The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-03

ITEMS OF SPORT
What is Being Done in Ring and
on Track all Over the
World.

William c. Whitney has leased Vo-
llodyovsky the favorite for the English
Derby.
Boralma, Cresceus and Charlie Herr
will race the best three our of flve
heats for purse of $4,000, at Read
Vile Mass, in September.
Lester and Johnny Rieff have receiv-
ed licenses to ride in England
Cresceus, 2:04: Boralma, 2:0S; Direc-
tum Kelly. 2:0SA, and Charley Herr.
> OF, viii meet in a $4,000 free-for-a all
for trotters, to be held at Brighton
Beach. in August.
'Skeets" Martin, the American jock
~. has been refused a license to ride
in England.
Rory Ough ran three furlongs at
Tanforan Park in :35A which is a
track record.
Chehalis, the noted black PAGER, has
been sold for $4,000
Jockey Dick CIawson is dying of
consumption. He won over $4,000 in
purses for the Whitney stable
Tom Jenkins worlds champion
wrestler, will go against Nouroulah.
the Turk. on May 7th. Matches with
Dan Mcleod and Roeber are pending.
Shamrock II will be launched on
April goth.
The Belmont syndicate cup defender
will carry 1900 square feet of can
vas
The Pan-American Exposition junior
athletic championships viii be held on
June 18th, and the following day the
senior championships viii be settled.
The all-around championship VIII be
competed for on the Fourth of July.
and in connection with this there will
be a Marathon race, open to the world.
The Legislature of the State of
Washington has passed an act making
dog and cock fights unlawful.
William T. Reid. of Belmont, Cal.
has been appointed Harvard's football
coach for next year.
The oxford crew rowed over the full
course from Putney to MortlaKe In 20
minutes and so seconds on a rough
flood tide The Cambridge crew COW
cred the same distance on an ebb tide
in 20 minutes and As seconds.
Kid Broad, of Cleveland put out
Young Corbett, of Denver, in four
rounds. Bob Turner, Of California, and
Sam Bolin, of New York, fought tlve
rounds to a draw in the preliminaries.
Owen Zeigler. of Philadelphia, knock
ed out Tom Corcoran, of Savannah.
Ga, in the eleventh round.
James Fitzgerald, of America, de-
feated George Bourdan, of Australia, In
Nice, France, in three rounds.
Joe Walcott, of New York, easily de-
feater Charlie McKeever, of Philadel-
phia, in six rounds.
After being in prison for twenty-four
days in Texas, Joe Choyinski was re-
leased on a bond of 81, coo The charge
was prize-fghting.
Dan Creedon defeated Billy Stiff, of
Chicago, in the fifth round.
Harry Harris, of Chicago, defeated
Pedlar Palmer, Of England, in London.
on points. in a fifteen-round boxing
contest.
Australian Billy Edwards knocked
out Mike Donovan, of Rochester, in the
fifth round.
The National Club of San Francisco.
has made Jeffries and Rubin an offer,
and the men are practically matched.
July LIST will probably be the date of
the fight. The club has offered the
men so per cent Of the gross receipts
for a twenty or twenty-five round con-
test.
Lester Reiff won the first race that
he has ridden this season in England.
At Lincoln he rode Five Rivers to vic
tory in the Tathwell Stakes.
Kid Carter Of Brooklyn, fought a
twenty-round draw with Jack Bonner,
OF Philadelphia, in Louisville.