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@ DESPATCH trom Hue, Cochin China, says that a emall steamer, which arrived this morning, re- ports a thunderous sound like heavy @annonading in the direction of the) Parice!s Islands.—News Item. Possibly the news of Jeffries's retire- “ment from the ring has just reached the Orient, and this “thunderous sound" faa the challenge of some Cochin China champion, We've heard roars like that ‘before. ENTLEMAN writing wanta to G know if Jack Smith ever played on any of the big nines around New York Am not quite sure, On further con- paideration am inclined to think he «Nd. | ‘The name has a familiar sound, | JIDQATTLING NELSON has no ambt- r tions in the "“giant-killing’ line, after all. He doesn’t care to emu- Jate Joe Walcott. In fact the Battling Dane has developed into a cagey boy wince he became famous, ‘There was a time when he declared that he “didn't care how big they came.” All success ful fighters have that feeling until they finally meet some other fellow who can hold them level. The trimming that Jimmy Britt gave Nelson has made ‘him cautious, Just now he doesn't care to let even Willle Lewis, a fairly good doy with a wallop, enter the ring with him carrying a fow extm pounds, Nelson is wise, There is just a chance that Lewis might land that punch right, and then Willie, and mot Nelson, would have that lucrative match with Jimmy ‘Britt in July. F's" GOTCH, who a short time ago was a very good wrestler and | a level-headed farmer, ts turning himself into a joke, Frank has been | Jooking at himself in the convex mirror | Of his mind, and, seeing himeelt grow | | to huge proportions therein, has come to take himself ‘seriously, “Hackenschmidt," says Gotch, In ef- ‘fect, “has fied the country because he ‘was. afraid of me, He skipped out be- @ause he was afrald he would be forced into a match, I scared ‘him out, Cock- @-doodle-doo!"* Maybe Gotch really belleves what he ys, Up In Bellevue they occastonally entertain a min who thinks he can whip Jeffries, Jeft showed me a letter ‘once from a man who offered to fight the champ In private, and put up a thousand dollars, which he was to for- felt if he failed to knock out the big fellow in a round, But If Gotch goes Jooking for people who agree with him he will find them harder to locate than @pecimens of the extinct dodo, There's @ small colony of sun-worshippers in Western Kansas, Among them he | might find one or two misguided indi- viduals who would ‘believe that Hack, the giant who never lost even a fall, would timorously run away from a youngster who has been twice defeated by Tom Jenkins, I don't want to belittle the Iowan's @bility as a wrestler, He is very good | j<in his class, I think his chence of @efeating Jenkins to-night at the Gar- den is excellent, He Is fist and strong and clever, He has youth and endur- ance, This yelping at the hovls of the departed “Russian Lion’ ts the only wisn I have ever seen that he possesses poor judginent, But’ Hackenschmidt ts just as much out of Gotch's chiss as Jeffries Is our of Jim. Corbett’s, 1 think that he gould throw Gotch, or Jenking either, half a dozen, mes in an hour if he wanted to. That Js Hotaling. agalnat vhner Gotoh or Jenkins. They are Binal men beside the fellow who han- dies a Big Turk like a babe in arms. However good they may be, they ar Ina different class, Fitzsimmons and ‘Jim Corbett would make a great fight. Goteh and Jenkins Bhould make a great siruggle to-night smuch better than either would if put on the mat against the “timid Russian Lion, HOSE hoodoo Pirates are here again, It seems that every time the Giants get a good start they trip up on Pittsburg, The fearful slaughter of yes- terday afternoon came aa Aa great sure Ise to the fans, It showed that the amplony can be wuipped—Wwhich some all, Tt is up Bring out pur graveyard rab- bits toot, everybod — _ MARQUETTE VS. TRENTON. The Marquettes will have the Tren. ton team for thelr opponents ut Mar- quette Field, Eleventh street and See- ond avenue, Brooklyn, on Sunday This will be the second appearance of the Trenton team, The last contest Was a good struggle, and the one on junday promises to be Just as good. Mand Butler for Marquette. Descriptions ot Homes weical last week In the * MORNING WORLD’S will Be the battery | Pinot —hitting, flelding, pitching and base running. | were alded some by the freak decisions of Johnatone and Emslie, who gave a stellar