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we Won most of the cups and trophies of- | 3 the Shrews- | If Coie THE WORLD: SATURDA, eV bivae, yaisUARY 16, 1904. DIXONS LAST FIGHT ABROAD ‘The Little Ex-Champion Meets “Cockney” Cohen To-Night. After Which He Sails for Home. George Dixon, the ex-feather-weight champion, will engage in another battle in England to-night, after which he will sail for this country to fight any of the feather-weights here. Dixon's vvonent to-night is “Cockney” Cohen, tue English feather-weight. They will come together in a ‘fifteen-round bout at Newcastle-on-Tyne. his will be the second fight they hgve fought. Their previous encounter Was a ten-round bout, and although Dixon clearly bested Cohen the referee declared the contest a draw. eo ati ier “SILENT FIVE’S” HARD GAME. The “Silent Five’ basket ball team, which has yet to lone a game this rea- gon, will have a hard quintet to play at the New Polo A. A. Club house, at One fundred and Twenty-ninth street and irk avenue, toenight. The silent tol- ws will line up against the Hollywood )ann team from Yonkers. The latter is Paruidered to be the best set of players i State and the big scores which the “Stient Five" have rolled up fn the Past aro not expected in this struggle. & preliminary game between the High School of Commerce and the Flushing igh School will also be played, IN FIR Billy Mellody, Floored at Start, Rushes Eddie, and Referee “a Knockout, (Special to The Evening World.) BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 16.—Billy Mel- Nody, of this city, made short work of {Eddie-Connolly, of St. John, last night at the Lenox A. C., stopping him in two minutes and forty seconds of the first round, Connolly stepped in the ring looking ‘Mt for anything but a fight, and it was apparent after he had gone about a minute and a half that he was all in. He started off at a hu ne galt, land- ing upper cuts, jabs, hobks and swings en Mellody. ,_ A left hook sent the local boy to the floor, but it did not phase him, for he Sot up immediately, and then went after Connolly. He carried the milling so fa pee nes he soon had Connolly on the flo OUTDOOR SKATING IN BROOKLYN ROW The first open-air race meeting on skates held in Brooklyn NN many years will occur to-day on the Rink grounds, Putnam street and.’ Saratoga ave Brooklyn. All of the crack amateurs the metropolitan district will cor Bete in the events, which Include ie handicap, "two-mile hagdicap BAS wonermlie novice case. are offered, and , led at 3 P.M, formerly connected with ‘the ‘Clermont Avenuc Ice Rink, ig managing the affair, Entries have been secured from Morris Woods, the national champion; Philip J. Kearney and Harry P. Mc}onald. Hockey and kindred pastimes in the Gyan sir are to follow this hrat vee carded on the new plant. ——<—<—<——___ BASKETBALL IN JERSEY. Serseymen will have the opportunity @f'seeing to-morrow at Schuetzen Park, Union Hill, N.-J., one of the fastest Dasket-bell games which has been pla State this season, The e,”" the champlons of the Eas members of which are deat and 1b, eae Mne up against the New Polo and a hard and fast game Is ere to ensue, The game is being run | Bhe sonjunction with the usual Sunday dances which are held at Park by Peter J. Byrnes. wiwenty: “minute halves will be play- during the ten minutes’ rest the go on. It will be resnmed fnd fot “the game, ae GILLIG'S ICE-BOAT Simmie Gillig, the popular young club- man and yachtsman of this city “fered for yacht races on i River lust summer, yesterday Pthade the best time with his ic ht d that has been recorded on the jabury River this winter, Billig satied his yacht a distance of ten a in the remarkable times of twon-! ey-qne minutes. Four other yachts of d lass of the North Shrewsbury | competed, namely: Henry Grant's | “Charles Irwin's Georgie, Newton ur's Atalanta and fd Asay's i isara took the Icad at the start ypy, careful handling on the part of The CONNOLLY STOPPED x MAKES FAST TIME had no, trouble in crossing bs fish ST ROUND Interfers to Prevent taking the count, sending him there with a left swing to the jaw Connolly got up slowly, and then tried to keep Mellody off, but the latter was too