The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1903, Page 12

er MADISON AVENUE TUR’ ‘SPORTING. NEWS SPECIALLY REPORTED FOR “THE EVENING WORLD. CO N. JUDGES’ STAND ON 27TH STREET SIDE. TRICK RIDERS’ PLATFORM, SCORER SPOONER’S QUARTERS. ROUNDING 4TH AVENUE TURN. ‘HIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN DURING THE EARLY MORNING, BEFORE THE CROWD JAMMED IN AND WHEN ONLY THE “ALL NIGHTERS” WERE ON HAND TO CHEER THE WEARY CYCLISTS ON. 10T ONE CHAN By : Con CE OF FIGHT BETT AND JEFF BY KNOCKOUT, TM JEFFRIES and Jim Corbett next summer during the World’ St. Louis has not made any BL. Louis does not want the fight. are not going to fight in St, Louls ‘3 Fair carnival, bid for the fight. The sporting public would not supportt another battle between Jeffries Corbett. " Here's a little “dope” on the situation. FFRIES-CORBETT FIG HT??? ’ On Tuesday afternoon Inst the following telegram was printed, fol- d by a “scare” story to tho effect that Corbett and Jeffries would fight m St. Louis next summer as a special feature of the Falr: Lou to Dee, 8, 1903.—James J. ight either Jotrien or FS Corbett: Would you accept a big simmons here World's Fart Yeart H.W. Lanngan, Sporting Editor Star, “GENTLEMAN JIM” SMILED, Will 1?” said Monologue James. ‘Well, now, I guess yes.” “Stop kiddin’. Accept a big purse? . And the tale went rambling around and about to the effect that Jeffries ‘g@nd Corbett were matched. ai ‘ oto Corbett, to say on the subject: = peor Gat, Louln, Mo., Dec. 10, tg itor E ing World: Bebedy here mnking Corbett and or Fitz offer, I merely §f he would accept offer made for battle bere World's Fair year. Wanted to Ismow as there had been some @light talk of snme. On top of hia And now here is what Mr. Lanigan, the same who sent the above wire atatement that he ‘would make $1,000 w week all summer and not fight before next winter,” wanted to know if he would entertain proposition to do business in aum- mer. Story of heavy-weight battle here ns feature of fair just a yarn, H. W. LANIGA: Sporting Editor St. Louis Star, “NOTHING DOING,’! SAYS HAUGHTON. » | Charley Haughton !s the Jim Kenned, ‘ ly of St. Louis; {f there ts a big ‘Sporting event to be pulled off in St. Louis Haughton is the man who does the pulling; he is “It” with a great big “I” in Mound City pugilistic cir- ere is what ho has to say about the “Corbett-Jeffries St. Louis Fair Louis, Dec. 10, 1903.—Sporting Editor there is anything to the atory of Corh vening World: evries fight. Do not Charley Wouldn't that alter your complexion, €: HERE COMES COFFROTH. HE pugllistic bubbles should do a little sizzling now. Because why? Because Jim Coffroth, he who dopes out nearly all thetig cham- plonship battics that take piace out ») might, is in Gotham to-day. “He left ‘Frisco Ins: week nnd stopped over in Chicago’n day. He saw|°! where the sun takes a bath every the bikers chasing around the saucer up at the Garden last night. Wireless gossip from beyond the Rockies says he has bunches ot mes for fistic treats stored away in his think-tank, and he has. "Messrs. Fitzsimmons and Corbett Will whip into lineto fix up the details of the fent are Loy take part iy F STILL A FIGHTER that Rob ©itzstmmons vicinity and locate per- 150,18 denied by Lanky f8 perfectly satisted ‘hasno Intention of Opening a cafe in ets tho on the road troupe, but has not pany, nts It understood he is 0 1 low. Corbett dhe Je circu will just about be the first palr Mr, sTeat war- (JEFFRIES PUTS. PARTNER OUT: BOSTON, Dec, 11.—While at practice In Steve "Donnell's gymnasium, Jim Jeffries knocked out Joe Kennedy, his sparring partner, There had been ‘several ordina rounds when Jeffries and Kennedy be- gun to mix it, Jeffries forgot for the moment that he was practising. Ken- nedy sent a straight left to Jeffries's head and hooked a right to tho jaw, Quick as a Mash Jeffries ducked and flush on Kennedy's jaw. Ken- FIGHTS TO-NIGHT IN THREE RINGS ‘Three slashing battles are slated to be fought to-night. They are as follows: Jack Johnson, of Callfornia, colored heavy-weight champion of the world, ys, “Sandy” Ferguson, of Boston, twenty rounds, Colma Athletic Club, of Call- fornia; Bob Long, of Chicago, vs. “Young Pe Jackson," of Callfornia, oth colored, fifteen rounds, Bureka Athletic Club, of Baltimore, and Jack O'Keefe, of Chicago, vs. Gus Gardner, of Philadelphia, twenty rounds, Grand Rapids, Mich, ‘The most Important fight of the three’ 