The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-03
SPORTING NOTES

John J. Roone. a Chicago wrestler
proposes to organize a football team
composed of best heavyweight wrest-
lers in the country. Tom jenkins
Dan Mcleod and Farmer Burns are
among the notables Rooney has signed
He intends to keep the team together
to play the Olympian games in Chica-
go, in 1904.
Mem bers of Union Boat Club, New
York, have raised $500 of the $500 nee
cessary to send Constance S. Titus ia
the Henley regatta next year. The en-
try of the New York sculler will be
forwarded through the National Asso-
citation of Amateur Oarsmen SO that
there will be no question regarding
his amateur standing.
Billy Madden, manager of Gus
Rubin. the fighter, now recognized as
a dead one, says that sporting men in
San Francisco have contributed to a
fund for the erection Of a monument
over the grave of Jack Dempsey, the
Nonpareil
Tom Jenkins's energetic manager,
George V. Touhey, is getting all the adj
vertising that is possible for a cham
pion to have shoWered upon him. But
Tuohey insists that Jenkins is in ear
nest when he challengeTs Jeffries to a
go. If Jeff does not wish to meet Jen-
ldns in the ring, the wrestling cham
pion is willing to guarantee to throw
Jeffries twice within one hour at catch
-as-catch-can wrestling.
Glass the big guard, over whom
Harvard and Yale authorities SQUAD
bled, regarding eligibility rules, is now
mentioned as the most likely candidate
for the captainey of the Yale eleven.
The meeting of the Eastern League
which opens tomorrow morning at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel New York, will
provide Pres. Powers with another OPP
pOrtunity to exercise the rare judgment
he is believed to possess. The league
circuit needs at least two new cities
to be strong, and the owners of the
new franchises must be men Of eX-
perience and financial willingness.
In a recent interview at his home
in Cleveland, Manager James r. Nc
Aleer of the new American League
team in St. Louis said that Jesse Bur
kett is now the hottest American
League TOOter in the land. Jesse piped
up good and strong for the American
League last winter, but f. DeHaas
Robson of the National League back
ed up with shekels before the playing
season got under way.
Jake Gettman. the Buffalo out
fielder, is said to have signed a Wash
ington American League contract for
next season. Gettman and Carey, last
year first-baseman for Buffalo, will
both be with the Senators if American
League claims are we'll founded.
The new American Association
launched with T. J. Hickey as its
president. is evidently an organization
that was conceived for the purpose OF
giving a slap at the association of mi
nor leagues of which 2. 7. Powers is
president. Nh. Hickey IS a western
man who was prominent in advocating
the formation of q combine composed
of minor leagues. Now he proposes tC
hold out and be affiliated with the Ma
tiOnal League.
The Lyceum ana Father Mathew
basketball teams viii have clash No
2 in Father Mathew hall tonight. Be
cause of the victory gained last week
Father Mathew team is n favOrite. blu
the South Worcester men are full OF
determination and hot battle will b,
waged.
Charlie Nichols, the Boston Nation
al League pitcher, is now at his hOm'
In Kansas City. Nichols has received
an offer 10 coach at Brown Universit!
IN the spring, but he would like t.
get chance with the Harvard min,
and is holding out.
--Hjalmar Lundin has four matches
IN view. but there is little possibility
of more than one Of the matches be
ing pulled OF in this city. The Wor
cester wrestler is after Leon PardellO
the New York crack. but ne intend
20 make sure that Pardello is a gooC
man and il is possible that a handicaI
match between Oscar Suudstrom. Lun
din's partner, and Pardello viii be ar
ranged.