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EWN Owen Moran, the recenuy- tenported English fighter, beat y Dougherty in Philadel- phia i ht he ran his head into ® lot of trouble. Mvery small scrapper @f reputation in the country will go fatter the Briton’s scalp now, and somo * Raga will bo a bit tougher than "Moran's next will be Monte Attell, * Monday night. Monte ts just such a @ghter es his big brother Abe was @ fow years ago. He elugs, If Moran can get with Monte Attell ne ‘will be invited to ‘Frisco to exchange @wats with Frankie Neil, Moran's puccess may induce timid tte Mr. Bowker to come to this aav-| @ge strand. Bowker beat Nell in Eng- Jand, beocming bantam champion of ‘the world, Later he made three widely- @évertised starts for Americu, but on @ach occasion backed out after test- ‘ang the gang-plank. Moran has cabled to Bowker that site wild Indians havo all been driven @ut of New York City and are now on the New Jersey reservation, EDWARD |BRITT and Batoinge @ Nelson are matched for a battle A to take place ‘way off in July. t's a long leeway for America, gmhere things move. But over the pond they are more Geliberate, A letter from Mr, Bettin- “gon, of the National Sporting Club, » Zondon, states that the club has faatohed Bowker and Jimmy Walsh, of Boston, for next October, HM milMon-doller sack has started from Chieago, “A cold million, 3 just off the ico,” 1s what Book- Waker O'Leary calls it. Mr, O'Leary saya he will start tn| the open ring at Belmont Park with ‘@ sky-high limit = ‘“Bet-e-million” Gates onn soon be accommodated at this favorite figure. If a frigid million ts beyond your means,Bookmaker Trust- Buster O'Leary will not despise « @mall, hot hundred. Ts UNIVERSITY OF PENN- BYLVANIA was badly beaten {te annual track Penn a short time | SPORT QUERIES. In @ Gtepute about basebull A bets B that William Keeler, of the New York Americans, ts the Le eee one the team. Who Ie ri bilo iad ¥. B. MBLVIN, Je, Keeton ‘the the lost the first Bid ate ats ne ope ia no HANRY BOHLANGDR. Lost te Philadelphia. —= ‘ cite of the’ Wa ade ate mitch Bs fate erg eo, aks Sheepshead Bar. ; Kindly tet me knew through the col- able er which Joe tor Cleveland, aro ‘at home during al 4 as to inform me tn ae joynekt, the pate FSi Be argument, A save Bee ee two, atrthes fal of foul, as that ie says thet Mya can bunt on the third c T, it ee fair and he er Mee petore the ball ne 1s Piet Gl ie Cats i h 4 au vale for ints year Which Je pent? B ie wight. Kindly, inform me itn vent ety Yim my Britt parted fis halt in nat flashlight ploture, as he Bi tenasty warns vs aie br the LS ly wal i. ry ithe , Bullivan waa obam- A, bate tae id, B bets he was, only ‘of America, Which wins. A wi ki as pos- iat W. THOMPBON. No. Younk Corbett, after losing his fi fieht with Jimmy the either n da ritt that he could lick BARE eat as Oey Yeu. ly, let_me know through the col- whether, Heok Re te Rhsainn "Elon, wren , ever wrer ‘dity, before he thet Jenkins wo, when and where, snd olin ly inform us It of Monte y tease, Werth Jotaany Renu ouige ‘one of your regular readers, P. 8. DONNY, J knocked out Neagan, tant readers in Baopl aks World, as ij we OF evord of the THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 19, ‘onate SPORTING NEWS AN a NATIONAL LBAGUB, Hy . i |. Club, le Bi ail Y Gite 8 + an Ginetinati as er Pbuias 28 1B lett 0, 'B: 'Boaton, Pittsburg, 6; Philadelptria, 4, Saeed bu t atte at Phiiagelptte, BY ALLEN It would be @ @ood job if some of these baseball captains read history end learned how many @ great batt! has been lost for want of taking 1 ghance and’ oressing ‘nv’e Duck. ‘Yesteriny $00 persons saw the tail- endere from St, Louke lose their third game to the Gtants ty roseon of this very cowardice, The score was 6-5 In the ninth inning with two oot when Clarke reached firet on a flaldera vheice. ‘The