The herald., 1897-02-01

Now that the governor of Nevada has
signed the glove contest law there PROM
.ses to be q general revival Of pugilism
on the coast, with the sagebrush state
as the fighting ground. 1t is now gen.
orally conceded that the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons match will take place In Me-
vada, and there is lively bidding
among the several available points for
the event. AS the match will take place
under the sanction of law, it promises
to be the biggest event in the later his
tory OF pugilism, ard pie will be pres
ent from all over the T. TED States. In
San Francisco there j. much enthusi-
asm, and 1t 10 safe to p.sa.ct that every
Bure enough sport who can raise rail-
road fare vii! be at the ringside when
the great match Is pulled off.
The high school races will be held at
Athletic park February 10th, and from
the interest manifested the event will
be big success. The contestants are
training faithfully. and will give good
account of themselves.
Big Jeffreys, the East Side heavy
weight, has challenged Sharkey for
glove contest, to take place before the
California club that offers the best in
ducements, with a side bet of $1,000.
Jeffries has only appeared once in ring
fight In San Francisco, when he put out
his man in short order. He was In train
ing for second match, which was de-
clared off, owing to Jeffries being taken
with pneumonia. 1t is not known wheth-
er Sharkey, since his fight with Fitz-
simmons, will take on Jeffries. as he
may consider himself out of his class;
but whether he does or not, the big East
Slider has many admirers in this city
who consider him more than match for
the tough sailor, and who will not hesi-
tate to put up their money ON him.
The Athletic club has received from
Joe Sullivan of this city handsome 14x16
photographs of the following boxers:
Billy Shannon. Billy Lewis Spider Kel-
ly. Billy Karkeek, Lon Agnew, Jimmy
Anthony and Charley Turner.
The University of Southern California
preliminary field day, which was to have
been held at Athletic park Saturday,
was postponed until this afternoon.
This field day decides who will represent
the college in the intercollegiate races
on washington's birthday.
Admission today will be free.
The rain Of last week interfered with
the work of the college men, causing
some of the preliminary field days to be
postponed. consequently nothing def
mite is yet known as to the makeup of
the respective teams. The quality of
the work being done by all the teams.
however, insures a most exciting and
close contest. The running races will
all be very hOtly contested, and while a
number Of last years competitors will
be pitted against each other, several
new men will make their first appear
ance as members of the college teams
All the other schools will make especial
efforts to defeat Elliott. u. S. C.'s hither-
to unbeaten long distance man, who
holds the intercollegiate record for both
the mile and quarter mile runs. For the
last two years he has run in both these
events, but they are both very hard
races and 1t is possible that he will run
only one OF them this year, as several
new men are developing who could take
his place. In that case he may run in
the 220-yard sprint, which many people
think is his best distance. Avery. the
Pomona man, who won both the novice
and handicap 100-yard races in the
thanksgiving field day. will show UP
we'll In the sprnts, and the intercollegi-
ate records will probably have to be
broken IL he is beaten. The other three
schools claim to have exceptionally good
men IN the sprints, and he will have no
easy time If he does beat them.
the bicycle men are training faithful
". 0u1a n rv,,a ,xr,tI1 Ha
entered this year good time will prob
ably be made.
The records in the weight throwing
ano Jumps Will be much better than last
years records. Most of the winners of
these events saSt year will compete
again, and some very good work is look
ed for.
The field day Is being extensively ad-
vertised. and large attendance is ex-
pected, both from the city and from the
country All the railroads have made
excursion rates.
The handball tournament at the Ath-
letic club is engrossing the attention. of
the INDOOR athletics at present Some
exceptionally good games have been
played and the probable outcome of the
tournament is attracting universal at
tention. The finals will take place about
the middle OF this week. The results of the
games up to the present writing are as
follows: Welcome defaulted to Garbutt,
AcStay defeated Brink, Ellis; McGinnis
defeated Franklin, 21-11; Bouton defeat
ed Nordholt. 21-S; Rowan defeated Dur
MI. 21-10. In the second round Parsons
defeated Forman, 21-7 Kremer defeated
Chapman. Ellis; Garbutt defeated Pra-
ger, 21-5; McStay defeated McCsinnis. 81
8; Bran defeated Cherry. 21-13; Shields
defeated Beebe, ELLA. In the third round
Kremer defeated Parsons. 21-1. There
are yet nine games to play. and when it
comes to the Anal one of the hottest con-
tests ever seen in the court will be wit
messed.
ts BASEBALL
The threatening weather of yester-
day kept 9 good many of the fans away
from the Athletic park who otherwise
arc regular attendants. The game was
won bv the Los Angelica cl,,h a Fta,. II