The evening world. Newspaper, November 16, 1904, Page 12

4 it _ _-dRFFRING NOW AN ACTOR, Hames J, Joffries ts starring in a play / @alled “Devy Crockett.” Jeff is a real 4 er. lighting just now is coming 5 ‘Woftries. Ho has cleaned up @ll the possible claimants for his title. Bt is @ case of learn a new trade or go Beck to the botler shop. Yesterday James J. announced that Khe had a new fdea, It sifted Into his Miteliect while he was playing Davy ‘Crockett, and it was eo simple that Jeft © Qouldn’t understand why it never struck Ann before. Jet wilt be a great actor—a real fnterpreter of the “drammer,” known ‘Yulgariy as “the legit." When next tho » @hampion appears before the footlights Be will be another Henry Irving. He ‘Won't waste his talents after this on ‘Rescuing short-skirted heroines from Prairie fires and howling redskins. No siree! Shakespeare for Jeff from Bow on, or bust. He ts going to have fling at "Jullus Caesar,” and “Romeo Bad Juliet,” and “Othello,” and any- © ling els that Shakespeare has left ey Around Jogse.. And he isn't going ‘ Jet any mercenary manager work @ bag or a boxing bout into the ecene, either, ‘Where Shakespeare didn't w: ) @ to the standard that Jeff wants, Set will have the Jines Improved. For fmetance, where Jim, as Romeo, de- Glaima: “Alack! there {s moro pert! in Rinse eye than twenty of thelr swords,” Ge may suggest replacing the word “swords” with “solar-plexus pune’ * Bwards are. pbsolete, while the “solar- | @iemus punch” {s right up to date, Jot @uys if he plays “Othetio" he will have that Othellp part cut out, as he intends > draw the color line on the stage as mel as in tho ring. | Racing in New York State ts over fmt next spring. Good! Can't play +) the races and buy coal on one salary. Foe Blackburn wants to fight Menmy Britt for the light-weight cham- plonship. Mr. Blackburn is a little pre- ‘viows. Neither he nor J. Edward Britt olds tie title, Blackburn couldn't win Mt from Urict. Britt couldn't win it from Blackburn. . } _GASKETBALL MEN —— _ (Special to The Eveuing World.) PRINCETON, N, J. Nov. 16—Capt Vanderbilt, of the University Ball team, has issued his Members of the freshman clies alone. iter the most Of the enterin ected the annual % class have deen li for candidates classes taet year's five to form a nucle ° very t large waount on hand thy filled. Capt Ely forward, Are willl {1 hing the new OR JERSEY CHAMPION > en youterd SHIP. JEFFRIES WI ‘ IN OPERA. 000O004.0.4.06.0.6.0-4.414.904-002-0 3." | | PRIVCETON CALLS. call £0 | oentre of attra Gandidates. The cull was made to the | Yes promising meme | | TO EQUAL MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 16—B. E. Smathers, of New York, has offered $10,000 for a repetition of the perform- ance of Lou Dillon, when @he trotted a mile in 2.01 accompanied by @ runner at her side, The $10,000 will be given to a hospital here if she trots that fast, In the absence of Secretary Howe and Presidvnt #. G. Jones no official timers oF judgea have been appointed as offie- fals at the trials to-day, when Lou Dil- fon will make an attempt to lower the disputed world’s recon! of 2.01, which she created here last Friday. Both Mr, | Howe and Mr, Jones aré expected home morning. Meantime timers to represent E, E. Smathers have agreed to act Pat Dunne, J. W, Schorr and G. C. Bennett, well-known followers of the YALE'S MEN ARE IN TH BEST OF SHAPE —_ >. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Frisky as a bunch of kittens, Yale's husky ‘varsity football team Arrived in New Haven late yesterday, co: ing directly from De Witt Cochran home at Ardsley-on-Hudson. id undergraduates are filled with enthusiasm over the prospects for the game next Saturday. The splendid con- dition in whieh the team has returned some leaves nothing In that respect to be desired, and It is now believed that Yale will ine up exactly as she faced Princeton. If Harvard's heavy line attacks are to have with them the power which Harvard professes they have, Yole may have to use one or two substitutes, Keneon for tackle, Flanders