1s, of course, the battle between Johnson | and Ferguson. They are heavy-weights who have been fighting in great form during the last twelve months, A vic- tory for Ferguson over the big black will enable him to get on a fight with Champion Jim Jeffries for the world's jchampionship, Jeffries has already declared he will make a matoh with #erguson tf he wina, but under no circumstances will he con- sent to fight Johnaon if he Is the victor, owing to his color. Johnson will, in all probability, beat Ferguson. He is the cleverer boxer and a harder puncher. ‘The contest between Jackson and Long ought to result in one of the fiercest and most viclously fought battles ever witnessed in Baltimore. The O'Keefe-Gardner fight will prob. ably result In a victory for O' ‘The latter has improved considerably S his fighting of late, RYAN MATCHED. WITH O'BRIEN CHICAGO, Dee, 11.—Jack O'Brien and ‘Tommy Ryan were matched to-day for a eix-round “go” In Philadelphia on Christmas Eve for a $1,000-purse on an even spilt. Both men are in the city, and 0’ Brien fights Mike Schreck here at the C. A. Saturday night, when Ryan will get Ha first Hne on his rival. —— NEW M’GOVERN-WILLIS DATE. The six-round bout between Terry Mc Govern and Billy Willis, the Quaker City feather-welght, which was originally sohoduied ya be decided in the ring of the C., of Philadelphia, _to- night, has bee postponed & wets in order to M ue. He his brother Hughey. ee NEW “ORLEANS ENTRIES. 3, La., Dec. 11.—The purse. nn Leaves Van Ness Ive ae New York 4. Monsurabh cc i) econ] Raco—Five, furlongs. os) Athiana Caledonite Ir Helle Manone” Wreath of) WF.) 108 Soldier of Fortuneiit furlongs; Preliminary 8 Jonn Doyle’: Race—Six axette Louln Kraft y TlKht Trogan Sadlo Burch Exclamation Morning Star Forerignt + i Heaira Sarah Maxim | Bia Race—Belling: Qne and « naje miles, esta | ageaai ei i|so much of variation as in a elquering the world of commerce. fi] buoyed by a hope,’ BICYCLE RAGE CRUEL, DECLARES OPIE READ BY OPIE READ, Author of “A Kentucky Colonel,’’ ‘‘The Jucklins,’”?’ A “Tennessee Judge,’’ &c. Getting sport out of a bicycle endurance race is like attempting to {startle yourself with a platitude. In it there is about’ as much thrill as ‘Madison Square Garden 10,000 people gazed in presumable emotion at a ‘number of youths pumping themselves round and round, winding an end- less chain of monotony. A great philosopher declared that the world was moved by sympathy, but does not man like to see man’s physical endurance put to a severe test? The Romans demanded blood; our demands are not so humane—we pro- long a torture and call it sport. It is true that bone and muscle may be trained until {t would seem that weariness is banished; ambition’s nerve is like a steel wire, but wires rust, and human will, the force cordial of all achievement, must reach its limit and a human machine must suffer, But upon it the crowd will gaze, to cheer a sudden spurt, to catch at an impulsive agony and hang @ deafening approval “in the slippery clouds.” The bicycle as a means of private torture surrendered its day years ago. The fat man who broke his leg during the craze now walks with a limp and the maiden lady who ran into the sprinkling cart in the brown street of the peaceful village sits with stiff back in the dog cart; the houses of junk dealers are filled with wheels and the predictor said that never again would the public exhibit even the mildest degree of interest in a bi- cycle race, ANALYZING THE ENTHUSIASM. But last night he was at Madison Square Garden, with thousands of others, striving to discover the secret of enthusiasm. For after all a crowd {s the greatest show on earth. In a cyclorama of countenances the world is reflected; in the multitude we behold the past and the future, and art has yet to devise a music as thrilling as the yell of a mob. No man may know what he needs, but every man thinks he knows what he wants, and he does. Philosophy may preach and common sense dictate, but the sheep follow the sheep. And last night they had come from every corner of creation, eager and expectant. Jostling the tough was the man of fashion; and dignity shoved the square-jawed thug, while bloom!ug maidens from the country suddenly found themselves mirrored in the eyes of the man who explains the little game to the farmer and then pockets the money, Could a crowd have been moro illustrative of composite America? The highest and the lowest