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Cia) GARDNER 400k £IKE FITZ FROM THE REAR GARONER GETTING READY. if Mill to Be Decided in Boston Should Be Lively Affair. WHEN GEORGIE Saw 4 LIKENESS OF Sth THE OLDMAN, DECKER OUTBOXED Yorker, Who Put Up Good Fight. (Special to The Eventing World.) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4.—George | held his own at tyle of fght the latter kept bi in 7 tonal A. C. on Saturday night. Th nN Was rendered. wevere wintry weather, but the quali of the bouts made up for thig lack patronage, Four good preliminary bouts Were decided before the more !mportant attraction was put on. From the start Tucker was hand!- eapbed by tls short reach. Decker also outweighed. him py fully, ten pounds, eigh' THOREr “aid *not “follow be 7 im the first two rounds, jadbing Tucker hard in the face In the next two rounds “Tuoker sailed into Decker and forced im all around the ring, letting fy has beon indulging the experience o yesterda ning every _ eT UCKER THIS TIME Philadelphian Had Every Advantage Over New and tights for his body and Jaw, Tucker C'Ria’) ‘Decker, the local fighter, had | MMUIp many hard smasios to eK A Made the better of “Chick Tuckér, | boys fought fast and vic! Decker the New York feather-weight Nghter, In| Griuwing blood nose, t and thelr six-round pout before the Na- ing in stiff body pune No de- h After the fight Tucker announced that Sttendance was small, owing to the in° the future every man he fought In the Quaker City would have to fignt him at his welgnt, or 14 pound ‘nd not at catch welghts, whieh he has heen compelled to accept In eleven of the thirteen fights he has fought In this 222, JACK FROST NEARLY — lefts | While Tom-Ssiavkey,. the) /6x-sailer oor exercise In all sorts of weather | since he became matched to fight J: the Butte miner heavy-weight, 2 it is doubtful if Tom will ever forget | eaters and, i Sharkey donned heavy § with his tratrer, "Kid" Griffo, on his usual! jouraey up to Central Park, ~ ae started where he has been in the habit of run- morning. ‘he zero weather RYAN AND O'BRIEN OPEN BIS TO-DAY ‘The location of the battle-ground for tho coming middle-welght championship fight between Tommy Ryan, the present holder of the title, and “Philadelphia Jack O'Brien" will be decided on to day in Chicago, where the men will meet to pick a bid from those offered. ‘The fighters were to have met on Sat- y In the same city, but owing to the fact that Ryan s mother-in-law died in the Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago the opening of the bids wa StDON until to-day, O'Brien says he will do all In his power to Induce Ryan to ae- cept the big offer from one of the clubs In Philadelphia for a six-round bout, as he claims he tn not prepared at present for a bout of a longer duration. O'Firien further states that Mt, Carbon A. C., of Mauch Chunk, Pa., Is ready to hang up A purse of $6,000 for a ffteen-round bout between them, "Beton vee ree| PUT TOM SHARKEY OUT didn't bother Sharkey nt first, but When he returned home his hands and esra were so benumbed that he was ld is rub them for fear they would atlor said he suffered from Ss of the cold weather y times while he was ki the nav did he feel the cold so muet as he did yesterday. He eald tt tooic him nearly thirty minutes to thaw out after he had arrived home “I will pick out no more cold mo ings like yee sild Sharkey, * do my outd 2 the m BOSTON, Jan. 4.