Cardinals have made themselves famous here for their Garrison finish achievements, and all apathy dieap- toot track toam | NF ira Boos fo be getting back |peared at this remote dhanse of thelr lelphia form. tying up the game, They who gath- ered et the gate, already astohing the Jwhift of clam chowder that beokoned hem homeward, stopped short now, ewaying hither and thither with the hope of an appetizing finale, ‘Kid’ Nichols raced to first and Captain Burke took the other coaching Itne, Doubt- leas be meant well enough, but ff ft was hin directing that held Ciaske on gecond when Ghannon dscve « long hit 39 the left fence then he must be held epponaibie for perhaps weing the ‘Time to Take a Ctrance. It was the supreme moment to take a chance, for any one con! eee, with half am eye, that Mertes would never wet the (all, But Clarke todd at second benevolently regarding Sandow-s wild scramble af over the bot, like « kind off man giving an outing to « bunch of newsboye, 'Dhia, however, was only to show what St. Louis could really do when she felt thoroughly amiable, Homer Smoot, the hard-hitting Smoot, now jammed a vicious grounder to Dahlen, who wae fortunate to even get in front of It. Clarke, of course, easily reached third and Smoot first, The latter grinned like a frankfurter man in a dog pound. He looked upon the game am already tied. But again did Clarke Gieappont his team and all the fans except Louls Mann, who would Mise to see the Giants win every contest, “Be Gosh!" he sald Kindly, “that there Dahlen must be playin’ Oat, or euthin.” Wonder i he's got’ ter throw @hannon out!” While he was wondering and every ody begging him to come home Gil- bert dropped Dahlen's throw, Yes, and it took him some time to find the ball, Did Clarke move? Not on your lite He was the original boy that stood on the burning deck, He kept rubbing thie peepers ike @ blind man that hed Just recovered his aight in front of the Flatiron Building on a windy dey. He was content to stay there and walt unt!l somebody pasted @ home run, not forgetting, if you please, that it was the ninth inning and two out, ‘The next man, Arndt, fouled to Bres- nahan, leaving three Cardinalé on base, high and dry, like chickens on a raft, Mere Lack of Nerve. Do you suppose Napoleon Bonaparte or the Duke of Marlborough would have ever done such @ craven thing? Not,.00 you could notice It! ‘The latter had some fun at a village ealled Oudenarde in the summer of 1108 when he eave Louis XIV. the jolt of hie life owing to the Duke of Burgundy's lack of nerve, It was one of the world's dectelve battles, England and Prussia vermue Brance and her allies, Both ermies were trying to selze a big plateau overlooking the River Scheldt, and Burgundy was nearest Marlborough took a chance and gent forward his great cavalry leader the Hari of Cadogan, with eight squadrons of Irish, English and BScoton light horse, together with some foot soldiers, Mix Scoveh and burgundy and there's usually something doing A French general knew this and got very busy, He threw one division after another \pon Culogan’s band, and it looked "good day and a long night. Marlborough from a distant. hill saw the predicament, but had diMfeulty in getting the rest of his men ovor the river, Louis XIV, might have won out right THAT WILE LEWTS PIGHT Score A, Kock out, STANDING OF THE CLUBS. { AMBRIGAN LEAGUE. Clep, W. L. PC, nla. 1800] Roston RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, J Chicago, & yf + Washin iladelghia, © GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY. New York at Chicago. Reston ap Becraige | aes at Bt Louls. cut to ribbons, ‘ed, shot and stabbed. Ma zed the plateau und | ating twonty -four hours pownd- | 08, o Jimmy "Burke ‘may | uid Basemans But net ages ahitle | fe car in ii the National League ve he Rot take warning by the Duke igeeat for hin’ oreo (iarke sok wea | Audtibon ‘Bootety, “me TN 49 tn Wittee the Star. | George Wiltee was eaail | , ly the st | yentendsy. for though. the Cardinals sched him freely he oomtributed to vi jome of the most ther down wi ls vrewent right hand. Unlike aos. plane i Pe fey HOR TOR Tel Hever aides tops, | OFF THE BAT. While every mame of baseball te played for el it ie worth and each side tries Sts Qurtest to win, there ts no Goubt that olrbs pitted againat the champion Giants make a quperiative effort to defeat Maneger MaGraws Pelled to play at top speed, because thelr opponents derive extra pleasure and satisfaction in downing @ flag winner, The games at the Polo Grounds this week between New York and St. Louls have been the most interesting of the soagon, despite the fact that the Mound Citites are bringing up the rear of the championship race, Since returning to active duty George | Browne, the fleet-footed outfelder of the champion Giants, haa been playing | he has been superlatively ¢ast on the bases, and his fielding and throwing! have been all that could be dewired. | Browne led the National League in run- wetting lest year, and tf he keeps up the pace he hes wet thus far this sea- son he will repeat his great recerd of last season, ‘The recent assertion that baseball has | No shortstopa like those of olden days does not seem well founded, Billy Dah- len, of the champion Giants, who has alwaye been regamied as @ star short- stop, has never played better ball in his life than he hes this spring, His work haa been gilt-edge i every department, and the thousands of baseball enthusi- ante interested I the success of Man- ager McGraw's team realise that fact and give Dahlen @ hand nowadays near- ly every time he goes to bat, All the outfiel of the St. Louls Cardinals are left-hand batsmen “spike'’ Shannon, who plays left field, 1s accused of pulling away from the plate, but he manages to get ‘his hits just the same. Shannon {# also ‘some pumpkina’’ in the fleld, as he manages to catch almost everything that is hit Into his tereitory, ANNUAL RACES FOR HARLEM YACHTS Hariem yaohtsmen are looking for- ward with much interest to the annual regatta of the Metropolitan Yacht Club, which will be held on Decoration Day As this event will bring out some of the fastest vach on the Sound, # olose and exeltin Is expecued, A steamer and tiree-deck barge have been chartered to accompany ihe yachts over the course, #0 that members and thelr frienda will have a yvod oppor tunity to view the .aces, The ‘Mil jonaires' Club,” from City be on the steamer, In the € aT D COMMENT roz EDITED BY Young ") “ FAMOUS SWINGS NEVER. TAZED AIM, REET'S NELSON'S BY BOZEMAN BULGER | (Special to Th World.) CHICAGO, May 2" break, the Highiandems feund the go- ing easy in tholy fawe battle in the | Wost, and breezed aM the way to the wire. All the other Bastern invaders | fell prey to the native sons, ’ | ‘The White Sox, who had read of the |doings in Boston and had aiready ;eounted themselves another notoh |toward the lead, were mado to look lke a sorry lot of Brawh leaguers, aud at least 2,000 disgusted fans slunk out of the park before the sixth inning hud become historio, Just betere opening fire Grimth switched Conroy to short and Yeage to third on account of their throwing arms, and the ohange worked Ike magic, In their mew positions both players distinguished themeelves, and Yeager saved the game on one occasion by leaping into the alr and with ono hand pulling down a three-base-labelled too the heart out of the White Stock- ing gentry and thereatier it wes exur- der, Dr, ‘White suffered am attack of sticks eerly in the running, and while buried wnder the smoke from @ broad- ¢ of swats was dragged out, and Walsh had te face the music, The jatter got the same dose, and swallowed ic without sagging, equeare, the bit and rin, the eteal, and in