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sporting ‘ jaw only to have thelr punches bounce Real Bet Recorded on Fight. Conpright, 1919. y ‘The Prem fublishing Ce, \ . New York Brecing World,) HE first real bet on the Willard- Dempsey fight that we have heard of was recorded at the race track, and according to its terms Willard is the favorite at § to 6. The bet was $1,600 to $1,000, Jack Curley taking the short end. Curley repeated « to me his belief that Dempsey is a gimeh to beat the big champion, who, be says, isn't in shape and cannot get in condition following his long lay-off and the free and easy mode of living he bas followed since accumulating plenty of money. “If Willard wins this fight,” says Curi “fhen all the dope we ha read and have come to believe, that & be successful an athlete must keep fm condition and live a life of ab- nce, js all wrong. If Willard wins this fight we might just as well come to the con- qlusion right away that there is no ueed of a champion takin, e of imeelt, He can do an he tikes, ent, drink and neglect himself physically @nd still be invincible. “I don't care what anybody says to the contrary,” continued Curley, “Wil- considerably lard has abused himself since he won the championship trom | Johnson. He has drunk more than his share of the red eye stuff. When | one or two drinks might satisfy the average man, Willard has consumed | it by the bottle. | “I know be has been tn training for | & couple of months, but no one can make me believe that he can train out of his system, in that short timo, stuff he has swilled into it years. It can't be done.” Gossip of Willard’s overindulgence im red liquor has been heard from time to time, but it has always proved just gossip. If he has acquired the souse habit, he has done so very quietly. Jess has never attempted to deny that he has taken a drink from time to time, but he has always laughed at the ition that he took more than was for him. Curley, however, pro- to know what he is talking about. ET Tom O'Rourke with big Fred Fulton in tow. Tom is planning to take a trip to Europe with Fulton to clean up the heavyweight clasees there and return bere and fight Willard for the title. O'Rourke thinks that Willard will sull be champion at In fact, he doesn't believe has a look in on July 4. will be as powerless ‘lard as a cow on a rail- would be against an en- ys O'Rourke. “If Jess gets £,ge0d crag wok at Dempsey he will turn ‘a filp. if win?’ we asked Fulton, beside O’Rourke, listening to ‘Dis new manager's talk. will beat him,” he repied iy. OM SHARKEY didn't wait to be asked his opinion of ‘the fight when we met him at the race track just as he was in the act of “going south” with a bank roll, in- cluding several century notes. “Who's going to win the fight? he Before we could “I think this Dempsey boy is a sure 5. He's the finest specimen of an athlete I've seen in thirty years, And he can hit. I saw him hit a fellow in New Orleans and | thought it was bd hardest punch ever delivered in ring.’ We called Sharkey’s attention to Bob Edgren’s story of how Willard's partners banged Willard on back at them without mov- ing Jess's head. We also remiuded Tom of his own fight with Jeffries at Coney Island, when for twonty- five rounds he plunged into Jeff with all kinds of punches and couian't the big boilermaker or ward oft his return attack. “Yes,” said Tom, refiectivel gure did hit Jeff hard and often, but! couldn't burt him. “Well, wasn't that discouraging?” we asked. “It certainly was,” said Sharkey, “and there is nothing that will beat man quicker than discouragi: fim." Sharkey, bowever, still hered to his original statement Dempsey will win. . COMPLETED poll of opinions on the fight taken by that old- time authority, the Police Ga- zotte, throughout the United States and Canada ts interesting. It shows that 172 favor Dempsey to win, while 144 believe Willard will conquer his challen, The 172 that favor Dempsey are divided as follows: Na- and American League baseball ers, 89; sporting editors, 44; ters, 16; actors, 7; rage track men, fight promoters, 2; managers af fighters, 4; wrestlers, 1; miscel- laneous, 3. The 144 that picked Wil- lard