for him, for he hored tn and with vicious smashes soon had Connolly in & condition where he cOuld n ike care of himself Sees on these punches, a straight rf, to the Jaw, nent Bddie down auin for the count, ‘and uftor ho got u : Donnelly humanely tod iin te bis core ner and gave the decision to Mellod arry “Gilman. beat Ollie Alberts: in four rounds, Joe Reed in four rounds, and Kid Heagell len oo a foul to Fred O'Brien in five rounds, FIGHTS TO-NIGHT AT HUB AND IN PHILADELPHIA Three more fights will be decided to- night. ‘The scenes of these bouts will be Philadelphia and Boston. The contests will bring together three different classes of fighters, feather-weights, wel ler-welghts and heavy-weights, Two of the fights will be fought in the ring of the National A. C., of the Quaker City, while the third will be contested in the squared circle of the Central A ©, af Boston ‘The principals in the bouts at the! OUTH FIBLD, Columbia University’s athletic ground, hag been transfor med into an ice rink this winter, thus affording the skaters and hockey play- ers opportunities for practice that otherwise they wouldn't get. HERE'S just T the intercollegiate Capt. an easy job. The Sixty-sixth street. puck in motion. Capt. COLUMBIA'S HOCKEY TEAM WILL PLAY Field, Columbia University’s athletic grou as during football training days. There candidates for the are to be found every day getting into shape Aiken, of the Blue and White team, an ex pert hockey player himself, has been busy wee out the superfluous materini, the Harlemites will champions from Yale at St. The accompanying picture shows Capt. Aiken tm parting to one of his men the best way to get the ‘That {8 one of the first and most essential points of the game, player who usually way toward the opponent's goal line —JPUGILISMI— RACING | SKATING JATHLETICS-_— —[skaTinG -[aTHLetics—|SPORT YALE TO-NIGHT as much activity upon Sout! college, hockey teams for championship series of games. ng and it has not prover team 1s picked now, and i line up against the Nicholas Rink, on W« and it's a strong Aiken, in the white sweater, is seen in the picture coaching one of the ambi- CAPT. AIKEN, OF COLUMBIA’S HOCKEY TEAM. COACHING ONE OF HIS MEN tlous candidates for uhe team which will represent the Blue and White in the intercollegiate championship games, MURPHY'S RECORD [AMATEURS WRESTLE IN BROOKLYN TO-NIGHT Philadelphia club will be Matty Mat- thowa, the ex-welter-weight champion, and Billy Devine, of Philadelphia, and Jack McClelland, of , Pittsburg, and ehid" Decker .of Philadelphia, Bot): Tights will be of sax rounds’ duration and no decision will be gi on the tiehters who will ciush in Boston will be “Bandy” Forguson, the heavy- weight fighter of Chelsea, Masa, ¢ Jim’ Galvin, of South Hfooklyn,) who johnny Dunn tienks ty a "con son and Galvin will battle mer re for fifteen HENRY LIKELY 10 BE REINSTATED PARIS, Jan, 16—Milton Henry, the American jockey, who was disqualified in 1902, has arrived here and is making strenuous efforts to get reinstated. Ac- cording to persons in close touch with the racing stewards, It is learned that Henry will be reinstated at the next meeting of the Jockey Club, Henry ix well Mked | by publ of the r the ra helr influence to get him his | e. SOUGHT BY NELSON An effort will be made by Joe Nelson to break the mile bleycle record of 584-6 seconds made by Charley Murphy while following a railroad train, Nel- son will have the services of Barnuy Oldfield, who hus consented to let the gster follow his automobile, Hdfeld will drive his automobile, the Bullet N and declares the record of | Murphy kahle under the cireum- Istances which will prevatl on Plorida ach: He saye he will do his best to ‘arry Nelson through in his endeavor \{o'lower the record.» OLDFIELD AFTER 392-5 SEC. MARK Noted Autoist Believes the in World, and Wants to Prove It. Barney Oldfield, the fearless chauffeur, has arrived in town for the purpose of attending the automdbile show which begins in Madison Square Garden to night. While here Oldfield will also try to arrange a match with his Winton Bullet No. 8 and Henry Ford's famous 99, which holds the ice record for @ mije in 39 2-5 seconds. “T want that world's