gath- cred in a mess mottled by the variations and colors of facial intélligence, It was lke our boasted democracy of citizenship every “sur years—odds and ends meeting to dispute the divine right of kings brotherhood of human interest. It was as if a hundred county fairs, with their indigestion vendors and their squealing machines, had assembled for rehearsal. The theatres con- tributed as with a gentle puff a mild degree of their perfume, the crab- apple scent cf elegant Nife, together with an occasional whiff of lower- stratum musk, Little old men came with mincing pace to gaze water-eyed upon the whirl-i-gig, and statesmen-like old-timers from distant communities where {t is believed that the ballot box echoes the voice of the Lord, shouldered their way through the throng. It was like Vanity Fair when the laces are all gold and when nothing is left save the booths full of people. WHEN THE CROWD SHOUTED, “There spoke the sea,” said Ancient Pistol when the crowd shouted, and many times the sea spoke last night and without cause, a chopp channel, a tide not to be explained by the laws of earth or the chang- ing of the moon, The innocent who had been waiting for the sport to begin continued to wait. There were no horses to break loose, no dogs to fight. no end to look forward to, nothing but round and round with not circling flight of gild geese. Big fellows howled themselves hoarse and women, clapping thelr hands, wondered why. “Tt {3 all very well,” sald an American mine owner from Mexico, “but I don't quite see the point. Every time I leave this country and come back | IT find that our people have either taken up a new craze or revived an old ‘one, and the revival of an old craze is like a recurrence-of rheumatism— an expert can't get at the cause. And these are the people that are con- It doesn’t seem possible. Wh such an cnertainment as this puts me in mind of an old man trying to hop, There ‘“Iis in it no more of the life of real sport than in the fluttering of a chicken with {ts head cut off. In Mexico such a thing as this would be impossible. “Ah,” spoke up one of his friends, “I have known you to sit through a bull-fight, and compared with that tis thing might be regarded as a Sun- day-school convention.” “Yes,” ho replied, "I have sat through a bull-fight, but I was conftanly “A hope “Yes, sir; a hope that the bull might kill the Gusaee That was something tu look forward to, and upon the outcome an expert ope place a bet, but in a bicycle race there 18 nothing save a atraining of is hypnotic fancy that it might be eked out of a ham-strung horse at a Derby. But last night at ip MYNHEER'S WIN A BIG SURPRISE (Special to The Evening World.) ‘BW ORLDA’ La,, Dee. 11. heer’s victory over Mrs, Frank Foster yesterday illustrates the uncertainty of horse racing. Mynheer has not won @ race in two years, while Mrs. frank Voster has won more races than uny horse in training on the American turf this season, Bad handling and incompetent riding are responsiole for wynheer's tallure t win a race in two yea-s. ‘The horse dis- played winning form on the metropou lan tracks three summers axo nid ran 4 number of veal good races on the dry here two Winters az. nheer never could run in the mud, hich accounts for the fact that ine horse invariably finished among the jo, Fans’ jast winter, (he wettest 30 biatory of the sport at New Oricans. ae horsé wag a! out when shipped to uuls In the spring and never bul a chance to freaven at the conclusion of the St. Louis sca- son in October, Jockey Tod Walsh will hardly get a ghance to ride another favorite ater his bad luck with Diaphonous. ‘Thi the first favorite Walsh had “the mount on in over a year, He says ho was caught in a jam at the star!. The horse was practically left standing at the post. JENKINS REFEREE OF THIS MATCH The wrestling bout between August Faust, of Germany, and Hjalmar Lun- din, of Sweden, is attracting consider- able attention. ‘The pair are to have it out under Graeco-Roman rules, best two in three falls ¢o a finish, at Prospect Hall, Prospect avenue, near, Fifth uve. nue, Brooklyn, 21. This will be their second match, and there is much Speculation as to the outco! ecm yenkins, the champion’ catch-ag- catch-can wrestler of the world, who is to meet Dan McLeod at Madison Square Garden the following night, has been selected, to referee, —_—=__—_— TUCKER WILL POST FORFEIT. “Chick ‘Tucker, the hard-hitting feather-Wwelebt fighter, has