fact every cute play known to Grimth was touched off land worked Itke arithmetic, In faot, everything broke well for the New Yorkers, and with Al Orth's tantalizing | delivery there was nothing to it. Hundreds of fans flocked out to get a |look @& the much-heralded Hal Chase, ‘The dovtole and the boy who gave up a job in a| | California winery at five per to work on |Harlem Heights was the goods. On two occasions Hal came up with the bases full and both times stung the ball ‘for a alngle, scoring two runs, That wag hitting @ trifle Willie Keeler was oleo a large-sized package, Out of four times up he shot a single through @he infleld and beat out two bunts, me mpt wh z Was made to onto im. "1 Boston | trim those fellowe,” sald the oft. jal scorer, “Chicago has about as much chance with the Beaneaters as a one legwed nmn in a base-stealing match.” The game was productive of one of the most ved in iar hits yet obee drive while the beses were full This | the freak history of baseball. Sullivan | | rammed a drive over Chase's head, and | Keeler oame after it on dead run. Just at this moment some one wrew Q pop bottle from the bleachers and the | ball e@truck the bo! and oc at fi ingles almost to ¢! fence. It | was good for three bases. | Least night Grit and "Pop" Anson got | together on the "spit" ball bet, and, jwhile Aneon hed money ready, |i was decided to postpone Hhe exhibition until the next trip on account of Ches- bro's lame arm. Frank Gotoh, the phenomenal young Westerner, who js booked for another tuamle with Tom Jenkins for the Amer- can catch-ae-catoh-can championship at Madison Squeve Garden, next Friday night, reached the olty yesterday from Buffalo, and at once settled down to safety valve." thoroughly, later, and allke. lew W July or August t! ‘Frisco, Philadelphia, where he will meet Lewis and probably two other light-weights ee amaaarazveoe ome NELSON ON HIS WAY EAST BY ROBERT EDGREN. Battling Neleon is now on the way Baat, On the 22d he is to fight Wille Lowis in Philadetphia, Nelson i one of the grontest “drawing cards” in tho ring, {u spite of the fact that he has been once dofeated by Jimmy Britt. fighter, because he always fights to win, aud every time he goes Into a ring Grea eels tia eins hna been MayiN| ho Js ke John Hay's Miestestpp! steamibasy “With @ nigger a-squat on her | £47? oR thelr new grounds at Fa vest Nelson can be depended mm Fle won't fake and he won’t| End avent turn his bout into an exhibition, ‘ KNOWS HOW TO FIGHT. He 1s an ignorant youngster, taken all around, but he knows one thing|/at Bronx Oval, One Hundred and Sixty- In the sclence of fighting he holds a master’s degree, Probably|tnlrd street amd Southern Bouleyafd, Battling Nelson (Battling is his real given name, by the way) {a unaware of the difference between an ohm and a Latin prefix, but no little gentleman who ever met him with gloves on found canse to doubt his learning etong the line of hooks and upperouts, Nelson started his fighting oareer in true melodramattc style. to raise the mortgage on the old homestead, His first few ventures didn’t interfere with the mortgage matorially, but you can’t keep down a man whose very name fits him for the profession of flaticufta, FOUG>:T HIS WAY UP. Battlir 3 Nelson fought bis way up. dentaily, inmodiately after disposing of Young Corbett the first time In San Francisco, Soon after that battle he fought Rritt and lost, That there was something left In the stocking, in spite of the mortgage and his side bets, was shown when Nelson's manager took a vacation accompanied by $10,000 of Battling Nelaon’s ready cash, Butting Is rematched with Britt, This soxappy pair will fight it out in Meanwhile Nelson will take a junketing trip to|joken Club has mado Improvements in He knocked out the mortgage, inct-|sirengthened, hurd ¢raining, Samuelson, a big Bwed- ish wreetler, who