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THE _EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1908. UP TO DATE AND NEWSY A FEW LINES Tommy Burns Sends The Evening World the Real Facts as to His Match) with “Big Jack”’ Johnson in Australia. | OMMY BURNS will fight Jack Johnson in Australia on the 26th, the day after Christ- | mas. The two fighters will get over i $45,500, including their allowances) \ for expenses and transportation. This jis the biggest purse ever posted inj cash before a championship battle. It is up in real money. The gate ‘receipts will probably break all rec- ords. Tommy Burns has proved himself a great business man as well as a great ‘fighter. Jack Johnson and his staff of [managers have been badgering Burns | rover a year. Burns went | and to whip Gunner Moir, and {Johnson followed. If Burns had fought | Johnson a year ago } would have} made, possibly, six or eight thousand dollars out of the go. As it is he has taken in $50,000 already in Australla, {not counting the $300 in cash that > makes up his end of the puree in the PE OIONMS, REIFF AOT EIA coming fight, and numerous items of SORES AINE S, transportation and expense money, Foxy | THE BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK — E AMBITION OF MY LIFE IS EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN FROM TOMMY BURNS IN FAR OFF AUSTRALIA. TWO BIG INDOOR \ gon A Mbt ner | NEETS PLANNED Mi MauonZd ten of Mas ralaaLimilidl FOR ATHLETES SYDNEY. | —_—. TA Lhoh } \Metropolitan’ Association to seeceiaee (Oe | Clash With Middle Atlantic in Dual Meet in March. neld by, 720 WHIP JOHNSON’. SAYS BURNS of Greater antio IN JORLINIS O/~- FietT Terme Thins THE TAlL ones HAVE FURTHER Te FAtL High School Boys Form Hockey League for 1909 both have teams independent of the Heaxue, ip Bloc Reing SQULOBS 1S VIVAS A LEAGUE has been formed among| The league schedule follov wetk SIOUZDEZR, the hockey teams of the high) vs. Cutler; Tommy intended all along to fight John- a ‘son when it became worth while. He bf delayed simply to boom Johnson's repu- risco { an oran tation and make him a drawing card. On this page is printed a photograph | of the Australian bank note dep ed | witl also use the i‘. ‘a ractic Boy! High moter, in the Referee office. This 6,000 pounds ($30,000) is Tommy Burns's end of the purse. Burns also sent The : fs Evening World a! photograph of the Feet Will Battle § note for 1,100 pounds ($5,500) that was a ~ ae deposited for Johnaon's end. On the| for Title Before National. back of each photograph 1s a statement signed in ink by Mr. McIntosh, Sporting Club in January. vs rinity vs, Gram Feb: 11) A Vs, Winners of B sof A Vs. lose Stee Experts Expect Six-Day SCR TET seiner ei Records to Fall Next Week| _cotauoo is s-Pro” on ROME, Dec. 3.—Tho National Gymnanetic Federation has resolved to consider Dorando Pietri a profes- sional runner, on the ground that he was paid to compete with Hayos in vhe Marathon race at New York. schools of Greater New York, and an extensive schedule has been ar- ranged. All the games will be pl at St. Nicholas Rink, and the teams jthe league that hail from Sixty-sixth the only | school under the P. 8. A, L. whieh will enjenter a tenm. Efforts have been made P at De Witt Clinton and the High Schoo! | of Commerce to put & team on the Ice but difficulties lave been en in arranging for practice, and Manhattan schools have decided to Ww: another year before entering the league Foreign ride WA Want Continu- ous Racing Without Stops for Exhibition Stunts. riders