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THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1903, How THE MINER LOOKED To PETER MACE im O1z22y. JUCK MUNROE MAKES GOOD. A001 ToMeE AT PETER MAHER’S EXPENSE A HEAVI-WELGHT Joe Walcott, the welter-weight cham- pion, is to engage in another handica) ; ; opponent In this dattle wil ber 'wandy Husky Miner Put Out Ireland’s Cham-| erm pion in Fourth Round, and Proved to the Fistic Experts that He’s a Fighter from Head to Heels. Ferguson, the heavy-weight fighter of Chelsea, Mass., who has fought Gus Ruhlin, the Akron Glant, and other big fellows. Ferguson and Walcott are to go in a fittesn-round bout before the Criterion A.C. Ferguson will have height, weight and reach on Waloott. ‘This ts not the first time Walcott has fought a man of these proportions. He tackled Joe Choynaki at the defunct Broadway the id beat him handily, $$ ne DOG SHOW IN BROOKLYN. Brooklyn. ts to have its dog show, too, ‘The Long Island Kennel Association opens its Agat bench show to-morrow in the Clermont Avenue Rink. More than 800 entries have been recelved for the exhibit, among them pelng most of the winners of last week's ladies’ show at the Garden. BY KNOCKOUT. AN Jack Munroe fight? He can. If you think I am wrong ask the one-time champion chamois pusher of the Emerald Isle, Peter Maher. The pugilistic problem of the age—viz., the Butte Miner's fistic abilities-— ‘Was solved Saturday night in Quakertown. Three thousand of the “faithful,” massed in the arena of the National Sporting Club, saw this: ta Ca ihe LET ““Hylde JACK MAHER PUSHED iw MUNROE Some 6000 ONE S$» MAHER MW ACTION. PETER ov1IDN'T’ FEEL? 2/42 LAO WiLL PLAY jand team next season, cured from the Columbus team this fall, ton American opinion that parec ¢ mistake in playin at short, Gg rry’ as he thinks the big Frenchman won't make good at that position, JOYCE TO QUIT PASTIMES. It {s reported that John J. Joyce, the ‘national cross-country and ten-mile champton, will leave the Pastime A. C. and join the Greater: New York Irish ‘A. A, Joyce expected to pe sent to Milwaukee for the last national cham- plonship, but the club's finanscial man- agement thought differently and th champion was left at home. George V Horhag, also of the Pastimes, it is sald. intends to transfer his allegiance to the Irish club. Se eee The Gladiators Await the Gong. The massive, burly, rugged form of the man who received a decision Over the champion of all the champions sitting in one corner of the roped battlefield pitched in the centre of.the pit of humanity. Across trom him a long-legged, bald-hdaded, old knight of the squared circle, the man with the heavy artillery right-hand wallop, Peter Maher, gne time of Ireland. The usual dickerings and dailyings priot ¢o the passage at arms and then: ‘The clang of a gong. Crash! Maher’s Wallop Starts Early. The huge forms of the two glants rock as they clash In the centre of tne White-floored dueling ground. ‘A long right hand, dug from the floor, sweeps thro @eath-dealing trump card of the man from across the 5 It Ginds a resting place on. tho back of the Miner's head and, landing, wakes him up to the fact that there fs death to dreaths of greatness stored In the sweep of that awful right. The Miner's Virst Contribution. ‘Then the West takes 4 hand In the warfare. A wicked left hook flush into the Irishman’s face, foflowed quickly by a crashing right straight under the heart, ‘Then a clinch. Tt is a fast battle for big men, and It is a battle that paints its every twist md turn on the memory of the crowd maseod around the arena, Every man there had come to see~“if Jack Munroe can figh Green and Untrained, but a Fighter. ‘And before the end of the fourth round came'they decided that he could. And they were right. The man from the West is x fighter, & green, untrained warrior, with his yoxing tactics much to the bad, but a fighter, yes—from stem to stern. He brought the battle to a close in the fourth