exhibition of that “even. Ing up’ process which Is becoming #0 esome, N dy questions at um- ng is A hard Job, bu! two wrongs do not make @ right, ‘The frst inexcusable break was made by Johnstone, who gave Donlin a steal | to second after Leever had smit him hip and thigh, mostly thigh, Honus r ed bitterly, and the Coal Miner of Carnegie does not usually ery murder without provocation. To square tnis Johnstone called Donlin out on | Evtepho begin to fade | with the Iden that the two that beat) Clark Griffith are not good youngsters. © few daye ago, and Gold Sifter came back with a win yesterday over Tim- others. Roy is something of a two-year-old the as | ume BY FRANK W. THORP. ‘The defeat of Clark Grimth by Bt. | tetephe and Merry Boy In the race| for two-year-olds yeaterday seems end any chance te might have haa to beat Firet Water in the National) tallion Stakes, to be mun to-morrow. | Thia stake ts one of the rich prises of the meeting, and, with ten starters, | will be worth in the aggregate about $15,000. Newton Bennington said a fow days ago that he regarded Clark Grimth as) ‘one of the horses most dangerous to) the chances of Firat Water, It cer- tainly did look ao at that time, for! Clark GriMth had won two cracking good races in very easy style It le true that he had not beat very muoh, but {t was the way he did it that caugnt the eye, Yesterday, by being beaten by Bt. and Merry Boy, his chances | No one muet run awny) Merry Boy casily beat Gold Bifter a) Moonshine, The Dustman, and That would Indicate that Merry ner Timber hive all marked Madden of railbird« one of the best the parte SPORTING NEWS FIRST WATER BEST TWO-YEAR-OLD SHOWN ainlig, but M bers miensuro Perhts resus are w Firet Water Will Be Favorite. ‘ Water now scema the natural orite for the National Stallion. ‘This It is well named. naming Is a Jew nauned, and is @ ne wets a fine Len Strome. od horses by. Bes Bi atl vensonhurst and Bath Beach are W KHOWN gons of Ben speed but lneked heart hot Prospero has been doing inst Just ance his hot know. Ne Was th Ry Crossway: which were a Weeds of the string, doing al the wi! ning and being far superior to the sup- posed cracks. | morning tris may show dif- to| ferently, but races in the afternoon and thls colt was prophetic. Jone “all that ‘ny Yet do hat has been asked of him, and has perfornied his take easily, If the writer were aaked to pick the contender, Prospero. woud be the mre hut heeen kane ones, b he ran a am rage fied hashing Rood If colt, but labo rier the Aisvivantage of owning A ‘parent whe breed of quitters hia Onty Sut he will be a hard horse to beat Mfr. Belmont has Don Diego and Woo! wich entered, but nefth {loning in the same br ter tt is srather surprising to find St ase ah alte erry Be | any. y can take Tim- tinue they meet hat count, Whoever had the He water, He his one started only lot of quality. He nat is There have been son: Strome who race the writer does rt as fit and as good 18 victory at Aque: @ worth mens ho with First Rstephe and ‘Tiptoe ent to Rennings as the PIRATE'S RUNS LooK SSNAPSHOT OF MC GANN MAKING His HOME RUN, STRIDE —~TUFT. PIRATES HAD THEIRBATS AND PLAYED SNAPPY BALL ee BY ALLEN SANGREE. ‘There was an old man named Leever Who smiled like a Cheshire cat; | Dan MoGann hit him, ‘The others but hit him, ‘And the rooters went home sorer thin— —Chaucer, Don't like old English, eh? Well then here's some real Kivling: “What are the bleachers yellin’ asked Rooter-Full-of-Rum, “To wober you up; to Seber you up,” sald he ‘twas deaf and dumb. “What are ye deif and dumb fort asked Rooter-Pull-of-Rye, “So I don't Jump out and kill the lad, that kinky-headed guy Who's callin’ ‘balls and atrikes there; you can see the front ranks heave: He must be ranker than them all; his eyes are up hid sleeve." “What's that go black on the gon-of-a- gun? asked Rooter-Full of Gin “Hie bleedin’ heart; nis bleedin’ heact; {t's loaded down with ain, He just called Donlin out at third; was safe as Togo's feet, I bet he's 'fraid to meet him up a dark and lonely street, But they're up aguinat a clever man, for? Je didn't belleve at 0 McGraw now to scuttle the Pirate | ‘she pedagogue of curves, Yes, they're battn' Sammy Leever, and they're mourning," Great Game for Pirat It was a gre-a-a-t game—for Pitta burg. The hottest crowd of enthusiasts seen at the Polo Grounds this year plugged for the Giants ull Emslie made nis last crazy decision, a third strike on Devin, From