at guard and Erwin for centre, are the men who will get into the game if their presence Basket | '# necessary, The strong of “subs was again the tlon at the Ya H rday Fivid Coaoh Rafferty, E and Harold Metcalf took them There was a scrimmage be- and after the gate men were worked at wn the fleld under punts, re- bali and forming running Ro r ey) A String of Pianos and Organs Over 7,000 Feet Long. During October the Planos and Organs bought, sold and ex- changed through World Wants numbered 1,172—more than ap- peared in all the other New York Newspapers combined! When the time comes for you to consider the Piano and Organ question in your household, con- Sult the Piano and Organ Ads. in World Wants. ot atte tnt tena ttntne tngnggnt sents a, ‘CORBETT’ FAVORITE iol Mia OVER NELSON. | SPORTS . LL BRING THE BA bLOLELDS444O5999000 900004: 009600004000414 00090809009 LOU DILLON WILL TRY HER RECORD fens If She Succeeds, E, E, Smathers Will Contribute $10,000 to a Hospital in Memphis— Names His Own Timers, |ronning turf, East and West, have vol- |unteerad to hold the watch for Mr. Smathors, and he has agreed on two of the Umers, but the third name was not) Jeubmitied tik late Jase night These mon will be admitted to the | Umer's stand, although their time may | not be accepted as “official” time, whioh will later be reported to the trotting tribune. It ta likely that other oMotals will be inted by the association, but on @ wor! of Bennett. Dunne and Schorr will depend whether the amount offered by Smathers will be donaced to charity, There |s intense excitement here to duy owing to a obaritadle and rell- eee giement Which has been drawn y the controversy, fewellers huve been besieged with re- quests for stop watches, and repairers haye had about all they can attend to| own to the demand from various sources for instruments to be held in private time, BG CHANGE NAD HARVARD TE | CAMBRIDGE, Nov, 15—The disheart- | ening injures to Brill and Meter, the }two big tackles, resulted to-day in a complete upheaval in the Harvard ‘var- | aity line. Squires, right-guard, was shifted to |Meter's position at right-tackle, Pary| jKer was shifted from centre to left | guard, Parkinson was placed at centre, | jOveson was put in at left-euard, and | White was shifted from this position to right-euard. At best this is @ poor combination, Thus to be weak fn the two very positions where all tho vears she has considered herself the strongest, Is a severe blow to Harvard, Brill may get Into condition by Saturday. but If he does, he is almost sure @ot to list the entire game, Meier's condition is much worse, His arm is so bad he ts hardly able to put on his coat unas. sisted | Des Pract! improvement both on the offense defense. One touchdown was scored against the scrub. and then both elevens fust for practice nluved a kick ine ame, The encouraging feature ot the afternoon was the work @f Ran- {dali and Monteomery at ende. and <a PIENING TRAINS HARD. John Plening, the Graeco-Roman pion, ts In active training for the match in which he Is ty en- with HLH, Egeberg. Patsy Cot- fey, the -welght champion wrest- ler’ of hester County, at w bosteiry Peekskill, the “By Boy ts willing to wager any part of $1,00 that Pien- | ing will win, #aRe Ww e ner in Is getting In shape, OLE 0 ANAT One-Mile Handicap and Five- Mile Open Race for Them at Madison Square Garden Be- fore Six-Day Event. ‘The amateur cycle stars are to have their chance during the week of the big mx-day doyle race at Madison Square Garden, Deo, 4 to 10, as well aa the Professionals, On the Saturiay night preceding the start of the big race, Dec. 4, in addition to the international mid- die-distance paced event, in which Debby Walthour !s to compete againat the best man obtainable in the world, two races aro on for the amateurs, There ts & one-mile handicap and a fwe-mile open race, In the latier event & epeolal prise will be hung up for the leader of the greatest number of laps, ‘The professional international ten- milo open race, which will be run the same fight, will draw out the best “prog” iq the business, Entry blanks for all these eventahave Juat been sent out {n large numbers by the manage- ment of the race. ‘Tho entries close Tuesday, Nov. 29, with P. T. Powers, No, 220 Broadway, New York City, ‘The race in which Walthour will take part will of course he the tf Of thé hight, eeeeeties | HAMLET ARS, AY LOCH. Big Game to Be Played on Polo Grounds Thanksgiving Day Will Bring Together Best of Playing Material. For the first time in many years there wil be @ big football gaure played in this city on Thanksgiving Day afternoon, ‘The teams that wtil take part in the game will be two elevens composed of players from all the forta in and around New York and sailors from the North Atlantic squadron, The game will be played on the Polo Grounds, and, as the soldiers and sailors have @ large following, the prospects are that @ largo crowd will be on hand to urge their respeotive toam on to viotory. If everything gobs along all right es sufficient: ‘er ye inteneion of the pro- m to make (he event an annual one and the proceeds will be turned over to_ thi “fay Oo | Navy Young Men's Christian og bon, ‘The winning team will recelve a hand- some silver oy fay ag has been donated . G, Spalding & Bros. OY ts Gommitten in-charge of the game conaists of Lieut, #. E. Farnsworth, Jeut, Paul D, Bunker, Lieut. B. ion Lieut, F. R. Meeks, Lieut. Arthur The seedy Jittle adroad, la now training for this event and also yor the six-day tace H nding better th sat of confidence.” SV and ts brim full | 8AN FRANCISCO, Noy. 16- Fight fol. lowers here are slowly but surely are riving at the conclusion that Young Corbett will not score a hollow victory over Battling Nelson vhen the palr meet this month. Competent critica who have seen Nelson in action say Hhat Corbett will have to be in first class condition when meets the “Danish Slasher." The Denver boy realizes this and ts working very hard to take off a lot of the surplus welght he put on during his long term of idleness in New York City, Under the mentorship of Harry Tuthill Corbett is doing lots of road work in preparation for the battle, and has taken off as much as twelve pounds in a single day, Nelson has Eddie Santry, one of the he | cleverest performers in the 128 pound class, working with him. Santry knows Corbett well. He boxes from four to aix reunds with Nolson every day, In his previous battles Nelson has OROURKE SORATORY WINS A PENNANT a | NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov, 1&8—Jim e the change in the lne-np the O'Rourke, the famous old New York | holds better in the game against Union yesterday showed considerable Gant, Won @ gread diplomatic victory | next Saturday than Mt 41d in she scrim. at the Connecticut * ing y tee annual meet- be succeeded In havin Wo games pitched by Tom Tuckey, of the New Have jagainst his hy eport club. Th games gave New Haven the champlor {ship and put Bridgeport third. Throw. Ing them out made Bridgeport cham- pion and sent New Haven down the adder to third O'Rourke's victory was by a margin { one vote. He held the proxy of Nor- wich as well as the vole of his own Bridgeport club - oe $20 FOR LUKE BLACKBURN, NASHVILLE, Nov. #—Luke Mack burn, the famous thoroughbred stallion that’ once cowt $90,000, was sold here at th, vale of the em at the Belle- | meade at Go mm ought $0. | Grounds, — NELSON WILL KEEP ‘YOUNG CORBETT’ BUSY 3 f the army; Flag Lieut, BE. W. Berke, tusut W. V. Pratt, Paymaster 7. W, Reynolds, Lieut, Shackford, En- sien J. W. Timmone, of the navy. These men have all been prominent in the foot. bill world and are to-day coaching thelr men for the big event at the Polo joes ability to take punishment and patiently walt for an opportunity to | take advantage of any weakness that | shows itself in an opponent, He is | easy to hit, but not in vital points. He {s an effective blocker and calm and col- lected under the flercest fire. His fav- orite point of attack Is the stomach. What he will be able to do against o clever, aggressive, ring general of the highest type, who carries a knock- out