wession, when, with a shower of body blows, he béat the Irish champion to the canvas, No, Peter Did Not Quit. Peter sank to his knees, rolled over, and took @he count. Tt was stated that he "quit." It's doing poor off Maher an fnjustice to eay so, He was not “out” in the sense that he was totally unconscious, but he was eaten into ‘Rbeclute, abject. submission. Referee Jack McGuigan told me after the battle that he would have stopped the tight had Maher managed to struggio to his teet after falling before that volley of body punche: And Maher DID t:y to get vo—tried hard—then rolled over and lay quivering as the count was told off over his prostrate form, *Twas a Battle Worth Seeing. Up to the finish, it was a good battle, a battle repiete with action; teeming with long swings and longer counters, a bloody battle, It Was @ toss-up in the first two sessions. It was Munroo'a fight up to the emi of the first round, when, just before th Ye gong, the Emerald Isle scrapper Whipped over his historical right ‘Thud! Tt connected fish on the “point” He did not walt. FOR ITHACA GAME Columbia's football forces begin a busy week to-day in preparation for next Saturday's game with Cornell at Ithaca, Cornel| and Columbia have met twio and each time Cornell has won by large score, notwithtsanding the fact that the games took place in New York, on Coluumbia’s home grounds, Botl however, were played near the cloue of tne season, after Columbia had been hammered by Yale, Princeton and Pennaylvania. This year, although Co- lumbia suffered serious losses on account of the Yale game, the Blue and White is on the whole more fit to enter a me, and since Corne}l hay in ‘winning in New One superatitiously Inclined fleure “inate lumbia ought to win in Ithaca. PENNSY HAS NO EXCUSE 10 OFFER PHILADELPHIA, Noy. 9—The crush- ing defeat administered by the crimson team to Pennsy's eleven on Saturday was a blow that the players and the coaches will not get over for a long time, They felt confident they. would win, but they have no excase to offer for thelr downfall, Although seaten, Pennsylvania's gral- uates who age conversanc. with, football do not consider the Harvard team to be Toally first class. They admit, how: ever, that there js enough Thaterial Harvard to make a great team De- fore the peer ae ai WATERBOY WILL RACED NEXT YEAR The report of a few weeks ago that Waterboy, the great four-year-old, would be retired to the stud has been modified. The Kreat black hae tecov- ered from the injury he received while training for the Brighton Cup, and @ consequence his trainer, Jack Joyn has decided to out him bo for te the numerous th the air, It is the — ck: fast, and with @ crash Munroe went to his for the colint, ‘put things were rocking as he found oe Dizzy in His Corner. Fan into a clinch; BEAiIed, "ANd sMUNMMing heard the bell clang for the end Found, Was digsyeliting in his corner, but came ous fresh, and in the next two “aly ae he]d. his own, Mahot's head gauge him cver the taht oye, Inid tt open , ese He ; Whicty Howed In a earmine ‘sttoan’ down. his side for the p of the battle. “era Handed, Maher Was Hart. { ghaite “BON# 260e Chem back tor the reel’ with Gonors even; He wert in to settle matters, chased the into submission, # Is New Haven. Many games are scheduled, but, N Yale and Princeton, at New Haven. ‘ , EXT Saturday will be one of the most important of the football season. of course, the big one is that oetween Other battles, each of which is important to the ¢levens concerned, are: Harvard vs. Dartmouth, at Cam- bridge. West Point vs. University of Chi- cago, at West Point, | is. New York University vs. Rutgers, at New Brunswick, Cornell vs. Columbia, at Ithaca. Pennsylvania vs. Indians, at Phila- delphia. Lafayette vs, Manhattan, at Jasper Annapolis vs, Bucknell, at Annapo- | Oval. soWilliams va. Wesleyan, at Middle- ienarrard Freshmen ys. Yale Fresh- men, at Cambridge. YALE WILL BE HARD GAME WITH TIGERS NEW HAVEN, Nov. 9.