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NNANT RACE | BEGINS IN TWO CITIES TO-DAY. jon Which Promises Greatest in History Opens with Games in Philadelphia and St. Louis. before, At the four games nearly 00,000 Paid to see the rival teams battle. Umpires for Opening Games, President Pulliam has assigned his umpires for the opening games, In Philadelphia to-day, Moran and O'Day will be the officials, while in St. Louis Johnstone will be the judge of play. To-morrow in this city O'Day will offi- ciate, and in Cincinnati at the game between Pitiadurg and Cincinnat! Kms- Ue will rule. No Local Games To-Day. ‘The Giants were to have played the Equitable Life team in its last exhibi- tion game to-day, The unfavorable Weather will cause it to be ca of MoGraw Intends that hie cen shall do some work though to be in tip-top EBALL GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY. “@hicago in St. Louts. in Philadelphia. ———— race for the pennant ts on. In eities in the National Lenguo ciroult sald championship games in the {1 League will be played. Boston, B the weather permits, will play the laMelphia Club in the latt oity. if St, Louis Patsy Donovan's sturdy ‘Will play their firet game against Chicago team. The beginning Is Anauguration of the twenty-elghth tive season of the premier base- fe ow shape for to-morrow’s game against rganization. Brooklyn, He has acoepted the offer row the New York, Brooklyn,}Of Managers Johnnie Oliver and Will- ig and Cincinnati clubs will get fam Newman to let the payers use the @ymnaalum of the New Polo A. A., on way in the race. Park avenue and One Hundred and Indication points to the year! Twenty-ninth street. The room Is a big one and will afford the McGrawites plenty ‘or opportunity to loosen up thelr muscles, the most successful in the history thé national pastime. With peace ng and the teams in the old Almost evenly balanced, the plonship race should be most event- Bageball fans have eagerly watched anion’s Men in Gymnasium. Ned Hanlon was to have taken his Brooklyn team to Jersey City to-day to play the astern League Tepreaonta- the opening of the season. All winter] tives. The weather will interfere wi his plans, That game will be called have been obliged to listen to the| oy faq! ang the colts will put tn. the of the magnates. To-day those Hows are retired to the background femain there until the playing season on Bept. 27. in Training a Month, day ata Brooklyn gymnasium prepar for the opening game. he batteries of the two teams at the Polo Grounds to-morrow have been chosen. MeGraw will pitch Mathewson in the opening game and Jack Warner ie will be appointed to catch him. Hanlon “Bust adout a month ago every team hes Gecided pues Bvans, the, x h to lant, as his tcher, because of DLs Cal National League went Sout Sea a Te ere getting Into condition. The glow- and Bice Frsporte of the work of the men only sited thelr appetites for the opening. saw their teams in exhibition Many opinions were accordingly d ag to the probable result. In every instance Pittsburg was the championship for a third} go Mihere ‘ere many, though, who|Snnouncea Ins fow days g Hgured the Cincinnati team to win.| Work on the now rounds has pro- 2 gressed 80 idly during the last few Regarding to-day's openings it might] Gays that there (snot the least doubt, Guire will catch hie Ameftican League Park, ‘The grounds on which Clark Griffith's men will piay this year wili be known as American League Park. President Gordon of tho club has decided on. the name, and the winner of the prise Gor- don offered to the one who would sug- the most suitable mame will be gaid that the biggest crowds that Cale to eaeor Bor ce the witnessed an opening game in St.) Spening game between a T'S, ant Philadel; tea ry ve aed Petplaged ha : A eee ee ny i ‘ 1a's team is regar: pays: will be ase rR in the National Satine by Gad Bien KN ane mon most, level wi struggle. That is chiefly due tolrolied and sodded next week. Centre and left ine Are almost ready. Right field ts stl be made is yards larcer. The TA a it ‘indoubtedty be finished in time for the opening game, and so will be the piekener unless there is an unavoldabi ng r the opening are fast being peements intend giving the Greater New York a first-olass send- off, and nothing in our power tending tothe enjoyment and comfort