are: National and American League baseball players, 97; spo-ting editors, 25; race irack men, 6; fight- era, ctors, 5; fight promoters, 1; managers of fighters, miscella- neous, 3. The doubtful ones are: Na- tional and American League basoball players, 13; sporting editors, 5; fight- ere, 2. IM HOCKING, the sixty-three- year-old pedestrian, has just re- turned from Cleveland, O., after wiping out the record of John Ennis, the famous professional, for a walk from New York to Cleveland, a dis- tance of 600 miles. Hocking covered the intervening hills and dalos ‘n eleven days and four hours, beating Bonis's old .mark by twenty-four hours, In the days of long ago, when pedestriankm was more popu- Jar, columre would have been writ- Willard 8 to 5 Favorite in First | | WEN WHOLL NAME REFEREE. Major Biddle and Messrs. Borglum and Emple Expected in Toledo To-Day for Purpose of Discussing Question of Arbi- ter With hickard and the Fighters. TO CONFER WITH PRINCIPALS THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1919. - By Robert Edgren. Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bvening World.) TOLEDO, O., June 23. AJOR DREXDL BIDDLE, President of the army, Navy and Civilian M Board of Boxing Control, with Mr. Gutzon Borglum, Chairman of thé Civilian Committee, and Secretary Adam Emple, are due in Toledo to-day for the purpose of conferring with Tex Rickard and the boxers and their managers on the selection of a referee and other officials for the big bout. Tex Rickard invited the board to handle the question of referee and judges for the bout, intending to put this matter squarely ino the hands of America’s new boxing authorities, There has been alot of hard work in both camps during the past few days. As a resuit, Jess Willard has lost a sparring partner and has filled out his staff with Steambcat Bill Scott, a sokiier just back from the war, champion of his division. It was Heinen who had enough and quit, Jess has been knocking Heinen out regularly, . Big Crowds at Both Fighters’ Camps. Interest in the battle has gripped all Toledo, Saturday afternoon and yesterday the camps of the fighters were overrun with spectators, Thou- sands of cars lined all the roads within half a mile of either camp, Every bit of vacant ground was a parking space, At Willard’s camp yesterday at least 6,000 people strugsied to get through the gates and into the canvas incloseure around the ring. Willard boxed at 2.30, as usual, and when his show was over, three-quarters of an hour later, there was a rush for Dempsey’s, a mile down the single road that skirts the lake front and connects the camps, The crowd marching along that mile of road in solid column, like an invading army, cars, with horns squawking raucously, pushed along the edge of the road, Near the Dempsey camp there was a jam, and wherever it was possible to leave the road the automobiles turned into the fields. At Dempsey's getting near even the canvas inclosure was like elbowing through Mardi | Gras crowd at Coney Island, Men and women struggled to get a glimpse | over his shoulders, If there had been any buttons on that bath robe yes- terday they'd all be treasured rouvenirs in Toledo homes to-day. ' Dempsey has begun just what he promised to begin, a last ten days’ rally, Jack has bad enough resting. Saturday De Forest let him box only fix rounds, Then he shadow boxed a couple of minutes, when De Forest suddenly called to him: “That's enough.” Yesterday Jack had more work. He boxed eight rounds, four with big Bill Tate afld four with the Jamaica Kid. Big Bil) wasn't feeling any too good, he said, because he'd been hit pretty hard in the region of the ribs, But he fought. I'll say he fought. There were times when Big Bill put enough stuff on a right*hand punch to Dempsey’s chin to knock an ordinary man over the ropes, Tate hit Jack on the chin with one right hander Saturday—a regular mule kick~and didn't more than shake him a bit. It was the kind of a punch that led Jack Kearns to say that Jack “eats ‘em alive.” Yesterday Jack was a glutton for heavy wallops, He pushed his face against them, It may be true, as Dempsey says, that he doesn't intend to hold out his chin and