The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-25

caso at over 12z-ld pounds at ringside.
This draws the line pretty close for the
| feathers" who have been milling at any
| old weight up to 1876 pounds at rIngside,
| and it will be very gratifying when we
have all the champions fighting at legiti-
mate weights. | remember that light
weights" Of the Charley McWeever, Owen
ziegler, Wilmington Jack DAILY class have
been fighting at 142 pounds, and Tommy
| Ryan was q weller until he weighed 1874.
| Queer championsSsthes&
PUT BAR ON JEFFRIES.
Big Jim Jeffries is heading this way,
and Is expected to appear in show at
| Tattersalfs April, O. y Partial arrange
ments had been madesto have the cham
pion meet three men and try to knock
| them all out in six rounds each the same
evening. Mayor Harrison refused q year
ago to allow the heavYWeights In the first
division to fight here, as their prominence
excited too much attention from the "op-
position to boxing matches. For this
reason 1t was eXpected that Jeffries might
! be allowed to meet a. few "dubs." The
mayor, however, ssfears that in such an
unequal match some accident may follow,
and | am told that he has refused a perz
nit for the fights.
At the next regular Friday evening show
of the Fort Dearborn Athletic club at
the Star theater, the main feature of the
| boxing programme will be a six-round
contest between Billy Steft and Al Vie
mig, the ex-cyclist and trainer of cyclists.
! This should be a great contest, and
| Northwestern sportsmen visiting Chicago
should time their visits to be present
next Friday evening.
| The contest between 4ucGoVern and
| Tommy White, which was being arrang-
ed by the Tattersall Athletic club for
| early in April, has been postponed to the
latter part Of the month, as McGoVern
! other engagements interfere. The TWEEN
| ty-round fight between McGovern and
Santry has also been postponed-this is
| the fourth time-and will be carried over
from April into May.
Chicago Jack Daily has gone to New
| York for the purpose of challenging the
winner of the Erne-Gans bout and l GER
tainly believe the Chicago lightweight has
| a chance with either of the Eastern crack
| ajacks. Daily fought Erne here recently,
| and in six rounds made a good showing.
He is a fighter rather after the order of
what Needham used to be In the old days
fairly clever, but with the ten-second
goods in either mitt and prepared to
lay 1t on at every opportunity. DAILY
| is real lightweight and of good physical
| proportions.
OLD FAVORITE TO FIGHT.
the Northwest, and in Minneapolis in par
ticular will remember Tommy Warren,
the little bantam, Who used to be re-
garded as one of the best little men in
| the world. His fight with Tommy Dan
forth at the old Washington rink in North
Minneapolis away back in the SOS attract
| ed much attention. Danforth is now liv-
ing in this city, and has retired from the
| ring. l used to think he had the homeliest
faoa of DIley that ever climbed over
| the ring ropes.
Warren drifted south from Minneapolis,
and becoming involved in a shooting
| scrape in Texas was sent to the state pen
itentiary for six years. He was released
| about year ago, and is now matched to
| fight Terry Mc$eVern at the Seaside
| Sporting club New York, the date being
| fixed as May 4. Warren is now under the
| management of Tom O'Rourke, the New
York l1stic promoter, who is also the man
ager of Joe Wotcott. O'Rourke managed
George Dixon for years, and it was due
to O'Rourke that the Horton bill was
passed and that boxing was kept upon
a high plane in New York. O'Rourke is
now proprietor of the Delayan house in
New York, and Dixon has opened a swell
buffet in the same. city. ~'
LIVELY SEASON IN RACING.
This will be the best season in turf sport
that Chicago has had for years. The
trouble between local pooIroom men and
syndicate that has been operating at
points beyond Cooke county, In which 1T
| was claimed that the syndicate was in
strumentai IN closing zthe local game, so
driving the players, to the outside points,
has practically been settled, and fears
| that the local men would retaliate In
closing the tracks-there. being no law
in the state which permits bookmaking-
| has subsidized.
The fact that business men and the pub
| lie generally wished racing has been suf-
| 1icient warning to those who woIid seek
| TO invite interference by the law On this
hypothesis the secretaries of the several
| local jockey clubs have gone ahead with
| their stake book arrangements, and an
unusually large entry list of hgh-class
horses is the result.
| The great American Derby, which has
| been revived by the Washington Park
| Jockey club, to be run OH the opening day
| OF the meeting in June, has drawn out a
| list of sixty-siA entries, among the horses
| named being Lieut.. Gibson, Sidney Lucas
| Mesmerist, Advance Guard, Brigadier
| yellow Tail, Sam Phillips. f. w. Brode
| The Conqueror, and a lot of good ones
that have been entered by leading owners
of the East and West. The Sheridan
Englewood and other stakes, with the
| Wheeler handicap, have also received a
| large entry list, the grand total in the
| fourteen stakes being 1,004 horses, or an
average of sixty-four,l which is certainly
a remarkable showing.
Changes have been made in the list of
officials of the Washington Park Jockey
club, Lawrence A., Young succeeding C.
| D. Hamill, resigned. Mr. Hamill filled
the vacancy caused by the death of
George Henry Wheeler, and Mr.. Young
| married daughter of Mr.. Wheeler. Mr..
Young is a lawyer and a former resident
| of the Blue Grass state, whose love for
the sport is second only to that for
Blackstone John r. Walsh, bank pres
ident and principal owner of the Chroni-
| Gle, has retired as treasurer of the club,
| and James Howard will fill that posi-
| ton, as well as that of secretary.
Mr.. Howard has as his assistant John
| Kelsey, one of the best all-around good
| fellows in the business and well known
! all over the country as a clever man in
| his duties as assistant secretary as well
| as in the judges box where he long since
made favorable record for his quick de-
cisions and thorough impartiality. He
| Is a level-headed man and one of the
best racing officials in America.
IMPROVEMENTS AT HARLEM.
| Chief among the racing associations in
| America this year will be the Harlem
| Jockey club of which John Condor, the
blind turfman IS the reigning spirit, and
| Charles Miers the business manager.
| Martin Williamson, an old newspaper
! man, whose sporting work on the old
| Herald-now -Herald-made that
paper prominent in the Western news
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