of our patrons will be left undone. The Sixty- nine Regiment Band will furnish the musio,” TRACK A SEA OF MUD FOR THE CARTER HANDICAP. (Continued from First Page.) Ys because the people have learned to love the sport for sport's sake, They eeapei to regard owners, trainers and jockeys as banded thieves. They @tudied racing until they are thoroughly acquainted with all Its ramffica- ‘Whey now that if racing were disreputable, if tt were thé plaything’ of @uch men of national reputation as William C. Whitney, August Bel- James R, Keene, Clarence Mackay, James B. Haggin, John W. Gates and of other upright citizens would not sport colors. Nor tf racing had the shade of disrepute cast upon It would the daughter of the President 4 @face a Course with her presence. All these things tend to place jon & high plane. It cannot get too high. Inéreased patronage of the public moans larger purses and stakes, And n parity in racing, for where there {s big money in sight to be earned (Thnere ts no temptation for an owner to resort to the tricks that once fede racing a thing to be spoken of in a whisper. It is a pity that the season could not have opened under more auspicious tions, One likes to have charming weather and a fast track, so that the may enjoy the sport tn comfort. But the !ndic tions at this writing are & very heavy course, and a shrieking, howling gale is making the corners The World building emit an unearthly chorus, BIG CROWD WILL BE ON HAND. | Whese are not deg! racing conditions, out so firmly implanted Is the sport in “hearts of the people thet no doubt an enormous crowd Will go out to che 0 . nO matter what the weather or track may be like, BO) The Carter Handicap f@ the feature of the day, and tt 1s a puseling propo- h. It ought to be 3 to 1 and take your pick. If the track Nad remained dry be victory of Yellow Tail was assured, so the experts say, ‘This Calffornia sow Vatercress !s speédy as a frightened fawn on a track that is hard and fast, mud he sprawls and his bulk is so immense that he soon tires. Never- he {6 ikely to fun @ surprisingly good ra rv the mud at Aqueduct is “ike the mud at Bennings. The one is a mere covering of slop on a hard J Phe other is a deep, soft. putty-like mass, Tall may be able to run in Aqueduct mud, and if he does he will Whe pace a hot one with his light Impost. One might go over the whole Vand give each horse a chance, but it is better to leave that task to the ex- Aha The Evening World's handicapper has fully sized wp the ability of horges i another column. uch for the opening of the season, The crowds are hungry for tt, The fias been jong. 11 is always long to the racegoer, who sighs for the joys a i Le x b bs + it of the Gourse, A new track bids for honors this season. Tite ica course, commonly known as Tim Sullivan's track. It 8 a model b wp-tOdate end high class, and will meet with favor, There will wheeling there after the Aqueduct méeling cloves iuM a sort of ine DOW, 80 to speak, AL SPORT AT MORRIS PARK. Mit Une real articte Wil! not he heen until Westchester opens its gates Wie kings and qucens of the turf will be paraded, The giants of the a division Will come together in the Belmont and Withers. The Givision will go to the post in the Metropolitan, After that co: the ie Brooklyn and Suburban and the always Intoresting me@ting at the sea. Swill probably furnish the sensation of the year. Stakes of incompar- Will be decided there. There will gather the moneyed men of the vr Betting Will po doudt be the heaviest of the year, With the crowded Bi glitterink casinos and club-houxes, the tironged bovlevarde, the “h mely owned Women vs side fearirex to what WIN bo the ‘of the year, Saratoga will this #eaeon be the focus of all eyes, a obly ib racing likely to suffer this season. That will be BF 6000 fovkbys. ‘Those who can be called high class can be hey ave Odom, Redfern, Burns and Shaw, 0 Ganhon, Cash Blean, Minder and others. But Material in Haack, Wilkerson, Henderson, Waterbury. Lewin by 194 there houll be no lack Of good riding material fortunate in waving Burns and Hedfern under contract, iriutpio in the prssession of Odom, He Be blar of thé Fea. He 19 riding in superb (orm. He mery i) judgment, in skill, in hard Anishing and In f viding, Gommy GNMU has a gilledged ine Myra hand rider, Has excellent are «alee: of BAe hypna come Fi nae pe but i had se Sota tale Then kt AWakening {0 the value of = SPORTING NEWS SPECIALLY REPORTED FOR THE EVENING WORLD. == FELTZ FINALLY SUFFERS DEFEAT, Brooklyn Boxer Lost Decision in Fifteen-Round Bout to “Kid” Goodman Last Night. Mase, April 15.