—Jack Blackvurn, of Philadelphia, bested Ji Cardner, of Lowell, in twelve rounds Saturday night Mt the Central Athletic Club. Black- born outpointed Gardner in eleven ¢ je twelve rounds, but in the elev he came back strong and again out- Pointed Gardner. Ho was given the Gward by Referee Jack Sheeh: Many vit ly impo rounds, and Kid Mitzgerald beat Young| up to-day at the regular me Deshler in eight rounds. Eastern Le: eof Profess = Mubs at the Hotel Victoi CORNELL WINS AT CHESS. gd ss will be on n chess trophy question hes at last 1 + pelt won the tri-collegt: Yesterday from the Universities of > league will s Brown and Penasyl na. of 190) with a m ment has been in p #y8 AC) circult, MS the German Press Club in this clty, the} 4 pulat whtc Meragelted Players being the t# of Herman Ri-| reoting is whe Araae V der, of the Staats-Zeitung. TAME TAR Ten Reel Cornell led ut the end of the first jp Mere beaten in the third roun Pwoore was then tled by University of E ch having h round yester- © rounds, but both of her Dloyers LIVELY HANDBALL. Cornell asain won both, gazes and ather drove Hawtch with oi points. tof P. wax! yandoall players into the courts Seegerien of inatel droves, ‘Those who attended th for a trophy off 4 t disappointed. The play Rice of New York. ‘The first. match Ba vihenD J. *, ant ‘ollowsn i ly. The matches were begun] portion to low! in the gam year fora new trophy offered) John Kruger and M, MoMahon, yer ers were Mitchell and Rana | cracls of the N lagna adl Waters and Price of Prown,| have issucd a the Murnmy and Faught of U. of P. broth jhon and home gas a x all, ‘The Murray brothers tae game, When It is play lively and interesting. of home from ius yesterday. He defeated en: ‘he middle-weight cham-] ~~ COLUMBIA FENCERS. News, Friday night | Wee nearly finished by a hard right the Jaw. By clever stalling he pulled pe through, and, after the minute's res —.— lant matters for Kid Hessall beat Pocahontas tn s!X| the magnates to discuss will be brought ng of the al Baseball | he meet- of the most mpontant in the htstory of the organt ition and ig likely to cover two or effect that Jimm manager of the Washington team of the Season and that he wil! last affairs th fn conne Im Three-Day Tou t They ‘Gave Meat Boys of Brow and Sev conferences were held Ponnay night after many of the magnat For the fourth consecutive time Cor: ived dn town. It Is believed that ch& begin good gcames of hand several courts yew games in a mood was no dis- a 6 to be played wit) MANNING TO RUN WASHINGTON CLUB —_-— The latest rumor in baseball circles comes from Washington, and is to the Manning, the former American League, hus been asked to offctate as manager of the team next rive In that efty In a few days to have a talk with some of the officials of the club in re-| 4 surd to taking hold of the nine. The rumor says that a certain man of Who has been mentioned onsent to buy stock In the cluid provide ing Manning was made manager of the team ——— ANOTHER AUTO RECORD. DAY for + the be 1 4—The Pack. f n out yesterday jals on the Daytona end of nd eclipsed its record of a mile in 00 %5 seconds made Saturday {On first trial Schmidt drove the ma. chine a mile in 482-5 seconds, coming within two see nds ot cauailing the World's record made by Anxiere: Dourdan, . Nov. ae, Aree Ae Four ore mile trlals Were made by Schinkdt, Dut he could do no betters bay made it'in 4 the Kk er was made In sec- the Amer record made Sati t 3 Ths conclides the speed trials on the beach untit the meet, Jan, 26 to Feb, 6 erence BASKET-BALL AT COLUMBIA. Columbia freshmen will have a bas- ket-ball team during the coming season A pretentious schedule of fourte gumes has already been arranged Manager Richara Conried, son of He rich Conried, the directok of the Me! ropolitan Opera-House, The freshen will play Cutler, Berkele Peto The Columbia freshmen have organized a} Dwight and Trinity Schools, De La kaley Vera knockout, - | tencing team and are planning to hala a| Institute, Webster Academy and Ware ice (Will be puraber ps, pourma rents mith neal, sinha. ‘ Cutler Kebool, which lao Nas & C6 , Keated o Columbia Creainent in a niwtoh i the! Columbia Fengers’ yall mneet oo aalaaet obien and Irving Institutes. Tho two most important games on the list, are with ithe Yate freshmen and the University of Pennsylvania 1907 team, Both thee contests will probably take place im the eevee an, HART AND GARDNER WILL MEET TO-MORROW NIGHT | This Pair Ought to Furnish One of the Fastest Bouts of the Season. The first impertant fight of the new jgreat fight and was giving Gardner as year will be brought off In Boston to- | good as he recetved. 