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UTNE MEE ener BO at a RR Sala A, RET THE WOKLD: MONDAY EVENING, EPTEMBER 7, 19v3. © SPORTING NE WILLIE HIGGINS TURF WONDER rn ++ PB sungster Stillan Apprentice, Which Adds to His Value to the Horsemen. xs hay ws CYCLISTS WHO MAK SHAMOCK'S OWN STORY OF DEFEAT Was the Fastest Sloop Ever Built Before Measurement) Day, and After That Was_ Slowest of Challengers. “MY INSIDES ALL TORN OUT.” “Four Tons Were Taken Out of Me to Get Me Down to Ninety-Foot Line for Which Fife Should Have WILLIE HIGGINS. Yrom Wednesday until Saturday is {maiden class in St. Louis, yas he ies mot a very long jump, but from Wedne riding for Sam Lazarus. tub was t toh @ay until Saturday last week was long | {st horse that dragged the little fel ough to lift Willie Higgins, a very |“) whieh ths is “SU “an anpreniice, boy, into a very prominent place | means much, as It gives him five pounds in the turf world. the best of ail the other boys in a race, ‘orsemen ° ‘as ) How Higgins “ad his firet Eastern | Vajuavic, and his services are in great ‘mount last Wdenesday and how he won | demand. that and the next two as well Ihas been | Higeitis is just elghteen years of age, GIANTS’ NEXT ~ WILL BE WATCHED o+¢-— Speculation Brisk as to Standing of New Yorkers at Season's End. y 5 can Tide at ninety pounds, and until he ftgld many times, It was only last |{e twenty-one he is under contract to bring that Higgins put e | Smith, ” Who will te in the New York that MeGinnity i« entitled to be know: feam next year, what familiar as “K.ng of Nationa ague Pitchers, forms that dared over the bi by all odds the oval at One Hlvadred and Fifty mer, tte makes ditto street and gave the fans joy with BY oe ung. Thr thelr dexterity will bg mis tat era mone ah aud men) couble: yooters, too, who rebounded with vigor | jet alone fish’ ine fac and heartburnings. and, —mayhap,) ily» her oF the lonay @ee another game, aii these tiiugs are ROPE LAWINGC ANAS eee Wrapt in mystery. pall reminds Whoever it is possible to ret Jamented an Graw will retain, for he Is a manager NASSAR ROL pareil and anxious to be faor, With superior in vA Mew men constantly being aged itt Soure, seacres are just as 4s & definite conciu that paces must | COR stands in al de vacated in order (hat New York next! fo), a f®eason may seizo from Pittsourg the | has coveted rag she ane The Trip Wert. career of the Gian Will be closely watched at ho: One desire now {8 to see Mo( Becond. ww held ers W th Vbe with raw tis much more Im- ew York Club than a Anish “ "1 With Gileago 40 clove, the b spend his winter x ing 18 agains? New York, for while NRRL ELS the Giants are batiling with the th CEE eieoe strong Western’ teams—not counting St. | wilds Michigan, | Louls, which Is almost certain to take a ntends giving his mus- brace when McGraw crosses the Missla- aon untH che: spring Mppi—Chicago will have rather a soft ————_———— ing with Philadelphia and Bo: “PHIL” KING AT GEORGETOWN ton. Manion's team, if it continues playing} “Phil King. formerly of Princeton, the present shape, will spring sur-{ wij] couch the Georgetown University! and help New York to maintain| football team this fall, and “Pat Demp. verage, but from Boston and the|sey will have charge of the university Phinles iitto ald may be expected. crew asain this year, The football The only pity ts that Brooklyn did not | AVN YA Pew Its praction within a her brace ere this. Then the West- —————_—_—_ teams would have had less success-| YACHTS RACE AT LARCHMONT. trips East. But, as Hanlon re- ~'Xou cannot build up a team f ison; even with wads of mone. or Matty? of Joe and Matty brings pthat will probably be ar- alle winter: “Which is Wt 1s @ problem that The Larchmont Yacht Club sails, tts fall regatta on the Sound to-day, Every | class a nts has been well patronized, and spi racing ja expected. The best rac uft on the Sound meet in the @) and 43-fok classes, —— BOSTON AND SUNDAY GAMES, Two years ago the Boston National League team would not piay Sunday ball. Now they play not only league |day after the Reliance had beaten the Designed Me.” “1 wish that Shamrock III, had te power of speech, to tell her story of why she was beaten by Rellance. When she sailed on the other side | against her sister, Shamrock L., every expert yachtsman who witnesred the trials said that she was the fastest loop ever built. "She has proved herself, aince she arrived here, to be the slowest chal- Jenger that has ever come after the cup. “She was all right up to the day before the tape was passed along her waterline, when she had to be changed