—Tommy he Uttle feather-welght fighter of South Brooklyn, suffered a defeat for the frat time In many months last night at the Criterion A. C. He lost a decision to "Kid" Goodman, the local feathor-welght, in a fiftesn-round bout. Tho battle was bitterly contested, Both boys fought hard throughout, the fifteen rounds. Goodman was the ag- Stessor. He landed two blows to Feltz's one in the bout and the roferee’s de- elsion in his favor met with the ap- proval of the spectators, 0 ee BASEBALL CHAT. There are few marriageable men on McGraw's team. Billy Lauder, George Browne and young Babb are the single men. es ee According to reports, George Smith ts doing great work with the Detroit team. McGraw may find that he made a mis- take in trading George for “Kid" Gleason. e 8 6 “Woe still lead," {s the comment of the Glants these da: What they lead is not known. They mean that they have not been beaten in any of the prelim- inary games, oe If it rains to-day every one of the Giants will probably be found at the Aqueduct track. Next to playing base- bajl there is nothing they like better than to see the horses run. oe 8 * An indication of the revival of interest in baseball in Cincinnati 1s had from the fact that the fourteen hundred re- served seats and all the boxes were dis- posed of in three hours on Monday for the first game. “Delehanty,” says President Pulliam, “will fix up his case before the Ameri- can League season begins, on April 22. Delehanty can delay in sending ic the $4,000 Sdvandad b the New York club to him until he is ready to There will be no disposition to Bre Delehanty until he ta in a position to carn his salary, and he may not be in condition to play for some Ume,” ° ° “I have noticed,” says Pitcher Hahn “that those men who take things easy and work deliberately get slower and slower as the years pass by.” Yet there are pitchers who the faster they work the worse they pitch. oe . The Washington salary ist foots up e e.e Frank Bancroft has figured out the mileage for the coming season, It ts 10,567 miles. With the training trip taken into consideration, the reds wil] cover 11,719 miles in 1908, a 8) 06) “Pilly” Hamilton in '01 had the best percentage of stolet\ bases ever attained in this country. He led the Nesonnl League in four eed uot Ave seasons. Several ueenaenes nave been sug- gested for the New York American team, § the matter with dubbi ‘Yanks’? “| SPORTING NEWS BRIEFS. a yesterviay's series in the 1-inch balk- ne contest with George Sutton at the Knickerbocker Billiard Academy in Brooklyn. In the o ine game y ran up a score of a is ail In the handicap tines ‘balk-line bill- {ard tournament at the Amateur Bill- fard Club of New York H. 0. Presby defeated FR. White I core of 250 to 224, ant nigB Pirie o 8 8 Arthur E, Rendle, President of the ew York Wanderers Cricket Club, auta estehday that the report th ad decided to disband was untae ¢ 8 8s Spring football practice at Columbia will begin to-day, South Field is in gatisfactory condition, end pract to continue until April a. yAcHce te . oe Crowell Hadden, jr., secretary of the Dyker Meadow Golf Club, announces a competition on Saturtay for a cup pre- ed by Jamer H. Merritt, the cond{- ons to be eighteen holes match pla} against bogey. . oe The New Bedford Yacht Club will {sue a challenge to the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club for its spectal cup for 30. foot naming the new Herreshoff 5 Add ay Mr. Charles Henry Davis, of New if a HS Dougias defeated 8, 8, Dr, Waller G Ellis, jr, last night by a score of 100 to in the pool tournament for the cham- pionship ef the New York Athletic Club, In the second game, Monday nt. A. P. Driggs won from B. B, THe by 160 to 69, ee At the last meoting of the Columbia Rowing Club Perry D. Bogue, of Brook- was clected permancht manager of f mah erew, with Prederisk 1, of New York, a’ assistant manager, By defeating John Wilcox, of Pater- and Robert MoNeil, of Philadel , In the final games of the national shuffled tournament lakt night John N . Of Jerpey City, a geven: te lad, Won the