let Jess Willard take a crack at it, but his training indicated that he's going Into the ring July Fourth entirely indifferent to anything Jess may use, from a steam roller to a stick of TNT. Dempsey Batters Tate and Jamaica. Both Tate and Jamaica slammed away at Dempsey, and landed, and both of them were battered until nearly ready to drop, They do say that Big Bill intended to take a two weeks’ vacation yesterday-—two weeks covering the rest of Dempsey’s training period. Jack talks softly and pleasantly, but he hits an awful punch, a pleauant smile at the training table when he eits down with his whole staff, and he's mighty considerate of a fellow's feelings, except when he has the gloves on. That's the trouble with Dempsey, He reminds me ab- solutely of Terry McGovern, Outside the ring he's a lovely fellow and good company and all that, but once he gets inside the ropes he's a ripping, tearing wild cat. ‘His middle name is “Fight,” and nis initials are K. 0, I saw him hit Tate in the stomach and Tate's backbone bulged out as if he'd swollowed a tent pole. 3 Changing the subject, Little O1 Jess Willard had a session Saturday rday, too, Friend Heinen didn’t show, but this Steamboat Bill place and a number of large, husky wallops, One thing, Jess did not knock Bill out, Bill was slugging with him when they called “Time.” Yesterday was @ cool day. There was a cold breeze blowing. Jess boxed his eight rounds, two each with Steamboat Bill, Joe Chip, Hempel and Monahan, He went through his stunts, But he complained that he wasn't satisfied with the way he worked. He felt slow. The change in the weather bothered himy It's a funny thing that when Willard 4 He has "t satisfied with his work- There is very little fat outs he seems to be working better than ever. Yeft on him, and what there is he can carry well, ‘Tom Jones iy in town. Willar Jones and Willard don't even nod. At least, doesn't nod to Jones, I had a few words with Willard's former er. This is what he has to say about the fight know Willard better than any other man living. He is in good enough condition to win right now. I don't think Dempsey has a chance to beat the big fellow. I have no more use for Willard than he has for me, but to give him his due, he's a superman, and he won't be beaten for years if he goes on fighting and taking care of himself, Punishment doesn't worry him, and he's a terror when he's hurt. I think Willard is in grand condition from the waist up, and as good as he needs to be for any twelve- round contest. If I was interested in him I'd like to see his legs better. He ut Hocking'’s acoomplishment, but a conditions have uy, it seems. * neels road work. It isn't too late to do the read work now, He could cut out boxing and go on the road every day and be better off, But road work or no road work, no man living ean beat him the way he is, He jan't fat, It's a fact, that he did weight exactly 249% pounds when he fought walst no smaller then than it is now, He never had a forte. ‘ pu of the challénger as he walked jauntily out to his work, a bath rote tossed | tory, while the White Sox and Indians WILLARD WRESTLING “OTH HEMPEW Yanks Trounce Red Sox And Lead Race Again Both White Sox and Indians Lose While Locals Are * Winning. thinks are hereby extended to Ban B. Johnson for sending Billy Evans in our midst to do a bit of umpiring. It was Billy's first appearance here of the year, d fandom was so elated him again that it cried and “Who's paying you?" in an exceedingly low and modulated voles. By Bozeman Bu'ger. N their week-end visit the Red Sox were most cordially re- “ceived by Murderers’ Row. The large Sunday crowd, unused to fire- works, had been eager for some time to see this shock section of the Yanks in action, After the game quite a number of them offered to hand back some change to Harry Sparrow. They had more than got their money's worth, The net haul was fifteen clean! At one perilous stage of the game wallops, six runs and a triumph that|when runners were on second and nud, : third Ernie Shore very wisely gave seed {rom an inch closer into that abe Ruth a base on balls. ‘The fans Scramble for the lead. The Vic |nissed this show of