to bring her down to the §0-foot mit. our and a half tons of lead and timbers were taken out of her hul""—Sir Thomas Lipton. The foregoing were the words of Sir Thomas Lipton as he sat on the upper deck of the Erin on Friday last, the Shamrock ILI. for the third time in the international yacht races off the Jersey coast. Over and over again, as he looked toward the beautiful challenger riding gently on the waves at her moor- ings, he repeated the phrase: “I wish she could talk and tell her own story of the real reason of her dete: A reporter for the Evening World in- | terveewed Shamrock Ill. to-day. Sne| wes lying in Er.e Basin. She recognized | him as an old friend who had been with her ever since she arrived here in quest of the cup. Sal rs dropped from her | DoWsprit as sne spoke feelingly of her | awful disappointment, and for the first me she told of ( 3 real cause that | made her appear to aucn # disadvantage | wa, pp Faces. | “When 1 slid down the ways into the water,” said Shamrock il, “the great- eat yachUng experts in ail England said that 1 was the finest and fastest boat that had ever been built. As L rode out into the Clyde they likened me to the Sir Thomas, Col. Neill and Mr. stood on my forward deck and ali declared that if 1 did not brin Uack America’s Cup no other boat could over be puilt that could achieve that ambition. “Then for weeks and weeks they put. tered over me. Every bolt, every ti fastening and every stay wi nd tested whap the utmos! care. Time and again J itive heard sir Thomas tell Mr. Fite that no expense should be spared to make tne perfect. 1 have heard him give orders to Mr, Rat- Sey that the finest sails that have ever been turned out in all the world should be the sult for me, Nothing Left Undon “Nothing waa left undone. Everybody who had anything to do with my crea- tion had carte blanche, so far as ex- pense concerned.” The challenger became more lachry- mose, and it was some minutes vefore she could continue her story, “When they tried me out after sir Thomas arrived 1 heard Capt, Bevis and Capt. Wringe deciare that I would beat Rellance over the Sandy Hook course by at least five minutes. I felt very proud, and was sure that ¢ would| do all in my power to come up to their | expectations. | “Of course, all this time I was simply. walking away from my eldest sister. 1 Wondered in every trial why it was that my younger sister, Shamrock IL, not put In competition with me, Supposed {t was because she signed byb Mr. Watson Fife designed our eldeat 7 "On the day that they took me up to the Enle Basln (and i tng t say that r dislike the place very much indeed— they oall tt Red Hook) L think that I was tn such fine trim that T could saten anything In the world, 1 di know that an operation was to be p formed on me, by whicn the surgeons would remove my stomach and other ternal organs, was butt Wan de- 4 me that on wateriine the tmtt which the equires of ail c Ban to turn me Just inagin CONVULA Ve engers, and they de- | ide out. tinued 8} DAVINE y 1 tossed over the § on such delicate] wuchine! directions aft, tibs when yall” the timbers took out tons of lead ballast de Reet ie of lead ballast, deat sailors’ tight tied down touk | th of, art way, say, al and then peated me : same trim when Iw as my rival was, “Why Wasn't 1 ninety-foot water four and one-half t ber and Mtengs wee take my hoid to lighten me up, 80 might comply with the quirements cf the New Club Committee. ‘On top Do Waprit vere {engthen ny, NO Yachting expert plalned to me, a Ninety Feet for Au, “Surely Mr. Fife was well of the water-line rule that hallenge for the cup, ad Just as much sail carried 2,000 square feet did, but’ the the water Ine seeking (he cup. my |} to be in ‘the| ent Into the race| to gall on butt of the Altogther, ad, ums Out. of that T Water-lin York nt of this my three feet, hus yet ex: y aware overns a 1 me@ht have} ellance, who | more than | ninety-foot rule along | 1s set for any bon It cannot be changes. “The best way to illustrate. wi loatia in this simtl er wey iL “Supposing you ‘ordered a suit of clothes of your tailor and you found that the sleeves were six inches tco long. You would ‘I want this leeve cut dawn six inches, to my | “And then, supposing the tatlor, in- tead of cutting of six Inches of the sieeve, should reduce its length one foot toot? Of course, the coat SPECIALLY REPORTED FOR THE EVENING WORLD. KRAMER, FENN, M'FARLAND AND LAWSON. E FINAL EiD TO-DAY FOR N.C. A. TITLE, TRAINERS BUSY AT_ SHEEPSHEAD The Track at the Bay Presented a Lively Appearance During the Early Hours This Morn- ing. Clear, bright