has been making o name for himself of late, accompanted the young athlete, and will train hin for hig contest with Jenkins, Jenkins will arrive here to-day. Reserved eeats for the contest were placed on sale throughout the city to- day, The seating arrang te in the He is a popular | ‘The Murray Fille wilt ploy the first Park, Bixty-seventh strect and West to-marrow. ‘hoy will moet he Royal Giants. ‘The Murray Hills will bave out thelr remuer team, with Wilts in the box. ‘There promises to be a lively session to-morrow, when tho Ceara, and the G Talis clash in theh first game tiletseason The Bronx champions, are Blayéng ball of a rteriing quality these 4 they will put forth their to down the Long Islanders, At Rifgewoed Park to-morrow the Cuban X GHants will have thelr first tus- sle of the season with the Ridgewoods, With the colored cracks ts Clarence Wilifams, the inimitable coacher, who amuses the fans with hts anthoe and Grol myings, The Long Iwlander, in peotathon f a ham battle, will irangthened. ‘There will be ‘a, Drelim inary game between, two crack @emi- professional teams of Brooklyn, Manager Sclee, of the Chicago Na- He longed that he wit put in his best team againat the Jersey cracks in the game on the St, George Cricket Sone ee ie rrow, Besides reducing e ‘ef nds. Deegan, who pitched #o tne setinet the Giants last week, will be pbted against the Chicaxos. ‘Those old-time rivals, the Xaviers and tlonals, has wired the Hoboken Club|_ GOTCHHERE IN GOOD SHAPE Garden will be the same as upon the night of the teoent Hackenschmidt-Jen- kinn contest, with an elavated ring nur: Tounded by boxes, ‘The prices, however, al je last mi h, 9 ringside IRE dows wedi akmiaetcn. i Botehs great ambition in this match ls to eat Jenkins and by so doing force the ‘Russian. Hackenschmidt to test him, ‘thie the latter has refused todo” under exiating circumstances Claiming that he offered to. meet the t man ia ate ea od t in meet- lee and defeating Jeakina, had pre- te jotch, he it ylously on, ved Up to his word and accomplished all tha’ Soule be asked of him by the American public, SUNDAY BASEBALL GAMES, | Indians, while the box positions on the Xavier qa will Ve oeeupied by Bgwén fnd_ Doyle, two ex-Connectiout State Teaguers, To-morrow at Marauette Meld the Newburaa will be the atiraction, Thir team ham met with but few defeats this acason and & Kool game should result, Leen wil be on the firing Mne for the Mara with Butler on the recelving eng, jweon and Ferrés will be the hat- tory for the Ne ‘The Ontertoe will have another etrong team fm the field thin season and will pilav their opening game with the Bal- timore Glaats at Ontario Field, One Hundred and Forty-ninth street and Eighth avenue, to-morrow, Bell, who formerly pitoned for the Phitadelphia ) Will @o tho twirling for the Bal- Pet Glan: timore if will be th Sabinan for the tet k ‘There will be @ big improvement in the Manhattans’ team when they play the ex-Hoboken nine at Olympic Field, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street and Fifth avenve, to-morrow. The in- field will be stnangthened with a new hird baseman, and Cotter, who w énju will be at his ol tt the box for the Among the thouennds of pleasure- seekers who will visit Coney Island to- mortow, no doubt many af them will take in the baseball game soheduled for the now mrounde located at ¥it- teenth, ati i be- hind, the bat, » Foonee oF wht Ge in Weaeteatne tae Parkes the Pascale nine | pa ERT EDGREN. 