Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-01
CURRENT SPORTS Talk
Scarcity Of First Class Two.
year.olds Commented Upon
in Racing Circles.
English Athletes Face a Grave
Condition and Lack Funds
to Visit America.
Charley Mitchell to Live in Buf.
falo-.Gossip OF the Ring
and Other Talk.

and Uther Talk.
The weather this week has again been
adverse TO most of the out door sports,
racing and base ball both having suf-
fered because of the prevailing chilly
atmosphere. On the metropolitan tracks
of the south and far west. however,
racing has been excellent this week be-
ing generally marked with good attend
ance and records. AS general thing
the week has not been noted for any
very important sporting events.
I The twenty-round bout Wednesday
night between Terry Mct;overn and .Au-
RENO Herrera, the Spanish lightweight
champion, which Was pulled off before
! the Twentieth Century Athletic Club of
1 San Francisco. succeeded in working up
the enthusiasm promised. hut little
| money was wagereG, however, the
\ Spaniard's enthusiasts not seeming to
| care to lay much on the result, even tho
MeGoverns admirers offered odds of .
and ~ 10 l. A number of sports from
bakersfield. Cal, the home town of Her
rera, who had extreme faith In their
townsman lost quite heavily, however.
having worked on the theory that, as
| the Spaniard, has been fighting SO many
years. he VAS not the novice Meow
ern's friends claimed him to be. Nc
Govern Won in the fifth round, without
any trouble whatever.
Another pugilistic event for which
there promises 10 be considerable spir-
Tied bidding by athletic clubs 10 the
coming match between Denver Ed
Martin and Joe Walcott, Billy Mad
denis colored heavyweight. 1t is not un-
likely the mill will be pulled off July 4th
before the San Francisco Athletic Club
The fair athletes Of Nassar appear to-
be having their troubles, as Well as
those of their sterner friends of the coll
leees and universities of the country.
and il is now announced that the spring
program of sports is to be inierfered
with on account of an injury to Miss
Louise Sommer Holmquist, Nassars
best Splinter. Her entries in the go
yard dash and the 3o0-yard relay race
have been cancelled by order of her doc
to because of an accident she received
in participating in a l0o-yard dash last
week in practice. Miss Holmqust holds
the Nassar record for several of the
sprints, and now she is out of the game
for the rest Of the year. Miss Hume
captain of the senior base ball team,
who has been obliged to give up playing
lowing TO illness. so handicapped the
seniors that the juniors carried off the
honors in the championship game this
week.
The san Francisco Athletic Club has |
offered a purse of $4,000 for fight be-
tween James j. Jeffries, the champion
American heavyweight. and Gus Rub
lin, the Akron giant.
The first dual tennis match was
played by Yale and Columbia at New
York today.
The trial spin Of the Independence
honor of competing with the Shamrock
H., is set for this afternoon.
Sir Thomas Upton has announced
tina, he is going to bring the Shamrock
I, the old challenger, 10 this country
next fall. upon the occasion of the race
with the Shamrock II. and the Atneri-
can defender.
lnasmucr as the critics Of thu run
ming turf arr virtually agreed that this
is an off year" so far as concerns two
year-olds. and the racing so far has de-
veloped nothing startling in thorough
breds four years Of age and upward
the interest of race goers naturally
turns upon the distinguished ;hree-
year-olds. Conroy and Commando
Since the formers brilliant victory in
the Brooklyn handicap-for brilliant II
was. considering the horrible condition
of the track and the time of the race
speculation has been keen as to which
of these two horses is the greater.
Which. if they We're to meet on even
terms would outrun the other? Turf
experts aver that really great race
horse appears about once in eight or ten
years. However that may be. many
turfmen will incline to hold that this
title belongs TO one or the other of the
pair in the keene stable If a committee
of race-track sharps. selected at ram
dom We're asked for their opinion. 1t is
more than likely that they would Sc
lect Commando for champion, on the
strength of his performances both as a
two-year-old and three year-od But
popular judgment upon the question is
by no means determined
Some concern is felt in England
among the friends of oxford and cam
bridge athletes over the fea. that finan-