will 3 ing in Te following are Mr. McIntosh's However, Chnton and Commerce v six-day bleyele record for two- etured tire MILLER WILL LEAD statements rega chtera! men teams miles and 4 laps, estants, the dismount: | A (On the back of 8000 pound cheque.) EM DRISCOLL, the _ legitimate | | See, SRN eee aL that the laber-Iafourc Albert C. Miller, of Will will “Photo of cheque lodged Referee office! J featherweight champion of Eng aloo triextuscnaasanlentnetiite ty In gomposed of two of the | captain the Pennsylvania Wt team being Tommy Burns’ share win lose or land, and Owen Moran, the clever, eee ereriah ” Saat ai Ditherplenss ito Miller's election Seacmas raw—also receives one moving picture| English boxer, will be matched in a few eq nnaeeen ana lone eaking pace rig surprise, as he was sub- ‘ ) Yalue $30 pounds and return fares Lon-| Weeks to meet in a-twenty round bout eturing concern in PER IOEABS VARA TE fall untit don for 2, amounting 250 pounds, making} t the National Sporting Club, of Sree paneer 1 ad art at Pe total for Burns end 6,600 pounds or 33,00 |0n, the latter part of next montli for a vf the toreign teams Wesleyan Electé Moore Captain. | smunuitihevscce dollars. You will notice cheque ts a|DUT8e of $7,500 and the feather-weight Jnelther bhmself mor any of tis em: | sup a new | Arthur Moor ckle on this |° Saaee bank one and open same us certified|champlonship of land. Matchmaker | ployees gold any tickets to speculators ee Bean a ‘aptain of the ral ex- cheque in America. Picture rights sold| “Peggy” Bet 3. C., has Tin Speculation i I tg land that ho does not propose to let Mr. |Cub ae Makes Bitter x Wesleyan 1. Moore Is 20 Al: 8! icket Speculation in World's eign riders wait : to Australian speculators for 4,099 Potified both | Meee eecee an a ieeneyenguet ran : glen niles {years ota Ep i Pounds. Stadium where fight will be| them that purse to battle for, Series Stirs Up the Na- [ine amatrs of the Chicago > ational | Attack on Ban Johnson there. Tace from | tnd. = Ly fer F of held cost 2,00 pounds and land cost 2,009} they know perfectly well that they can't | eneieliclit: | FU AIOTIGAnT Len eue pounds. Burns-Squires fight drew 13,709| Set that sum to fight in this cousiry | tional Commission. Murphy si he sent Cook and} of American League. = = = bounds not including picture rights. Bug-|they have decided to accept it. A fight | Thomas, the employees of the Chicago | ae ae | __ AMUSEMENTS. AMus MENTS. | Best tight previous was Jonnson-Lang—| between them will pack the club to its) drew 80 pounds. Burns and Lang same| C#Pacity. eity drew 4,400 pounds. Bad day & HE storm centre of the ht baseball meetings here Weather. T. Burns fought Squires &| Billy Papke, the former middiewet y ho) 1 abuse New Cireur—10 Lunpurted Acts Lang within 8 days. Lang a vastly Im-| Champion, and his r. will not, as at first supposed, be speculators, to Cincinnati, and they told BUDSON 3: SPORUING nD. AL TLE IS proved boxer since he met Johnson,” | have hed a falling out, and around the efforts of the American As-|Garry Herrmann all tl about Tims Mats Wed" & gat i Daye Ones a Mules (On back of 1,100 pound cheque) ponasithatineldceainotiwa a that the P: nt of ETHEL BARRYMORE -*?