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—- Ob tHe eee President Won't $ Sign Reduction Agree- ; ‘ments Unless Given ¢ Pick of Surplus Play- ; era of the Four Retir- ; tog Clubs. * S Berlous trouble is stiil brewing within Pe 3 [hn circle of baseball magnates. The |? Mes right here in New York, too. |» fe turning the screws tighter. | * ‘Pas not put his signature to the | ® _ Gares slened by the other eleven | which reduced the League to |? cluba. | talk going around now has it that | > the New York official will not sign the it unless he has the pick of the of the decapitated Washington, Baltimore and Cleveland ‘The Evening World's informant says mo Goudt that New York will have team next year. He sees no rea- Why this latest demand will not be oo 00-8090046440068 to make money @ shape the interest \@ will dwindle, They ve not the heart to velua-| ms a line | the le knows | rut Poti ‘kick ne tt will win In| The Tiron nie READY 2: FOR WAR. Why rhea American Base- | ' ball Association May If such league ‘he hands jent chance ff New York 19] #4622 440060¢0 4 400d84440040068 HOW EWING MAY TEACH SEYMOUR “CONTROL. ye to tp the metropoiie. In/ity ianded ‘Win’ Mercer, hing- | aity, formerly of the Baltimore club, players, though, they want as|ton, and Bowerman, of Thteou wit {aygned acaweitet: a a gett plon's train } h money as they cam possibly get. | lst My remains a possibility that the next Tuesday ‘The men nates will ettomyt to give Freedman York, ‘Take what you/ the merry ha, ha. Fe bg We will] seem plain to me at all me will The Brooklyn club has its forces well ee come out on top, too." brought Into Une. Ho talked freely of the rival league, and said “It is very probable that a league will be organized, can Association. the men down In New York regular League meeting, you understand | them the benefits of the national agr “The American League |i agreement THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVEN ‘TIGHTENS SCREWS ON MAGNATES. MARCH 15, AEDIDTIANEEENIGNENE ETSI SEED ELE DONO TEE OE w We will wet into # This course doesn’t OF Auaustn If they should — The cluls is m ve (mprove ) back into the same old ments on the 1 the club: in last year house, va nar TWO FIGHTS, Kitson and Medin- headed by Anson another! jan for « iS to be known as the mera | I had a long talk itaide “ine| ue is organized the sient pt control it, but play tt of outsiders and extend to sectogaat tars, McGovern Tackles Lenny | a and Sharkey Meets the four cities League—name- Be Started. 4. Aloo, fet McCormick. y clubs In Bt. Louts, Chicago. a ~- ha dH ” : it certs s 4 sourse, favors two clubs myself, do x " lal to The Fivening World not pane two clubs in town wil icf ern and Eddie Lent th f + jghheteedl iclgel! pay. However, 1 am willing to take it k Philadelphia er-weight box FF CHICAGO, March 15.—James Hort, of| chance and prove it o ali, aNd will meet in a thie the Chicaco Marebal! Club, is very anx-| #0 I consent to the pl of & secon Industria} Hall in Philadel fous to keep Han Johnson and the! 2X, eam on those krounde Although (he eheieiladiis, sated tor American League Club out of Chicago. y ¢ rounds, ft can be safely said Th thie evasion lo acenta a scheme to \ ee oe ag there wil shting done jent, declares tha form a national body, and figures that! ie i ve hun und Ihe! «hort space of time than ta seon| Graw, Uy organizing a rival American Associa-| «pending bis money. for In many t or twent © rounds, | been releared flon he can kill this bird and possibly al rather than fighting him In tr the fact that MoGovern SHOULD SCHOOL BE TAUGHT fe mony tet Evening W evived after The prize of #5 for the heat be subject will be anarded as soon men have been printed. anaes inieininin Sandy's Letter, | eof Th wie teletet e making choo If Po the Bperting Bt) boxing. he won't tire hls lees eo OF boy Who ike cout fe always re time, the b: they aren Mats when muct youer old, Fourth rman 8, Win need phy tal training self in case che boys materially Out ali their phy bringing out the ful) | a Hebb leepinieiinineieeinieiniieie eet eieintein eine nit er from a schoothoy on this clee, and teaches a ¢ “HA = Wer Thirty-ffth city. i ral wrieg ound for the cl eX we puncher and a hurricane} I tene oun sdmirere are confident BOYS he will sta ie limit with Terry and] Ite and are betting thelr money that wa ha but we» ) atren hi hout being see how th wt time It w sour hareba 1 few years TO BOX? x * . bout letters now death of the n | pe for hard will Jimmy Keity rand! jf a to f Cincins ern Racchorse Not Likels to Me Accepted SVILLE, Ky. March 18—T B.