a financial stand- polnt nothing better could have hap- pened, Pittsburg played all around rk at every stage of the contest his steal of third, whieh he hands acecmplished on a dropped. str oft Browne that Clancy did not throw in Donlin would have scored on MeGann's home run, Emsile Did His Share, Secondly, not to be outdone by his sonfrere, Bob Emalie refused to notice Leever's evident balk in the fourth Inning. The “Schoolmaster'’ openly travsgressed the rules by putting the ball under his arm after he had gone tasoumh tho preliminary gyrations, Mo- 4 é nely Chica’ 8!. Louis, | Bt Clactnnat Graw spied rights, to let Dreyfuss | ae oh Matty Pi port, however, Pittsburg had New York how, but Pittebure bunched. its ite, You CANNOT shoes because beaten, end de was 80 uneEnegtad RS Ee Ate Ga uy find, Leever Y AMORE they'rethe best GEORGE L. STORM & CO, that It gave rive to the old wall, “The Peculiar world, Dan stocann oseliated, SATISFACTORY In the world, Distributors, Giants are pulling.” By thla is meant tapping Out to home tus. ome oe BHOE AT ANY “throwing” « game, and twomen nearly fetch of morial min. He sayed hit PRICE, W. L. Douglas 24 and 26 Murray St., came to blows arguing thereof. From ‘em, from a shutout. makes andselis New York. trand siand to elevated station the ploppy ail totant Te quale gaving more Moen’s $3.50 shoes than any writer overheard thelr contention, and seventh Devlin. halted. between. first | other manufacturer in the world. it sure “sounded,” they say out fd second while Wagaer caught a | Wert Uige Pager, Tre fis bonged $10,000 PEW.ARD t9,ny,one who.can | int vateries. 9 i | Giants Gat Rattled. ward until the Vblvine Buschiman® disprove shis _statemen | Why in the name of common sense sy COUNTS What were Arthur | should the Giants delta caimeto een ARARIMINEA, at that awful” moment? | Douglas Shoes ara Always Satisfactory, four defeats and take one from Pitta: | The ninth inning saw Pittsburg make | ¢@ oO joes made to burg? On the contrary, New York oUF Jf nea walk, errors by Gilbert aR pad at hia ae te poe paler sie crooked PORT bMred desperately to win, so desperately ‘That's all there was to it, not forget- Ceaused by tight shoes), but they never gave me the A ING: t rattled tine marie rien : From the call of time it was evident bitter came’ tbh, the way, there's an- | satisfaction I received from the pair of shoes | that jie champions were pitted faint ler game to-day, you made specially far me some months ago, : y Belmont Park Races all team. Sam. Te hon. rents a f . Haak Ie one of the hardest pitchers to hit In P y according to my mailorder. They needed no Every Weekday, Rain or Shine, Until Mi either leneue, Vhave Raed wood hitters enganabal, Rote Gravods coder 4PM ¢ breaking in,’ they fitted perfectly from the SAN Grave ens | NATIONAL LEAGUE: Philadelphia, & ur coat Brooklyn. no But there ts no use fc strikes, the last of which was headed STANDING OF THE CLUBS. AMERICAN LEAGUB, Club, We be Club. Wek Be.) Club, + In BO, New York.21° 6 eveland. 12) Detroit Wl’ .t00 Pittsburg 18 10.043) Brooklyn phta..18 10 Loula, | [12 18 “aso Chicago. 15 14 [517 Boston ago. 12 1 sf w York. 11 14 440. Phila’phial 12 13 AMV St. Louls (ol) Wash'ton.. 18 12 [20)Boston ....10 14 417 RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, Pittsburg, 7; New York, 2. St. Louis, 3; Now York, 1, 4) Brooklyn, 1 Washington. 0. B; Boston, 2. H nla, 8: Chicago, 0, Cineinnatt, 8 if veland Raine pomiponed. Rain. GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY. ork at Bt. Lote, at New York ‘ie}phia, | £1 Vat Phi this, and demanded his) say they feared him much : e mor. purpose, ‘il'd ww. soon |Philline, No one can handle the cine umpire,” he exclaimed, | 240i with bie stil and precision, and thie so long as thangs, + 6m When the occasion imsiie 1s so fayorabie, Doubtless in|, Jimbued with a long-standing distike one or two Instances Barney might ilneff Qllants every Pirate steoled neelf to play’ his beat, Never for it have been of more value to the Smug- | moment did that dangerous smile fade glers, but Robert did his best, and that; {fom the "Sohoolmuster's' ips, “Wage { 2 her had @ix put-outs and three gasista; js all one can do for any boss, stolldly bore the Jeers that followed his Finally to again even up the Donlin Strikeout and gruded around ahore affalr, Johnstone. called Leever out at (Ph everstiing In sight. red Clarke frst on a double play in the ninth Inn- eminem