Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-11-02
SPORTING NOTES.

/ admitted that the records made by nun
AFT Independence last year We're taxed.
He saws there is no truth to the rumor
and that he never had any conversation
with the man Dumpleton as reported.
In a letter to the press johnson says:
INDEPENDENCE, Ia, Oct. 2S.-lf DumPie-
ton has made affidavit that said my !nde,
nendence record was faxed, he has perlured
| himself and | could bring action against
| him for willful libel and perjury never
had any conversation with him TO my
knowledge on any subject. | can secure
the at1idavits of twenty reputable cluzesS %
Independence that every one was correct as
renorrtcd. / don't believe there Is one per
son in America who believes Dunn pleton,SS
assertions. | am here to try and lower all
nv other records made last scar.
' j. s. JOHNSON.
In view of the fact that Johnson has
lowered two more worlds records ut
Independence the past week demon
strates beyond all doubt that his record
of | :56 As made a year ago over the
same course is correct.
College foot ball games Saturday re-
suited as follows: Harvard So, Brown .;
Princeton 80, Wesleyan 0; Yale -,
West Point 0; Chicago Athletic Assocla-
ton 10, University of Illinois +; WIS
consin University Is, Beloit 0; Pennsyl-
vania University 81, Lafayette 0; North
western University 4, Winnetka 0; Chi
cago University 26, Cincinnati y; MIN
nesota 81, Ann Arbor 20
The management of the Wesleyan
eleven has engaged James Grant, the
professional long distance runner, to
train the foot bali men Of the college.
S. C. Wahl, of Washington, ID. c., rode
297 miles in twenty-tour hours. This
beats the previous record made by ). }.
Fister, also of that city, by fourteen
miles.
The 100 yard mark of six seconds from
fving start was broken by one-fifth of a
second by Cyclist Harry Tyler at Spring
field. He also created new distance,
an eighth of mile, which he rode III
| Is Is seconds, the first mark for that
event.
Capt Trenchard, Of Princeton, thinks
so we'll of Cornell's flying wedge that he
has had the "Tigers' hard at work prac
Using it all week.
Tower, the big center rush of the
Wesleyan team, is playing an almost per-
feet game. He rarely allows man to
pass him.
The feature of Princeton work is the
defense play. Every man tackles low
and hard and throws the runner in his
tracks.
The umpire question is likely to ia Ike
up considerable of the attention of the
National League magnates at their next
| meeting. Nearly every club had some
! fault to find with the staff last season.
! The man who can advance a plan that
will be favorable to both sides can have
anything he may wish in base ball cir
cles Several schemes have been pro-
posed, but they all have their faults.
President Young is said to be in favor of
plan to make the president of each
club ex-ofiicio resident umpire without
pay. 1t would doubtless be very anus
| ing to see Won der Abe, Of st. Louis;
| Byrne, of Brooklyn: Reach, of Philadel-
| phia, and several others on the field en-
/ Ieavoring to decide the plays on the
diam ond, but every one of them would
| object to the scheme, SO that President
Young's little plan bids fair to be killed
in its incipiencv. The double umpire
system is too expensive. The question
will no doubt be discussed and then
dropped. The Western League mag
mates are too busy getting matters in
working shape for next season to both
er their heads over the umpire system.
The much talked of three-cornered
billiard tourney between Ives, Schaefer
and Slosson has finally been arrang ID.
1t will no doubt prove a boon to the
interests of the gentleman's game and at
| the same time attract a great deal of at
| tentiOn throughout the country. 1t
will take place in New York City during
the week of December II. A return
tournament will in all probability be
| played in Chicago in February or May.
! Ives, Slosson and Schaefer are three of
the greatest living billiardists, Vignaux,
the French champion, being the only
| player who can in any way hold his own
| witt Two nh al
and his success the past few years has
| been remarkable. He not only holds
the championship at balk-line billiards,
but he is also the champion at English
| billiards, having recently won that hon
or from John Roberts, Jr., of London.
1t usually takes long years of practice to
become an expert billiardist and for that
reason Ives success is all the more Won
derful. Jacob Schaefer, better known
as the "Wizard," is an old Milwaukee
| boy and he was looked upon as irwin
chile until defeated by Frank Ives two
| years ago. George Slosson, the "Stu-
dent" plays brilliant game at
times and is liable to surprise his op-
| pOnents.
Horace Leeds says he will challenge
the winner Of the Bowen-Abbott con-
test which takes place at New Orleans
next month. Leeds recently whipped
Billy Ernst at Coney Island and demon
strated that he is fighter of the first
class order. Providing Leeds keeps
getting the big head he has good
chance of getting to the top of the lad
der. Should he meet and defeat the
winner of the Bowen-Abbott fight he
will then be justified in demanding a
match with Jack McAuliffe at the light
weight limit-133 pounds.
George Dixon, the feather-wegh
champion of the world, is anxious to
arrange finish fight with Billy Plim-
mer, the English bantam-weigh who
recently got a decision over him in a
that they weigh in at ia pounds on the
day of the fight. The colored lad is