tired of walt: Ing for Harris to accept the offerg e by the different matchmakers oi clubs in’Philadelphia for a between him and ‘Terry McGovern, and to-morrow him and Terry met of $0) and. issue ® Shalienge to Naat, MoGovern Ina fteen Bree round bout at either 122 pane at.3 P, M. of 124 pounds at 6 P. Of. for « side bet of $500. —<—<———— FILLY GREAT CROSSING DEAD. W. Showalter’s good two-year-old filly Great Crossing 1s dead. Owner Sho- walter had expected great things of the Eoungster 15a three-year-old. Dr. Williams & CUR Disease of Men. 165 West 34th St,, New York, Hours, 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. Sundays, 10 to 3. Sportsmen's Goods, “Tue Waite BiG f # $c. Faee Exnwitions Dany CKMAN CHICAGO HANDICAPPER, pied sue siete Bala =a until shipped jero | ‘BALD SELECTS BOWLER AND FISHER TO WIN RAGE BY EDDIE “CANNON” BALD. Greater and greater is this six-day race as the hours go by. I'm not surprised iv see thousands of people in the Garden at 7 o'clock in the morning cheering wildly for this or that team. Evory one in the race is a tar. It's a race of the yest men of two countries, but I think at the finish America will show itself so far/ ahead in this game, as in others, that there will be no room for comparison. American teams, to my way of thinking, will finish one, two, three. Ail week I've had my eye on that Mrench patr, Breton and Contenst, but now L think they'll finish “outsidejthe money.” Both are game, but Breton has shown the force of the pace set. Hie’ ‘attack of hemorrhages {n the early hour of the day shows that he'll hardly be able to malntain the pace to come, running thirty-six! hours or more. His partner is a great rider, but it will take two to win this raga \ FOUR TEAMS LIKELY TO FIGHT IT OUT, As things look now there are four teams, I think, which will be fighting for | first prize on Saturday. First, ‘there's Bowler and Fisher; then there's the Bedell brothers, Walthour and Munroe and Leander and Butler. Of all sprinters in the race I believe Fisher {s the best, and base my claim on his races with Frani Kramer during the summer months. He'll be the last one on the track for bia team, and it will havo to be a fast man who'll beat him out. Like Frank Kramer has done in The World, I pick the Fisher and Bowler team to win, with the Bedéll brothers close up. CALLAHAN WON EASILY FROM BILLY WILLIS PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 11.—Tim Cal- lahan defeated Billy Wilts in a olx- round bout tefore the Broadway A. C. last night. Tho contest was a pretty one from the start, but, Callahan so- cured a big lead in the first round and Increased it in each succeeding one. es: Although outcladsed, Willis mado an aii Rip Abie salvation wae hope, ma desperate effort to turn Eo ene 24 the tide in his favor in the last round, Ks oa gioyed the but Callahan was too clever and jubbed made a better showing in the his man repeatedly, jt round than in the previous ones, In the fourth round Willis was sent Lees iteg hnabanmesbednedagia cg I Ea EL reeling against a post. His face came In comtact with the upright and the, blood flowed frecly, Willis was tem- | porarily atunned by the contact, but soon recovered. This was the only time during | the bout that he was in real (was halp Co wor. easily. Sporting. Sporting. SYMPHONY, 3: to 1, WON, and Bellario, 12 to 1 ipa my . fies i 8s Fate ae sects BY secant ts ae a i ney with, x lartling regularity Tv been’ getting tho. figen at New Orleans’ to ‘dnte, showin tno-horse wir Zhured ri BDATs 6-1. won BE &th PHO’ Shonen BAHGNE, Dec. 10th—SYMPHONY, 14-5. ‘Therefore. there wee wan rnd Inst $100 ACCOUNT OPERATED ON A #20 1ASIS WOULD WIN $50 ACCOUNT OPERATED ON A $10 RASIS WouU §25 ACCOUNT OPERATEP OV A $5 BASIS wou Opportunity fore ne ae end m t of $4 Joat: 7 RO, Won; BRLDARIO. 12-4. |e “are thoes heat, Ry request, I wilt | i ae tial Aton Operated on &, $2 BASIS WOULD WIN 70 DATE $144,00, For Monday, Tuesday any Mabe For Mi 4, two 8 to 1 alicta: these nd ready, and stable, sainegtient t 10 me “thee melon lon Y shat, hy i be na pike in ies ane, yout f. ta G tot whet on Satire work ani | Ya ainiod mpeniatly hr thin tay, ee, Nay tm the time for Yau tn tery he ADE me by net, streenae at Mein A) inttietlgan. conditions, wer AWHen remitting, glwass uke Post-o eae Orter., Rank rege any Marke th inmate sate pe Airees, Termer DAYS. 810 Fon 0 DAYS. 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