The evening times., 1898-07-29
SPORTING spLINTERs.

Joe Butler and Harry Peppers have been match
cd to box six rounds at the Arena on Friday night
August ).
match race between Hamburg and Ornament
will be run on the Saratoga track on Wednesday,
August 10.
Joe Choynski has agreed with Tom O'Rourke
that, win or lose with Alex Greggans. he will
box Tom Sharkey in the fall at the Lenox Atl-
letic Club, New York.
Sam Fitzpatrick has been invited to join Nc
Coy at his training quarters the latter par:
Of August and assist in the final preparations
for the bout with Corbett.
scheduled to take place at the Lenox A. C. to-
morrow night, has Green the favorite at the odds
of 1o0 10 so.
At St. John. n. B.. on Monday night, the fight
Mullins. of South Boston, only lasted two rounds.
Mullins fouling many times that the referee
had to interfere, and gave the decision to Con-
molly.
The Greater New York Athletic Club will offer
n novelty next Monday night in the shape of
bout between the negro Wallets of Jockeys Taral
and Sims. the latter to second their men. This
will precede the contest between Featherweight
Champion solly Smith and Tommy White.
The twenty -fve-round fight between George
Green c'Young Corbett''), of California, and
Mysterious Billy Smith, at the Lenox Athletic
Club, tomorrow night, is causing quite a stir in
been placed on Green and he is 100 to 20
shot over Smith.
Travelling boxers find hard game in Philadel-
phia. None of the big fellows want to meet Joe
Butler; Charley johnson frightens the life out
Of the welterweights; lsadore Strauss and Tommy
Cleary can make it hot for any of the light
weights. Joe Fairburn and Ellwood McCloskey
delight in punching the feathers, and Freddy
Snyder, Timmy Callahan and Danny Dougherty
will make the little fellows sorry they stopped in
town.
Rule IS of the regulations which govern trot-
ting races in France runs thus: "All racing as
sociations. before they may select dates for their
meetings, must report them to the central COM
mittee, and deposit the sum of 100 francs for
each day." Thus the executive board of the gov
ernmental society that supervises trotting racing
In France is enabled to prevent unnecessary clash
es The money required corresponds closely, save
in amount, to the dues paid for membership in
the National and American Trotting Associations
At Steve O'Donnelfs great wrestling carnival
which will take place At the Academy OF Music
on Saturday evening, July 30 ten famous wrest-
Iers will meet in the padded arena to decide the
champions in the various styles Of wrestling. The
following are but few Of the many who have en-
tered: Charles Muller, Graeco-Roman heavy
weight champion Of Africa, who recently arrived
to challenge the champion Of America, and Prof.
Max Unger. the wrestling Hercules, and modern
giant; Leopold Stretxe, late wrestling partner Of
Ernest Roeber, and Jim Mccormack of Phila-
delphia, formerly the Turks wrestling partner in
middleweight style; George Bohmer. champion
lightweight catch-as-catchcan wrestler of Amer
ica, and Jack Quinn, of New York; William John.
son, the Green Mountain boy and coilar-and- elbow
champion Of America, vs. John Calvin, Of South
Brooklyn, who aspfres to the same title. The
Russian Giant and the Terrible Greek will decide
their match on the same evening. af,s