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"After considerable wrangling a match finally been arranged between Joe the light-weight champion of tho and Willie Fitzgerald, of South | "Brooklyn, They have been signed by | of tl tan A. C. of Detroit, to t lons in a ten-round bout befor club on the night of Jan. 12 for ight-welght championship of the will be the second time these oo have met in the squared circle. | In previous encounter, fought in san | on May 29 last year, mac by knocking him’ out in tenth round. Since that battle ice has improved in his fighting ana confident of being able to stand Bie clever colored boxer. wgreement and other de- | atch have been arranged wine the managers of both men. ————?_____ Nellle Waddell Goes Lame. jellie Waddell, backed for a ood » fan a slashing race and pulled ieqy Jame, at New Orleans veater: Tt_was tho filly's first start down | ‘The bad underpining ts all that mpevented Nellie from winning this race. | ¥, San ._ MHE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1904. NOW Featherweight Cham- pion Agrees to Meet , California Wonder at -1380 Pounds, His “Own Terms, Fight to} Be Decided Next! , Month. 'E latest and choicest piece of pugilistic news is contained In the foregoing telegram re- tetved by The Evening World to-day. Tt comes direct from the little cham- Dion, who is now on the Pacific coast ‘Wearing off the effects of the strenu- ous training done for his recent fight with Eddie Hanlon. *The match with Britt has been talked of ever since that Thanksgiv- Ing Day up in Hartford, Conn, two) years ago, when Terry McGovern met the first ring upset of his career and @ new champlou, a brainy youth from jenver, assumed the feather-weight mpionship responsibilities, Manion and Terry Fatle “Young Corbett" had_beaten the in- vinelble Terry decisively. "Tho pugilistio | sarprise of the decade had come, Who, | therefore, could be dug up to make the! title change hands agar No one, lest it be Terry himself, out even on a sec- | ond try the Brooklyn whirlwind failed petineed Hanlon then loomed up as al glekmant for. othe. fistic prestige at ing Corbett,” but his attempts to) wie it, valiant though they were, are now «mly parts of record stored away in | the ppgilistic Hall of Fame. Ilé.Up to Brittow, Hl Pritt! Britt! That's the ch came the cry/ftom the coast of the West. “He kage of vrains, this little Prntentas enynd so it's now strength and stamina to Mr. Britt, ritt is a light-weight, of pitting him against all-important weight gree to anything reasonable,” During all th “Corbett” question | was “Young Corbett’s” ‘answer when | conditions of tie proposed mateh were broached, “Oye hundred and twenty- nine pounds at 6 o'clock ought to sult Britt. “Corbett” Gives In to Britt. “Make it 1207" asked Britt, Then started the quibbling, Britt was firm, | “Corbett professed to be, too, and not until last night) was an agreement reached. “Corbett” agreed to Britt's weight terms, and, in fact, everything else to | And now the pugilis- ar is in store. a (ROAD DRIVERS’ OFFICERS. Road et on the match fc treat of the meeting of the gre annual yivers’ Association for 1904 was hela fast night at Healey's, and officers for 1904 elected. ‘The officers chosen are as follows First Vices mreeent, John L. Dodge resident, Dr. H. D. G President, Alexander New Vice-President, Nathan tary-Treasurer, Alfred n’ Smith. a BASKETBALL TEAM SUSPENDED| The Registration Committee of the Metropolitan Association of the A. A. i has suspended the Washington Con- tinental basketball team, of Schene N, for playing ‘with the pro- hird street team, of New Year's ss will please note players on the t MMiden, Lennon fessional w York, aeeeeres ue suspension. are Messi, ardman, Williams Wd Christha a « NEW ORLEANS: ENTRIES. “xew or. dan for to-morrow ofiyst Mace—Selting a Gi. Fleauant riewories Mep Aside Twenty on ve. All| this » entries s follows and a half fur ‘yprieny ar and. Hungoy Tisha eu HW. 1. Coleman kson Handicap: 0 nd one milte kin 101 r an Hondage a 1s si PhaceSeiling: one mile and ay given “Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien two hard fights, has been matched’ with Hugo Kelly, the Chicago fighter, who fought O'Brien a ten-round draw in Kansas City {last week. They will meet in a six-round bout before the Chicago A. A. on fighter, “YOUNG CORBETT” AND BRITT MATCHED TO FIGHT. SAN FRANCISCO, JAN. 7. Sporting Editor of The