The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-30


| Taylor, Sudhoff, Daniels, Hughey, Cole
man and Carsey. With Lally Crooks,
| Cross and Donnelly i'm the field and
such outfielders as Dowd, Harley, Tur-
| ner, Genins and Holmes, Chris argues
| that he will have n great team. He
| also threatens to buy the releases Of
a couple of stars, all of which is taken
| to mean that he is trying to sell out
| eventually al a good price. Nearly all
| of the league men say that Won der
| Abe has reached the end of his rope
and will get out of base ball before
| next season begins
With reference to Fitzsimmons' state
| nent that he will defend the title of
| champion, but will not meet Corbett
until tile latter defeats Maher, Shar-
| key or some other aspirant for cham
| pionship honors, Jim Corbett says: II
| believe that today / stand in the eyes
| of the sporting world as a champion
| defeated by mere accident only, and by
no means deprived of my right to de-
mand of the present champion another
| test of our respective merits | could
| Sdin nothing by defeating Mccoy, Ma
her, Sharkey or anyone but Fitzsim-
mons. If l were to beat all but him,
] would simply be adding to his repu-
tation, not my own, and remain where
| | am now, second to Fitzsimmons.
| Will say here and now, that if | de-
| feat FitzsimmOns at our next meeting,
! Will meet any man in the world whom
| the public think worthy of my recog-
| milton. My ambition is to fight again
for the championship. | believe / can
defeat Fitzsimmons and he is the only
man | will now engage to meet. After
him, come who will"
There Is . possibility that the Gut
tenburg race track may not be sold
after ALL and that the famous track
may be reOpened and racing resumed
When the anti-gambling amendment
was passed recently the directors of
the Hudson County Jockey club about
decided to dispose of the property, but
at a meeting held in Meyers hotel
Hoboken, ON Tuesday, It was agreed
that the matter should he held in abey-
ance until the question of the consti-
tUtionality has been finally decided. 1t
was intended to cut the property up
into building lots, it being considered
that such a plan would be a good in
vestment. Now, however, the plan has
been laid over for the present.
The beads of the different state
boards in the l.. A. w. have discovered
the need Of some changes in division
racing regulations A. d. Waite, chair
man of the New York division board
expresses his belief that the state
should be divided into five districts,
the meml ers of the board be increased
from three to five, and each member
to assume charge of a proportionate
portion of the work. He also advo-
Gates that the sanction fee for state
circuit meets be increased from $5 to
so. one-half of which should be de-
voted to the conduct of the division
racing affairs. Such a change would
make state be- is self-suppOrting.
Among the English golf players who
will visit this country next year will
rc Willie Park, jr., and James Breid
The latter was the runner-up in the
open championship last year. and he
hopes to win the championship next
spring before visiting this country, in
which case he will also compete in the
open championship here, which will
doubtless lie held on one of the links
in the vicinity of New York Willie
Park has made several visits to this
country and has played matches with
some Cf the leading professionals.
Kid Mccoy announces that he will
post $1,000 as a guarantee that he will
meet any man named by Fitzsmmons.
lie is anxious, he says, to find out
whom Fitzsimmons wants him to fight.