| the Chicago horveman, has made of $2.0 for Lieut the great Western three-year es H. Smith, owner of the likely to accept the offer, as on ts entered in $9.00 worth of stakes and has a good chance of win: | Geen ning every one of them \M FFERTY KICKS ON ROSE. | { John McCafferty is a oane nowadays, for since at New Oreans |a bona-fide offer Gibson. feveral lengths, ¥ told o1 | notes only ja the mile eting Jhas had three Jorkeys, Roland, Ciawaon |, ; Jad Rose o wl nw faulting out), am with cach . The ead between Rose, been caged ye ani McCafferty came after Rose, had | Buffalo nid suse sohooibae | ridden Mimtin © fire " nine os Ai Me ine bn the Bret fe eben: tion on Saturd: Rox very = net ike very. b y { neces the Thet Because her al p * used him t ftand and make x FLORIZAR’S CHANCE. Derby candidate made hie| and as he fi ures 10 Bave @ chance in the bie Parent Saturday, The of thel was Vlorisar, who ran in the ieabiee nged| His owner. H. J. seoggan, Shoaght the Court te-ter: horse would Win eure and thie Wee re: the plunge ove Pe oe 1 to latins vasa rt RLES K. 80 to blond ideal import her. has show urday ni | terms offered and it hav ter from John T DNTO-WGHTS MCHA BLUFFING? |Famous Player Still Says He Won't Play in St. Louis. Special to The Rrening Wor BALTIMORE, March 15. —"Mugey the famous ball-player who has Lous, sald to the | Uventng World correspondent to-day If you want to make money, bet that to Bt i ve whl ne a play ‘THE BETTING IS HEAVY — Me in St no objections to the e like Mr. Robi + to eave our busines ands for fully efx months once able to come pack Ings are going on. During ould probably go to ruin. Ne only a matter that if nthe players [8t, Louts despite their ment to the contrars new Mar Bin J hath and Hanton for MeGraw will paral ive JOYCE IN MINOR LEAGUE, oan be mr up It will be baseball Graw Nas ween playing me for eaame time {i ih sort of HL proba bas are and © per during Farle Nnouneed that he has se- my ce to manage In his team in the Amertean and has also secure! Hoy Ne. phert Young says fie hae received a Rrush stating that >| $20, ano FOR LE tur GIBSON, |*" ea _ JOE Gans ‘READY FOR A LEAD. But the lost eval mn ond. Bu to beat the record to win, ry int * Abd the fast clip set al Florigar and he could joriaar had . who q elgh bout at the Chicage Athiette lay night. ‘I'm very dark-complexioned,” to Magistrate Kramer in Lee Avenue “Now he's in love with a pomaty the colored hen: nach & hard baitic, to box Al Wienlg, in a alx-round Assocta- ‘HAS AN BYE POR BLONDES. Cooperman's Wife te a Brenc bat the Husband Vow Prefers of Reanty. husband's idea of beauty in women had changed from brunette was the reason Lena Cooperman, of 3% Grand street, ‘Miameburg, guve for his failing to as whe cov- BONNER | ano wiewWa 10, the Mr. she nad the | | SAYS | ON RESULT OF THIS FIGHT. e) ——— mo fpieemees Welsh Midget Has Not +) What @romfses to be one of the great-) At the present time even money 1a| = “lest battles between lightwelghts ever belng bet but che chances are thatGans| Given Up the Idea of fought in this country will be the twen- | Will be mace the favorite at odds of 10 P| b-five roand bout between Frank E FA AL row toe or Being a Great Jockey, of Buffalo, and Joe Gans, the colored | 1° (fre will be more money a the P fixer af Haltimore, which takes piace at [coutest ea on any which has taken! and Will Ride at Wash. © Broadway A.C. March 2. Rag * y in @ long time. pie a peed Sa4 aaeke por-| pat training hard for the ington and Aqueduct. they are very evenly matched in * bs n yeets, hel o ‘ow | tage at Le Sa which, of © e3 :: will | condition at Sheepahe bout a mom evenly contested | weighed 16 pound# yesterday, while Simm‘e Michael has no inten n of of ed the beam 1% pounds, forsaking horses to go back » first ve—the wheel. The story published to that effect came out through a misune de nding. T. H. Ryan, the manager of the Man- ~ |MICHAEL, NOT TEMPTED BY BIKE