respect for that mighty chub until the Red Sox were | were losing, put the Yanks back injretired without a run. Then, with the lead. true fan consistency, they applauded Scees Pook %. lustily what they considered a smart ger Peckinpaugh led the Wwelcom- | piece of stratery. \ing party. The change of pitchers Harry Frazee came along with his ball club and after the game tried to capture and destroy Col, Huston's war-worn black derby. It was quite @ struggle, but the old iron boiler withstood the assault, and the Colonel thinks it good for at least a dozen more victories. All hope has been abandoned of persuading him to take it off for the summer, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW Latest Pictures of Jess {Yillard in Training at Toledo Snapped by'Edgren and Rushed East by Aeropl Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) WTLLARD Ano YORK MONAGHAN OF | Purchase Will Earn Place Among 3-Year-Old Stars If He Can Annual Handicap Is Feature of Aqueduct-Meeting’s Open- ing To-Day. By Vincent Treanor. HE Brooklyn Handicap, one of the ap classics of the racing season, is run to-day. It is the feature of the opening of the Aqueduct meet- ing. Time was when this race was discussed weeks in advance, when newspapers columns teamed witli news and comment on its running and opinions as to the probable results, But that was when there was no Willard-Dempsey championship fight to eat up space or engage the almost undivided attention of sport follow- ers. However the handicap is none the less interesting for all that. To hors followers throughout the country it is jone of the big events of the racing |season and news of its result this afternoon will be eagerly awaited in every city, town and hamlet which \poasts of any sporting blood. An unusually big field is named overnight for the race, but it isn't likely that all of the eighteen will answer the saddling bell and bugle call, Although but five three-year- olds have won the stakes since its first running in 1887, to-day sees from Jones to James made no differ- ence to him. His war elub began swinging in the very first inning and had not cooled off at the end of the combat, Peck had waded right through for four clean hits out of four times up and he had scored one run, This package of wallops added so heavily to his already robust total that he ts now about to shove Ty Cobb off his pedestal as the premier hitter of the league. \ Pittsburgh wilt be the scene of an- other important fight to-night. Mike Gibbons, the great middleweight of St. Paul, will take on Harry Greb of Pitts- burgh in a ten-round no decision bout at an open air show, to be held by the Keystone A. C. at Forbes Field, As the boxing fans of that city have been anxious to see these two good fighters clash, a big crowd will probably turn out to see the scrap. But Peckinpaugh was ably aided and abetted by Del Pratt and Duffy Lewis, Each of those inmates of the Row plunked the Ked Sox pitchers Joho Jenni manager of the Armory A. A. for two singles and a home run, Two | of Jemey City, will stage three elghtround bouts tallies rode home on eu h home ran, and that practically narrates the story of the Sunday ball game. at the regular weekly boxing show of bis club toniabt, In two of the feature Uouts, Johouy Murray of the Bronx will weet Jimmy Tayloe of Brooktyn and Johany Buff of Jemey City will yap panches with Johnny Rosner, the fast little (lywelaht fanter of thie city, Ernie Shore, sald to be the tallest twirler in service, had a nice day of {t, all bolstered up as he was with runs wad hits afd steals and things like that. So great grow his conti- dence that the Ked Sox would never Frank Bagley, manager of Willie Jackson, the local Ustrtweight. bes just received two offer for ‘atte for Jackion in “Mbilly,"" Ome of them is have ecored but for a bit of wild | wi Lew Teodor ot Ghibe bart. end the vibe throwing on the part of the Yanks in | With Jobmay Dundee st the National Learue the seventh. They nicked Brnie for | sts arcands en July 14, Bagley waute ¢ guar just four hits, which was far from |e of $2.000 with an cotlon of 27% per cent. enough to give the local populace |% % «am remiss for Jackwon to