The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-18

| II
| the sport news of the world con-
| II 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 a win for Canmore The
others finished as named. The race
was deprived of its interest by COM
bination on the part of the other jock
eys to beat Sloan, who rode Articulate,
/ Bedeck won a race recently at Tan
foran Park at odds of go to l.
| 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, Foxhan Keene's
great 3-year-old colt, died in London
just after being unshipped 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 s21 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 a
mile for LOCO 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 handicap
race for horses entered in the Burns
handicap, which will be worth at least
s13, 900. 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-
fusal of Joe Frey. He intends to race
at Tanforan and in the East.
i G. S. McKenzie's Socialist ran un-
4 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-
lletic Club three and the Pacific Athletic
Club one.
Matty Matthews, the welterweight
champion of the world, has beer
matched to fight Eddie Kennedy OF
lPittsburg 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 will be called upon to go tc
Cincinnati in case troops are used tc
lprevent the Jeffries-Ruhlin fight.
Toby Irwin, the 118-pound champion
OF the Pacific Coast, defeated Larry
of fierce fighting.
George Dixon and Harry Lyons
fought a twenty-round draw at Balti-
more.
George McFadden will fight Da
Hawkins in San Francisco on Febru
airy %.
Matty Matthews has been matched tt
fight Otto Crib of Australia for the
welterweight championship Of the
world.
Young Peter Jackson knocked GU
Eddie Crock of Chicago in twelv,
rounds in Kane county, Illinois.
Eddie K. 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 a TWEEN
Ity-two round draw on February Sth.
Dave Barry, lightweight champion o
Canada, gained the decision over Ruff
Turner, lightweight champion of tn
Pacific Coast, in a ten-round contes
at Denver.
Dave Barry, lightweight champion
of Canada, has been matched to f1gh
Kid MCFARLAND and Fred Russell o
California has been matched to fgh
Tom Sharkey some time next month.
Governor Nash of Ohio says that h
will not permit the Jeffries-Ruhlil
fight to come off in the state and tn
sheriff of Cincinnati has been enjoinet
to prevent it at all hazards.
Terry McGovern has been matches
Ito fight Tom Hagerty Of Australia, VIII
lis champion of his class in that coun
try. The fight will take place on Apr
:. 30th at 126 pounds for a purse of $4,000
: Ho Vow, the Consul General of Sal
!. Francisco, will race a string of trotter
y on the California circuit the cominj
! season. His present purchases ar
Draw Lass, Stud Queen and Con
tinentai Count.
over ninety names have been handle
lin for the great American Derby to b
|: run on washington Park track June 2.
D The western Jockey Club has bee
lorganized IN Chicago. Eight of tn
strongest racing associations sof TN
west and South have already submitte
y to the authority OF the new body.
Tom o'Brien, the Pittsburg Basebal