The herald., 1894-09-02

will be sadly missed. Ransome will be
the star and half-back and lie expected
to do even better work than last year.
Dave Porter has been practically picked
out for the other hslf-bsck. Porter is
one OF the pluckiest players on the grid
iron field and can bite his rubber mouth
piece as hard as the next player.
The football sensation Of the season is
the strong team the Relisncs club OF
Oakland is getting together. Football
prophets say that eleven IL cure OF the
championship. The Olympic club team
| il not near 80 strong, and the college
teams will be composed OF younger and
more untried material. Besides the
regular scheduled games the final game
Of the season for the championship oil
the coast will be between the best col
lege team and the winning athletic club
| team.
AMONG THE PUGILIsTs.
Jim johnson, q colorsd fighter Of In
dianspolis, once stood before Creedon
for four rounds. Now Johnson has is-
sued a challenge to led Pritchsrd for a
20 at the National club of London at lbs
pounds. II Pritchard and he should not
meet johnson wants to box any other
middle-weight, even the men In TINS
country.
Solly Smith, the Southern California
feather. weight, is conducting himself
like q frst-cless hoodlum in Chicago and
has been arrested twice-once for vag-
rancy and again for assaultiag an old
man. He has been ordered to leave
town, but cannot raise railroad fare, and
may have more trouble.
Now that George Dixon and jerry Mar
shall have signed articles for fight at
119 pounds, the Seaside club OF Coney
island and the Olympic OF New Orleans
are invited to bid for the match. As
both are colored, their managers really
do not want to 60 south, so the offers
from there will be merely used to boom
the purse. The objection with the Coney
island club Ia that it has not yet been
able to have finish fight. The Olympic
has bid only $4,000.
Ever since Horace Leeds of Philadel-
pbia failed to knock out Owen Zeigler.
patrons of boxing in the east have been
satisfied that he has no right to talk of a
match with Jack McAulife. Ed Cor
man of Peoria will probably be matched
against Leeds. Peter Jackson is in
Chicago where he expects to make
money giving exhibitions Of boxing in
local theaters. Peter has got enough
advertising since Oorbett's return to do
q pretty good business. He may also
20 to Sioux City and look into the clubs
offer for the big fight.
Jim Hall has refused an offer of
$4,000 purse from the Auditorium club of
New Orleans for fight with either Joe
Choynski or Peter Maher. Hall thinks
the purse too small.
Bob Fitz simmons, who ie now In the
south, has seen Jack Dempsey at his
training quarters and says that he will
whip Billy MCCARTHY in tho Auditorium
club, New Orleans, next Wednesday
night. Fitz says that Dempsey ia in
fine condition.
TALK ABOUT FAKE.
The eastern papers, in dealing with
the Abbott-Everhsrd. mill, suggest that
it was somewhat of fake and hint that
Abbott could have won had he fought
on the level. The following is the
style in which one writer handles the
mill:
THAT Abbott had all the better OF the
fight for % rounds and then suddenly
cracked is peculiar enough in itself;
but when the method of fighting and
matters, the affair takes on a strange
look. indeed. Here was o champion OF
England, and who in this country
proved himself of good class, beaten by
a comparative novice. The English
man was favorite in the betting. but
some New Orleans people played the
winner as a 'cinch, and gave 1t out long
before the fight that they had an air
tight. 1t looks very much as If there
wis dark-skinned individual in the
woodpile somewhere, but just whore is
the question. Was Everhardt ringer?
Was Abbott in the play? Was there q
throwdown for the benefit of some high
rollerP All these questions arise, and
there 10 none to answer"
AUsTRALIAN HORSES FOR ENGLAND.
A London syndicate has entered upon
a new experiment which will make the
Australian horse an object Of commerce
in England. The first trial shipment of
horses will soon arrive in London from
Sydney, and if the animals find a ready
market the trade will be rapidly ex-
tended. As Australian horses are much
below the English ones in price in the
colony, and as on their arrival in Eng
land they are much more likely to rise
towards the English market level than
to drag the price of the English horses
down to their own, profitable business
probably lies before the syndicate.
Losses caused by the voyage are not ex-
pected to be great.
HAL POINTER THE GREAT.
"You may talk about race horses, but
the greatest one that ever saw that
would try and keep on trying and never
give up was old Hal Pointer" said Ed
Seers the other day. 81 could always
tell when he was determined to win, for
he would lay back his ears and 60 at it
like a demon. The harder it was the
tighter would his ears be laid back and
he would act az II just determined that
nothing should beat him. That horse
knew better than / often did when he
had another beaten"
DIRECTUM's WORKOUTS.
The following is the work that Hickok
gave Directum this year from the time
that he reached Terrs Haute until the
middle OF last week: June IA, 2:5S,
2:451a, 2:40a, 2:34; June Is, 2:43,
1909. 2:24, last half in :O93{ June 10,
2:55. 2;40, 2:33. 2:2S. 2:21. last half in
1:O91a; June 20. 2:5S, 2:3Sll, 2:301s,
last quarter in 0:32A; June 81, :56,
2;36, 2:24%, 2:1S14; July 4, 2:44, 1928,
2:2O, 2:lSI: July 8, 1885,, 2 :33, 2 81 !;
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