fight Tendier concern, Greb, the tamky lint bearrweiet, will ne Mor flditing anaio oo Wednesday night, as be » slated to engsme in an eight-round bout at the ig Coliseum at St, Loule, His opponent in that close the afternoon with a blank rec: |go wil be Hilly Miske, the stunly heavyweight of ord, They howled at Ruth every |st, Paul, who wae outwointed by Tom Gibbous in time he swung, and seemed happy |. ten-rund bout at Bt, [aul last week, at his failure, The mind of a base- — hast promot adel ball fan, though, is a most undepend- Pg a se fs ay thse able apparatus, After kidding Babe | all afternoon for not making «long gp eg moth Boat Pell wallop eard several complaining Pete Herma disappointedly after the game that |-Uay wee to bax Hany Grub, fee Herman they never had got to see him hit one in the stand, The crowd's greatest glee, though, was to see Babe Ruth and his big bat fo against Joe Welling of Chicago, On scoount of there belie 9 many Philadel But Babe got hold of one that Frank Gilhooley describes ‘sweet patootie.” Fearing something in the way of a haymaker, Sam Vick played |with his back to the fence in deep \right centre, And that is just where | Ruth hit it, But for Sam's foresight and a long run Ruth's smash would \have carried on the fly to the base h lof the fence Mh right centre, With | €o of twelve rounds at the Twentieth Century A. his back right up against the board | ©. of Pittallol, Mass, tonight, .t the Trentou Vick pulled down what was perhaps |. © the longest and highest drive ever made on the P, G, Yes, it was a “eweet patootic,” At the request of the until July 14, owt goo! lightweight tn the mata went of aix rounds, bout of oles ka) today notifed Dan Momma, managor of | { meet Joo Lench and Lew Tendler of Philadelphia pbians going to the bie fight on July 4, there wit) be no open air boxing shows cient in that city Harry Eewards and Phi) Glagenan will put on @ show at the National League bascball park, Lew Tendler will meet some Harlem Eddie Kelly and Lonle Bogash of Bridqeort, Conn, wil come tomether ic the main of ‘Trenton, N, J., this evening, “Whitey” Wensel of Pittéburgh will exchange punches with Johnny Howard of Bayoone, N. J.. ia the tar rounds, ( Fistic News som Potok and Gossip ) WIN look after his affairs while he ie in the East fald to«lay that be has not beoked Benjamia up for ang fights as yet, but that he expecta to start hum in his first oattle at Muiladeluhia uext month, Obampion Benny Leonard, the workl's light- weight titleholder, will leave for Toledo, 0.. oo ‘Tluarsday for the purpote of witneming the dig Quit. between Willard and Demoeey and alse watoh thé fighters mit on the finishing toudies to their training, When Benny wae askod who he thought would win the battle, he merely said “Ht wifl De a great battle." Packy Hommey, the local fighter who gave Lew ‘Tendler and Johnny Mealey such good fights. haa been matched to meet Young Chaney, the fast Baltimore fextherweight, in « fifteen round but to a decision at a boxing show to be brought off at Baltimore on Monday evening, June 30, As Hommey is game, be ought to five Chaney » hard fight, Horman Taylor, who stages the bouts for the Atianue City Sporting Chub, intends air boxing shows at that si next month, The ei at the bassball pai Taylor bes signed a fighter, Tom Gibbons of St into one of the topo to engage in a fight Paul, who has developed ich Light heavywekghte, Ja on the night ot July 3. His wrponent will be Georgy “Knockout” Brown, th Swede middleweight of Chicago, They will bo: © ten-round bout at Denver, Col, Both men are well thought of in that city Matchmaker Ivy Lewis of the Armory A, 4 of Boston bas signed up Benny Valger, the Frenet therwelght champion, to exchange blows with y Dundee, the Italfan cy twelve rounds to a referee's decision Lewis bas informed Joe Jacobs, mana, Wrench ‘Flash,” that ho has leas Hall, the largest exposition building in Boston, to stage this attraction, Valgvr's next bout takes place on Thurylay night, when he will endeavor to administer his sleap producer to Gussie Lewis ot Philadelphia when they answer the goug before the Crescent A, A. of Lowell aad sahara RALPH DE PALMA ENTERS 100-MILE