5 » fighting in great form the last few month round bout with Joe and hig great victor ‘arter ai a Nfteen-round contest battle will be Mar Ught-heavywelzht handed yoxer of Lowell in good shape, ‘ow ought to be an- pus battle as that recent- y Hart and Carter, anded punchérs: round bout in eeting of Hart Last Time They Met Hart Broke His Hand and Bout ~” a Cie Yous TIME HART IS GETTING HIS WANOS INTO SHAPE, Was Stopped. if CLEVAR) ~f Boy (v fi OOS Heal a Beyer oS" AENTOCK IANS. SEE.H/M. BOX HART AS WIS DAILY RUM 'NOW THE CHICKENS INIMDE GARDEN The New York Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association will open its an- nual show at Madison Square Garden to-morrow morning. The exhibition will continue from 9 A. M. until 10.30 P. M, each day until Saturday night. On Wednesday, ‘Thursday and Friday the Atlantic Cat Club will give its ex- hibition in the concert hall in connec- don with the show in the Garden, and one fear kat re cpt aroibe remarkable, : ers in’ this country “neland will be shown to the best nal ’ . Kee: nthe oe monty, Interest has been taken The arrangement of the show will be the sume as usual, the pigeons and pet stock having their proper Places, and GAs in the Garden will be sary to accor number of exhfolte ante eae VANDERBILT WANTS JOCKEY PHILLIP Agent Jack McDonald Makes Flattering Offer to New Orleans’ Star Rider. (Special to The Evening World.) bred stars, has made an offer of $500 a NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 4.—W. K. Van-| month for first call on Phillips's services, derbilt, through his American agen:.|The boy's father says that unless some Jack McDonald, has made Jockey H.| astern owner bids higher he will let Phillips a flattering offer to ride for hi | ‘0k have first call on his gon. stadle in France next season. He wil.| Cook had first call on Phillips last hardly secure the boy, however, a: (season for $300 per month, Charlle Blll- Phillips's tather objects to taking lis son 80n gave $200 per month for second call abroad. on the boy, and Jim Arthur paid $200 per Fred Cook, the owner of English Lad month for third cal! and several other Western thorough-, Tho elder Phillips has a number of All the rich racing stakes of the com- {ng season on the metropolitan tracks jose-to-day, “More than” $600,000 Is rep- resented by the vartott#*SIAssIS¥"of the Coney Island Jockey Club, the Brooklyn Jockey Club and the Brighton Beach Racing Association. The Brooklyn Handicap alone will be worth $20,000, the Suburban $20,000 and the Brighton $25,000. From the standpoint of an owner this {s one of the most important days in nels previous one Hurt Gardner 1s the ¢ but Hart has a terrific Hop, and ts\ one of the gamest men that ever climbed Into a fishters have ben training hard and aré condition to put up a gruelling which compelled and Gardner was him to stop fg the racing calendar. It 1s the Impor- tant matter of making the right selec- tion for these races that is causing the owner much anxiety, In @ first-class stable the amount of money won cuts @ large figure in the earnings of the tralner also, and it is the fear that a cheap selling piaters, and he would pre- jfer to remain in the West and have his RICH ST KES OF TURF son stay with him to ride these horses, A ips leads th by a mtortadle, mereine ooo WW. Fisher, who stands second in the st of winn! riders here, is a white halred, rosy chosked Meee ¢ 3 A ea ELS CYCLING LEADERS FOR 1904, bad entry may be made in a rich stake As the result of the mall which ‘ing the trainer more or mail vote, which Mer OM Srila necneapacis apyies has just been taken, the Century Road to two-year-old’ stakes; for the: in Club Association will start the new charge can have no reai conception a8\year with the strongest board of of- yet is young- eet Ge actual merits of his yrows fcera {thas ever had, ‘The national which of them were best as yearlings. |OMcers for 1904, elected by a@ unani- But much can happen Vetween yearling |Mous vote, are: President, Charles P, days and the running of the stake, as|Staubach, or Yonkers, N. Y.; First the history of the turf shows. VicePrenident. 