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Tom Sharkey's name must be added
to the list OF superstitious fighters.
.Sharkey would like to have his friends
believe that he cares nothing for good
luck charms and other objects carried
in the ring by fighters to make them
win. but it is nevertheless true that
Tom has often declared that he was
a victim of a hoodoo after losing a
fight. Sharkey, like all sons of the
ould sod, is partial to green, and
when he first became figure in the
heavy weight championship he used
to wear set OF green colors every
time he went in the ring. After win
ning couple of good fights Sharkey
thought that it would be the proper
caper to show his patriotism by adopt
ing set of colors that would repre-
sent the United States of America.
he was presented with an American
nag to act as a belt for his fighting
trunks. and wore the colors when he
fought Jim Corbett. and was awarded
the fight on foul. When he met Jim
Jeffries the Californian was heralded
as the coming true American cham
pion, and this caused Tom to go back
to his favorite color, green. When he
fought jeff Erin s colors predominated
N Sharkeys corner. Tom was defeat
I'd. The next day Tom O'Rourke, in
Joking way. told Sharhey that the
change Of coiors was what caused the
sailor to lose. Tom became fully con
WINGED that there was much truth in
O'Rourke's statement. and has ever
since stuck to the Stars and Stripes.
believing that the green colors were
his hoodoo.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

The tirsu-night of The Lily and the
Prince, produced at the Teck Theater.
Buffalo, n. Y, on April {. at the eli
max OF the third act. Mildred Holland.
the star, received a bunch of lilies,
handed over the footlights, from
which flew two white doves. They
rose gracefully above the head of the
astonished actress, and finally settled
on the floor at her feet and hoped to
the footiights as far as the ribbons
by which they We're attached to the
bouquet would permit. Miss Holland
made pets OF the doves until one day
they flew out of the window of her
apartments. Miss Holland was sorry
to lose them, but as she was to leave
Buffalo the day following she only
hopes that they have found a comfort.
able home.
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National Is UpIeld-

The refusal of the Philadelphia
court to allow Lajoie. Frazer and Bern
hard to furnish bond on an appeal to
the Supreme Court, the injunction to
be stayed pending the decision, de-
prives the American League OF all
chance to get their services unless the
higher tribunal reverses Itself when
the cases are heard. Although at de-
cided disadvantage in Pennsylvania,
the American League will fight to the
end and will not voluntarily surrender
or retain one Of the former players of
the Philadelphia Club. There have
been two assertions since the Lajoie
Observation-Disclosures and DuggletSy. The
decision in the st. Louis cases will
brace up the players and no other de-
fections are probable
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According to a report from Japan
in the April issue of the Spirit of Mis-
sions. the native actors of the Sunrise
Land are very thorough in the study
of their roles. Says the missionary
report: The other day an Osaka mis-.
sionary had call from Japanese &C
tor, who wanted to know someth ing
about Christianity. In the native the
aters lately plays have been given to
illustrate the prosecutions in China,
and this particular actor had to as
sums the part of foreign missionary.
As he believed in playing his part well
however uncon2eniaI il might have
been TO him. he procured a New TIES.
lament. SO as to post himself on the
missionary teaching. He read il once
and again, and was particularly i'm
pressed by St. Pauls words in CORN.
thians 1:13. the chapter on charity.
1t showed him, he says, what love
really is. He has not yet become a
Christian, but there is every prospect
that he will"
Evidently the spirit of the Actors
Church Alliance is at work in the
Orient.
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Rowdyism will not be tolerated by
the public. and il the managers and
association officials throughout the
league want to reap the benefit OF the
splendid season which is before them.
they had better take prompt steps to
cut displays Of that character out OF
the game. The general public was
never more interested in the sport
than at this time and the lovers OF the
game will make every association in
the league wealthy if the right sort OF
sport is produced. The teams seem to
be better than ever before, and there
is nothing in the way of magnificent
success but the possibility of such
scenes as was witnessed in Atlanta.
This is the first outbreak of the kind
this season. Let it be the last.-Bir-
mingham Age.
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Rigid Auto Rules.

Strenuous measures have been taken
by the board of directors of the Amer
lean Automobile association to pre-
vent excess of speed limits in endur-
ance runs and violations of rules gen
orally in open motor-vehicle contests
of all kinds. A resolution was passed
declaring that any contestant disqual-
flied or suspended for violations of the
rules of any contest promoted by a
member of the association shall be in
eligible to participate in any competi-
tive event promoted by any other
member for so long as the club against
which he has offended snail refuse to
revoke his disqualification.
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Fire. Baseball, Manager.