weather, with a tinge of fall in the alr, caused the galloping hours to be pleasant oned at the Sheeps- head course this morning. There were many racers sent to exercise und the work hours were spirietd ones, W. C. Whitney's Mimosa, Mineola jand Armenta, going in Indian file, cov- Palette and Ambrosa reeled off six fur- lohgs in Albert Simons sent Ring Dove a mile and a furlong in 1.59 1-2. F. R. Hitchcock's Jocund breezed three furlongs in 0.43, Waterboy Gallops. Trainer A. J. Joyner showed Water- boy, Paristenne, Chas. Elwood and others off to Jogging exercise. August Belmont's Beldame, which is a candl- date for the Bells at five and a half preparation for the event by covering the seven furlongs in 1.37. Marjoriam did six furlongs in 1.18 1-4 Masterman was sent an easy seven fur- longs in 1.43. J. A. Drake's Runnele and) Alabarch, going together, cov- ered seven furlongs in 1.34, Vincennes turned three furlongs in 0.39. High Chancellor galoped a mile in 1.53 1-2, rrow reeled off three furlongs in ( South Trimble Out. South Trimble, that was so severely cut down in the Garatoga Handicap, was shown to easy exercise, and 1s rounding into fine shape, Trainer E. H. Garrison sent The Rhymer a mile and a furlong in 1.69 1-2, The Osceola Stable's Phaser and Mar- mee turned flev furlongs In 1.04, @.ady Uncas and Knight of Harlem covered the same distance in 1011-2 J. W. Schorrs's Sweet Gretchen turned seven furlongs in 1.83. Dutiful and Cloverton golng together covered six furlongs in 1.21 1-2, Janeway did a mile in 1.47. $8. A. White sen’ tain or Shine a half in 0.58. I. V. Belly Col. Bill got a half- mile breather in 3-4. Frank Farrell's Hoodwink gallops in 1,59 1-2. BIG ELEVENS SUFFER. « mile and a furlong ern colleges is lacking. Yale, Harvard and Pennsylvania are shy, and the games to be played can, it 1s thought, hardly be up to the standard of previous years. Yale will ldse Glass, Goss, Holt and Chadwick, a quartet of great play- ers seldom seen on one. team. Harvard will also suffer from the lack of first-class timber for its team, and the Crimson admirers have a forlorn outlook. Pennsylvania will have an almost new team, for the wretched exhibition put up by last year's (cam will not be tol- erated, It would not be surprising to © Princeton carry off the honors this year, The rules favor the Tigers ——___— MAY PLAY FOOTBALL. A special from Annapolis says that much elation has been caused among the mldshipmen by information that there are yet bright prospects for the continuance of the army-navy football games, Midshipmen Soule and Caffee, captain and manager,- respectively, of the Naval Academy football team, have recelved word from Paul J. Dasalell, the representative of navy athletics, that he has excellent reason to beieve that sat. isfactory arrangements can be made for playing the game this year and urging the captain and manager to make prepa- ration for the coming season, KEENAN WINS ROAD RACE. Capt. Matty Keenan, of the Hacken- sack Wheelmen, won the Johnson rophy road race, over the Teaneck- Dumont course, New Jersey, this morn- ing. He started from scratch alone and overtook six others before the finish. The distance was fifteen miles and was covered in 35 minutes, ———— S:RACUSE'S FOOTBALL. SYRACUSE, Sept. 7—J. R. Rubin, manager of the Syracuse University football team, announces tho following schedule of games for this fall. Oct. 3 Clarkson Institute of Technol- ogy, at Syracuse: Oct. 10, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Syracuse; Oct. 17, Colgate University, at Syracuse; ot Oct, Niagara University, at BSyra- cuse; Noy. 7, Yale, at New Haven; Nov. 1M, Brown, at Syracuse, —<—=__—— Intercollegiate Rowing. ‘The authorities of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, which controls the boat races at Poughkeepsle, have just heard of the determination of two more universities to enter crews, These are the University of North Carolina and the University of California, The Car- olinlans already have begun and have corresponded with Georgetown ab 24, Willams College, at Syracuse; ‘a, ra{ty crew next year, and about plac- ing their entry at Poughkeepsie in tho hands of the Board of Stewards, — WALCOTT VS. GANS. Negotiations are now being oom- pleted to have Walcott and “Joe” Gans decide thelr dispute at Fort Erle, Canada, At the proposed weight. 