title of ‘board champion. of Améroa, The new sloop yacht being butt by Wond, of City Island, for a syndicate \in Fan eee iN, Yo chtemen, to sail {n ghe raven, for the Canadian Cups is Jin frame and is prog Ing rapid Produce Exchange ation Aas a ithe fol- re: President, Lewis i. P. me oh ae Ns Aloore ; Moore York offic low 16 Walt Walter A Meeting of “he texecuttvo Commit- tee of the Women's Metropolitan Goit cuss plans for the com an: tournament, salpe elit a: pionship w! ache Rlehanomd ub. In the ribea: fealeh rolled against ie Dghen? Athlete Chul Frank A. Keeney had the better of |" CHESBRO, NEW VORK AMERICAN S' PITCHER. of Four of t To-night will be another busy one in Pugilistic circles. Six good fights are to be decided. In Philadelphia, Tim Callahan and Billy Maynard will battle for six rounds at the Penn Art A. C., while at the National A. C., of tae same city, “Chick” Tucker, of this city, will engage in a six-round bout with Sammy Smith, the Quaker City boxer. In Bos- ton, Joe Walcott, the welter-weight champion, will meet Mike Donovan, of Rochester, for tan rounds before the Health and Physical Culture Club, and Larry Temple, the colored fighter, will ox Charley Haghey, the Boston figiter, in @ ten-round bout before the Tam- many A. C., of the same city. Benny Yanger, the undefeated Italian feather-weight fighter of tt td an Big Srcpuasona 5 iA in ‘round, fener sas Cit, . At Victor, will @ twen' “Cyclone” Kelly, fornia dle-weight, and 'M Willams.” of Denver, Col., who recently fougat Jack Bonner a twenty-round draw. Jeffries Due Here To-Day, Champion Jim Jeffries will arrive in town to-day. It is thought that his visit ts for the purpose of finding out what Jim Corbett intends to do relative to the offer, made the by the Yo- semite A. ft San_ Francisco, for provoned battle, “Corbett is show= is week in Newark. ‘Tie men m@y agree to elther accept the per- centage offer or the purse of $20,000 offered them. Jeffries intends to re- main in town for about ten days. MoGrath Trains Fitzgerald. Willie Fitzgerald, (he light-weight fighter of South Brooklyn, who is matched to fight Jimmy Britt, the California llght-welght, on April 24, in San Francisco, has secured the ser- vices of Tim McGrath, trainer of pugi- lists in San Francisco, to im in condition for the battle. trained and seconded “Young Corbett” in his recent fight wita ‘Terry Mc- Govern. His advice greatly helped tho Denverite to beat McGovern. Gardner a Haghey. George Gardner, of Lowell, Mass., hag been signed by Matchmaker Jimmy | Watson, of the Tammany A. C., of Bos- ton, to eet fontey Heghey, the Bos- i b SSS eg lt ‘both msn abe f ive ers and stiff punchers, ‘They will battle at catch weights and the winner will FAST WORK ON Evening Worid To s* TO-NIGHT’S GAMES. Harlem Circle. Vendome, Knickerbocker. Even the champion Fidelias did not serve to draw bowling enthusiasts from thelr own firesides lastnight. The rain and the cold kept many of the regulars away, but those that turned out saw three good games. The Prestos, Fidelias and Krakehllas were the three teams scheduled to fight It out, and they were all on hand and ready for business when the first game was called. ‘Tho Pidelias are not disguising the fact that they expect to win The Even- ing World's Bowling championship, and they have already made room for the cup at Amann é& Triese's alleys, Dr. Timm, Mr, Amann and the other mem- bers of the club ard giving it out to their friends that it is all over but the shouting. The other teams have a word to say, however, and the way the Pr tos and the Krakehilas went after the champions last night shows that who- ever does jand the cup Will 40 60 only after a hafd fight. The Fidellas landed one game, the opening one of the evening: but It was a tight squeeze and the tos were right within halilng distance in every frame, Twenty pins were all the cham- pions had to spate at the end, Then the Prestos and the Krakehilas victors, ‘The score: 900; Amicit Ar- Te aual 3 were again canum, 9% and wm . . . As the basketball team of the Atlan- | tle A. A., of Rookaway Beach, did not] 4 Apbear tO play its scheduled game with the Weleome Hall A, C., the latter claims the @atch. Saturday night the St, Luke A. A. and tie Weleome Hall team will play for Championship of Brooklyn. ia . ‘The Pennsylvania and Hobart lacrosse teams