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‘BROOKLYN *PITGHER IT ; HARD BY REDS Scoring Begins Early, Kel- ley’s Men Getting Six in Fifth Inning, BATTING ORDER. aa Brooklyn. Higgs! } OME people, eepeclally those who! harsh” Bittee, “of. Ss Never sai ai a ringside, talk wisely Beymour, of, ib. of “the bratalizing effect of boxing Steinterah “tb, Ss. upon the spectators.” I wish that chese | , ‘Matigners of the manly art could have seen the crowd that turned out for the Dixon-Murphy bout in ‘Philadelphia ‘Wednesday night. If they could have | taken in that scene. have watched the ovale 45 tha Eee piuful ending of the onos great tte! CrNcr NATE, OHIO. Sent eth champton'’s fighting career, and then | National Commission to-d ¥ made the have felt the overwhelming tide 2f/ announcement that. the National and fuuthan sympathy that drowned every | American Leagues ‘oted unani- wound of applause as Dixon fell, they | misusly in favor, of increasing the Migh: have gone away with a better | players’ share of the receipts of the @pinion of the gam. first four p erles games from forty It was a motley crowd, of ooutse.|to sixty per cent. and the change There were bankers and business men, |20w goes into effect. Under the new ports, laborers and joafers. There| conditions, the rub governing the were men of every color and shade, | financial end of the games now reads White; black and yellow. “The galeries | 4# flows: Were Gack with Dixon's dusky brethren. | _ Division\ of ‘were gathered trom the highways| The recel &nd the by-wdys. Intelligence and cul-| S¢vided as follow rubbed elbows with the “abyssmal| First—Ten ver cent. of the gross re- ute.” soles sil -gacnes shall | bo! ele ook: osed to to the National Commissio». Bie wo ene putea are tonto in- | Second--8ixty per cent. of the bal- inet Of brutality, ‘aid not find a single |S2C® from the first four gumes shall man to applaud it. Insteag of the roar |f0F™M # pool.for the players af the two ist ‘mpprobation: that ‘usually greets a {*e%™s. to be divided, 7 per cent. to the | Wiotor, Munphy faced as he turnea| Winner and per cent. to tue loser “ toward his corner only a at Ve idheualaate Jence. ee te ‘Third—attter the ten (10) ver cent. a Wot @ drum was heard, not a-funeral note| Auctions for the commission and the ‘As his corpse to the ramparts we hurried. sixty per cent. which forms the players’ pool from the first four games, the bal- OUNG CORBETT hus made a new | NC of the gross receipts ghall be-di- VY start, I-saw him Wednesday | vided equally between the two clubs. i voratl i Umplreatr, orpage ite night at the ring side when Dixon ‘and Murphy fought. ha, fought Dixon four rounds a few! er being scheduled for Sunday, when a (eats ego,” said Covbutt. “He was bad | postponed game from .the, last ‘then, eo bad that I didn’t have the heart | visit East will be played off. was The Brooklyn team began a series of four games hero to-day, & double-head- to ieomid ss & new reputation by fighting} a lerge party of Invited guests, the ary marks like poor old George: Next |members of the Little Johnny Jones, ‘Thureday night. at Chelsea,I fight Young| Fay Templeton anf Gay New York j Brne. After that-I shall go into the|companes proving more of an nttrac- Hardest kind of training, just as 1 did| tion than the Brooklyns. Henjon's | hen I was in good shape. In six weeks /team did not arrive in the ofty until shail be fighting at 190 poxtnds, my | late and was compelled to hustle trom weight, then let thom look out, I| the station ¢o thelr hotel in order to “will be ready to fight anybody in ‘my | be at the grounds tn time for the game. Sass, I cover couk fight well when I| Dobbs and Lewis, of the Brooklyps, éurgied fat. Wien I get into trim again |Were Injured in the exhibition “game will go after a fight with elgg. Tm|4t Syracuse yesterday, both Suffers, deat one'by'canny miles, from Charley Horee and betoe uncint Xoung Corbett looks better than he|t Play to-day. Dobbs expects to z| Bas since his defeat by Britt two years |#o his home in Chattanooga from here. ae. Hip tace le thioner and his eyes| | Because of these men Glear. It ig evident that bright , to Gi him. I don’t care for any chances |.not much of a crowd present to-day, , Bheckatta | ser fo 4 oe gut H aon ateating, | Tet, dying, Shock. | j ee teylne fo react tied to Bheckand, NO "RUN: GRAVESEND ENTRIES, Second Waa” Malay fanned. Eason roamed first {tpecial to The Evening World) 9 & muffod third strike. Batch forced GRAVESEND RACE TRACK, NEW] Pason on a grounder to