San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-02
SPORTING GOSSIP.

for next season. Unless there Is
change in the situation, Ted Sullt-
van will be at the head Of baseball
in this city, and that is sufficient
to cause every faithful rooter to
rest easy. Ted usually has good
team with him, and that IS what
San Antonio needs next season.
The rooters promise Sullivan their
hearty support IL he locates his
team here.
Besides a good team, San An
tonic needs a park as bad as any
thing. San Pedro park could be
made the finest in the state. Its
location could not be improved
upon. This park needs to be en-.
tirely rebuilt. The diamond and
field has always been in very poor
condition, and the fence, grand
stand and bleacheries are in poor
shape. The seating capacity has
been found wanting on several oc-
casions this season, and every ball
player that has been here said
that, with the exception OF Austin,
this is the worst diamond and field
in the league. 1t Is expected,
however, that the park will be
improved in time for next seasons
campaign. 1t was the intention
at one time last summer to
build an addition to the grand
stand, but now as San An
tonic is to have a sure enough
base ball team, 1t Is likely
that an entirely new park will re-
place the old one in'96. The present
grand stand and fence were built
five years ago, and in that time,
many an exciting struggle was
witnessed in that enclosure. Moth
ing has as yet been heard OF a
league meeting, but one will no
doubt be called in a few days, at
which organization for next year
will be effected.
The local Association" football
league movement has evidently
collapsed. "Sport" Ernest Reich
was fostering the project, but it
seems the Association" game does
not meet with approval. The
players say the game is altogether
too tame and believe it is even
more dangerous than Rugby.
They adhere to Rugby and say it is
the only real football game that is
played. There is talk OF organic
ing a local Rugby league, to con-
sist of six clubs. A meeting Is
soon to be held, at which the clubs
are to be selected and the league
organized.
81 tell you, we're hustling, and
the race meeting the latter part OF
this month is going to be a sue
cess" remarked Tom Scott yester-
day. GAIL the money necessary to
hold a good meeting Is about up,
and all that remains to fill the bill
is good weather and big crowds.
There will be some fast horses here
during the meet, and with the
track in good condition, some fast
time will be witnessed. The rail-
roads will put on reduced rates for
the occasion, and big crowds from
neighboring towns are expected"
"Oh, yes, Fitzsimmors has
chance of winning that fight, and
q good one, too," remarked local
follower of the manly art the other
day. "Fitz, as you no donbt have
heard,i is cross-eyed and left-handed.
That's where he has had the ad-
vantage in all his fights, and he
may get Corbett when Jim thinks
he is not looking. Fitz never gets
ratified, while Corbett may lose his
head anytime, as he did when he
fought Mitchell. But still, l be-
lieve Corbett will win"
, Poor Jack Dempsey has been
knocked out forever. He was at
,, one time considered the most scien-
, tific fighter in the world, and the
!, peer of all middleweights, until he
o met Fl zsimmons. Not until then
was Fitzsimmons known in the
= pugilistic arena, and be has since
:. performed great wonders. Demp-
. sey was born in County Kildare,
Ireland, thirty-three years ago. He
. fought his first battle thirteen
y years ago New in York, which he
q won in thirty-six minutes. After
n that he won eleven more battles. He
met his first defeat on August 81,
1889, when George La Blanche, the
"Marine," knocked him out in
h thirty-two rounds, by landing e
~ pivot blow, which has since beer
i debarred from the ring. The pres
~ emit middleweight champion de-
% feated Dempsey at New Orleans or
% January IA, 1891, for a purse O
y $4,000. Dempsey was known a
the "Nonpariel," and leaves wifi,