The death Of George Mayer recalls
the fact that he was one OF the most
prominent factors in the early days
Of professional baseball. In tho early
7O's Mr.. Mayer, then a rich man, be-
came interested in the sport. There
were no leagues and few professional
teams. He went to Baltimore and Sc
cured a number OF baseball stars. to
whom he added by selections from
several parts of the country and a
few local players and started out with
the famous "kekionga" team. The
name is the old Indian appellation
for Fort Wayne. With the Kekiongas
was the famous Bobby Matthews. the
first pitcher OF curved ball. The
kekiongas made triumphal tour OF
the country. vanquishing teams in
New York. Boston. Baltimore. Cieve-
land and other large eastern cities.
The batsmen who had never seen a
curve were completely mystified by
Matthews and until the sorcery with
which he fooled them was revealed
the Hoosier team won all the contests
hands down. The tour Of the keki-
ongas was the sensation of the sport
ing world that year Mr.. Mayer sub
sequently lost the larger part Of his
fortune in backing professional base
ball ventures in larger cities.
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While the National League mag
mates have been ordering back to the
mines the men who were formerly en-
ployed by them, they seem TO have
overlooked one little thing. That is
the extension of their own doctrines
for the benefit of the minor leagues.
These organizations. which for years
paid the National for so-called protec-
ton. have been robbed right and left
by that body, any promising player
that was wanted being grabbed with
out ceremony. The American has
taken such players also. but this
league makes no pretensions of rec
ogniZiDg reserve clauses, and has
never accepted money for keeping its
hands off. Not one of the minor lea.
SuerS taken by the National this
spring has been returned TO the club
that holds him under reserve and
there has been no evidence as yet of
any intention to do this sort of thing
The minor leagues have taken a hand
in the fray by enjoining Joe Bean, the
Eastern League shortstop who has
signed with New York. and threaten
to go after other players.
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Bessie Abbott Coming Home.

Bsssie Abbott Coming Home.
1t has been declared that Bessie Alb
bolt. who was winning fame and for
tune abroad as the protege of Jean de
Reszke. has suddenly resigned her po-
sition, and will shortly return to this.
her native country.
Bessie and her sister Jessie
achieved considerable fame here as
the Abbott sisters, and were shining
lights in the company headed by AL
bert Chevalier. the coster singer. The
sisters came from Ogdensburg. n. Y.
and when the company was to appear
there the advance agent took advan-
tage Of the fact to placard the town
literally with pictures of the girls in
their serio-comic costumes.
To the dismay of the manager, the
girls refused to appear when the COM
pany reached OgdenSburg. and re-
NAMED in their hotel under plea of ill
ness. No amount of persuasion could
induce them to change their minds.
aid the good citizens of the quiet lit
tie tewn, who turned out in force to do
honor to their former associates, were
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One OF Detroit.s Pitchers.

Roscoe Miller. one OF the pitchers
81 the Detroit club Of the American
league. began his professional career
with the Columbus. Ga. club. Before
Joining the Detroit team he played at
Washington, Ind. and Mansfield. o.
His 1901 record was twenty-three vic
tories and Is defeats. His best per-
formances of the year were two five
hit games against Milwaukee and three
in which mis- opponents-Baltimo
Boston and Washington-securSd only
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''Bopbie" Walthour. considered by
many to be the peer of all cycle racers
behind motor tandems, will go from
his nome in Atlanta in a few days to
start on the racing circuit that has
been laid out for him by Manager
Field. Reports from Atlanta state
that the star rider is travelling faster
than ever before and should make
great inroads on his own worlds rec
ords just as soon as he is pitted
against men of good caliber. Last
year the blonde southerner won
enough money to buy handsome res.
idence in Atlanta. and with two chill
dren and a contented wife to encour.
age him, expects to do even better thi'
year.
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Yanxer VIII Not Meet AttsIl.

Benny Yanger has decided that he
wishes no more 122 pound bouts in
his, and has declined a meeting with
Attell, whom he recently beat, at the
weight named Attell is anxious to do
six rounds with Benny in Chicago. but
Hertz will not listen to the PROPOSE
ton unless an agreement for draw
decision, if both finish. is made. Hertz
admits that Attell would smother Yam
ger in a siX-round Set-to, and both he
and his boxer assert that the Cali
fornian is the most clever boy in the
world at the weight named. From all
that is written of this lad the lack
of a punch is all that keeps him from
succession to the championship.
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The recent bout between Benny
Yanger and Abe Attell in which
Yanger was victorious. the police
stopping the miX-up in the 10Th round,
when Attell was groggy, in the opin-
ion of Referee George Siler. was a
hummer There was never an idle
moment in the ring nor a quiet mo-
ment out of it. writes Siler. The
fight. for speed beat anything l ever
have witnessed. and | have seen few
In my time. The Terry McGovern-
Dave Sullivan fight at Louisville on
Washington's birthday was voted the
fastest that ever took place west of
the Alleghanies and east of the Rock
les, but it was slow as compared with
the go between Benny and Abe. The
Louisville contest, although speedy
showed loating spots in places, while
the ST. Louis affair did not"
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The lSng-drawn-out squabble be-
tween Jeffries and Fitzsimmons has
disgusted every lover of boxing and,
although the match looks now AS good
as clinched, interest in the contest
will not materialiZe until the eve of
the battle Fitzsimmons has conduct
ed himself in a manner that has made
every one thoroughly displeased with
him. Jeffries came out of the muddle
without losing any of the respect Of
the public, and can retain this respect
by rushing matters to a conclusion.
Fitz can only kill himself by new
pickering. He is really on probation
now.
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George Hildebrand. the California
outfielder who was recommended to
Manager Hanlon by William La.se.
who was one of the games greatest
opponents. was succeeded as the left
fielder OF the Brooklyn club by Sheck-
ard. the contract jumper. in the game
Of April 20, but he will. be retained as
one OF the Superbas' utility men. He
made a batting record OF PTS and q
fielding percentage OF .952 In $50 games
as a member Of the San Francisco
champions Of 1901. He stole thirty
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