Corcoran. FORK, Kept,.22—The entries for to- | wnd *neled to rent, putting Baten a‘ ‘ummel stole S-con. hGrrow's races are as follows: {onped. at Bgtab started for ant "No Me selliaw: etx’ tar}onea, BUNB omces. Aah il ‘on 6 "a t; neiod t to gontre, first, but in run ‘tom n Geasier nite Goh! |S hnth" TRO, RUNS Tif ch ‘oe es Paya eer art. 4 a aingle if roe Bary, alert ¢ ST ET ITT TIRE TET MTT TT ey TH WORT D: FRIDAY EVENT “ONE KNOCKOUT Wilmirgton ating. Men wit. ness Good Battles at tie Opening Show of ‘the Local; Athletic Club. (Special to The Evening World.) WILMINGTON. Del. Sept. 22—Five | Mahts of six rounds cach were on, the card at the opening show of the Wil- mington Athletic Club last night, and one of them ended in the second round with a knockout. Patsy Reardon, of | Philadetohia, put Jimmy Fitseimmons, of the eame olty. to sleep in the first |bout, The latter wus out for several | minutes, but récovered. The windyp. between Jack Durane, of Savannah, Ga., and Willie Lucas) of ended in a\ draw, ress, and ‘waale Burks, of Ph ‘wisich the latter won, He fight of the, inte Bin be- wi elighter. and eave a clever ‘ex: ‘hibition. tend Be rea to Be Settled st AMPION FILLY AND COLT |HIGHLANDERS TURN THE Continued trom Fin ed trom Fir Firet Page.) SEPTEMBER 9°, te Na SPORTING NEWS AND COMMENT rozzk 5 FAST FIGHTS, [C4 CHASED TRAMP THROUGH STREET Brotfler of Six-Year-Old Giri Gave Alarm and Crowd Hunted Enticer, — (@pectat to The Wrening Wortd.) RIDGWFIQLD PARK, N. J., Sept, 22. —After narrowly escaping lynching at the hands of an infuriated crowd of men &m@ women, a man, who described himself as fames Lang, forty yeara old and homeless, wab lodged in jatl here this afternoon, where he cowered in a call’ in abject fear that the wrath of KTEREE- YEAR-OLDS LYNCHING MOB | FUSION MEN SAID TO AGREE ON JOHN FORD Citizens’ Union Decides to Go Into the Conference Agam. anaes Following a visit early to-day of Ben- a McCarren to the CRy Hall, where @ Femained tn Conference for twenty lated with Meyor McClellan, it was SasertBd by the opposition feaders that John Ford will receive the nomination for Mayor on the anti-Tammany tick- “Tt @ all cut and dried for Ford,’ said a Fusion leader who belked at having his name printed. “He will head Dis, Dursuere would reach him through jt! the stone walls and bars. The Mx-year-old Gaughter of B. A. Gastfeld was playing with her brother m the street near'her home wheh Lang, ‘who was dressed like a tramp al looked the part, enticed her tato @ clump of trees nearby. The girl's younger brother gave an alarm, and in a minute the entire nelgh- borhood was and an angry mob 10 the place. | “fang darted out ito the road’ and ensack with the mob | Oe enreetectng mesh ‘aisd woth u . | MALTESE CAT EATS TOBACCO, had left upon @ chair, euddenly disap- . It wee found that the meltess it, Every day since chen, the has pined for @ supply of the weed. “ knot pat one res Walters, FJ. Mohalty Wants Acceptance ot TABLES ON WHITE SOX’. ae Rae to son base on) bases, on Caer i! ; Pking out Shue ry drew a ‘tree é Mo nt a war theo ee sevis was thrown out by one: NO Second Inning. to Hahn, Fults xe the local altuation, aid he ts being forc- ed to the front by the Municipal Own- erahip League. “Martin Littleton will not accept. He is too good an organization demoorat to take @ hybrid nomination; besides, he comes from the country where Demo- crate ate nothing if not regular. You can bank every dollat on the assertion that John Ford is the man and regurd the nomination’now as being siready "The fact is that the opporing bodies cannot get the man they want, there- fore Ford, whose municipal ownership principles are eae and who Wants the nomination, wilt get it.'* After his talk witt the Mayor, Senator MeCarreh eald that hie call was purely personal and had no bearing whatever ‘on the political situation. tl ata! hor "said the Senator, tov fo klyn we ate all tor Ma! Me: Clellan, and trom the fusion Loress or, the G Chissus on it. the latter body de leet thowient to sunk. tire last further made evid ‘Boroug! at h jent Lutieton if rea would fon ares “I would hot take the nomination un-} der any consideration.” nawered Presi Littleton with he Committee ‘xteen of. sens’ Union, = thy committee of the fa Se the fie in. i tease po Sah oi DALV‘s™ ran EDNA MAYap's EDITED By ‘RT arnt AMUSEMENTS. AMELIA BINGHAM, CHARLES MAR, enna PROCTOR Wee oa Be ee eee re +4 ASS 4 ERD, ras. bt PRODIGAL SON. SON. Beh. BRON RE ae hia “ag 8 15: hae 218. ; wah Tae. img Sorte DEWEY Ee aT Meee = (eve ste Hionros, at ee 3