—Secret prac- | tice will be the order on Yale's football | fled this week. The game with PAnce- ton next Saturday ia all-important! now with the coaches, and nothing wiil be left undone to have the Elfs in the best of shape. Yale is fairly confident that victory will be hers, but if she is defeated it} will not be from lack of preparation or | FIT FOR because of over-confidence, Foster Sanford, who has so materially improved the ive work of the line, will prot 3 here this week to add finishing uches. The centre problem is 1 regarded as set- Hedy and there is & question as to who ball for Yale next Sa k's work Was not as ‘on's in th|s position yes these men must be the chances pow Morto! rs 8 ta favor FIGHTERS A AND Jimmy Britt, the California Hght- weight champion, and Charley Steger, the Hoboken light-weight, are both re- ported fit for their twenty-round bout before the Hayes Valley A. C., of San} Franclsco, to-morrow night. Although| the majority of sporting men out on! the coast think Britt will surely put Sieger to sleep, there are many others, however, Who intend to wager their money that Bleger will still be fighting whon ¢he hell has sounded bringing the contest to an ond, Britt ¥ pst SR YORs ite In the betting at odds of MUNROE IN DEMAND» Now. Jack Munroe’s victory, over Peter | Bandy Fergusoi Maher will probaly result In the Butte Miner receiving numerous shallenges| nigale. ftom the other big fellows. ‘The fight- ere who would like some of the Munroe 5 "Kid" Carter, Joo pa ben THEIR DOINGS, and “Philadelphia J. O'Brien. Mun» roe's next fight will probably be with the Boston v¥s weight. The Criterion A. C., of Boston, has made them an, offer, STONE AFTER HUGH M’GOVERN. Jimmy Stone, the clever 115-pound fighter of the Avonia A, ©., 18 anxlou to get on a match with Hughey Me- Govern before any clud that will hang up. gultable purse, A better matched i than these litue fellows could hardly be found, tone has won hiv last five fants. WILLIAMS WINS AGAIN, Morgan William: weight, of Denver victory to MMs long lst. His victim th: time was Charley Burns, the Cincinnat: met in a ewenty- round boat Puel won in tl th ine rht| a ae “a Reanze BIG ELEVENS PUT ON FINISHING TOUCHES FOR THIS, BIGGEST WEEK OF FOOTBALL SEASON COLUMBIA WORKS See for t Sawiges Contains Many Games, but the Most Important of All the Meeting of Yale and Princeton at TWO HARD. GAMES FOR HARVARD NOW}. CAMBRIDGE, Maas, Nov. 9—The the Harvard team. Two games are scheduled which will compel them to play thelr hardest in order to win. The |first of these wil! occur on Saturday, when they will line up against the Dartmouth eleven, within the shadow of the new stadium, ‘The other game will be with Yale, which will be played week ater, Baturtay ha orim- of the ‘The great, victol ae it now stan Ke-up complete, and the only “ning that re= mains is to develop it in team play. SOLDIERS PLAY GOOD FOOTBALL |e. It would také a’ contest between two college elevens ta’ rival the football struggle between the Fort Hamilton sol- dlers and the Qlymplc A.C. teams, on ‘Harlem ‘Oval, at One undred and ixth street and ‘Madison avenue, yerterday. ‘The Olymples won out by the score of 5 to 0, but the soldiers showed they Knew much abou Aiki f were vi the strong. sem spt ‘the ball for any lon tances through the line, They also, gal ‘ofympl Chemiselro shen plterkier ; ookiy, Inthe {iret of and . Jack Miller, the, ‘colum players ‘Waters, A. A, team, and Jack formerly of tae ae ee are on the O| FIRE SALE 1! AT SHORT NEXT Napoleon Lafjole, the great infielder, will play a new position on the Cleve- He will be played at shortstop, for the purpose of giving Terry Turner, the youngster se- a chance to show what he can do at he captain of the Bos- ue team, is of the: making & big next two weeks will be hard ones for (Special to The Evening World.) GRAVESEND RACE TRACK, N. ¥., Nov, 9.