1). M. Adee, of Metro- I.j Second “ Vice-President, ‘The Coney, Island vakcs, with their politan, L. estimated values, are: L. Judd, of Chicago, ill.; Secretary, cerigogubusban, ($40,000), the Comomnwealth | J; M- Werry, of Now York’ Treasure, ‘Advance ($15,000), the. June|D, H. Lodge, of New York. Handicaps (815,000). the Equality | ($0,000 bb exces spindeitt ($0,000), the Great rial 825 iS the Great Tria the Double Event ($20.000), the Zephyr (85,000), the “Spring (85,000), the" NEW ORLEANS ENTRIES, . {$5:000)', the Benson= ($5,000), ‘the Inde} dence (84, the Fight (86,000), the Se the Autumn (88,000), ¢ tember $6, Flatbush — ($10,000). the Great Eastern Jo} Joetpuse HO) rete” geste eaaighy jentries for to-morrow’s races are at NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 4—The Dave Sullivan, the little Nghting Irishman, who recently gave Austin Rice such n-round bout, has been matched to meet Jimmy Briggs, the ston, ina fifteen-round bout before the evening, Jan. KEARNS IS BACK AT THE GAME. the light-welght a beating in a fifte hard-hitting feather-weight fighter o Boston, on Tuosday Tim Kearns, of Philadelphia, on Saturday night, w to meet Dave Holly, the colored Hz fore the Broadwa if he beats Holly he will bn with the club would gladly | Championship of the world. HUGHEY M’GOVERN AND JIMMY STONE TO MEET. pound fighter of the Avonta in a twenty- within two weeks, A rounds in the same city hould put up one of the best battles between of Philadelphi *,, of this city, will be matched in a few days ight off at Pittston, Pa MeGovern and ellows ever looked at TUCKER OFFERED MATCH WITH MAHARG. matchmaker of the | the Avonia A. C. light-weight fighter, of Philade which he intends to bring off on the night of accept the offer providing Moharg will vwigh in at 124 pounds at 6 P, M., or 133 pounds at ringside, CALLAHAN Tim Callahan, round bout with Clarence Fe before the Watita League Club, Forbes he will be mat six-round bout before the Chicago FUREY AND BEZENAH ARE MATCHED. ah, the Cincinnatl light-weights, have been inthian Athletic Club, of New ‘The men are to welght in at 142 ‘is are ut present in training at the Crescent City. TO-NIGHT’S FIGHT CARD. ts before the Ninth Ward of Philadelphia, has offered weight, a good Incentive to meet Billy round bout at the show ‘Tucker says he will glndly “Chick” ‘Tuck: hin, in a six IN GOOD SHAPE FOR BOUT, feather-welght, ts n fine shape for his six- bes, the Chicago feather-weight, which takes place of Chicago, to-morrow night. ed to fight either Benny Yanger or Tommy Mowatt in a If Callahan beats matched for a ten-round contest before the The contest will take pln down on the — ABOUT THE FIGHTERS [DUFFY WILL RUN AT COLUMBIA'S MEET ‘The feature of the Columbla College ter, of Boston, who put "Cub" White, of| games, to be held in Madison Square st round of their six-round bout before the National matched immediately after the fight ght, of Philadelphia, for six rounds b on next Thursday night, ssa a challenge to fight Joe Gans for the light-welght Garden on Jan. 30 will be the appear-| ance of Arthur F. Duffy, the holder of the world's record of 9 3-5 seconds for 100 yards and holder of the English champlonship. Duffy will, participate in the exty- yard A, A, U, championship event, which will be decided in conjunction with the games. Seldom