Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-28
|CURRENI SPORTS TALK
Holiday Week Throws a Damper
on Sports in Most
Lines.
The Christmas Handicap at New
Orleans q Notable
Affair.
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Tod Sloan to Ride Aeain...Foot
Ball News..Gossip OF
the Pugs.

the rugs.
| AS usual during the holidays there has
not been much doing in the line of
sports. People are too busy with other
Things to pay much attention to matters
mat can as we'll as not be put off until
after the holidays are over. The most
important phase of sporting circles lust
now is the winter racing on the large
tracks of the southern and western
coasts, which is indeed fourishing. The
annual Christmas handicap, at New Or
leans. one of the notable contests OF the
winter, was won by George Arnold. who
ran mile In 1870 and established new
record for the track. Mint Sauce fought
the winner all the way around. and was
only beaten head. Tayon was third,
and the other starters were Henry Bert.
Tom Kingsley. Petit Maitre and Lennep.
all finishing strong. The handicap race
was worth $500 gross, $1,000 OF which
went to the winner.
1t announced that Tod Sloan. the
premier of American Jockeys, will be in
the saddle again next season, and fur
tier that he will ride in both New York
and Chicago. The little jockey has been
doing nothing in the racing line since his
trouble with the English stewards, and
II is said that within a few weeks the
Ian placed over him by the English
Jockey Club will be removed. This rul-
ing has been accepted in this country
with as much seriousness as II 1t had
been made on the American turf Sloan
says that when he gets into the saddle
again he will show the racing public
that during his months of idleness he
has not forgotten how to ride.
Lester Reiff, one of the few American
jockeys who attained wide notoriety on
the English turf last season, was mar
ried this week in San Francisco to Miss
Fannie Rowell, daughter of DR.. and Mrs
II. E. Rowell. Reiff expects to take his
bride to Europe In the spring.
Z Coach A. A. Stage. of the Chicago
University foot ball team. left for New
York Thursday and hopes are high al
the university that he will come back
with arrangements complete for game
with one of the big eastern foot ball
teams for next year. Stage refused to-
say his trip was being made to land a
match to take the place of the Pennsyl-
yania game, but the fact that he has yet
made no effort to arrange the foot ball
schedule for next year IS regarded as
significant. Since the announcement by
the University of Pennsylvania mana
gers that Chicago would neg beNincluded
in its schedule for next year on account
of the long trip and heavy expense,
Stagg has been considering the advisa-
bility of filing the gap with a game with
another eastern eleven. Chicago has al
ways had one and sometimes two east
ern teams for the maroons to face dur
son would not be entirely satisfactory
With games played only with western
teams. Negotiations may be entered in
to the more readily since the maroons
have practically clean 1902 schedule,
only the Wisconsin game for Thanks
giving day having been definitely ar
ranged The choice Of eastern teams Is
thought by students Of the University
of Chicago to lie between Cornell and
Columbia. Cornell has a large alumni
list In Chicago, and game with the
Ithacans would be almost certainly a
money maker il played on Marshall
Field. The Pennsylvania's game was
more popular when Penn was making a
strong showing against Harvard and
other eastern elevens.
The University of Michigan foot ball
squad arrived in San Francisco on
Wednesday night after "a 3,000-mile |
journey to meet the Leland Stanford
eleven at Pasadena on New Years day.
A. practice game for signals was INDUCED
in at Pasadena shortly after arriving
there, and many who witnessed 1t were
to see such fast playing, espe-
cially for so warm day. the tempera-
ture being about so degrees, and imme- |
diately after so long a journey. Coach |
Yost says that the Wolverines will beat
the Californians is to 0, but many who
the exhibition practice game
Put the figures at about 40 to 0.
$50
James j. Jerrles, the heavyweight
champion of the world in pugilism, is in
Kansas City this week. en- route east In
with his old trainer, Billy"
Delaney, his brother, Jack" Jeffries.
and Capt. Anthony Greene, of Califor-
MIA. The Jeffries party is en- route to
New York. in the hopes of getting a
match with either Fitzsimmons, Corbett,
Sharkey or some other championship
claimant Jeffries rather likes the ideal
of giving .'Fitz' the first chance. and he
also thinks that he will prove the best
drawing card.
Papers in the circuit court of Jackson
Missouri We're filed at Kansas
City on Thursday by Tommy"
Ryan against the champion. Ry-
an is suing Jeffries for ST.
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