record,” sald Old- fleld, “and if I fall to obtain it on the Florida beach with the Bullet, the St. Clair ice will be my destination without any hesitation, But I also want to try speed with Mr, Ford and the 999, and in this matter my companion will put forward @ proposition.” “Yes, that is what We want,” echoed ‘Tom Gooper, the manngertal’ confrerer “and if Mr. Ford will take the 999 4 the Ormond-Daytona beach we will pay all expenses in case the Bullet fails to prove the winner. We Would expect, at the offer is accepted, that Mr. Ford py n'similar expense bill, say, $1,000, if the 999 should come out second. “The ice course Was an idea that Old- field and I had in mind for some time, and once we made a move toward carry= ing it out." “Perhaps 1 may be in error," inter- olated Oldfield, “but I believe the Bul- jet ie the fastest machine in the son and I want an opportunity of letting it go the limit.” AGREEMENT COST DOUGHERTY FIGHT He and Feltz Agreed on Draw if Both Were Standing at the Case, End, and Such Was (Special to The Evening World.) BALTIMORE, M . 16.~-For fith tecn rounds Danny Dougherty, of Phila- delphia, and Tommy Feltz, of Brooklyn, two clever feather-weights, battled fiercely Lefore the Bureka Club last night, The decision was a draw, the Agreement being, before the men started, that if they were on their fest at the end of the battle it should be a draw. Dougherty, however, was virtually the victor, for, after the sixth round he was the aggressor and hammered Feltz As a spectal ling bouts to be decided to-night In t National A. C, club-house, in Ce street, Brooklyn, it has been arrange* to send the champion making the be showing in any of the classes to tl Louls for world's cham- contests at St, plonship honors When it is known’ that sixty MANY EVENTS SOLDIERS” GAMES The midwinter games of the Twenty- second Regiment, on Jan. %, give prom- ise of eclipsing all former exhibitions given by the regiment, which hag more champions In Sts ranks than any other military organization, Some of the events are as follows: j Yard dash, handicap: 70-yard §-leg- | ficd face, handicap; 170-yard sack race, handicap, 1 lap; 20-yard hurdle race, handleap; 220- yard dash, noviee; 00- yard dash, ; 40-yard dash, handleap; novice; 300- run, handicap; 1-mile run, handicap; 1-/ mile bicyole race, novice; I-mile bicycle race, handionp;' 2-mile bioycle race, | handicap: O'Brien Frophy relay race, | teams five ‘men; 16-pound _shot-put, handicap; “tugcot-war, inter-hattallon NEW ORLEANS ENTRIES. RACE | TRAC! NEW ORLEANS, | Jane 1o—The entéles for Monday's races | are as follows; a: b i aybeity ..) ‘sharks. aArthue Ht and @ halt Carraher Peeper... Russell “Gart rice Race furlongs; 108 + handicap. mit" Sight os 100 13 108, *Barkelmore, ‘HUGHEY M'GOVERN “How to Box in One Les- son” will be McCoy’s subject on Monday. 3 MoCoy’s second article 5: will tel “How to Take Off Weight,” a course any one may follow without fear of injury. cad AND GRIFF JONES Hughey MeGovern, the little bantam- weight fighter, has been signed by the matchm@ker of the Tammany Athletic Club, of Boston, to meet Griff Jones, of Philadelphia, in a fMfteen-round bout at the club's next show Monday night. Jimmy Walsh and McGovern were to have been matched to fight last week. McGovorn would not make the weight suggested by Walsh and the match fell fa aoventy ‘Yards: Arras's Grand Jue. Cojlins: een of Di through, ee 103! Sunday World Wants’ Work Monday Merning Wonders, ‘*KID’? M’COY, PREPARING FOR A FIGHT, TO WRITE FOR THE EVENING WORLD Ann NT OTE, MARLES (“KID”) M’COY is going to make oné mo: : : bold bid for the heavy-weight championship of the world. McCoy has grown bigger and stronger than he ever was in his lite and has mapped out a course of training that, he says, will put him in shape to take Jim Jef- fries’s laurels. McCoy, who is an expert on physical culture, will give The Evening World's readers some valuable information in a series of articles, the first of which will appear in next Monday's issue. In the third artiote McCoy will describe a list of exercises for developing the lungs. The fourth article will tell and how one may avoid becoming “muscle-bound.” BOXING RESUMED