DERBY HERE. Ralph De Palma, America's premier auto pilot, will be a competitor in the 100-mile Derby and other events that will feature the racing card at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway on July 4. ‘Tho holder of all world’ to er of the Mechanics Win Brooklyn AQUEDUCT SELECTIONS. First Race—Hollister, Rodgers, Old Koenig. Second Race—No eelections. Third Race—Man o' War, Domnique, Rory O'More. Fourth Race—Purchase, War Cloud, Fifth Race—Kilts IL, Torchbearer, Jusqu au Bout, Sixth Race—Hasten On, Dream of the Valley. Eternal, Devildog, Vv. %. Purchase, the three-year-old owned by Sam Hildreth «the outstanding favorite, with Eternal, another of the same age, who seems destined to be the runner up to champions, as a second choice, Up to 1901, when James R. Keene's Conroy won the race, any one believ- ing a ‘three-year-old could lead home @ Brooklyn field was laughed to scorn, But Conroy won it and created turf history of a sensational order. In 1903 Irish Lad duplicated Conroy's feat, but not until 1907 was another horse of the same age returned victor, Then Superman, also belonging to Keene, galloped home to viclory, as did Keen's Colin, then a three-year- old, the year following. The last three-year-old winner was Friar Rock. So it will be seen that Purchase will earn himself a place beside the foregoing stars of the turf if he can accomplish what was deemed next to impossible before Conroy's time. Up to and including 1910, the Brook- 7 Handicap was run over the iravesend course. In 1912 transt ePare, aad te erred to Belmont Park, and in 1914 and thereafter it has been -con- tested over the Aqueduct track, noted for Its long stretch, Always a mile and a quarter race, the distance was reduced to a mile and fed 4 furlong in Charley Heineman, known in the old high stool days as one of the best bookmakers and liberal priced meu n the betting ring, made his reap- pearance on the lawn at Jamaica Saturday, Charley thinks laying them is easier than guessing them, and hopes to be on the job from now on to meet his old-time friend, Heinemann has been In the restau rant business since he temporarily quit the turf, as proprietor of the Colony Inn at No, 694 Flatbush Ave- nue, Brooklyn. From the way Naturalist is referred to as being fast but erratic, one would get the opinion that he is about he most inconsistent horse racing. ‘om Welsh, his trainer, resents the suggestion, pointing out that out of five starts this year he has won three times. Last season he won four or five races in a row. ‘There ts nothing neonsistent about that. The only trouble with Naturalist is that he te hard to train. It takes all of Welsh's table help to get him to work a mile r 1.45 in the mornings, They have to tation themselves at various. pe ind throw thi Malay to consti long. “Butts” Fairbrother, who has ridden Naturalist in most of ts races inderstands : the horse better than uny other rider. “Butts” says he nust have his own way in a race and won't stand for being “ridden” hard, utside gf that he is @ great race norse, There ts something wrong wtth King Plandit, but what it is isn't known, He isn't exactly a selling plater, although he has performed like one in his last two races, Loftus couldn't do anything with him Sat- urday. Perhaps George Odom ought to change his system of training the colt. —____. St. Gabriels Trim Red sox, The St. briel B. B.C. defeated the National Red Sox at St, Gabriel Ova), Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, by a score of 6 to 3, er Fred Brad- ley sent Hess to tn mound for the ords 100 m les cailed for hiatpauy blank and lorwari it to the eettat board the A. A. A. to-day, mi pm Y ry ° by of the ane Mail HERE, SAYS GIB at him to shoo him | JESS BETTER ‘WHEN HE FOUGHT. Advance Sale for Big Scrap. Ak ready $600,000, Says Benny Leonard’s Manager Upon Re turn From Toledo, Where Hi Saw Both Fighters Work J anything like the interest there is in the Willard-Dempeey fight,” said Billy Gibson, the decal sporting impresario, to-day upon his return from Toledo, where he had a | conference with Tex Rickard regard- ing reservations for the party Be is taking to the big scrap July 4 And) whisper! Bill