in the history of amateur athletics has there bean such an array of first-class events scheduled as these games will present. Besides the inter- collegiate relays at one and two miles, in which Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Uni- versity of Pennsyivania, Cornell and Columbla will take part, there are nine other relays, a trifle less important, it is true, than, the college affairs, but Which may prove more interesting in the closeness of thelr finishes. "The National Guard, the private and public schools, both high and element- Bry, the Indian League, the ¥, M. C, RK 'the athletic clubs, each has ite spe- dar‘relay, while there is a mateh re. fay race between Columbla Law Schoot 1aXa the College of Physicians and Sur- eons. The different classes at Colum~ Teh Aeil also fight 1€ out to @ finieh in a mile relay, —_TT— BIG CROWD, BUT NO BISHOP. ‘An immense congregation, which had gathered in All Souls’ Church, sixty- sixth street and Madison avenue, yes- terday morning, in expectation of Wwit- nessing the confirmation of a class of sixty by Bishop Potter, was disappoint- ed at the announcement that the Bishop would be unable to be present, as lie is fering from the effects of the Ined about two weeks ago. gramme for while in the Ly i tS tion as to his right to make the appoint. ment to Mr. Rives, wiho deolded that ae our bacam 7.50 fFsr000. { follow: ‘on Race—I First Race—Stx furlongs; pu: HENNINGER OT Equity... ss+ee 00 Second ¢Mary Moore sLon Woo Charles D. Bidney Si *Boaster , Arden . — He and a parte Arthur Li Exaster Walte: Bilver Meade Because Terry MoGovern refused to} Exclamation give Len Henninger, a local fighter of | Qnyx ll Allentown, Pa., $5 which the latter} Ronograpl 1-109 Capt, Gas claimed McGovern and his representa-| Fourth Race—Mile: handieap, tive, Joe Humphries, agreed to give|Mynneer, .... .... ff Manda Across, ‘him for boxing Terry in the latter city] ithics .... : Husgah last week, Henninger swore out @ war-] Dan McKenna fiat eR rant for McGovern, with the result eth Re Lady Fr ath of Ly that Terry was arrested on Saturday in| *Annie Max. Allentown just as ne was about to leave | Neither yin , Prank Ric the city, Sarl Kahler... 1 McGovern dented that he had prom-| Title Jack Homer ii ised Henninger the monev. and Humph- i rles made the same answer to the| *laty M charge, claiming Henninger had asked| HPS, ‘ul for a chapoe against McGovern, Tho in Coulter: Lett. Shelly, latheniwane in two rounde,| 2AmPrentice allowance, Heaninger . sbeebs shee Enel Humphetes etepping t. Atter Metening tthe testimony, al-| Ch@rsed with oy?” Death, derman Menta, before whom McGovern| Anthony Brant, twenty-nine years Was arraigned. came to the conclusion | 014. of No. 173 Waekoft avenue, Brook. ; yn, Was arrested yester by the that Henninger wee entitled to the}! ti. ut the Hamburg Avenue Station amount he clalmed for taking the deat-| on a charge of having caused the death Ing, and fined McGovern $1125, of which| of Frank Roltzel, twelve years old, who ved at No, 283 Jotterson street, Youn Henninger received tho # he aued for. | Hoiggol died in the German Hoapitel hate DER eR Satuniay from injuries recelyed throug. MUST LOOK TO AHEARN, | ariven, it ‘is. ailesed, oOy Bran on Thursday mfternoc Nut Mr, Cantor Promined to Atal ~ : Outgoing School Inxnectors, r Willi & The twenty school inspectors whose ° 1 lams Co. term of office expired on Dec, 31 re- All BP z celved a letter from Jaoob A, Cantor rivate Saturday in’ which he explained that it Diseases had been imposslble for him to have St Sao Oresldont NS Telrement }165 West 34th St., New York. Hours,9 A.M. to 8 P.M. Sundays, 10 to 3, One of the inspectors sald: "Mr, o; tor wrote that he had referred the qui yacant at the same tone Gamtors len expired, ne To make bustnesa boom during the Gull season it is only necessary to advertise in the right place. The