%eay Lye} C i Hwas 6 "Cheque Jack ‘Johnson lodged ‘Neferee rape niin ts sociation and Eastern League to secure |the mix-up, and that the Presiden ORE ss i af 2 ey { office, Cash, 1000 pounds; pictures share, |™M&neser any longer. Papko has « a rating that will place them in a class|the National Commission says he is GKilchlon ees een FS | THE BLUE MOUSE | 100 pounds; ‘tare: e Engla 0 pounds. ‘Total his end I. Sam Berger, the fight Francisco, to look after future. Papice, it iy learned, dri by themselves above the ot of the country. tin the least atisa or? om t now ten-round battle n fact of Cleveland lightwelgh of New “Orleans will be yn wires pute with Jones over m patt Not tn t! That fs 3 ; i sre fight wi , which | “mir t Fe ci sa me ts responsible for thelr parting Charles" Murphy, erstwhile press jo ssion, thi meee ps of a now owne: | mighty peculiar, to say the In order to keep in £ 1! : jants, now owner in| mighty p club who directly and indirectly have MENT! | oe being responsible for the |!8 €olng to be very much in the centre | EMPIRE juts" wei? bat tc q Daily Ma big league | been named as Cheha Rt DASE nS ‘ reine (oeer next week | tickets getting into the hands of the together ; SUBRN b..EW in JACK iad as. we WM. GILLEITE ie Samson 5) MAJESTIC LYGEUM © "zis ZF BTL: SORE ed that no evidence implicates her minor | sat lan > club, much That's where Joh: s into the Ase, Johuson, as a member of th employee of the ¢ " TO-NIGHT. “pe DE WOLF HOPPER fn Phe Pled ver! on, Viper. Ch commission, thinks there was something 3 | CASINO: Tew ay 7 ay Ak me ry 2 COLUMBIA THEAT. B, | BUENY Pec aiata ‘wore, hiandied ‘by. GALRICK *y08.-y ‘| LULU GLASER ‘h nae co 6 HEAT } anclini Nashin the cham- | ary streets: ‘ and re 4 atter of fact, so! feago club, As BALY’S the storm urpiy's own team, do players on M bor ene Plavere: 2 bout $10,000 In sa. Mats. Wed. & 5, National | Christy Mathewson will coach the Ha: siclan a POPC CORY di cw AMDIERUA A: h patrons, the players or tl WM. CoLt HER it. BCH ta oot it all framed | and It has cost him about #10,0N in sal: | in TH i ot y k i inecres ‘c \€: 01 ad H agent, you know. | HY Mayers for what they consider they d b “FAL, ‘i aonb PRIM DONNA ersap RE AL VAUDEVILLE that's going to! jost by the manipulation of tickets last aE the clubs of whieh sthey, VOY © aE Wai TRE TTAL HERALD $ nn 10 Nis, NO WIGHER, rf t all the time during | fall. sores ynl ROG ab eee Tepe uNy Apo |SA ‘Mats, Thurs: & Sat 0. | FA oust Po SSS fr a7 | Johnson does not claim that Murphy | with fe ten cand) thAcothentiweani Henry Miller As a: = on ings lnad anything to do with the mix-up, | provavly lend berths with some club ‘be: [ThE WINTERFEAST, West F EMPIRE - TED thet ceca alin Cotte says he ig not angry. Sure| put does claim that he did not ta Be the meeting ends. aied NM THE CHA™PACN W rH the packwze of pletures| 2mm Bit he burned up about six.| proper care to protect the interests. o! rf F ‘ommy a few notes on in-|Gi.u ter ng things: ng out a statement as t “Hello, Bob: “I am sending you a set of the ple- tures of the last fight with Squires here in Australia. I am also sending a photo- graph of the check John: will receive and mine, too. I had MeIntosh write on the back of them to show you are wetting the right dope. The Event ‘ at the He a ; ii World ts the only paper in America ‘ sient tn ting these photograpns of the c¢ that Johnson and I get, Johnson has a clause in the articles not to let on bu | what he 1s getting forty per cent, of purse, I had these phote checks taken, as 1 made~ promise me that, so no erican League and nr Commission, It et speculation ring th t to bb the purse. will sign Bil IN spite of cert the level. Tam basing my circumstin When Tommy York just betore fight G with bor He « at fight Jounson in going 1 keep The Evening W F news of his fights by mail and cable he bas ‘ letter on after i son w \ hess pri f lieved aon out leit t of Ban Johnson, President of es last Octe Ase >uiliam Vill Help Ebbets RE at S. rengiken Brook yn Ciub Dat RAE [f JOE WELCH A ay GN it ga Moaisein “THE PEDDLER” | AVTON's WETROPOU|S NEM BUAGESS| js spite Yard baseball team next spring. He w last night | in Commisston. 