played yesterday on Franklin Field and the game reevited In a tt each team sooring one goal. wus ankle deep with mud, through thé play e driving rain fell. RACING NOTES. Pho no-recell byatem of starting will be adopted in Bt. Louis by the Fair Amsoolauion and Delmar tracks this yer, * Acerull, 1. B ‘Duryea’ American oi Aldate for the EhgNsh Derby, will, it te reported trom New be Bteared in that event by J. ("Skeet") Martin. er A prominent sentise for the Ken tucky Derby was oped yesterdn’ whe cburohit Bohn when ik aan ten inile in 1.43% over & at Sa 8 1, B. Dobwelt “as sold the thre old Geisha Girl to J. J. Mackessey, ‘Terme priva' FIDELIA BOW UNEXPECTED DEFEAT. Members of Team Looked For Two Victories in LERS MET urney Last Night. LAST NIGHT’S GAMES. Won. Fidella 1 Krakehila -...- Presto - 1 of 4ia_busines: Breaaws match of it aad wo by almost’ an even hundred ping. made things look bright. for but the, try down badly and $47 w Lost. 1 and the former five goats the Fi they fell all they could That made the game a gift to the who rolled 888. therefore and a defeat to Its credit The scores First Game. restos—Schlusing, — 167; 13; "towal, a A. Hatch, 200, Taclinn Sel itz, 177; Lathe, Rothermal, ; Timm, 182, Total, Krakehila Second Gai tos—Schlusing, 169; H. Howell ia: A, Hatoh, 185; Tull: Total, 9%, —B. Me: Joremehlia: i Ht BiB, 106; 200, Third Game, Fidellas—Schultz, 160; Luhrs, r, Micke, R Tang Rothermal, 158; Timm, ive; Amann, 178. Tot ‘Krakehilas—B. 191; Tonedge, Ass 181; ‘Total, @8. Mdaicics, ‘Hatch, Mt 198. had @ victory Hy Hetoh, 2%; Tully, ry 215; 199; Amann, H. Meyer, 149; Heusser, 178; Meyer, 20; Heusser, Three good clubs wi will moet to-night, and w: be cro’ J Pel: Miles, one of ¢ paddonks under 'y rien riders, was ith wood weather the alleys should urisdiction of the Pa’ ‘Bub These decisk it of a meeting held by ti res Chip stewards yeuteraay. Charles Reed, and club manager, York yesterda visit to England returned to from a a Other Bow! RY Weahtayten He! Morningside and Wert Harlem, Premier, Empire ©} as Commann ‘ation. and Wi allere. two months’ He had a pleasant suye racing across the wat ¢ popular sport as of old, Games Tet iaw “ihe iwellsnere. turtman New st the miveralte “alloys League—Morningsi@e, Baterpeiee ugh —Sticker, f ounnaes Bene Potvaie alters omNenme bed i ‘Two-Pound Baby Bora in illino: DANVILL Mh, Abril 15.-A twoe Pound baby «iri was Charles Knight yesterda, well, ‘The child te ta healthy and active, born pletely eover one of the hands, head is emailer than @ baseball, ee Five Milted by an Baponi: GALLIPOLIS, It oan easily be Placed in @ quart cap, The part of the leg above the knee is no longer thap @ man's thumb and a quarter will com GRIFFITH’S MEN ARE “GORDON’S HIGHLANDERS.” Appropriate Nickname Has Deen Suggested tor Invading Americans. “TI geo they've landed on the {sland all right,” sald the Fat Fan as he stood on ‘Washington Heights and listened to the Dla: ting of the rocks on the new grou “Sure,” said the Blongated Enthusiast. "Why, you couldn't have kept 'em off with a whole battery of batteries. Taney ihe Uke a fine bunch, the Islanders THE RELIANCE, If It Continues Cup Yacht Will Take Her First Spin in About Ten Days. BRISTOL, R. 1, April 15.—It the work on the yacht Reliance continues as rapidly from now on as heretofore it 1s expected the boat will be ready for her first spin within the next ten days. The bowsprit is now in place. When Billman's riggers finished yesterday both of the spreadarms were in their sookets and the masthead runners had ‘been led through the fairleader The weight of the mainmast with its rigging attached end the bowsprit has sent the bow down in the water much lower than the after end. Even when the ‘main boom is on board and th “The which?” demanded the Fat Fan. landers—I-@-l-a-n-d-e-r-s — Island- The Fat Fen shook his head. Plainly er didn't see the cea of the “Where' ue. get it?” he “Right here,” retorted en longated Enthusiast, waving his hand to embrace ail the surrounding country. ‘Didn't Brush do cial best te eee em. waa en haven’ Brabbed thelr slice a Putte oid Manhat right under his nosé? They're the Isl- anders, sure,” The ‘Fat Fan didn't weem convinced by this logic. *Pighlanders | rom the other footers at stance by the dipping feature which marks her bow. CYCLING CHAMPIONS TO RACE AT GAMES. Te