Eventing World, New York City: | have agreed to box Britt at 130 pounds, weigh-in at 6 o'clock. Graney to be referee. Bids are now open and bout is to be decided in February. Weight proposition was Britt’s. “YOUNG CORBETT. SCHOOLBOY ATHLETES WILL BE ENCOURAGED The various athletic clubs in the elty Ie-school teams, and the joint games of Intend to promote athletics among the|the Pastime Athletlc Club and Com- public schoolboys in {he future. ‘They|pany K, of the Eighth Regiment, at the will do this In the most practical way, | Eighth Regiment Armory, on Feb, 6, will by mitting eventa on the programmes of | have at least one event for the young- ‘their games open to the public school- | sters of the public schools. boys only. Even the great relay meet to be held At the games of the Church Athletfo | under the aupices of Columbia Unt- League, to be held at the armory of | yerelty at Madison Square Garden on the Ninth Regiment on Feb. 13, there | ine card for the youngster of the coon the card for the youngsters of the com- will be @ half-mile relay race for pub-' mon schools, FIGHT NEWS Jack (Twin) Bully: LATEST GOSSIP AND INTERESTING FROM MANY RING CENTRES, the New England middle-weight champion, who has Jan. Matchmaker Exsig completed all details for the fight after he had received a telegram from Sullivan accepting the terms for the match, TIM KEARNS FIGHTS HOLLY TO-NIGHT. Tim Kearns, the light-weight fighter of Boston, who showed some of his former good fighting qualities by knocking out “Cub White, the Quaker City in one round in Philadelphia on Saturday night, will meet Dave Holly, the colored light-weight, in a six-round bout before the Broadway A, C., of Phila- elphia, to-night, Kearns is liable to be defeated in this bout, as Holly will have- the benefit of height, welght and reach over him, “GOOD EYE” CHARLEY WHITE NOW MATCHMAKER, Charley White, the popular referee of fistic battles, has been appointed the | representative of the Eureka A. C., of Baltimore, in this city. As White knows how to pair off good fighters, the chances are he will send many good fighters to that city to perform, “ HERRERA VS. NEARY TO-MORROW NIGHT. Aurelia Herrera, the Mexican feather-weight, will make his first appearance east for Montana at the Badger Club, in Milwaukee, to-morrow night, when he meets Charlle Neary, of that city in a ten-round bout before the Milwaukee A. C. JIM =LYNN AND ANDY WALSH TO MEET, Articles of agreement between Jim Flynn, of Pueblo, Col., and Andy Walsh, of Canada, have been signed to box twenty rounds before the Rovers Athletic Club Jan, 2. Flynn left for Denver and will begin training there ‘at once in the Denver Athletle Club. HERRERA MATCHED WITH LOUIS LONG, Aurelia Herrera, the Mexican fighter, has been signed to meet Louls Long, the Callfornia feather-weight, In a twenty-round bout at a boxing show to be brought off at Montana on Jan, 2, After this baitle Herrera will go to Chicago, where he expects to get on a match with some of the good lght- welghts in that city ZIEGLER READY TO RE-ENTER THE RING. Owen Ziegler, the welter-weight fighter, who was one of the greatest fight- in the Jight-weight division several years ago, has re-entered the ring, and im ready to meet any weltor-welght in the business, Martin Duffy or Matty Matthews preferred. Ziegler will not box a colored man. SPED SKATERS. “BLTZARD BEATS RACE TO-MIEHT “CYCLONE” AT HU (Spectal to The Evening Worl) BOSTON, Mass,, Jan. 7.—At the Cen- tral Athletic Club last night the much- | talked-of colored, heavy-weight contest ween “Blizzard” Watts and “'Cy- ne’ Robinson furnished no end of fun, Robinson weighed about 190 pounds, while his opponent scaled about 160, From the tap of the gong they were | Seve part -five speedy skaters will take ) the races at Olympia Field One Hundred and Thirty-ntth street Lenox ue, tonight » Met Includes Morris Wood, of Euclid School, the one mile national champion; A, ¥ Sarony FB. MeDonald, Phil I Hugh Palliser, EB. Mulligan, ¢ Harold See, Walter Lee, ©. Martin, B Yort da dozen other young men who hay prominent as fast skaters th few yours, In ‘the hand npia Field last Saturday the New Yor crowd. by hb Sarony ney in very fast Ume consid: © weather conditions. — TO-NIGHT’S HOCKEY GAME. Na next championship hockey under the, auspices of the American autour” Hockey League will take St, Nicholas Skating Rink the ont 8 Hockey Club ana of New York finish Referee Donnelly