punch In elther mit, like Yousg/ Corbett, remains to be seen. The opin- fon of the sports tf that Corbett will | win If he ts in as good condition as he was the night he met Jimmy Britt The Denver boy has already been in- stalled favorite In the betting, although Nelson has admirers who are takt | the short end. | Nelson's manager, Jimmy Murphy, of | Chicago, says: “I will have about $2,000 to bet on the Danish Slasher at pra- yan odds, which will be quite liberal, If Young Corbett dirposes of Nelson without much trouble ne muy be matched to fight Jimmy Britt on Dee. 10 at Mechanics’ Pavilion, TRIES TO BRACE THE N.Y. U. LIME Unless the New York University line EDITED BY RD OF AVON'S PLAYS UP. TO DATE. GOODWIN WINS tee errr YEFF MIGHT eae THE LINES Romeo anp Julierr. (Special to The Evening World.) SALEM, Mass, Nov. 16—Chester Goodwin. feather-welght champion of Now England, defended his title agalnat George Murray, of Lynn, at the Apollo A. C. last evening. The bout was for fifteen rounds, and @ finish came in the last round, with forty-five seconds to spare. At no stage of the game di Murray appear dangerous. Goodwin floored his opponent once in each of the first three rounds, and acter that Murray took the count eight different times. Not until the tenth BLACKBURN WANTS A GO WITH BRITT Having disposed of Gans in such easy fashion, although he lost the de- cision, Britt Is now being challenged by all the colored fighters in the coun- try who can make anything Wke the light-welght limit, That he will ac- cept any of these challenges is ex- tremely improbable, as {t Is not Ikely Britt ever will consent to fight an- other colored man, One of the latest to challenge Britt js Joe Blackburn, who tn stating his claims for a meeting with the Call- fornian says; "I notice @ statement Britt that he Is a legitimate light- weight, and that he figures that he has shown ‘there jsn't a 13%pound man who stands a 500-to-1 chance with James Edward Britt.” ‘Now I, for one, beg leave to differ with the Calitorn| 1 think that I am Britt's equal, if not his superior, a fighter, and I am willing to test the matter at 133 pounds ringside. My reasons for think! so are that 1 have fought over 1 fights and never lost but one decision. That was in ® ffteen-round bout with Joe Gans at Baltimore. “Previous to that I had beaten Gans in a six-round contest. Both of these | mages with the scrub eleven yesterday, ] tho result will be disastrous to the Nwe | Yorkers. | Realising this Coach Fults singled out | each man in the line, showed him how to siop a play aimed at ei side of a| ave and then ordered the serybs to uit that spot. To a man, the ‘varsity | players were too high and the second learg player tossed his opponent buns be age 4 forced all to charge low- er, and if unable to tackle the runner |to' throw thelr Bodies in front of the| play. ———— JOCKEY PHILLIPS INJURED, NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 16—Jockey J. Phillips, while galloping a My at} the track here, was crowded againat | the rail at the Palr Grounds course ‘acd| leg was broken, fights were at 188 pounds, welgh in at § o'clock. Each time I wanted to fight Gans at 138 pounds, but on both | occasions Gans refused to fight me at leas than 138 pounds at 6 o'clock. “Tt have ‘beaten Dave times, As IT have bewten ey weight In the East who has ing to fight me, and a refused to meet me at the |brht-welgh iimit, T think that I am entitled to a ohance to meet Jimmy Britt for the light-weight championship,” | ————— - FOX HUNTERS IN SESSION, BARDSTON, Ky., Nov. 16.