The olympic games to be held in
Chicago in 1904 will be carried out on
a scale never before attempted in the
line of athletics. They will include
contests in every ancient, medieval
game. including the chief sports of ev-
cry country of the globe. Water sports
are TO be made very important fea-
ture of the tournament. The yacht
racing will be on first-class scale.
and there is strong probability that
Sir Thomas Upton will enter the new
challenger. Shamrock Ill An effort
is to be made to have the greatest
foot ball team of the east meet the
best eleven in the west. This has been
the dream of thousands interested in
sport for years.
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Praise for Grimth.

Says an exchange: Great man, this
Griffith. Back in the days when Rad
bourne was the king of them all.
little boy with ears two sizes larger
than his head used to watch Rad pitch.
and picked up all he could learn from
the man who pitched six times.a week
and wanted more. That was in 1882.
In 1887 Grif went into the business
for himself as a slabman, and from
that day to this he has been sending
out the curves. He never had any
more arm than the Venus Of Milo
yet they cannot hit the things he
throws. He is small, apparently not
powerful enough to have helped Noah
pitch the ark, and yet he gets away
with the games. That rotund head.
with sail on each side. contains more
baseball sense than nineteen skulls OF
the ordinary breed, and the little man
was never better, never more danger
GUS to All opposing team than he IL
to-day.
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annals. The nclle clerk OF the Wea<h-
err has been kinder to the enthusiasts
this year than he was last. During
the month OF showers in 1901 only
twenty eight games were played. and
this season fortytwo was the number
finished. The count of fan noses in
the National world doubtless shows
that over three times as many people
saw these forty-two games last month,
than were massed in the twenty-eight
games during the dismal April days
of '01. New York's unexpected squirt
has aroused Pop Knickerbocker's chill
dren and they filled the Polo Grounds
with gleeful whoops. With New York
fighting in the first division there will
be enough coin in the league treasury
to pay salaries and buy a few spare
ribs when, the season ends.
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warneld !. Versatile.


David Warfield is not one-part
actor. He has acted and mimicked a
variety of types drawn from modern
life and from the stage-imitated
Bernhardt and Salvini and burlesqued
many OF the leading New York actors
in the reviews put on by Weber and
Fields at their music hall. AS a
reader of dialect poems he recently
made quite hit before select au-
dience. He was down for mono
logue, and to the surprise of his listen
ers announced that he would recite
James Whitcomb Riley's "Good-by.
Jim. Take keer Yourself" His
friends loEed at one another askance.
but Warfeld began without a tremor,
reproducing the drawl. the gestures.
and the mannerisms of the Hoozier
poet to perfection. His friends crowd
ed around to congratulate him. Il
heard Riley long ago out west" said
Warfeld. in answer to persistent
questions. and since then I've been
initiating him when get alone in my
room
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MeKibben to Strengthen Team.

Manager Mckibben OF the Saints is
on a still hunt after better men. He
slipped out OF town after receiving
messages from Shortstop Lewee, Sec
ond Baseman O'Brien and Pitcher
Wolff of the Kansas City American
Association team, then in Toledo, in
which they offered to leave with Dave
Gear If they were paid $500 a month
each.
McKibben from Toledo wired that
he had the promise OF two players,
but did not say who they We're. He
expects to sign three or four men
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The American League has been
hard hit. The Court of Common Pleas
Monday made permanent the injunc-
ton restraining Lajoie, Fraser and
Bernhard from playing with any other
than the Philadelphia National League
club. On the same day announcement
was made thsA Jimmy Shecl1ard had
decided to desert the Baltimore team
and remain with the Brooklyns. The
Baltimores will take action against
the clever outfelder.
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only one Of the

