Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
SPORTS OF The SEASON
Hall Adali, the --latest Terrible Turk,
Coming to Omaha.
BICYCLE SHOW SOON TO BE HELD
status of the Young Mems Christian
Association Athletic Field
other odds and Ends for
the Sportsmen.
CYCLE SHOW SOON TO BE HELD

Spud Parrish has arranged quite a pro-
gram for his sporting entertainment that
is to take place in the TrOcadero on March
Is and in which the burly Turk, Hall Adali,
will be the bright particular constellation
Three boxing bouts will form the border
for the star event, and between these glove
ARRAYS and the battle on the mat a little
sporting carnival will be offered for the
delectation of Omaha's redhots that will
surpass anything that has been attempted
in this city for a good many years.
Adali, who is accredited with having
tossed the burly Yousof about like a
feather in the days when neither had be-
come famous, will have quite a task cut
out for him in the evenings work. He is
to meet Danny Baldwin, the local strong
man and wrestler, and a giant from the
South Omaha packing houses, and he must
throw each of them fairly and s~quarely
twice within ninety minutes or forfeit tue
purse that is to be put up. The Turk is a
brute in size and strength, but Baldwin
has so long dallied with iron balls weigh
ing a ton-more or less-that the %sultan's
lion win have his hands full in laying him
on his back a couple of times during the
evening.
Adali has enjoyed one continual round Of
victory since he migrated to this country
and as a consequence he is now carrying
around with him innumerable American
simoleons. 1t was reported last week that
he had been thrown in Boston by Roeber,
the alleged American champion, but this
story has been discovered to be a canard,
Adali being in Chicago at the time he was
said to have been defeated. The Turk has
wrestled several men on the same conditions
on which he will meet the Omahans, and
only once has he failed to win out.
The entertainment is to open with a go
between Kid Dixon of this city and Fred
Written of Kansas City, a couple of clever
little 112-pounders, who will box for five
rounds. The Turk will be put on after this
number and the bout will be followed by
another sparring match between Dave Kim
ball and Fred O'Neill, two well-known To-
cal men. Kimball has just returned from
New York, where he practically completed
arrangements for a match with Oscar
Gardner, although the place and time of
the setto have not yet been fixed. While
in giddy Gotham Kimball was offered a
fight with the antipodean recently sent to
by Dixon, Young Pluto, but de-
elined with thanks because of the small size
of the purse offered. Kimball will go six
pounds with O'Neill.
The final number on the program will be
a ten-round battle between Marion Mcln-
tyre, the Lincoln boxer, who is well known
in this city, and Paul Murray, the colored
gloveman. This couple are fast and clever
and they are likely to furnish an interesting
and even mill.
On account Of an apparent waning OF wheel
interest in this city it was generally ex-
pected that this season would pass without
a bicycle show, but after all Omaha is to
enjoy a function Of this character. The
sponsor of the affair will be the Young
Mems Christian association, or rather the
Triangle Wheel club, the cycling adjunct
of the association. 1t is to be held in the
parlors of the association building and Is
to take place on March %, "a and %. Ath-
letic Director Barnes is engaged in making
all the arrangements for the show at the
present time. He has already received as
surances from all the dealers in the city
that they will be represented in the fullest
way and therefore the bicycle cranks of
the city will have an opportunity of seeing
the latest models and sundries that will be
on the market this season.
The show is to be something more than
a shUw-it will be the social bicycle funC-
ton of the season. AS originally planned, it
was the purpose to hold simply a gathering
of the wheeling members of the Young
Mems Christian association, but it was
finally determined to tender a reception to
all wheelmen in the city. Consequently the
opening night of the show, March %, will
be of a social character. Invitations to at
tend will be issued to the members of all
the clubs in the city. On the other two
nights an entertaining program, consisting
largely of muSip will he Offarp1 the visitors
On these two evenings, however, the cranks
will have more of an opportunity to ex-
anime the exhibits.
The plans OF the athletic park, which the
Young Mems Christian association proposes
to build on the Ames avenue ball park
site, will be completed in time for submits
sion to a meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the association next Tuesday even
ing. At the same time Athletic Director
Barnes will report that he has succeeded
in raising by subscription some $500 to pay
the cost Of the work, Under these circum-
stances there seems to be little question
that the directory will be favorable to the
scheme.
II hope that the matter will be favorably
considered by the directors says Mr..
Barnes. Omaha is pretty nearly as dead
as the proyerbial door nail when it comes
to amateur sport and | think that it can
be reviyiied with just such grounds as we
propose to build. If the matter Is acted
upon fayorably, work will be commenced
about the list of May and will be pushed
so that the grounds will be ready for use
In fifteen or twenty days. They will be
formally opened with a bicycle meeting on
Decoration day"
That irrepressible character of the cycle
racing game, who was we'll known in Omaha
In the old days Of the ordinary, 'Plugger
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