The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-15
WASHINGTON PARK's MOST Sue
CEsSFUL RAGING MEETING
NEARING IT'S CLOSE
SOME EASY MONEY FOR RYAN
The Boxing Game Not as interesting
as Earlier fnA the Season
Baseball Fans Are
Happy.

more attractive from a public standpoint
or more profitable from a managerial
end than during the present season. The
turf, baseball and ring are all popular,
and the people find time and money for
ALL
At Washington park the most success
full racing meeting in years is in prog
ress, and the twenty-five days of racing
at the popular South side course will
continue through the coming week, when
Hawthorne picks up the local circuit for
two weeks, alternating with the other
West side course until Nov. 10. Haw-
thorne will secure all the best Of the
horses now at the South side track, and
a very successful meeting in every re-
spect is anticipated. Many of the best
Eastern horses will then go to Saratoga,
returning to Hawthorne in the fall.
Twelve stakes will be run at the Haw-
thorne summer meeting, the entries clos
ing Saturday-today-an the lists will
show the names of all the best horses in
training here. The horsemen and public
love Hawthorne, which is second only to
Washington park as the most popular
course in the West
The Washington park meeting has
furnished some of the best and purest
of sports seen around Chicago in years
The class in the stake and other events
has been high, and the horses so nearly
alike that great spectacular interest has
been excited in each event, for, with few
exceptions, no entry could be considered
as greatly outelassing the others, and
when Secretary Howard used his skill
and brains in assigning weights for the
handicaps, 1t gave the talent plenty to
do in picking the winners.
THREE STAKES THIS WEEK.
Three more stakes and handicaps re-
main to be run this week-the D1xel,
on Tuesday, and Hyde Park stakes on
Thursday, and the Wheeler handicap on
getaway day-next Saturday. All have
entries of the highest class, and the
horses that go to the post in each will
be fit to run for ransom. 1t will be
week of grand turf sport, and will at
tract attendance off many from out Of
town.
Special interest has been excited by
the suspension of Barney Schrieber and
his horses for the inconsistent running
of Fly by Night. 1t w%uld be difficult
to believe that Schrieber was entirely at
fault in the matter, although there were
plenty of indications that there was
something Doing in the races run.
Schrieber was surrounded by a bad lot
of advisers and the fact that he was a
| bookmaker as we'll as owner, was against
him. He will be allowed to run his
| horses at Hawthorne, and 1 have no
| doubt that, with changes made in his
! stable, there will be no more complaint
| of his horses.
Steeplechase races are to be the great
| feature at Hawthorne, a stake race OF
| this nature being one of the novelties
| scheduled for the meeting. The stables
| are already filled or stall room engaged
! and owners who. come now are sent to
! other tracks for accommodations. Mary
| improvements have been made and the
success of the spring meeting assures a
| greater success at the. summer and fall
meetings.
EASY MONEY FOR RYAN.
Tommy Ryan will get nice bunch of
easy money when he meets Jack Root
here a week from Tuesday night. Ryan
receives $500, win, lose or draw, and
| there is to be no decision except in case
| Of a knockout, which is an exceedingly
remote possibility. Ryan is undoubtedly
| the cleverest ring general In the world
and under the articles of agreement has
simply to spar, enough to keep Root busy
| to get the $500 -
| The chances of Ryan'S winning by a
| knockout are about one to two, provided
Ryan makes an aggressive fight. Odds
| that Root wins the same way should be
about three to one, for if Ryan finds that
| he cannot win he is abuEdantly clever to
keep away and secure draw.
I make this prediction on the strength
Of Roots showing against Dick O'Brien
| last Tuesday night, O'Brien having Root
! down four times and nearly out in the
second round when the bell saved Root
from being knocked out. Root recuperat-
| ed fast in the time before the third
round and made a<nuch better showing
! towards the finish of the fight. At that,
! however, while Root got the decision, 1
| have little doubt that in another contest
| O'Brien would certainly win.
BOXING INA DECLINE.
Boxing has lost in popular interest
since last spring, partly because of the
surfeft of sport which has been given
! here and more because of the advent of
| the heated term. 1t is difficult at this
| time to predict the future of the sport
| in Chicago. The death of the Horton law
| in New York will have a bad effect all
| over the country--at least for a time
| and the result of several fakes here has
Lot added to the popularity of the sport.
The Erne- McGovern&contest has excited
| no great interest mere and there will be
| little betting on the result. If Erne can
| get to 128 pounds it certainly looks as
| though his weakened physical condition
would give McGoVern "a chance" but
| Erne is not large man and neither is
| he a hard hitter. He has great speed
and cleverness. McGovern at 128 will be
| at his best for he is a husky lad and has
been growing all the time since he met
Pedlar Palmer and he had hard work to
make lis at that time. His smuggling
power is tremendous, and 1 canont see
how Erne can stop the Brooklyn Terror
in ten rounds It's a fight which one
would do we'll to watch, and not one to
bet upon
More interest has been excited by the
Fitzsimmons-Ruhlin contest, which, from
this distance, looks to be the fight of the
year. In making this match, and the
Sharkey one, Mr.. Corbett has been the
foxy one in that it has given the ex-
champion a chance to lay back while the
others fight it out and has by no means
shortened CorBettsq power of speech. L
exnected that Jim and Jeffries would get
together again this fall, but foxy Jim is
as wise as brer rabbit when there is a
real hunter in sight
CHICAGO CLUB DOING WELL.
The showing made by the Chicago club
in the National league in winning a
dozen games with the best teams in the
| league and advancing alta record break
| ing clip up the percentage column to-
wards the pennant, has been the talk of
the baseball world. Nothing like it has
ever been seen here or in any other city
| in years, and, if present indications count
| for anything, 1.-THE local club will be ''in
| the money when the season closes. Local
! fans are talking strongly of the pennant,
| but l am little more conservative
| pick the team for show and possibly place