AU, Twenty-six Hvente Are on the Thirteenth Resi- ment’s Card, “©ycling champions will be made and unmade next Saturday night, at the games of the Thirteenth Regiment A. A., in the Armory, Sumner avenue and Han- cock street, Brooklyn, when the cracks Be for the two-mile (besa bere ar etl ‘The race promises mt the atest iis Geen fiat eh wl See ere toe : SNE '- me,” he satd, with deep firmnes: Ain't ‘ue “pretty ne, the highest et in town? And ain't Gordon the boss of the tenm? And Isn't there a wo:!d-boating crowd you—fits like the cover on & dail, That team's going to be the Highlander “idanders* retorted the Mlongated it, Wi a conviction, ine baseball lovers hapolly was averte had ard thelr argue and me, frends ~ Just minute ple xeUl Dut what are. you @oing to call the p down there?" Ho Waved bird hand Roware ye Foto ah rounds , fai th them, | Fa ‘an and no? Blonwated Enthusiast igoxes, at ar in commiseration, hen ee ety each other and grin bas An Ay rey In a breath, bere Te, the Lowlande: Vi tell you how name, You fellows think Gi ne going to land near the top, ‘don't oe Bi, then, they'll be the High- tandere.’* And the others agreed the name was likely to stick. Tee PROGRESSIVE LADIES BOWLED GOOD GAMES. Players Have Im Women’s Tourdhment Bes: The Progressive Ladies’ team rolled in better form yesterday on the Harlem Circle Alleys thtn In any previous game. ewes they passed SIX FIGHTS BILLED. TO. BE DECIDED TO-NIGHT, Boston and Philadelphia Clubs Will Be Scenes he Contests. be matched to mee: Reais Sve a Ban on Butler Litted. Joe Butler, of Philadelphia, who has not been allowed to Aght in tho Quaker City for five years, will be seen again In that city very goon, He has been matched to fight Charley Haghey, the middle-weight of Boston, before the Na- tlonal A. C., of Philadelphia, on Tues-~ day night, Butler was barred trom fighting in Philadelphia for engaging in 4 fough-ana-tumble fight with “'Mys- terlous Billy” Smith, which resulted in the sport being killed in that city, Swe: 'y Forgiven. Patsey Sweeney, the light-weight fighter of Boston, who has disappointed the matchmaker of the Criterion A. Ow of that olty, @ number of times by with- © drawing from fights at the last minute, has been forgiven. He 1s now matched to fight Jimmy Gardner, the Chicago Nghtweight, a fitteen-round bout at one of ‘the shows of the Criterion A. C. early next month. Connolly May Meet Sullivan, Eddie Connolly's clever victory over Pat Daly, the English welter-welght, In London on Monday night will probably result In a match being arranged be- tween chim and "Spike" Sullivan be- fore the National Spomting Club, of Sullivan is now training for twenty-round bout with Jabes White, the English lightweight cham- #ion. which takes place next Monday’ night. “Corbett” Due Here in May, “Young Corbett" will not arrive tn this city untit the second week in May. In a letter to Johnny Considine the Mt- tle fighter says he has organized a vaudeville company, which {s showing in Los Angeles, Cal., this week, After the engagement “Corbett” says he will work his way east and expects to af- tive here In about three weeks, om ippi? and Felts, ‘Young Mississippi,” the —_ calored feather-weight fighter who won four* fights In California, will arrive in Phll= adelphia on Friday. Ho has been en- gaged to meet Tommy Feltz, the South Brooklyn fighter, In a six-round Gout before the National A. C., of Phili delphia, on Saturday night, If suc« cessful in defeating Feltz he will be matched to fight Danny Dougherty be- fore one of the many clubs in tha Quaker City. Gans’s Offer to Fight. Bteve Crosby, the colored light-weight of Loutsville, has received a letter from ay } Joe Gans saying he would give him an- > other fight if a club could Pe found thee would offer a purse of $1,000. algo says t lf no club will make the offer ne will fight for $500 a side. @ When Spine comes \a man gets particular—awful- ly particular. Capital time P Dy Semi-rea y- $18 a Get over custom-tailor’s slow-coach methods. @, Get away from “ ready- made” mediocrity. @,“Semi-ready” clothes finished-to-order and deliv- ered any time ou. say, with “custom-tailor” exe cellence guaranteed, @ You need not buy because you look, or keep because you buy. ‘SRMI-READY” WARDROBE Broadway @& E th 6t. A. 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