IN CHICAGO NOW (Special to The Evening World > CHICAGO, Ml, Jan, 16—After a tay- off of several weeks owing to the clos- ing of all, or nearly all, public halls by the Bullding Commission, boxing was resumed last night at the Watita Club, and will no doubt be followed by all the other local boxing clubs. Last night's card was strictly @ local one and more a test to resume the game than to try to give a big show, The results wére as follows; Cooley-'Dia- mond Dick,” went to a draw; Fagin- Fitapatrick, also .went to a draw, while the Feeney-Spencer contest was won bx Mgney an bola | i how a person may strengthen ° ‘TO MEET WINNER OF BlG FIGHT “Yank” Kenny, the Adonis of the prize ring, who has decided to make anbther bid for the high honors of the profession, has been training hard for the past month and is now matched to meet Jim Jeffords, the husky Calffor- nian in @ bout before the Broadway A. C.,of Philadelpht ‘Thursday night. Kenny, is in great shape, according to his manager and trainer, William Daly, of Grand and Keap streets, Brooklyn, and is confident of scoring a victory, if his confidence i» borne out by the favt, iduary ia i gp the winner of the ie yA Daly will endeavor to. 5 “How to Put on Weight will be the subject of the fifth article. ae MoCoy will also answer any queries sent him to The Evening World pertaining to the’ lessons. SANTAL CARS S ULES HIDNEY TROUBLES AND URINARY DISCHARGES. incentive to individual excellence in the champlonship wres| | vision of the “Mercury Foot" of the best catch-aa-catch-can wrestlers in the |p eonard, ' A CURE IN 48HOURS metropolitan district have wet them: selves down As competitors In to-night's tournament the importance of this de- ision becomes evident, and that {t will » productive of the keenest of bouts in y ems certain, New York Athletic Club, in the welter-wolght di- experts, 18 expected to carry overybody before him in the 145-pound “Hughoy" the club instructor, says he ts the beat man he has trained in his long career, The bouts will start at 8 o'clock che “king pin’ ali over the ring. Dougherty,-oncerthe bantam-weight champion, displayed rare eneralship, but his blows lacked the hecessary strength to put his adversary to sleep. Feltz was fully five pounds heavier than Dougherty and looked as ‘f he had done but Uttle training tor the. bout. It was the sixth meeting of the boys, Dougherty had won three times, Felts once and once a draw. Both boys had - injured hands and were more or te: Nandicapped in that way. Feltz began as it he were going to finish Dougherty auickly, planting three tiff right Punches to the jaw in quick succession in the first round, Dougherty soon woke up, and at the beginning of the sixth had evened up matters. Here he cut loose, and with rights to the body and lefts to the face made Feltz wince. on several occasions. In the thirteenth round it seemed as if the battle would end. Dougherty opened fire with his right to the body, while Feltz seemed defenseléas, and be- fore the gong sounded little Tommy seemed wobbly, Chief Adviser Joe Humpbreys had sent Dougherty in to land the knockout punch and he wan in a fait way to do it when the three minutes exijred. After the fight Joe Humphreys said: “Dougherty bested Feltz. Veltz refused to go on unless a draw was agreed on if both men were on their feet at the end. “Dougherty fractured Feltz's ri my the th round with a righ: body punch. “Danny's left gave out de the ninth round." Wi [AKE Men, Come to Me! Cures Diseases of Men [Re RUAN at Md Dt. L. R Williams A lliams j ial set end a Boas writs Sree. Tacos free. Siioud” ube Be Mpolsoe! oe cutting fn from Ly & 465 W. 34th St., Ni 1 want every man that suffering ftom mH Varicoogies Stricture, Acute and Chronic Ulcers, Blood Poisorin: er any perenne Catarrhal Discha Q bepamalobs in its Biehcae: and Kidney Conditions. Eezema, orany Eruptive Conditions of the ciate Diseases of forms, Lost Vigor and Vi one ss Men, to come and have a social Twill give you Free of Charge a thorot sonal examinatio of your cas¢. Sul 1o42, M. Consultation sad ML Mackenzie, together with an pouet an fer no longer. can’t call, Hours, 9 A. 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