Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-18
SPORTING TOPICS.
DAGwoRTH's BUDGET OF INTER
EsTING MATTERS.
The Athletic Clubs Field Day-Records
Which May Be Smashed = Coroett
Tipped to Beat Peter Thursday Night.

the sports TO be given underline auspices
of the Los Angeles Athletic club. The
Athletes are training very much more
faithfully than in past years, and as
result the majority of the present Los
Angeles records will be wiped out. The
events left open to all amateurs will be
hotly contested, and it is pity that
several more of the games were not left
open. The general public want hot and
exciting contests.
Half score of intending competitors
practiced yesterday at the Agricultural
park. No fast work was done, those
present evidently not caring to put their
best foot forth in such seml-public
way. Several of the boys have been
training hard, and reports of fast pri-
vate trials are in circulation.
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Among others who will don the spiked
shoe next Saturday week are Ward,
Flammer, Winston, Percival, Hopper
stead, Tom Peters, Tyler, Howard,
Fleischman, Welcome, Ed Germain,
Chapman, Brooks, and McAleer.
Pasadena will be represented by
Charles Bell, Syme, and several others.
The Pasadena club offer a special medal
for any member of the club who wins at
the Los Angeles meeting. San Diego,
Pomona, Riverside, and Monrovia will
also be represented. The hundred-yard
dash will be a red hot contest. There
will be ten or twelve entries in the
event. and it looks as if the club record
of eleven seconds will take tumble.
The best time ever made for the distance
at the championship games of the Pa
cific Coast Athletic association is 10 2-5
seconds. This event, however, has
twice been won in 10 3-5 seconds.
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In this connection, the records made
at previous pionship games of the
Pacific Coast Athletic association will be
very apropos just at the present time.
The fastest time ever made in the 220
yards run is % 1-5. and the slowest "a
seconds. The fastest for the, quarter is
81 4-5 seconds, and the slowest 551s sec
onds. The best for the half-mile is
2:6 3-5, and the slowest 2:25L. The
mile has been won in AS, while :1634
was fast enough to win in 1886. In 1886
F. Becker secured the championship
medal at the running high jump with a
mark of feet 2 inches; in 1889, H. G.
Moffit established coast record with a
mark of feet So inches. A running
long jump of IS feet 10 inches secured a
championship emblem in 1886. Last
year this event was won with a jump of
% feet inches, which is the best Jump
ON record at Pacific coast champion
ship meeting. The putting-the-shot
record is 81 feet / inch. Twenty
eight feet nine and half inches
was good enough to win in 1886. The
best time for the hurdle race, 120 yards.
was III seconds. Last year 18 3-5
seconds was good enough to capture the
medal.
/ Everything is the Jackson Corbett
fight in pugilistic circles just at the
present time. This very much antici-
pated event will be decided next Thurs
day evening at the California club rooms
in San Francisco. Jackson is the favor
ite in the betting at about one hundred
to eighty. These odds are probably
warranted on public form. l think,
however, that Corbett will triumph.
To be candid, / must admit that l am
prejhdiced in favor of Corbett. knew
him when he WAS a youngster, and
when he did not know the first rudi-
ments of the manly art. l watched the
boy develop into one of the most skill
full sparrers in the country, under the
membership of Walter Watson, the ex-
teacher of boxing of the Olympic club,
of San Francisco. Il
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l have watched the record of Peter
Jackson very carefully, especially after
his arrival in America. He is a wonder
full man, and has earned his present
high standing as pugilist, but he has
never yet defeated any one that Corbett
could not best. The young Californian
is the superior of Joe McAuliffe. and no
one posted on pugilistic matters will deny
that Godfrey would not have much show
with Corbett. The sparring contest
between Kilrain and Corbett effectually
proved this, judging.by the result of the
Godtrey-Kilrain battle. Peter Jackson
men are thicker than blackberries on a
bush in Los Angeles, but can any OF
them name one really frst-class man
that Jackson has whipped? pause for
reply,
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1t will be contended that neither has
Corbett beaten any frst-class man. ]
will admit that he has not. Uudoubt-
edly the best man he ever beat was
Choynski, remarkably good man for
his weight, but not quite heavy enough
to measure strength with a good man
weighing over 175 pounds. Yet the
same Choynski, bear in mind, put up
wonderful fight against Goddard in Aus
tralia and came within an ace of whip
ping him. This same Goddard few
months prior made it very interesting
for the colored gentleman and many OF
the spectators held that Goddard had
decidedly the best of the setto.
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am of the opinion that it will be a
very even thing between the two men
and Jackson may win, but this talk OF
Corbett being outclassed is all bosh.
Ahe Californian is, to my thinking, the
shiftiest fighter in the world. They
don't make any cleverer men than
Jim Corbett, and if he shows to be a
hitter, as / think he will, the fight will
be desperate one. Jackson will most
certainly force matters. This will be
his best policy, as Corbett has splendid
powers of endurance and has the ad-
vantage of youth-a big consideration in
long and evenly contested battle.
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On the other hand Jackson will have
| at least EIGHT pounds the hest Of the