt T tell youn?” Loder took 13 ant ep in the situation slowly, and WA Tlerwae att ra, Thenl Miss Broughton, for fore = then.” he said abruptly, “tet And ten minutes later he went in te Cazoule. and Bontine came out. “By Jove’ 1 thought he was zoule was getting more like red lt every minute Hinton, whe was still nervous as se. at would tin when Loder got a full view (3 the fact that his own secre- frown, “that will do you; y k, and the ane of pear him im the da) INO” sald Romney, “‘so 1 came with- | tried en that she wanted, hard Py ag piled GAS out being sent for. I want things done, | #Fecous woman would want. ‘mith such “Oh, the chief will him now." And I hear there's a chance of them be- | {7 Ghe ‘had spoken she would have cried press, rt Farell nine, rn Teil, ot mney: am (3 be it you'll was advaritageous for him to do eo, when Loder ‘down oa ont aald Lode: Wf she had sald so be would not have Bash for the latter's share “forled Romney ord. But he had no! {the transaction, Be luda nt. Her lip trembled and she ieee “tite dad teem aed wen oer Mr. Loder," she raid. “I'm! sovtary. ho nach vat FR he = mt at yr to gnome 4 ob- t. next Pigs 4 heard the distant thud of jections jth tt intruder, for an- a" ithe, he could not, for the ite of him, runtea the. chiet, taxing hi matter a | Ajman was riding along the glowing 7 who was so Cs ma informal protocol ‘an Intercourse with cng ‘adit Loder; is it help iting the regardiess of which regulat ‘And are we frien offered her his hand had followed her incltt nation at would have kissed it. She took it, and the chief gave her a grip that was pe . It hurt her hat What's your obj “And with it "you can squeese Ca- zou! * gala the chief. ie that she won't ou ng mortals, but ry it, She understood now how Hinton re- Feats had him. A thousand things his lieu- lain to her. yea. nds," she mur- ‘But you are busy—w' | Deas, are you not, Mr, Loder?” The chle wald vaguely that It trying to think what we suppose 0,’ “And the troube by el ,.0 idapleaaiiacl Rat, ana “a damn fool she must Rom with an odd grin. ho chink she could do us all such a) didn't service oy opening her mouth: | matter. He wa: ‘a craven doked at him Inqulringly further he ought 0 may. for he was not pitecaae ey aor move Se ous “Supposing she wanted me to ask her, | aware he had said everything that could nd the low, and I wouldn't, what would you say?’ | be said, and had expressed it all with- | Qesert with hoch es mist tin the | owt words. Fg Ne ape Loder grunted uneasily. would want to nave We choked,” | But Gertrude was in a fever of re- ‘and you'd be nt. You! penta “ian ‘nL that would be the/ “Yes, it does matter. I'll come with rou. | Sak t oe Og oe er: a te new e ere ween’ iT’ nal L nodded Town and Cairo ‘and went to the door and ith ‘nouamty, were she stood a moment with her head id nothh if paral; “Tam a fool! she cried to herself ait ‘Romney, would be right fool."* ‘This was callii and ler & man between Cape who woud have done it and yet listened and He had the air of being h: Biockings Conroy, of Troy, have been completed. The men will mee: at the Eureka Athletic Cluo, of Balthmore, un March 2 for @ per cent. of the gross Sharkey will train at Bherps- ay, while Conroy will get in con- M’GRAW WON'T PLAY HERE. dition at # gymnasium in Troy. . Ms be y “Buck” Ewing, mani the New SHARKEY AND M’CORMICK. [yore 'Ciun. sail iat might that chore ‘Tom Sharkey, who l* matched to fight ion't a chance of MoGi play! Jim McCormick, the heavy-weight of] Freedman does not nd a, at the Nutmesx Srate Athletic) buy him Neen for a "rmall hgure. Club of Hartford to-morrow nigat, is in WHY LYNCH WAS ‘LEFT. ‘OUT. good condition for the Aght. Sharkey | "5: ah five the ex- ‘lor a hard Aight. RUHLIN VS. ouMne. IGE Ka ihorst, weight ‘Tahier of cparound bau weet in a twenty-round lilies Athietic Club of latter part of month. 5 =i2 itil HE a buining ub a oe fm power or England. Seemed ta pleas t distance blood he could have t ae ret H+) aliver Ci ag Ps Britannia’s realm pole! and” did pot turn ae the rd. He checked his horse ef fo turn, t0We towerd oe pevealthe 4 ‘the ve pins veldt, eres | path ee glittered as a sti heard nothing and | \