The evening times., 1896-01-13
A New York Sport Bets '$I 900 to
$1,000 That Maher win Win In One
ROund-wh whittaker u Great SWIM
mer-Newman's Good Colt, Boreal.
Eureka Clubs Next Boxing Show.

ilidh Out.
Even money is the prevailing odds on the
result of the contest, although several bets
have been recorded at Z to o, with "Fitz''
as the favorite.
A New York syndicate has raised a Iooi
OF $4,000 to lack Fitzsimmons at even
money, and $4,000 of this amount has
been placed in the hands of Harry C. HaI-
bach, OF this city, who is now ready TO &C
commodate Maher's friends at the oGds
quoted above Maher will be in El Paso,
Texas, today, and will at once go into
active training. He is well down in weight
and full OF confidence. He told Chicago
reporter tLat he WIS afraid the spectators
would not get run 1or their money, as lie
would put Fitzsinlmons out in such short
order that it would prove his decided
superiority as a pUgiiist. 1t is probably
in anticipation of some such ''fiuke" as
this that certain New York sport has
Offered to bet 81 coo TO $1,000 that the
Irishman will win in one round.
The, CaIedonian Clubs big athletic en-
ter,ainment consisting of three six-round
boxing bouts and bag-punching contest
for $500 side and purse OF 500 offered
by the club. viii 5e held at $50 tonight ut
the clubhouse Thirteenth and Spring Garden
streets. Philadelphia. Young" Mitchell
OF that city and j. J. Mahoney OF Atlantic
City, the bag punchers, have been practicing
hard every day anu areIn good trim. Their
work consists OF fancy punching with the
arms hands, and head, as well as straight
punching and il viii be hard for the
Judges to find the winner. All the boxers
are also in first-class condition, and three
lively contests may be expected. Jerome
Quigley and Charlie Johnson, who are To
figure in the wInd-up, have long been
anxious for meeting TO decide the ques-
ton OF superiority, and as L decision is TO
be given, their work will he hard and fast.
When the Western swimming champion
ships were held recently in the big tank OF
the Chicago Athletic Association. George
Whitaker of Milwaukee surprised the
Chicag goans and their aquatic idols by win
ming both the championship events in what
sporting men are wont 10 tCm "hoi!ow
STYLE
q. A. Thorne, the famous swifnmer of the
Chicago Athletic Club, was expected to
win both events. but whIttaker proved too
fast for him. He made good showing
against Whitaker in the 100 yards dash.
five lengths in the tank. but the Milwau-
keean won by n narrow marg in minute
s 3-5 seconds.
IN the 4I0-yards championship race,
% lengths OF the tank, Whitaker de
feated Thorne, II j. Graeser and his fei-
Iow-towrsman, James McGIrry, who swan
IL lengths, and then left Milwaukee's
iaurels safe in the possession Of Whitaker.
That worthy cleft the water OF the tank
like a shark III pursuit of prey, and was
first to finish in 6 minutes SO 3-5 sec
onds. Thorne was second, but was l-5
seconds behind his more fortunate rival
from the Cream City.
Whitaker is twenty-three years OF age,
and is a member of a family noted III Mil
waukee for its speed and staying powers
in the water. Nearly every member is an
expert swimmer, and Whittaker's three
year-old brother is already giving prom
Use of developing into a world-beatcr.
a match between Whitaker and some of
the expert swimmers of the New York or
New Manhattan Athletic Clubs would lie
interesting.
Among the 3-year-old trotters none
vidaal excellence than Scott Newman. jr.'s,
game colt Boreal, with a record of Els 3-4.
His pedigree may truthfully be said to be
gilt-edged. He is by Bow Bells, 2:1S Ia,
a son of Electioneer, and Beautiful Bells,
2:29 1-2; dam, Rosy Morn, by Alcan-
tara, 2:23, second dam, Noon Tide, go IL,
by Harold; third dam, Midnight. by Pilot,
jr. Boreal was bred at the Hermitage
Stud, Nashville, Tenn, in 1892, and was
purchased by Mr.. Newman. proprietor or
the Greenland Stock Farm, Shelby county,
KY, in his yearling form. He is one of the
few colts that has stood the test OF racing
as a yearling, 2-year-old and 3-year-oid,
and had he not been made of stern stuff he
certainly would have fallen by the wayside
before this. As a yearling he started i've
times, winning three races, and was placed
in the other two.
As 2-year-o old Poreal captured the
big $4,000 stake at Terre Haute, Ind.
There were eleven competitors, repre-
senting the very cream OF the country,
in this event, and it was split neat
affair. After dropping the first heat to
burlington, the Sable Wilke colt, Boreal
went out and captured the second neat
in 2:21 and the third in 2:17 Ia. some OF
Boreal's best races were trotted in 1880
as a 3-year-old, and in all he showed
that tenacity and pluck which distinguished
his whole career. In one OF the most notable
races of the year, the 2:17 class, at Louis
vile, KY, on September IL, he won over
field of nine aged horses after an eight-heat
contest. He landed the first and second
heats in exactly the same notch, 2;l6 ID,
and the final heat he stepped in 2:l7 Ia.
This performance stamped him as remark
able colt.
Boxing is the most popular winter sport
in Baltimore now, and some flrst-ciass
contests are being brought off ii the Monu-
mental City. The next event of interest
will take place on Friday night next, when
Sam Kelly, of New York, and Jack Ward
"the Nonpareil," of Newark, two OF the
best 11E.pound boys in tie country, Will
meet in q twenty-.ive-round contest for the
bantam weight championship of the world
On the same night and in the same ring
Joe Cans, the undefeated. colored feather
weight, of Baltimore, will box twenty
rounds with Joe Elliott, of the same city.
These men met before, and Cans won in
nine rounds, but Elliott claims that it was
only lucky punch which put him out.
'.It is too early to judke of the COM
parative strength and wtaeness of the
various clubs in the Lea4ut for next