The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1904, Page 12

f THE WORLD: THURROAY E NING, JANUARY 1 14, ‘{904., PUGILISMj= RACING |= TSRATING “BIG TIM” SULLIVAN’S ¢ -ULLER | “CLEVER JOCKEY, THE Sensation Experienced During the Running of a. Race from Post to Finish. JOCKey GC FULLER d | STAR. - RIDER LAST .SEASON. _ HIS HISTORY AS A Some Offenses ,for Which the Rider Is SN Se Blamed, and the Reason Thereof. Best Rider.of Last Season Says His Ad- vancement Was Due to the Fact that He Always Tried to Win. ° FULLER ENJOYS Lire MATTHEWS LOSES - . TO BILL MELODY. (Special to The Evening World.) BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 14—Billy Me- dy, of this city, beat Matty Matthews, rmer_welter-weight champion of Ne fork, last night in a fiercely contested battle of twelve rounds at the entral Athletic Club, Knockdowns were fre- quent, Matty going to the floor from right drives. Both men time after time were on the verge of going out, but the timely ring- GROVER C. FULLER. Rode over 300 winners last year. Earned $50,000 in one racing season. Received $8,000 for winning the Futurity on Hamburg Belle. Thinks that McChesney is the best horse he ever threw a leg over. Predicts that High Ball is going to develop into the three-year-olo champion of 1904, 1s only eighteen years old and was never heard of as a jockey until last winter at New Orleans. Was developed by «rchie Zimmer, who trains for Congressman Timothy D. Sullivan. Advises turf speculators to follow jockeys wHo are in winning form and have the pick of mounts from leading stables. plause, Matthews wao again down or the count In the second, Melody catching him on the jaw with a terrific right wing. His generalship and fast work bled him, after he got up, to avoid s jed himself together in the third and boxed cleverly, jabbing and getting away easily Melody dropped him again in the ourth for the count, and also in the fifth. From this point to the close the men battled desperately, each trying to end HB following article by Jockey Grover Cley lund Fuller, Congressman Tim | Sullivan's star jockey, is the first of a series of articles by prominent American jockeys who have helped to make turf history, and who, by the entire racing public, are oxpected to add much te it during the met- § fag of the bell served to prolong the |the battle with a punch, Both were cut] |) ile enure Meche pibilc. ate oxpeuted t ry and bleeding ‘ofusely when the contest rop a paler, hich begin: next spring: conte. “Matthews took the count five |Ony Teer ne Kecision in Melody s favor times. In the’ first Melody knocked the New ‘York man down, but Matty came back ii strong and finished the round, jabbing ae Melody in a way that won him much ap- TWO CORNELL CRACKS TO RUN FOR NEW YORK A.C. Instead of representing thelr al qater at the coming Columbia Colle Relay Carnival on Jan, 90, at the) BY JOCKEY GROVER CLEVELAND FULLER. HAVE been asked to relate what the sensations of « jockey are during the I brogress of a race, To begin with, I don't know what nervousness ts, T have never cited during the progress of a race. I ride sprint 8 like every other rider—try to get off the best I can and make every post a winning one, ‘That is the way to pilot juveniles, when they are run- K short distances jn the carly part of the racing season, Later on, when they have developed suficlently to travel six and seven ® chance to rate then along to some oxtent. furlongs, a rider has When a harso s away from the post—espectally a quick breaker—the sensation is Hk ne gets when an elevator Js denly, One's breath {s sometimes taken away for a jiffy. Looks After His Mount’s Welfare. During the yt of a race, while all the boys are fighting for de+ sirable positions, y Lest to keep my mount from being jumped on or eut down, Gon Was a popular one, as he did the better wor Young Fox beat Young Brooks in four rounds; Joe Lavole drew with, boc: hontas’ in six rounds, Harry Eilman beat Young Jackson In four rounds, r L have an idea as to the probable contenders in a race, scoring of j sa | inte vor tite (wo championship events fend naturally: keer a close watch on them. cee een ee eee chute, | Mex Grant aud Schutt will appear in} My own tactics are governed, generally, by the tactles of the Jockeys Paatnitsreatielets crtee-country cham DAptES Tian nen siet on the horses tha: figure td give the most trouble, Some horses like to if Bears entry in the Athletic|run from behind, while others run thelr best races when taken to the plon and holder of the two-mile inter- Club relay race positively assur h collegiate record, will represent the New Ls 1 Ssuiroe ten Sablegiate record, will re front and rae ore a ie way. the race, nt and raced there all the way McChesney the Best He Ever Rodg. McChesney 18 about the best horse I ever threw a leg over. NEW ORLEANS ENTRIES. ~ALLBUT ONEFALL |.2© “IN SKATING RACE B. A. Taylor, the amateur skater, of | Buclid School, Brooklyn, succeeded in winning the class A event in the | Clermont Avenue Rink, Brooklyn, last ‘The big chest- nut son of Macduff is the most evenly-galted thoroughbred and has the ORLEANS, La., Jan, 14—The}*Moothest way of running of any horse 1 ever had the pleasure of piloting entries for to-mosrow's’ races are asx} to victory, He ts a "free runnbr and needs but ittle urging, I seldom, if fol ever, had occasion to use whip or spur on him, Africander Is the best three-year-old I ever piloted to victory, I rode Sydney Finn Young Paget's great fly Hamburg Belle to victery in the $50,000 Futurity last Ssh fall, ‘This was the most valuable victory of my riding career, 1 netted One Mor something ke $8,000 for winning this race. Mr, Paget made me a swell Our ug : i d Tommy acl Se yoo | present, Second Mace—aile purse. | race. mete Star and Garter... 