The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-02-19
SPORT OF
WORLD.
Events Of a Week
As Told In
Brief.
TOD SLOAN THE
LOSER AT FRISCO
Tommy Cox Matched To Fight
Tom herm4n.-.News of
Turf and Ring.

~gTHE following is a condensation of
! the sport news of the world con-
Il tanned in the Mainland newspa-
/ pers from February to 9, inclu
sive:
The great four-cornered mile race at
Tanforan Park between Canmore, Ar
ticulate, Rolling Boer and Brutal re-
suited in win for Canmore. The
others finished as named. The race
was deprived of its interest by a com
bnation on the part of the other jock
eys to beat Sloan, who rode Articulate.
Bedeck won race recently at Tan
foran Park at odds of 60 to 1.
Memphis is to become a great racing
and training center for harness horses.
Within the next few months a track,
grand stand, stables and a club house
will be erected and stake events rival
! ing in value those of any other promi-
nent racing association will be an
nounced for meeting to be given next
fall.
Tommy Atkins, Fovhall Keene's
great 3-year-old colt, died in London
just after being unshippel from a voy
age from New York. Tommy Atkins
was looked upon as a probable winner
of the Paris Grand Prix. The horse
was one of the acknowledged cracks Of
the American turf.
The good 3-year-old colt Tyr, by
Kingston, was cut down badly in a race
at Tanforan Park recently and had to
be destroyed.
Mounce, the Idaho jockey, has signed
to ride for August Belmont.
Volante, one of the best race horses
bred in California, was recently sold
for $21 and is now drawing a cart.
The owner of Imp has decided to race
the old mare another season.
A special race has been made at
mile for $1,000 between Articulate with
Sloan up and Canmore with Burns up.
A great racing war is raging between
the San Francisco Jockey Club and the
California Jockey Club. The Tanforan
executive has announced a handicap
race for horses entered in the Burns
handicap, which will be worth at least
$4,000. An edict has also been issued
that horses racing at Oakland will be
barred at Tanforan.
King Edward will lease his horses in
training to the Duke of Devonshire.
Tod Sloan has purchased The Lady
for $500 and Credo, the best jumper in
California. He has also secured the re-
at Tanforan and in the East.
/ G. S. McKenzie's Socialist ran un-
placed in a one mile and a sixteenth
race run at Tanforan Park on the 14th
inst. The track was slushy.
At the Pacific Coast amateur boxing
championship tournament held in San
Francisco, the Olympic Club took three
championships, the San Francisco Ath
letic Club three and the Pacific Athletic
Club one.
Matty Matthews, the welterweight
champion of the world, has been
matched to fight Eddie Kennedy of
Pttsburg at the end of this month.
Tommy Cox has been matched to
fight fifteen rounds with Tom Herman
before the Reliance Athletic Club of
Oakland.
Colonel Ream of The Second Ohio
regiment has been notified that his
regiment will be called upon to go to
Cincinnati in case troops are used to
prevent the Jeffries- Rubin fight.
Toby Irwin, the 11Spound champion
of the Pacific Coast. defeated Larry
Gleason of Chicago after twenty rounds
of fierce fighting.
George Dixon and Harry Lyons
fought "A twenty-round draw at Balti-
more.
George McFadden will fight Dal
Hawkins in San Francisco on Febru-
airy 2S
Matty Matthews has been matched TO
fight Otto Cribb of Australia for the
welterweight championship of the
world.
Young Peter Jackson knocked out
Eddie Crock of Chicago in twelve
rounds in Kane county, Illinois.
Eddie X. Morris of San Francisco
knocked out Young Wolcott of New
York in seventeen rounds at Galena,
Kansas.
Oscar Gardner of Wheeling and John
ny Burns of New York fought n twen-
ty-two round draw on February Sth,
Dave Barry, lightweight champion of
Canada, gained the decision over Rufe
Turner lightweight champion OF the
Pacific Coast, In ten-rouud contest
at Denver.
Dave Barry, lightweight champion
OF Canada, has been matched To fight
Kid Mcfarland and Fred Russell OF
California has been matched to fight
Tom Sharkey some time next month.
Governor Nash OF Ohio says that he
win not permit the Jerfries- Rubin I
fight TO come OF IN the state and the 1
sheriff OF Cincinnati has been enjoIned I
10 prevent II at all hazards.
Terry McGoyern has been matched .
10 fight Tom Hagerty of Australia. who 7.
II champion Of his class In that coun-
try The hght viii take place on April /
sOth AZ isG pounds for a purse of u. 900 /
ilo Vow, the Consul General OF san /
Francisco VIII race a string OF trottera .
ON tho California circuit the coming
season. Ills present purchases are
Draw Lass, stud Queen ana Con T.
tinental Count
over ninety names have been handed
IN for the great American Derby 10 be ,