gave the de- cision to Watts, which met with the approval of the crowd. ‘ ‘The semi-final bout was cahontas, who defeated Charley Lang: | rd, brother of Light-Weight Sam | Langford, after two flerce rounds. The | her bout was between Albert Detmont ! | and Johnny Lynch, und was won by | the former in six rounds, oo TRIBES HILL’S RECORD. Trihen HiNl equalled the track record for nine furlongs when he stepped the distance in 154 at New Orleans yester- day, It was a sparking performance, past le-mnile p, hgld att MeDon- surprised on, mateh teams re Hard of Avon Kidney Sabath ‘one mile, ‘Ostric! Lurall team, whieh fs the iposed Of ex-New Bt, olas Club players, have played and won their first. game in the championship series and. are looked upon to produce w like result in this coming match. } as ‘Tribes Hill shouldered and raced out In front with the pac maker, Lauralighter, overhauling the Lamplighter mare in the last hundred garde and defeating bey in # driving 110 pounds | \ | “YVOUNG CORBETT'S” REACH. THE LITTLE CHAMPION HAS NEVER BOASTED OF IT, HE HAS A REACH THAT COMPARES FAVORABLY WITH THAT OF ANY OF THE LITTLE FELLOWS. THE CROUCH COAST. 18 FAMOUS FOR HIS CROUCH, 100. y Associate Dis: of your case, oe 10 A, M. to 4 P.M, Men, Come to Me! 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LANSING, Mich., Jan, 7.—Joe Cherry, of Saginaw, fought ten rounds to @ draw with Paddy Nee, of Pittsburg, before \the Lansing Athletic Club last ight, VIL was the fercest, still the cleanest, fight that has ever been pulle oft by the local club, and the decision of the referee as met with general Approval by the lange crowd whieh wit- ne ed the bout. four rounds the fastest kind of fighting was the order, with Cherry the aggressor, Nee seemed to |be inn trifle the better condition and withstood the terrible rain of blows | without flinching. en showed better In the first xperience and me and again blows which carried with them tire Knockout That troublesome left whioh Chegry as no puzzler | has always relied upon who always ‘to the Pittsburg fighter, retaliated In clever fashion. —$—<—— Bostons Get Wilhelm. WOOSTER, 0., Jan, 7.—Irvine Wil- helm, of this cit, as signed to pitch for the Boston National League team for 194, Wilhelm was with Pittsburg _Hduring the latter part of 1008. SUNDAY BASEBALL BY LEAGUE TEAMS CAUSE OF LAW TANGLE KNOWLEDGE COST L. V, BELL $10,000 (Special to The Evening’ World.) NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 7.—-L. V. Bell: is credited with having placed $10,000 commission on Knowledge in tho first race yt rday. The colt finished fifth. Phillips was originally scheduled to ride the colt, but when Bell enncluded to bet on the horse he insisted on Gan- non being put up. Knowledge was one of the highest-fried two-year-olds in the East last spring. -He {8 sald to have worked five furlongs down the hill at Morris Park in 671-2 The colt was taken sick shortly after thts sensational work and never, rounded to again, ————___ . SIDNEY LUCAS IN STUD. LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 7.—Another good old race horse has been brought to this city to be placed In the stud. ‘The horse referred to is Sidney Lucas, the seven-year-old chestnut horse, by imp. Top Gallant, dam Addie C., by Kosclusko, which was owned by the Thompaon Brothers, of Gallatin, Tenn. Sidney Lacas arrived here last night and was Immediately taken to the Wi!- lamette Farm, where he will put in the remainder of his days, Stiney Luc; will head the stud at the farm, where his sire held forth for many years, and where he died recently. Semi-Professional Games Were Allowed Last Season, Only on Condition that no Admission Fee Be Charged. The Greater New York Club's plan to play Sunday baseball at Ridgewood Park in the Borough of Queens next season {s likely to €ause a legal tangle if the Brooklyn Club insets in its op- position. The National Baseball Commission, of which Garry Herrman is Chairman, has apparently washed his hands of the were permitted to piay last season only matter by replying to the Brooklyn |after laying | thelr ost onat before Club's complaint, |magistrates, and only on condition that ‘The Brooklyn; faub'aynenaent was that | the plan of the .New York Americans | clubs, last season accepted “contribu- to play Sunday games at Ridgewood |g admissions iim atralghteone was a violation of the peace treaty and | wiv. “Contributions” ‘were moatly an