OFFERS, HE WILL STICK TO THE HORSES. vattan Beach cycle track, called at Michael's house Monday afternoon on the little ex-cycle king's return from New Orleans, He made some glowing offers and told Michael that the best of! bike races would be arranged for him, that there would, really be more money! ar's bicycling at the beach than # jockeying, but the little told Ryan there OO OOO ise the Charles M. Sheldon ts slightly more tn- jture Ist 1 \ MICHAEL. THE CYCLE KING. enough money in the horseracing bu: neas for him. “I haven't made a decided success of| my new profession,” Michael told the bicycle man; out there is yet time, OF course if I should prove a failure I will take to the wheel MICHAEL AS A JOCKEY. “T expect §p0a mounts at the Waste u “Well, you may think better of tt] Mv uere 1 think Jimmie's stro . later, If you do, let me know,” replied) will tie’ vroke in Charley carbon Mr. Ryan Michael's finer, “Is in the Ju aes ol distan His old experience There the eolloquy ended Seas ond mae Pe oe Michael was emphatic last night tn his] business,” auth aa ae h ‘ #, ihat's so," corrobot denial of the story that he was tired of | Yes. that's so.” corroborated 4 the life of a jockey “At the New Or! Tam as well fixed as when I nave four horses of continued, \l rode a wheel ns meeting [ only te. Of these I captured) ™¥ own, three of them two-year-olds. had sight mognts. Of thea he saute All I need now ts more experience one second and two thirds, je #8 ‘)a Jockey and 1 think I'll be as well up have mounts for the meeting In Wash+| in the frat ist of Jockeys as I was In on d eduet Wash-| the list of ecyele champions. — Pittsbu ington and 8180 at Aa. educe| Bhi and. Dave ‘Gideon’ told friends of ngton begins Apri and Aqueduct! mine they liked my riding, 60 you see April aS I have hopes. SHELDON SEES | AIS MISTAKES. Topeka Minister's News- paper Venture Not a Success. The paper is bound to be imperfect. but \! hope that from this something may be h will be of last ing bene- glorious results he editor continues the e wholesale raids by the police of Tr apeka on the “blind tigers,” as * oastes ed here, are absolutely art of the city editor story of the Peffe, J. ¥. Peffer, son of Ex-Senator Peffer, J himself in Kansas City, His fami here and the city editor | ise fs broken | arrangements. ertain| was the decided ans awer. | home at this time. The telegraph of the suicide was cut down to a Mnes and an editorial added, point the leason the suicide seemed to convey, ‘Eins ————[—=—— He Needed Drink Money. “TE can't «pare the money, Juame. need the money to buy drink with.” ‘This was the excuse Richard Grag| | } i | | | The issue to-day does not be meeting with more success terday’s, TOPEKA, Kan., March 15.—The third f the Topeka Daily Capital under editorial management of Rey than the two that preceded It falls far short of what a newspaper should be in secular is ser himself te become | POPf. of St Middleton street, Williams) ‘ithe diecsacated. for he adgnitted | RUS: offered to Magistrate Kramer { {tle discouraged: for be semiies| the Lee Avenue Court to-day for fallure to support his wife and off) He was put under bonds to pay wife 4 a week, t an unqualified m ade mistakes,” he We to make them, 1 SPRING STYLES have NOW READY. soe SPORT IN THE = Me Crowd Enjoys Aquatic ¢ at the Garden's Winieias Show. The sport in the tank at the Sports: | men's Show at the Gagden Inat nis tT was unusually Interesting. A big crowd | thoroughly enjoyed the several contests. Ti summaries Srimming—#0-yard race on ‘eet ran sa ae Saar, ¥. erga: it. ‘item, A fet tims, 38 18 of a Mile Championship of Won by K. ©. Sehaeter, N.Y. A Wenck, N.Y. A. C., second) Will: D.C ant A. G, third) time, WORLD BOWLERS “RST, They Clinch Firat 7 oe in News- paper League Tourney by Vesterday'’s Wie. The World team clinched first place jin the Morning wepaper League at the Germania Assembly Room all yerterday afternoon by winning from the Commercial Bulletin team, Ite record is, won 11 and lost 3 The Journal team is tied with the Tribune for second place, the Herald ts fourth, the Times is fifth and the Bul- letin te in sixth position. The Times team won from the Herald clght by a score of 1.385 to 1.04. 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