140 pounds, Gans will have some of the best of it, but not enough to justify making him an overwhelming favorite. ———=>__—— GLENDON OUT WEST. Martin Glendon, the pitcher who jumped the Reds In the spring of 1902 to go to Callfornia, lost out In the Pacific National blow-up. Glendon says that “Jim" Wiggs is improving in“ felding his position. would be ruined, and. you’ could not expect it to look Ike a fashion plate, ‘Phat is my exactly, As a ninety-two or _ ninety-three-fdote 1 Know that TI would be a wonder, but when I had been built on those Ines and my constructor nas to take four | and a half tons out of my Insides to bring me down to the required water nes” weakening me at why should 1 be blam showing I have made ‘oad, but have exhtoition Rhode Island, they reduced * line! any faster? by auxiliary won from if 1 liad been ptapslied ond te x boas gimas difanes ‘after: the day th 4 eto the ait aay tha haf Mode > GIRL’S FAST 100 YARDS. Miss Julia Holland ran every point, 131-3 seconds at the games of the KE gd for the poor centric Association of Firemen at Celtic 0 dt t Park; Lydia Cabil finished a closo sec How coul go through the water % Caroline, Cas i fact, 18: th wan 3 26 Mt was third, CLARKF IN CHICAGO, Arthur Clarke, the Texas third base- WADDELL MISSES OUT. Mr. Waddell cau Intense mental ered the half-mile In 0.56, J. R, Keene's | furlongs, to be run to-morrow, got her | Namtor clipped off six furlongs in 1,19. | Football material in some of the East- to row,, out the construction of a shell for al RUHLIN TACKLES _ CARTER TO-NIGHT | + Brooklyn Middleweight Likely to Make Things Hot for Akron Giant. | 4 i | GUS RUHLIN. Gus Ruhlin tackles tough game fn a Philadelphia ring to-night. He stacks up against "Kid" Carter, a husky mitt |slinger who can mix it up with the ‘pest of them, He made “Kid McCoy look sick not so long ago, and Peter Maher found the gong very fast ia the same ring with him. Carter is not a boxer, He knows no more than the law allows about that end of the game, But he can fight till the cows come home, and his punches, particularly those that land on the | Jaw or thereabouts, have a_ sirange | sleep-producing effect How Ruhlin will stand them only to-night can tell Rublin ts bigger than Carter, He Is taller, pounds heavier and has a longer reach. Besides he ts a clever boxer. He | has a Jeft jab that's annoying If noth- | MUNROE WANTS 10 HauT IN FRISCO Miner Has Better Offer from There and Wires Jeffries for - His Consent to Change from Los Angeles. Ing more. It's a safe bet, too, that Carter won't be able to get out of itp a Fitz couldn't and neither could ampion Jeffries, It may not hurt arter, who is known to run all kindo of risks in the ring. He will take a few of these to get in his wild right swing. [CURE MEN ‘ RK'S, | | MASTER SPECIALIST. a ~ —————: ERVOUS DEBILITY ¢.5,",¢2,au'c# wy fo, days by my own famous In 5 to 18 day! hout cutting, strete pain or loss of time, It is a mar- Jack Munroe may fight Jim Jeffries for his title in ‘Frisco instead of Los Angeles. The miner's manager has an offer from a ‘Frisco club which {s better than that offered by the Los Angeles organtzation before which Jeffries has practically agreed to fight, An answer from Joffries on this prop- TROUBLES matter how? chroute’ oF | VARICOCELE irat im from, 3 toi BLOOD POISON PROSTATIC }.permanentiy cure ANY jong ely ae 3 to 10 ternal absorpuve proce WASTING Tre osition is expected to-day. If the big days, by my orginal H champion rofuses to fight in ‘Frisco | WEAKNESS Qyenicivey by ME). ‘ Monroe, of course, will consent to meet him at Los Angeles and will shortly pack his grip ind start for the coast. Tommy West, the Brooklyn middle- welght, will go alongwith the miner and train him. > ——_——_ Don't Delay. 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SIOUX CITY, Sept, 7.—Corbett and Sul- Hvan, the Bloux CHy fire team, broke all records at the Interstate Falr hero Sat- urday, covering a half mile, running start, Jaying 10 feat of hose,’ breaking and ‘attaching nozzle ready ‘to throw. Wwator, in 3.10%, Col W. W. Walker, of Coldwater. Mich.. acted as time keeper, \ ndicap a LT, man, will take his ce on Comiskey's team this week. Hill, of the Browns, who played in the'same league as Clarke. says he ls a wonder, nguish at York, Pa off there and play — HALLMAN VERSATILE, Hall jy & Valuable utility man, has a etevery, position #6 far. this year, 100 yards f ia fe faster than! mad fat "5; 08M nnd Whe ree | exeepbepligh: 808 OTH DAV | repetscies | G8 Foor —— HERMAN LONG AT SECOND, Herman Long ls playing a fine scoond base for Detroit, but his day of top- notch renown is over, + vik La, Parlor Car Train), 1, ‘and thereafter every, ‘B9th Street, Brooklsny rooklyn Holxhta Trolley dircct to. tas route, Sp ininuton hy areieee. eet ey. thn rota, “drsanlyn Bntags Ak ne le Icy