—The exercise hours were busy ones at Gravesend this morning. The track was in perfect condition. One ot the first members of the training dv! sion to show was Trainer ‘Tom Welsh with his extensive string of cracks. Divination, who has been tn Trainer Healy's hands during the season, has been turned over to Mr. Welsh, who this morning had the filly breeze three- quarters of a mile a tng two minute Tim Payne, Raider and Monet, will sent to Washington to fulfill their stal engagements. The Holland horses, Bob Murphy, Counterpoise and Oclawaha, arrived this morning from Aqueduct, and Bob Murphy was breezed along five furlongs in 1.10 1-2. ‘Mrs. Curtis's Eugenia Burch was this morning sent along one and pre-quartem miles in 2.16 In a handy manner. Pxitious was allowed a quarter-mile heather in 26 seconds. Murphy's Prince Blazes galloped over the mile route inj 1.48. John Carr's My Evening Star was shown to easy breezing éxérdise. Courtmald Goes Well. Courtmaid, from the same string, stepped three-quarters of @ nile in Brindie's Margraviete worked three: turlongs in 4 Teathersiouea Harmak breezed along six furlon| Barrick's McMeekin and Sun wore sent to a mile breather at a two: minute galt, ‘Trainer ‘Taylor allowed MoChesney slow gallop of around the cours J. ihansbee's Cannon Ball an . Working together, reeled William French's Wunderlich steppe@s one alle tn 1.81 1~ ite turned the mile in 1.48 1-t © as Pr i Major Daingerfield,, Sheroa and Knight Errant were all shown, Hursthourne, who was gent over to Jamaica to fulfill his engagement in the Springfield on Saturday, has three more ngagements, the Mineola Handicap, to be decided to-morrow; the Union Handi- cap on Thursday and the Continental ndicap on Saturday. After that this good race horse will be turned out for the winter. - Faturitn Goes West. Trainer Harry Mason this morning shipped to California in charge of Doo Kyle W. H. Kraft's Futurita and J. G. Follan: Daisy Greene, who are ex- tensively engaged on the Pacific Slope uring the winter season. On Thursday J. &, McGulnness’s trio, at FIGHTERS BUSY T0-NIGHT © IN FIVE DIFFERENT RINGS Callahan and Broad: Are Likely to Furnish the Best Battle of Those Scheduled. To-night wi? be one of the busiest yet no doudt result in another defeat of the year In pugilistic clretes, No 1 the ebony-colored boxer... Palme than five important bittles are moheds| P28 ea Dison jbetore wd the Drow uled to take place, Two Of them wilt Laalig Sopa be International affairs and will bela god aie Geter ee peu fought in the arena of the National Sporting Club of London. The other three boute will Bs potaoe at New Or- Teans, Phivad nd. Boston, ihe ten Whe will, clash in fHese bate Shese’ inde fou ened tes are: Tum Callahan va, Vicia" B hard. batties, the, ty fast ne, they Dison’ count Tedioce twenty s j eam ite bat and + Bre! ; in the jast 3 are! ana Al's in Me stape they will sa esa firth naa i wre champi nyne cienta ronla “A... xaden, tn, Boston To the, winne on “dope,” but pugilistic Saope” te eee to be Felled on, ys. ure rounds, Wash n . Ie Bus, ington ariel, Te eaieas ree VE, So he ft San cisco, ten rounds, many. ‘of ims, | LOU DILLON ON SPEEDWAY. a Lou Dillon was the attraction on this: Speedway yesterday. More than 10,000, persona lined the driveway and saw t champlon totter go several heats Bh good ed. She and ‘her owner, C. Ki & Bilin were loudly cheered @ur! ie cvery brush Every one of thi fighters is well e e3e known to the Roget Ce, with the exception of Bowk er, Oo 1s tan tam-wel ° atte the title which Bowker now, poston This “contest. with has won four fights 4 The Sabie between Palmer and Dixon recently. Germ Infected Air. jwampe and faden with the breathed into im Perey’ eepeanitted to every ay ot feel out of sorts withont evet iatent J oo." Vhoentx Hat World, 207 Biway, porting. ue OO JOCKEY CLUB 1 9, ols and Willams ting Bui nad bests or supe: dull letely fagged out from the depli le stiecte of thie disease ¢rogresses ani ie aie wollte tnd abscenses the skin. microbes Kidaey troubles and o! ial) ad and develops in

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