encroachment on the territorial | quarters. viiiwace a rights of the Brooklyn Club. |, How the Americans will get aroun The commission replied - 4). | this matter remains to be seen. Don't that © the | suppose, however, they will admit fans Americans can play In Ridgewood under | for nothing. CORNELL'S: TEAM WILL | RUN IN RELAY RACE H. Ehrich, mano rer of the ck team, has so assured Gustavus Kirby, graduate manager of Columbia, Manager Ehrich also safd that EB, M, Sears, who two years ago jthe ermis of the peace agreement with- jout violating territorial rights. All the foregoing may be afl right in so far as it affects both the Brooklyn and New York American Club, but j there is some sort of law governing Sunday baseball and other athletics in New, York State, Under its provisions semi-professionals In evading this, local semi-professtonal Jan. 30. C. Cornell will start a team in the mile ; Tthacans’ tr: college relay race which promises to be a feautre of Columbia's monster set of games at Madison Square Garden (Whether the wind shield is @ per- Missible device in efforta, at tacord- breaking in Hight harness racing is the (perpleing question which Interested a meeting of members of the Trotting A sociation at the Murray Hijl Hotel to- day. Qut of the cecorddbreaking porform- ances, Thomas B. Armitage asked a ruting on the so-called wind-shleld rec- ords, The question was then passed up to @ committee composed of the rep- resentatives of the three assocjations. With Major P. P. Johnston, of Lex- ington, Ky., representing the Nationa? ‘Trotting Association, in the chair, the hearing opened with Robert E. Bonner as the first to be heard. Mr. Bonner read his written protest to the Register Association, maintaining that Lou Dil- HORSEMEN DISCUSS : LOU DILLON’S. RECORD. was the only man to give the in- vinelble Duffy a hold, weuld start in -yard chamblonshif event. In se Duffy need not look to the West to help him make a new record Sears will be suMclent, and Duffy will be obliged to make new figures to win. W. E. Schutt, holder of the two-mile record and individual intercollegiate cross-country champion, will go against Alex Grant, who holds the two-mile American record, und Joyce, the ten- the lon's record of 205 at Cleveland, Sept. 1%, 1908, should not supersedo Maud S.'s sk | mile and cross country champion, It is mark of 2.0834 made on the same track }thougne that Kellogg, of Michigan, the eighteen years ago. He contended that) best ‘distance man in the West,’ will the sulky to which Lou Dillon ws hitched had ball-bearing axles and that she travelled behind a wind shield. Charles 8. Tanner, of Cleveland, an. ered for Mr. Billings, who was not present. He declared ‘that Maud 8. had made her record with roller-bear- Ing axles. “Lou Dillon never went with a wind shield except one in practice at \Cleve- land,” he sald. ‘‘{ believe the conten- tion ‘is unjust. ‘There was no secrecy observed as to the building of the sulky. “Lou Dillon almost dnvariably has finished in front of the runner. The strip of canvas that figured in some of the trials was something I invented myself for Mr. Billing's protection, so that he would not be blinded by ‘the mud thrown by the runner.’ was | tlso start in the two-mile event. Should Cornell place Schutt on her two-mile y team, which she is likely odo, then Harvard. Yale, University a Pennsylvania, Princeton and Columbia had better look to thelr laurels. ‘The men forming this team are the same ones won the tatercollegiate cross- country championship by ‘the lowest score ever made. Sportsmen's Goods. — $30,000 FOR FULLER. to secure the services of Fuller, the Jockey, for the season of 1904, just $30,000, “Archie” Zimmer, who acts as manager for the clever little jockey, is sald to have made the above statement to a friend when requested to set a price on the boy's services, —— SEVOY 70 RACE AGAIN. lant year in the name of Syrlin, has been Bevor, who raced In the East It will cost the person who is anxious | widowed ‘mother lives outside of the New Orleans track, and the boy is hero | nerved at New Orleans and will prob- | and claims to be going to school. | ably race down there shortly, Syrlin, or Sevoy, is a horse with a brilliant burst of speed. The veterinary that! nerved the horse is confident that the animal will win races here before the meeting ends. — ES DRAKE TO LOSE HOUBRE. 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