—The eighth | annual meetine of the National Fox Humt- ery’ Amociation began here yesterday with Hm fifty-seven hunters FROM MURRAY, GOODWIN KNOCKS OUT MURRAY IN 15 ROUNDS At No Stage of the Go Did the Man from Lynn Appear to Have a Chance of Winning. by Jimmy | Stenal Corps. ‘ if iN OTHELLO, ' 15 MOR >: THER ing eve WENT: 99498O4-490-05-000000000O000® WILLIE” KEELER S WELL FRE Outfielder of Highlanders Has a Good-Sized Bank Account and Owns Several Well-Paying Tenements in East New York. “Willie Keeler, the fast outfielder end star hitter of the New York American round did Murray show any algne of life, and in hat three minutes he man- aged to find Goodwin twice. In the thirteenth round Goodwin started to pat his ent out, bu was unable to reach Murray's face, as the latter was continually covered, In the fifteenth round Goodwin fol- lowed Murray into @ corner, and with @ quick shift, sent a left jab on Mur- my's Jaw wh did the business. It was as clean @ knockout as has been seen for s)me time. At several periods throughout the bout Goodwin had an opportunity to land telling blows, but appeared to be anxious to save the punch until his opponent was tired out. WEST INDIANS ARE CRICKET CHAMPIONS ‘With the exception of Manhattan and) Newark, all the clubs which are mem-| fj bers of the New York Cricket Assocla- tion sent deleg to the nugl fall meeting, held yesterday at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. Robert Dundas, ported that the EB League team, will cover right field | again next season for the Highlanders, | The two-year contract which Keeler bad with Clark Griffith expired at the end oft the year, but Keeler has made up Ne mind to sign a new paper, which he expects to receive from the club off. clals some time next month, “I wil continue to play for tens and Farrell as long as they want me ” gaye Keeler, uilest ball-playera in the prof Ever since he began to play Dall has saved his money, until at the present day he has enough ready eae, at hand to keep him when he qi the game, He owns several houses in Hast New York from which he collects reat each month, The little player easily sell these houses at a bia pi shoud he care to dispose of them, Keeler say he intends to play og | few more years and then enter the estate business ————[——_. " HACKENSCHMIDT’S TASK, “Young Haokensohmidt’ has agreed to meet Billy Edwards, the heavge! weight champion wrestler of the Bronx! on the mat to-night at a Bowery the- atre, As Edwards has aj againet ean of we baat ae mi the oon es the powerful young fore compelled to extend My ang the haste | to esouve defeat, “Young Mukloon, who is practically matched to meet Columbus, the father-welght champlon of Baltimore, and who will appear against Churies Beck, of Brooklyn, in @ preliminary contest (6 the champions patch between John Plening and H, agoberg, the big Dane, will second Ed. wards UNITED CIGAR STORES SYSTEM Means ABSOLUTE PROTECTION ageinsi SUBSTITUTION the secretary, re- joclation, which com- prised a membership of 572, played to a finish 86 of the 9 scheduled games, The West Indians, with a score of 16 wins| senat 2 losses, won the championship, ar with a percent: of 838, after a battle with Essex County, whose ained 15 victories agal 3 defea which gave them a@ percentage of 833. The West India: tribute their suc- cess to their bo ng Three of their men, H. 8. Alexander, G. and D. Goodridge, ocoupled first, second McDermon and fifth places In the averages, with records of 3.4, 8.66 and 5.2) respec- tively. A silver cup, to be known as the Dewar Cup, was presented to the as- suciation for annual competition, ——[—_— REGIMENTAL GAMES, Ir addition to the regular programme ot events at the Twenty-third Regiment games at the armory Saturday night HL, Hiliman, jr, N. ¥, A. C., holder Of the world’s record for 40-yard hur- dies, will try for the Indoor record. | There wil! also be a special relay race for teams-of cour from cadet corps of the Twenty-third, Fourteenth and Forty-seventh regiments and Second lew York's Master Specialist. feact it Dr. L. R. Williams, "4 ws ore OLD DR. GRINDLE, Ey LaARS 5 SPECIALIST IN DISEASES OF MEN, ©. Urindie’s setentific | t Decwllar to men are permanent duickly, more easily and on terms than by any other adi an vinom cured in from 1 to 8 mont sue Debility In from 1 to 2) mow Bladder Complaints in from ‘red n paint) elo i oh cure a from 10 uacasea'aiva “neiae™ gud the same ee free. SPORTING. HANDICAPPER | Va va, Varicooele inary contracted 3 to 10 days. DH. GY LB Ie ati at 171 WEST 12TH ST. dl in b's ‘suNpAYaS