td how nenateny Ing when he easily had Dahlen’a return Where “a. fiv Will Wight.” He da -cone to McGann beaten, Seeing which, Bms- Santlv shifting, watching the pitch and “ilouiating toa nloety. Wag thus le decided that Barney Dreyfuss might able yesterday to take a dioule drive feel hurt, and called Devlin out on from Donlin’ that with. many others would have meant two or three bag | Sold in an charge. BLUE SERGE SUITS, All sizes—34 to 44—single or double breasted; color, guaranteed, 4.985 for the Coat, Pants and Vest, All alterations made free of HUB CLOTHIERS, 245 OTH AVE., Open Evenings 4.95. y store for $10,00, Our price for to-Gay and Saturday Mall Orders Promptly Filled on This Sale. Between 15th and loth Streets. ntil 9 o'Clock. Saturday Untli 10.30, eg aad te tle ead sat N ED UKE A PROCESSION. PIRATES LIVED UP TO THEIR NAME. SHRGIOA Nant Seat ee MMENT proper? E0cREN. MEET 0 ‘Tom Jenkins, of Cleveland, and Frank Gorch, of Lowa, wrestle to-night at Mad= {son Square Garden to a finish at catch- as-catoh-can style, Jenkins defeated Gotch several weeks Jago in Madison Square Garden after the most sensational contest ever seen in this country, Gotch had won the title of champion from Jenkins a year |ago after the Cleveland man had de- |fended it against all comers for ten years, Jenkins {sa ten to eight favorite in the betting on to-night's battle. The rivalry between these two big athletes their laat meeting was duc to his si- perlor ring generalship and headwork, | while Gotch made many friends by his Nehtning fast work, Tim Hurst has been mutually agreed pon by the principals to referee the | maten. Battling Nelson, the wonderful little is of the bitterest kind, and every meeting between them has witnessed § desperate struggie for supremacy, $0 evenly matohed are they that It really seem «even money proposition viewed from il angles, Jenkins's victory 1n JENKINS AND GOTCH © N MAT TO-NIGHT ponents Dane who ‘durin « K the past year fou hit his way nearly to the top be the PUR Mele ladder, will be Introduced in wring and will referee one of the pres | tminary bouts, anager McGraw, of the Glanta, tow” veen Tnvited te inti hue team & body to the match, and: ting ball team’ from" Dittsbure has recelved ‘om PHUtsbure has’ recely B iike dnvitation, cle hes received fie, Seating arrangements for tos Hts contest are the same that pres Hea at, the Fecent. match between Hackenschmidt und Jenkins, boxes having built around: an ‘olevater what they, were for ne Hsp " ere’ forthe ‘Hackens schmidt-Jenkine mace, ‘he ndvance sale has been ver, lare, and, as in the Want feve mate inthe garden any of the flr e ed net commodations,.. "Nave enwaged ae Phe main event of the evening will start promptly THIS GAME SHOULD BE CLOSE e of the dest semi-profesmional ball wt O45, of the season should be that between the Murray Hills and the Cen= tral 1s "oat Equitable Park, SIxty-se and West End ave= hue, next Sunday, Both teams have a fast collection of nlayers, and on that aceount the game should be Interesting: from start to finish, WAGNERL 5 “MAING A HOLLER. BELMONT PARK ENTRIES. (Special to The Evening World.) KELMONT PARK RACE TRACK, 19—Fntrles for to-morrow's races May are as follows FIRST RACE=Selling; seven furongs; main course, Satlor Hoy +108 Joanti, Voi erry C, Sina iw «102 eB ri Gadny 105 eJetsam i aredarcemcaal) IND RACE—Two-year-olit welling; Nl a half furlongs, Ben. atraight Calabogue . Hooray ® Marius ( sJust eLitue Spninx oo. *Mintia Neigh eons THIRD RACE—National Stui longs, straight {ON Binet Wator Vendor Caplan Veronese ni five ture +122 122 Merry Boy F; ‘Thnber 12 Gomedtenne My pb Flap 1 rk Griffith it moment! put them on, please send me your Catalog, as @ new pairof shoes ait | CHAS. TEOKE, Fast Oolor Eyelets will not turn brassy. Boye wear W.L.Dougles $2.50 and $2.00 shoes |j because they fit better, hold thelr wear longer than other makes. W. 1. Douglas sees Corona | Goltakin iy his 83.50 show Corona Colt I conceded i 66) the finest Pat, Leather riade. | W. b. W.L. Douglas 83.50 Shoe Stores In Creater New York coed ware opener oh iy, corner . roadway, corner Soin Btreet, 134 az1448 P; roadway, corner 4lat Bt. : Aa FES aon, 1 He way, corner Howard Btreet, Third Avenue, von V0.5 1 walked a number of miles in them the first day I received them 1 see you are now advertising Spring Style: ler a while, Write for New 1 PLod'CTA th oe. 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