5] BATTLING NELSON, WHO SOON WILL BE SEEN IN ACTION IN THE EAST HAD NO EPPECT ON (RON YAW: HIGHLANDERS START WELL WRESTLING CARD ~ FOR BRONXITES | | Some stirring sport in the wrestling Une will be seen by residents of th Bronx and others who may cure to take the trip to Zeltner's Casino, One Hun- dred and Se jeth street and Thin lavenue, next Monday night, The Bronx has been neglexed as a sport centre heretofore. Sport lovers of that section have been compelled to travel all the way to Manhattan to ace anything worth | while, The programme arranged {s a g90d on! bringing out severalgof tho best wrestle that can be found in this vicinity, Alex, |Swangon, of Harlem, who will be sean |in the star bout, 1s one of the cleverest in the business, It being @ toss-up be- |tween him and George Bothner, Swans son ja little heavier than Bothner, how. ever, Jack Schmidt, a clever grappler from Brooklyn, will oppose Swanson, and if the word of his friends can be taken he will put up a good contest with the Harlem wonder. ‘Three preliminary bouts should pro: duce sport of a goed variety. You Muldoon, who made such # hit in t |Prellmindey bouts at the recent Haoke schmidt-Jenking contest, will meet | Roberts, a local lad of prominence. Pail | Kelly and John Parelli will try conolus sions {n another bout, and Young Roever and Young Jenkins,’ miniatures of the great wrestlors whose names they hi taken, will furnish the other, Florrie Harnett 1s the referee. eee DOWD TO MEET HOSEY. Eddie Dowd, the lht-welght, of Brpeieiya! has been matched to meet Willle Hosey, of Albany, nt found battle on June fat aome place Up the State A Residence Telephone Shope In cll weathers, Makes appointments. Sumnmone the phyale ofan and le useful alike in all omergendies,: whother important or trivial, Residonce Service front $3.75 per month. MEW YORK TELEPHONE OO. 14 Bay Stroet. 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GR DLE, i), oF LEWIS IS CONFIDENT. lewis says he will knock Nelson out, In that case, of course, Lowis would receive a hurry call from 'Friseo would be mutched with foxy Jiminy Britt, to whom all sluggera look gays tho prospect luoks so good ft makes him dizzy, thero’s many a silp 'twixt the punch and the tip, Willie may find Nelson's chin point and learn what many others have learned: that the Battler's nezyes are well insulated. at little direct dope there 16 favors Lewis, rounds to knock out Martin Canole. time. -But, leaving out all discussion of the finish, this bout will draw. It is the Gireat Dane's first appearance east of Chicago, and Wastern sporting mon ave eager to see the tough youngster who twice knocked out Young Corbett in less than ten full rounds, Pastimes, meet on the baseball diamond to-morrow at Pastle Oval, Beventy- ninth street and the Bast River, Port and Hofer will do the twirling for the MELLODY WON IN HALF A ROUND (Special to The Evening World. KANE, Wash, Ma) 13.—-Martin Dany ot Chicago, lated Just one min: lite ahd fourteon seconds before Honey any, cretion, of averw it ent the Ce id team, UES A rr ead ae iret at leaguers Oo are e@till on) Slaying champlonantp, vabie Cot HERMAN BALKED ATSMALL CROWD (Bpecta’ te The Eventi M fe cures But Nelson took elghteen Lewis accomplished the feat in half the CURE YOURS | Postth Brod bat Hours end a Complete Cure in 6 Days with Capewies called CITROSANDALENE USANI World, dance will be held in the clube Whe Regatta Committee consists of the following: J, F. Lalor, Commodore; 8, G. Smith, Chairman; R, B, Cook, Beo- ) A. McKinney and G. Wel+ NEW HAVEN, Con Mike Murphy, of ¥i YALE KEEPS MURPHY. May 18,—Tratner ‘oported {0 he conatdering an offer from the Untver- ity of Pennsylvania to act as athiétio be $e Barney Oletield at, who wi » Meet nbght, Moilogy, 04 Eve. ae o| Statty Baldwin at the United Cyole and night, mity-Bve seconne from the 6 ; she nounded at the opening phi dese: ic i belay ir} town, Y wing 10, the you on its the fated and’ fought a. al BASLE TO OPPOSE OLDFIELD. Tesi ye ot his Jaw, ering to ied 30 v rit wo Charles Basle, who established world's rec. | Wa hracl® by huge : ofl * oety yhe Provide meet last year, driv. |S + er: | Beat tia jtrainer of that institution, when meen to- sald: “Thet {othe annoat ‘pie am pap er