971 Tigh Ball was the best two-year-old colt I rode last season. I think he ts | Pettijonn bya Ra going to make one of tho best three-year-olds of 19. "Bud" May, hs 3 * | Cardinal Woi fs training High Ball for W. M. Scheftel, of New York, offered mo a swe eee nates teeackts nous’ to kee PA alt Gers ren retainer for first call on my services this year, He wants me to ride High en lathe, ’The other ielx. runners con.|/ulee Lal in year-old stake engagements, Custis Jockeys are frequently blamed for the defeat of horses when the riding instructions are really responsible for the downfall of thelr mounts, The general public never hears the instructions a Jockey receives from the trainer. at different intervals, and as Taylor | r<\wwann meanwhile increased his lead he had no | Beaucalre But we must ride to them, ‘The public then takes it for granted that the boy made a mistake and is cntitied to all the blame. ‘ and severel big players also remembered me nicely for winning the @ sixteenth Decoration eu selling. oh Tinos 1108 Lens ifficulty in crossing the line the win-|74mpoon ner. In the hockey game which was ple ea School scored ‘over the Sy College boys: whom | they defeated by a score of 7 to a JUMP HOCKEY LEAGUE | van. Capt’ Gunes: veal te, Skat Chub ot elses | Sixth Race—Belling; one mile and “the Amal League furlonge: handtcap, oaste 7 Inauleitive “Girl, s 104 _|Jockeys Bear Burden of Blame, Jockeys must take all the blame, no matter, Horses are frequently cut down under them, and Sop | the public knoe about it is the meager information ney the next day, The jockeys, as a rule, are always looking for the .$% and extras which they get for winning. I made $50,00) last year trying to win every time I threw a leg over a horse, This Is as much as Theodore Roosevelt gots as President of the United States, what happens in a race. though shot, All in the form chart Ad ta, three-quarters uarter mile, are. of ‘and! two miles, handica le for novices, two~ And half-mile Hanae De La Salle Basket Ball, PASTIME A. C. GAMES. acl weas: CAREER OF JOCKEY | jerked skyward sud} | HOW JOCKEY FULLER GAINED SUCCESS. | ,;. The fight ground for the Tom Shar- key-Jack Munroe battle will probably be kndwn to-morrow. Bids from the Various clubs throughout the country will be opened then. Each club sending in a bid must also send along a certified check for $2, AS & guarantee that It will comply with all the requirements which the fighters and thelr managers have agreed upon for the battle. No club sending in » bid for a six-round bout will be con- sidered, : | JOE CORBETT SINS WITH ST, LOWS ‘The announcement, just reache@ here from St. Louls, that Joe Corbett, the crack twirler of the Los Angeles Club of the California League, has algned 4 contract to pitch for the St, Louis ne with what The Evening World has bean saying all along, Jim Corbett, the ex-heavy-weight champion, is the person who got his brother to ignore the contract he had nara with the Los Angeles team and affix his signature to the by Frank “De Haas Ri latter has just r FIGHT GROUND WILL BE KNOWN TO-MORROW Sharkey and Munro's Representative Will | Award Bout to Club Making Best Bid. National League Club this year, is in| # | start. Both fighters are training hard for the battle and when they step into the ring will be fit to turnish a great fight. Sharkey {s getting into shape in this city by doing his outdoor work every morning around Central Park, while in the afternoon he goes through two solid hours of hard training in a gymnasium uptown, unroe is Founding into condition at Hot Springs. Ket Ater to this city the Butte Rminer he is already in fit shape and feels confident that will beat the ex-sutlor, ot Nat Ne LOCAL SPRINTERS. TO RACE AT BUFFALO city has selected a half-mile relay team which is to meet the Seventy-fourth Regiment of Buffalo, at Buffalo next turday to decide the third of the erles of races between these two organ-| iaations, - Both pi won by the New York men, ‘The runners selected are P, J.-Walsh, of the New York A. C.; Frank Ricker of the N.Y. A. C.; Chester EB, Peabod: of the New Went Bide A. C, fam R. Knakal, of Columb! sity. 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De Ex | the, Joint. games of the Pastime Atniette | Hasty erie netidan, "Pasting A. mail 35 cents, ie ae expert At contest, The re wan | Club and Company K, of the Eighth Reai- P aeventy y Rint a ‘4, n ithe Iesal,.veve” combletaly out; | ment, to, be eld at the armory aiurian, Be oF jeu pia Sompaty . £4 Corbett-Jimmy Britt right will nor be pulled off by the Colma Athletic Club, of Colma, Cal. ally decided to uccept the bid of $15,000 from thal organization and met last The Twenty-second Regiment of thin |RIEHt to conclude arrangements with tho Then Jimmy Britt kicked over the traces and refused to do business with the Col that the fighters could get more than the | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 14.—The Young vious contests were) $15,000 guarantee by fighting in Francisco. | ‘The Colma people had lived up to their part of the contract and had deposited JOCKEY 4 ZARNED#8,000 WINNING FUTURITY ON HAMBURG BELLE & \ BIG TIM GIVING JOCKEY / r Ro INSTRUCTIONS $15,000 PURSE NOT ENOUGH FOR BRITT" the $15,000 guarantee in a bank subjecq to Referee Eddie Graney's order, and Young Corbett was saustied with the bid, “So Britt was the only person re- sponsible for the falling through of the ery aiwoments: It {8 more than probable now that the Yosemite Club will secure the battle and hold it In Mechanics’ Pavilion. 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