had a little chat re- liative to his protego, Benny Leonard, defending the lightweight cen de By Alex. Sullivare NEVER dreamed I'd live te aes ship in the same arena in which Jes and Jack are going to ecrap. Thu battle may take place on Labor Day. “Out at the battleground nobod: talks any kind of money but thou-; sands and millions,” continued Gib-] sop. “The city is absolutely figh mad, Already fans are there fron countries as (ar away as Austrail and Sbuth America, The advan sale is already $600,000, and I would not be surprised if over a million @ai- Jars was taken In. t “Just think of an event drawing h a tremendous sum! There! never Was a more surprised persoa| in the world than myself when beou- ard and Dundee drew over $20,000 ‘a their six-round bout in Phillyslast week, and this their sixth meeting. | “1 wouldn't be surprised if. th Greb-Gibbons contest in Pitted: to-night drew just as much @s Benny and Johnny. [Im remagkl about these bouts because it what tremendous Interest tht Dempsey fight has aroused in g throughout the world, t year there is sure to be @ boxing law in this State and more money will be attracted to the box offices than ever in the history of the padded mitt here. “I received a letter to-day from George McDonald, the English fight | promoter who brought Matt Wells to this country several years ago, If had written to him some time ago that I thought Willard and Dempsey would draw three-quarters of a mul- lon dollars, He says they can't be- lieve It over there. The Carpenti Gunboat Smith battle in London eral years ago had a $75,000 gate, which they thought a record breaker, but ten times that figure! They ean't imagine it. “The fight is a puzzle when it comes to naming a winner, Dempsey looks great, but Willard looks even better to me than he did when he toyed with Frank Moran in the Garden, It is Dempsey, though, that is the big) favorite with the fans out Toled way, and he has many friends wh are willing to bet all kinds of mon that he is returned the winner. “You'd think you were on Broad- way when you walk along the main thoroughfare of Toledo, Everywhere you every one is talking nothing but figh Sethe huge bowl, which is fast near- ing completion, !s a splendid spec: tacle. It starts on the ground and rises about thirty feet in the air. The building is in the shape of a bowl. It is much bigger than was the arena at Reno, where Johnson and Jeffr! fought. “And, oh, what prices they are, ting for everything out theres can't hire a room for love or mor and eats cost terrible pricés, too, The train I'm running to the serap will start on July 3 and reach thera the morning of the fight, so every 5 will be sure of a night’s rest on th trair, for they'd never be able t secure accommodations in Toledo i they arrived in that city the nigh before. “The bout is sure to do boxing a world of good, particularly if Demy sey wins.” George Engel, matchmaker of thq Olympia A, A. of Philadelphia, companied Gibson on the trip, plied idan TWENTY GOOD YEARLINGS AT TO-MORROW’S SALE The first important sale of thorough bred yearlings of the season of 19 which the Powers Hunter’ Company of New York will conduct at Di 4 Riding Academy, in West cath gtre to-morrow evening, will be marked by the offering of youngsters from th: Hartland stud of former United State Senator Johnson N. Camden, the Bela! stud of Lucas Brodhead Combs an Brownell Combs, the Bosque Boni of John H, Morris, and the establish ment of W. L. Trelkheld. There: will be twenty-odd yearlings | the several consignments and they hei levee at Durland’s Sunday throughou the day, ® prices at the impend ing sale’ promise to be big. Thorough: bred value were never better than are to-day and the inquiry for youn| stock is unusually active. Persons wealth are everywhere trying to yearlings privately June 23, Sawyer, of Worcester, Mass, has bee! elected captain of next year's Yale base ball team, He has been playing secon, base on the team, He prepared @ Phillips Exeter. RACING AQUEDUCT TO-MORROW CANARSIE ‘STAKES REGRET HANDICAP: and 4 Uther Good Con) FIRST RACE AT 2.40 P, ?' CIAL RACE TRAING fynvat A2.B00'and at Intervals tod f ‘care Fesery. on ‘uit Mace ae