Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-24
General Sporting Notes.

Kid Broad and Spike Leroy have signed
articles of agreement calling for a fifteen
round bout, to take place In Indianapolis
on January 0.
Twelve horses Of the stable of Scott Hud-
son campaigned in 1902 won 43 races, 10Y
heats and $S5.445.
With Is of the best cricketers abroad next
summer there will be a great opportunity
for the younger element to show up well IN
Before the West End Athletic Club of st.
Louis on December 81 Tommy Sullivan OF
Brooklyn and Jack McClelland of Pittsburg
will box twenty rounds. The boys will weigh
in at 1914 pounds.
Joe Choynski is credited with being worth
$50, 600. Joe has been boxing for nearly if-
teen years, and during that time, according
to himself, he has figured in over 200 fights.
Kid Broad says that after the new year
he will quit the fighting game. He adds
that he has found a millionaire friend who
is ready to pay him salary as COM
panion.
Entries will close on Monday with H. v.
Crawford Montclair, N. J., secretary Of the
New York Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock
Association, for the fourteenth annual ex-
hibtion at Madison Square Garden January
6 to TO-
The New England Basket Ball League
rules are a little different from those Of the
National League. When an offense is call
e6 no free throw is given. but the opponents
are given a point for every three offenses
called. Three fifteen-minute periods are
played.
long jump record of "a feet ~ inches, will
compete in the hop, step and jump contest
in the Irish Athletic Association games to
be held in Madison Square Garden Saturday
night.
Bobby Dobbs, the American negro pugi-
list, and Joe White of Cardiff fought
twenty-round match at Cardiff, England.
Monday night for $3.50 side and purse of
Mo oct ap'x oto1,o
and the fight. which was a hard one, ended
in draw.
1t is possible that the blind PAGER Elastic
Pointer may race as successfully next year
as the blind trotter Rhy thmic did the past
summer. John Hussey now has him in
training. Reports say that Elastic Pointer
recently showed a mile in workout Of
205A.
Just how the promoters expect to lay out a
regulation size foot ball gridron in Madison
Square Garden is a problem. A regulation
field measures 40 yards. The garden is
little over 108 yards by outside measure
ment This would reduce the foot ball field
nearer 20 than 40 yards in length
Gus Gardner has gone to New Britain to
train for his fight with Joe Cans on Janu-
airy 1. Kid Howard went with him, and
Tim Callahan will also join his training
camp. Gardner says he will fight Rufe Tur-
ner at San Francisco on January 80. On
March IL he is to box Jimmy Britt at
Frisco.
Burr Wilson, a well-known turfman, who
was arrested in Lincoln county. Ohio. sew
eral weeks ago for the alleged larceny from
Liyeryman d. Martin of York of DR.. 8. K,
a pacing horse with mark Of 2.22A has
been released, Governor Nash having re-
fused to honor the requisition papers. DR..
S. K. was purchased some time ago by Mr.
Martin for 500. Wilson was the animals
trainer during the autumn racing season.
Joe Cans. the lightweight champion, who
is matched to fight Gus Gardner for the title
at New Britain. Conn.,. on New Year day,
announces that his failure to induce Jimmy
Britt, the California champion, to meet him
in a twenty-round bout for the lightweight
championship has discouraged the negro
boxer, and he says that if he Is victorious
in his bout with Gardner he will take a
trip to England.
A. M. Kerby, a lawyer Of Windsor, Can
ada. and j. Cunningham. a trainer employ
ed by him, sailed yesterday on the steam
ship Deutschland on their way to Russia,
where they will be expected to identify a
trotting horse which the authorities sus-
pect has been raced under false name.
The horse has been raced as Russian Boy.
but it is charged that he Is really William
c. K, an animal formerly owned by MIR.
Kerby and sold at one of the Madison
Square Garden sales in 1899 to a party Of
foreigners, who said that they intended rae
ing him in Austria.