Udt only one OF the contests
. decisive. That was in 1896, when
eCoy put out the ex-Syracusan III Is
rounds. They met in Syracuse in 1897,
but the police stopped the bout in the
fifth. round. Three years later they
clashed in six-round 60 in Chicago.
the referee giving the decision to Nc
Coy and receiving in return a punch
from Ryan. who claimed the articles
stipulated that If each man were on
his feet at the end of the 81. rounds,
the contest should be declared q draw
Ryan and Mccoy in a 2O-round battle
should be able to put up one OF the
greatest fights in the history Of the
ring.
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her money and plaudits galore. 1t IS
to be feared that American managers
will have a hard time getting this song
bird back to our shores. Miss Nielsen
was born in Nashville Tenn. and has
all the charm and grace of the south
ern woman. Probably no light opera
singer Of the day is more popular and
well liked than is Miss Nielsen. She
has been on the stage since 1893. and
made her stellar debut in 1S9S-a rap
id rise
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four hits. He showed that he had
stamina as well as skill by his extra
game experience. He won a ten, elev-
en-, twelve and sixteen round contest
and lost fifteen inning duel, in which
he held the victors down to two runs
and seven hits, but received poor sup
port at critical stages. He was beat
en- by Chicago and Boston once each,
but won from the champions four
times, and from Collins club FIVE
times The Athletics were harder
propositions for Roscoe, as four of his
six games against Lajoie's team re-
suited in defeats for him.
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Boston has lost Nichols and Lowe
through release and Dinneen by de-
sertion. but Buckenberger has added
f1rst-class material in Courtney, Car
ney, Lush, Greminger and Malarkey.
Willis and Pittinger are doing good
service in the box and Kittredge sell
dom calls on Moran to take q turn
behind the bat. Buckenberger Ia q
first-class manager and his team will
make progress In playing the points
~ the season grows longer.
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Terry Meaovern,. Clever Brother.

The lighting strain runs through the
McGoverR family. Terry. the ex-
champion feather-we who. until
his defeat by Young Corbett, was re-
garded as practically unbeatable, has
brother. Hughey, who is clever per-
former with the gloves. He fights
after the style of Terry. who has taken
pains to instruct his younger brother
in the fine points of the game. Having
the advantage of first-class instruc-
tor. Hughey has rounded to in good
shape and Is now anxious to follow
along in his famous brothers foot
steps and climb the ladder of pugilis-
tic fame. He aspires to the bantam
weight championship and is ready to
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Frank Z. Morris, captain OF the
Northwestern University track team.
and the schools crack two-miler, has
been compelled to abandon athletics
on account of an injury he received in
the First Regiment meet early in the
season. He was entered in the North
western Beloit meet, but on the ad-
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Clara sIandick With T.. II. sothsrn.

Clara Blandick is this season with
E. H. Sothern, During Miss Lotus ILL
ness she appeared successfully in the
part of Lucy the last six perform
ances of Richard Lovelace at the Gar
den Theater. New York. Miss Blan-
dick was formerly known as Clara
Dickey.
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RYAN and McCOy.

Once more there is talk of bringing
together those two bitter rivals. Tom
my Ryan asid kid" Mccoy. The club
that would be successfully in pulling
or a match between two such clever
opponents If the fistic art you'd draw
. house second only to that of q
heavyweight championship battle Nc
Coy and m have fought three
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A contract has been signed for a
fight to a finish between Jack Root
and George Gardner for a purse of S.
900. The fight will take place at Reno
or Carson New, early in July.
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Hughey NcGovern

meet any of the little fellows who are
prominent in this division. In a six
round bout not long ago Hughey's
work made deep impression on the
onlookers. who stamped him as
conner.
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Frank Morris.

vice of his physicians did not partici-
pate in any of the events. He will as
sist TraiRer Hempel in the care of the
men, however, and still retain his
place as captain. Morris holds the
university record of 1921 As in the
two-mile run, and is a strong man in
other events
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Great Hammer Throw.

In the annual field games of Ford
ham college, John Flanagan has equal
ed the worlds record for hammer
throwing. He HURLED TIA metal III
feet. 9 inches.
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The end of the brief April campaign
found every team that was in the hrst
division in 1901 trailing along in the
ssoond. No such complete reversal of
old form can be found in recent league
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bases. His 1900 record was equally as
good. Under HanlonS guidance he
is sure to improve and it is not unlike
" that he will displace Dolan as
Brooklyn's center fielder.
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by the little family at Spring
brook" and it is pleasure to every
man and woman there to carry out. so
far as may be. their benefactor's plans.
New York Dramatic Mirror.
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sadly disappointed. The only reason
vouchsafed by the girls for their non
appearance was their dislike to have
their friends see them wearing short
skirts.
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Miss Alice Nielsen

Alice Nielsen is making herself as
great favorite in England as she was
in America Her sweet voice and
charming personality are winning for
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At the Edwin Forrest Home. nea
Philadelphia. the anniversary c