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; } bringing over a lot of crack |UP TO DATE! AND NEWSY American Motor Boats Are Superior to All Others Is} Claim of Californian Who| Is Now Engaged in Busl-| hess in Siam. ANDERING around the Mo-| ~ W tor Boat Show I chanced} to meet an old college} chum, This isn't merely an expres- sion—he really was an old college chum, We went to the U ue of California together and competed on the same athletic teams, When I first saw him he was curt-| ously inspecting a motor. I slapped him on the back and we shook hands “What on earth are you doing here?” 1 asked. Why," he sald, “IT just took a run cro: from Siam. I'm over there} trading on the rivers, you know, We have been using all sorts of boats: and There are two or three Americans @ lot of English. The English trad got in some English launches, and two years ago I came over to the show here | and bought a lot of fast motor boats. ‘The first people up the rivers get the ped over thirty- lost most trade, you know. I sh nine semi-speed boa and ef them _in a typhoon on @oast. That was a cerror. Steamer, picked up without board, deserted j that didn’t have a s' the deck Ine, warks ‘were torn off at the deck by the force of the water. We collected the insurance on the lost boats, and the few we shipped through ®n another Steamer went to work on tho rivers, ‘We made the English look sick, They couldn't compete with us, and the tricks they tried to pull off would make a horse laugh. But this year tt re English they think they have us trimmed, That's why I'm here. I al-| ways beileved that American machinery can beat the world doats and American ngs around them ove: boats and rr there In Slam It's a pretty good euperiority of American boats and mo-! tors when a man comes half Way aro the world to get then the products of England and France and | Italy. A man whose fortunes depend! upon superior speed and navigating | ability can't afford to make mistakes. UNNY what little things in the! F ine of Inventlon make a man's fortune! An {dle country drug | ¢lerk rolled some paper strips and coated them with paraffine wax. He subst!-| tuted them for straws at the soda foun-/| tain. They were all right. He patented | Nis invention, To-day he's a mi ite | millionaire. In the Motor Boat Show] there are scores of devices just as jn- genious as this. For instance, one man with a quick mind has adapted M 3 | Msilencer''—the {ttle device that aos | lutely silence: xplosion of a rifle cartridge—and se elple in a muftl There is a simp spiral partition i Bases blow out tl ous what the ga back — pressure. wen a puff. nother man found that el an 5 nes proguice ectr A NO CONFLICTS IN LOCAL CLUB DATES. ‘Giants’ Home la Games During IG09 Season May 11 i Ma 7 V Ma I'm going to get | * .@ few of the best up-to-date Indication of the | ATTELL WiLL PUT UP FIGHT OF , j April 14, 1 i April 17, 19, 2) w i lh ahh stnltenelliind saldhiiede iteciatin inna a PORE A ED ERE NEN 5 NED, TI THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1909, : EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN Many Big Fights on Tap In the , Next Three Days | ' 1 Noi and ae Driscoll andi) Lo eue cans 4 5 ara |f At the Sharkey A. ©, Btag— Coulon and Daly Meet Here |] Young Nitchle, of Philadelphia, will To-Morrow Night meet Tommy Carey, of thig elty, in }| the main bout of ten rounds. In the other bouts Young Delaney vs. Sailor Stephenson, Joe Gordon va. || Joe Black, Fighting Kennedy va, Wille Brennan ang two other con- | BY JOHN POLLOCK, HERE are many Important fights carded to be fought within the tests, next four days which will keep At Philadelphia—‘Young Lough- the fight fans all over the country |f rey’? will meet Mickey Gannon for worked up to a high pitch of excitement six rounds at the National A. C., of }| To-morrow night Frankle Neil and Patsey (Boyo) Driscoll, the Irish cham- pion, will meet for ten rounds at the| Fairmont A, C., while Johnny Coulon and Johnny Daly will also clash for ter rounds at nd A.C, On Fr nd Jem Driscoll | of peteree hoch veermention upeunae at the Na-| cepted him tlonal A, of this city, and Bert) Horry Keyes and “Cyclone Johnny will come together for t rounds at e y Orleans. On te and Sam has been selected to referee the r between Marvin takes place at E twenty the fob Iinmnortately ac. will b Engilsh ned to meet planation’, by New Orleans, for the inthe jam Berger [ttt save ho will arrive Ba Driscoll ag to morrow night ‘oll,”* sald Nel nlght, teh veith Owen Morane i bae| Veteran Young hardest any ordi battle." my ; Usagi ees bee ei Ltd 1 } plea Thomas, who boxea Hugo Kelly, of Sola b Bost | BY BATTLING NE LSON. Ha for my male On ton of, ti Man y en CHAPTER XVII In’an envelopes war fromthe lo Cleveland nt trade deal | of the big | macnates at Chicago yesterday, That was a deal where’ started