3 Have absolute charge of teh sing twlrlers o what he! work on the: augue executly a in has twice member, of |teant has tv won't talk all comes angle, He just points to t took | dissatisfaction that exists over the handling of the world's pny Bay Johnny Hayden Indianapolis. chub. + worl ot gin at ae Gaiety MT sg Las, si “THE COUNTY FAIR,” |p meeennnnncewnnnnnnanore i kat alta hand aha” oly ‘aml | Ee dt TH: FRAVEL KG Sakis HURTIG & SEAMON's {Every Man Read Ass: ittin hits In 14 games, Americar GAY NEW YORK. GARDEN THEATRE % ° Thie. i SY DIXEY FIRST TIME | aulred ao iiterel” ettacan "hroure i SiON” |g MARY Jane's pa JTO-NIGHT, 8,15 ane Neh YORK | ANNA a per ith & Mad First Mat GRCAGWAY MIM: AGUCLIA & TONIGHT AT 8.15 UGE WebeEn'S 2. Si ‘sige a sai ASCO] : i ik UL inne Toe Aivivie nus care GL sinc sex |p OF UI VESANT| BLANCHE ATES tis Wm, hhodge Eve. wt 8.80. THEIIGH at the end ¢ Doyey to relinguish his claim on Dahlen. Ebbets and Pulliam held a conferenc kiyn club, yesterday, and at the end P) m was or ihe opinion that Dovey would re quse Dahlen either on payment of t season | or on the choles of one of the ING HOPE Fete i MUCHA An: effort. will, be | i GEORG Ng | made to hay it |PLAN TO CUT PR PRICE it succeeds he will be in the Brooklyn dutteid wext season FOR BIG BALL GAMES. mittbatta g reingtuteh a ARLISS “A DEVIL HACKETT ‘Pheatre, W. Mutinee § er 1 WVirs. FISKE, (Pure sexu vane un iuecusaralavanta neces || MARIE CAH'LE re. FISKE.“ Uden fot dun aeady Aes ea ar hale twit | META & PROCTOR'S — | LINCOLN Sua uors, my | s 7 a 5 have entered te 1 | : at home jother's mueh a purchase asion no tntdlty t the bens a HOWS— All, STARS, pways Diag s aaa 4 If, Johnson says it is not f; {clntyre & Heath, Annette PUY | E FAILS TO Hie ‘tane aie mpeort the teurtstay | DEH AVE, i Hoiaes, ctl AMERICAN ean nth RACING GAM Hi" be compelled 10 'pay outta | gray & 28th iy ar NOME Slt " rate the big games at the end of | pury Maes29 Ta 1. if QWHERE! & an Aus ' MAKE GOOD IN CUBA, |1)¢ tearon je wattinctor ——————U aiaitvs Bnertnt Barry Lander Mh irs wintever and | Meret - eho panera ill RAaee @, SOACTONE Alas 125th ST. Mba & Marlo Stuart, Juile pUENE, FRAN R LIN, ! : » vertalnty i There nance ‘uba w! n nbers of the National Comm near Lex, Ave Ing & Co ‘annen ATEMTY Hoey « Bias | | of promt _ be on, There Je Jittle chance that Cuba will |the members of the National Commis. | Ranh. i, ene & fe. Ws Co ine cat, E Evane ali st "in gredtenta rove a help to American horsemen, who. 4 hoped the game would make good Havana and other large cities on Alelde Capitaine. ©. Belly, Lily Le- | ooney & Rent wm, | adducts Ga. JAranitend exe pre- * she, finns e their receipts from the games in half | Alot, Daddy hi} HL TAA TIO | A fail &Co., Chas. Meek & Havana, on Tuesday, to an at * LYMPIC M2284 “tPhone 108 Stuy. "ATLANTIC ys RDEN, Bowery, or. Canal Mdance of 1,200, while on Wednesday | emanpoonpnance Coernnnnnnnnn. | I Home bf Hikh Claas Burlesque any Gamer, Br, Cong iin, Ogaarma ck omaha | AANA LAIN, He | Ph OOS MCTABOGER BME | RUDE, Mae. AGS fad ences hee i $2, but the nv attenda, will | (0 atic pantumline Av ALE A charges, inflammations, even pay for them. 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