The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
WEEKLY REVIEW
OF SPORTING EVENTS

six-day bicycle riders have not
| changed a whit. In New York last
! week there was the same old kick when
! the managers distributed to each rider
: his share of the prize money hung up
for the race in Madison Square Gar
! zen. The managers of the race,
/ Jim Kennedy and Pat Powers,
/ were not unprepared for the kick They
nave managed number Of siX-day
races, and they knew what they would
have to go through. Indeed, they
would have been disappointed if the
/ kick had not materialized, and, as a
! matter of fact, were surprised that the
/ Bickers were not numerous.
| The money was distributed as fol-
/ lows: Fixes and Mcfarland, the win
ming team $500; Pierce and Nc
! $3.50; Kaser and Ryser, $500; Waller and
/ Stinson, $3.50; BabcOck and Aronson,
/ $3.50. What TuTVille and Gimm, the
| other team to share in the prize money,
received was not announced, and Gimm
/ said the amount was so small that it
| was not worth mentioning, Waller and
| Gimm did the talking for their respec
| tive teams, and they did it in no gentle
| manner. Their remarks about the man
ayers were everything 1t compliment
airy.
! Waller said that he and his partner,
| StinsOn. lost more than $500 on the
race. Their expenses, he said, were a
great deal more than they had antici-
/ pated and as a result they are in debt
/ In Six-day races hereafter it is prob
able that the managers will be obliged
| to guarantee q certain amount to each
| man riding stipulated number Of
| miles or else get along with smaller
] fields than have been the rule. More
/ than one of the riders expressed him
self to this effect When the next six
| day race is billed. however, it is likely
/ that all of the riders will be found in
! line, each anxious for a chance TO land
the first prize.
They didn't do the square thing at
ALL" said Ginln, in speaking of the
manage Il wouldn't tell you the
amount, because am ashamed to state
/ how small it is. Babcock and Aronson
got their $780, besides money they had
drawn in advance. They say this was
given to them because they were fourth
/ in the race Wednesday afternoon when
/ they had the spill and went back, COM
ing in seventh. Well we were tie with
| them for fourth place Wednesday, and
/ we had our spill and fell back a few
minutes after they did. We didn't get
any advance money. and, as 1 said be-
| fore, I am ashamed to let the public
know what those fellows are"
Kid Broad. the fighter with the pug
dog face, had some of the conceit taken
out of him at Baltimore last week by
Billy Whistler. Ever since his fight
/ with McGovern at Chicago, in which
he was fortunate enough TO stay six
rounds, Broad has been the whole show
in his own estimation. IF any one
! wanted to speak to him he would have
to send in his card. But the setback
he received in Baltimore will hold him
for a while, and convince him that
there are some other pebbles on the
pugilistic beach. Doesn't it seem
strange how these fighters act when
success favOrs them? In the beginning
of their careers while they are prelim-
mary fighters they appear to be the
| incest sort of chaps. They are gen.
tlemanly and we'll behaved fellows.
Once they win a main event, however.
all this changes. That is in nine cases
out of ten. II takes about two man
ayers, a couple of press agents, and
several soubrettes to steady them
down. Funny they cannot remain
down on earth after winning fight.
| Champion jim Jeffries is already
figuring on the profits Of his coming
contest with Gus Rubin at Cincinnati
in February. In a letter to a friend he
says:
7 suppose it will cost 5000 or $40, 600
to square the theatres for which we are
/ booked because I viii have to take a
month to train for the mill, but $1,000
/ or 10000 is a long way shy of $4,000,
/ and I'm out for all the money can win
fairly. I think I'm the best fighter in
| the world. I think I've proven that al
| ready, but I'm ready and anxious to do
| il all over again, and first of all l want
! to meet Fftz. who seems to be the next
| best man after myself. If Fitz. won't
! fight, then I'll have Rubin, if he de-
/ feats Maher, and if Rubin doesn't de-
feat MaheT, then ShaTkey can have a
! chance. There's a tidy sum of money in
sight, and I think 1 can use it in my
| business.
! The National League magnates, who
| had been in session at New York for
tnearly a week, concluded their session
land as usual the autOcrats of the big
league dispersed without giving the
| baseball public much satisfaction as
TO needed reforms in the conduct and
management of the national game.
With their customary combativenesS
and assumption of control of the base
ball business generally without regard
to the rights of ball players, they ig-
! nored the plea of the players for a mod
iicatiOn of the present one-Sided con-
tract which practically makes the men
| chattels Of the league club owners.
/ They also threw down the gauntlet to
/ the American league, which, by fur
| nishing clean. fast ball, has established
/ itself in public favor and it looks az
| though baseball war that will be dis
| astrOus alike TO club owners, players
and the popularity Of the game itself
! While the magnates spent FIVE days
! trying to straighten out certain mat
! tiers. their success has been far from
hattering. says the Associated Press
( report from New York. The chaos that
existed in baseball before the annual
g. winter session was begun still exists
/ The chances of another baseball feud
are just as good as they were on Mon
Gay last The olive branch has been
+ held out neither to the Players Pro-
! tective association nor the Ban John
/ sons league. Instead, defiance has
/ been offered.
During the meeting the magnates
! reached these conclusions:
To turn down the Players Protective
Z association fatty by refusing the play
ers a rehearing Of their demands.
! Decided upon a 140-game schedule
for next year.
Decided that the schedule would be
so arranged that the eastern clubs viii
finish the season in the west next year
Passed a resolution by which umpires
/ shall be scheduled equally among the
cities. each umpire officiating at the
/ same number Of games in each city.
] Ratified an agreement by which no
club shall carry more than sixteen
PLAYERS during the ssaSnn after May Is