confident get on a return bou! whom he Is certain. hi ship, one of the strongest Sir James Ed a Prince Albert coat. can beat, Dave Barry, has already w: — Nine the veteran Cy Young fro. Boston jin exchange for Pit r Ch Chech, Star Rinners [leat rear'a Cleveland. star, and. duck n, mising youngster secured in Line ior Big togs, and | made up my to the class where he b W Orleans club. A big rt B f money also went to the Bos- or a fighter to Ii B Kl R subs eoeltha varerenore vee always fought on the coast, 100. yn ace | ng started his big league ca- | *ec'sion over IEE reer in Cleveland In 189, and now goes hai z hrough d licked Co. ck there neteen years of big He servi f the or Britt to d and mag making the | meet m mised. felt that tt eveland next Leibhardt, regulars and tls a strong, game, cleter fg ly man that ever made Britt te fe id, but ‘the Favath to) 5) fellow in the HIS LlkE AGAINST DRISCOLL = Will Give Ame ut Prestige All Over World. There were They swung rights ; ause he | ce tee| Both nee Are Training Hard vont! for the Big Battle of Friday Night, Victory erican Y VINCENT | Shows Speed TREANO e easons local celebri RB fase ih Bkiyn’s ii1ome hit onee In elghe rounds yor ue was C of Hobok t, the To thing Games During 1909 Season only was The k punches amplon fe. into Seiger's 1 that would sur in the camp n the Car- Since York ne th New ; 4 with Phi nie In this country, con fut esky quering all uld oppose New Yor. Tad eave eee s with New York : rian pl on Bey tells 7, ze 7 with Bo nm pouns many poun d hter than : Y 2 with Cincinnatt this man, Atte t aud i i tripe than Mart 14, 15, 16 with Pittaburg. 1 1 with Chic with © Ati 2, D with P! Cineinnatt f t » way 3 W s to sta + with Ph with most. folks the winner, 7 with New York go the lilt Cross met Driscoll and were conquered. | lat the ead « Half Uppercut and Hook to Stomach fente twenty rour nds. at AED RLU UanE| Did Far More Damage: to His sittin M! erecta “Sullivan hee “y would Nees th ro nds at the Park. to see Opponents Than All Wal- lops to the Jaw. Battles and Career of Battling Nelscn SIDE‘from my natural ambition to win the lightweight champion. | mane ard Britt was because It may sound like a “kid,” but, on the level, i y the Cleveland club| made me awful sore to see a prizefighter going mind that some day | would bring him in doubt |p YOUNG O'LEARY POUNDS BURKS ——ALLOVER RING East Side Bantam Shows Splendid Form in Bout With Jersey City Man, | “Young O'Leary,” the clever east side | bantam-welght, added another victory | to his record last night by giving Frankie Burns, the Jersey City bantam, & good lacing in a ten-round bout at the | Long Acre A. C. stag. This 1s the seo- | ond time O'Leary has conquered the lite tle Jerseyman, he having bested him {n a six-round bout at Brown's Gymnasium Training Plans of eas and Highlanders Will Be Dif- ferent This Season. —\——_- BY BOZEMAN BULGER. HE last of the Giant youngsters I left for Texas to-day. They were Waller and Simmons. Being the nly New Yorkers among the recruits, ea = BAT NELSON SAYS JIMMY BRITT HAD ONE BLOW THAT WAS AWFUL. 1 went to the appointed to find Murp much wor the next day. but failed ecame very s Eddie ve ormer n there to see Santry off, Champion of the World er appointment and there- om Teddy and y suspicious, t and tere found a note 4 dollaF bill Inclosed, The b he had been called of sickness in the fam: pull," &e, t his’ Inter bankroll, and [ became ve T opened hoa hund reasons | had for ire to lick he wore a high hat at felt posi: in these ea down around urphy and day Detective Taylor was kton and brought: Mur back to San Francts Settled our difficulties. at Murphy and [ severed con- tlons for good. After Britt Again. ready told how I ond time. I now felt as If Ito a return mateh with | cking in hay e. es were inserted in the arti- at I was not allowed to en- fight that went over six , the other that I must be on San ‘o soll note later that July 1 for ning of fi articles. As I was under the care of Dr. Charles A. Clinton hecause of my broken rib got during Corbett fight, I found it impossible” to fight for a few weeks. I went to the mountains for a month on the doctor's advice. Chapter XVIII of the Battling Nelson stories will be published In The Evening 1d of Friday, ' a iy Receipt That Cures oy. Weak Men---Free » to to get him te was my first op- t him Spider Ket led to B ne all McGraw’s Youngsters On Way to Texan Camp. defeated | A. A. a few months ago, Burns was l outclassed from ¢ art as O'Leary was too rand shifty for him. (two foun ta O'Leary took i not ‘punch Ris light, ones the chance hird round on his jaw that h |they sailed with the war correspondents On the good ship Antilles, and unirss the Waves beat them to It arrive In Marlin on Feb. I several of the youngsters livin (West. 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