Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-12-24
SPORTY ITErS.

SPORTY ITEr1S.
Jimmy Ryan has been matched with
Jack Root.
John Gaffney will be appointed one OF
the League umpires for next season. He
is good one.
The Pittsburgs will go to either Ar
kansas or Virginia for their preliminary
spring practice.
The Buffalo ball club franchise and
players can be bought for $4,000. And
Buffalo is large city.
Two leading colleages are after Hugh
Jennings services as coach for the
spring practice of their ball teams.
Cincinnati still regrets the trade by
which Bill Hoy and Ritchey became
Colonies in exchange for Pitcher Hill.
The number of players who have put
their signatures to contracts are fewer
than they have ever before been at this
season of the year.
Chic Frazer, who is working in Chicago,
has announced his intention of quitting
base ball rather than remain with the
Colonies another year.
The Ryan-Franey bout did not meet
the expectations of the Cincinnati sports.
Maybe they were playing for another
money making exhibition.
Sharkey has gone into training for his
fight with Mccoy. While there has been
no betting, the indications are that
Sharkey will be the favorite.
Oscar Gardner and Dave Sullivan will
try conclusions in New York. They meet
in twenty-round contest January9 8. The
little Irishman stands a good chance to
Win. ------------------------ ------------------
Jim Corbett feels confident that
Sharkey will defeat Mccoy. He said to
the former one day last week that he
would be at the ring to cheer him on to
victory.
John B. Day says that when the New
York club was organized it was a success
from the first. The yearly profits were
from $4,000 to 100000, the last year
being 1888.
The way the Chicago team closed up
ground in the stretch this fall and inn
proved its position warrants Chicago en-
thusiasts in believing that the Orphans
will be nearer the front next year.
The daily papers are publishing the
statement that old man Arson is after the
control of the st. Louis baseball club.
Scrappy Bill Joyce is also mentioned for !
he position of manager of the team in ,
'ase he is let out by the management of !
he New York club.
The twenty-ronnd contest between Joe
>hoynski and Gus Rubin, scheduled to \
axe place at the Lenox Club January IL, >
las been advanced one week, and will 4
ONE of on January 3. The change in {
ate is owing to the fact that Kid Mccoy q
nd Tom Sharkey have signed to meet at n
he Lenox on January 10.
Peddler Palmer defeated Billy Plimmer r
Or the bantam-weight championship n
Ionday night before the National Sport "
lg Club, of London. Plimmer was r
nocked out in the seventeenth round. .,
lily Rotchford, of Chicago, is still in A
ngland, and will meet Palmer during e,
lie month of February. d
George Dixon and young Pluto, +" the IL
australian champion, who signed articles ia
meet in twenty-round contest in San al
may fight in New York City CO
lie Lenox Athletic Club has made a d,
d for the match, and if arrangements er
n be made the International match will til
me off some time in February. la
A telegram from London says: UMPIRE &c
denied secrecy obtains as to the condi-
ms of the construction of the Sham
ok, the challenger for the Amcricas
p. Not merely are the most strict pre- an
utions taken to prevent leakage of m,
e details Of her construction, but even Iri
E place where she is being built is kept an
cret. nc.
Interest is steadily increasing in the of
tcome of the Sharkey-McCoy contest. fal
tn men express themselves as conf ha
Mt of winning, and their preliminary POI
rk will be closely watched by lovers of hel
, fstic game. Sharkey will make ha'
'rt trip on the road, and then go into dui
i've training at the Lenox Club, New pie
rk City. chs
he story that some of the National ABB
igue clubs are contemplating the or Iris
Iization of two eight club leagues, as in for
days when the American Association ing
sted, is being revived. AS matter of this
, the compact for the present twelve app
) league, signed six years ago, can not une
legally broken until 1902. One club and
not break away without unanimous will
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