The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-06
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

Monte Carlo has earned the reputation of
being a confirmed in-and-outer-
The price paid at the recent sale Of
Nervolo, 2:04A, is said to nave been SIS, 600.
'Stagg wants a new attack" says one
paper. What! Isn't the Eckersal case
over yet?
Wonder how much force there is in that
battering ram of Yales when it strikes the
other line?
1t begins to look as if Darrell, 2:ooA, would
be the first pacing mare to reach the two
minute mark.
Jay McGregor will not race next year.
as his owners want him to make a full
season In the stud.
There are said to be two perfectly green
t~rotters recently added to Ed Geers's string
that have been sent a mile each in Eli.
the time of the Yale game there will be
seats for 10000. and they will be needed.
of ie racing fsa for that a long n;lly glm @se6 ew Ti,I e se e sSs
lameness ne developed In the Diamond
handicap.
The Kentucky Breeders Association has
raised the tidy sun of $,,22i for the widow
Shanklin.
1t is announced that Eddie Mitchell, who
has had charge of Cresceus for the last
Walter Winans.
E. Z. Smathers's latest purchase. John
M, has recently been sent a half-mile in
1:WA to wagon, and he appears to be a
sure enough two-minute horse.
kid" Blackburn, who beat Joe Cans in
Philadelphia on Monday night, has been
offered a purse to fight Jack Langford, a
Boston colored lightweight, on Monday
night.
A post-season game between Chicago and
Northwestern is probable. The two teams
played to a tie when they met In their
annual game and both are willing to play
another game.
Now it is reported that Jim Jeffries is
about to take up the wrestling game as a
develop a man who is capable of holding
his own with the champion at the fistic
style of getting the money.
The buildings and the place where sew
eral years ago John L. Sullivan trained for
his memorable battle with Paddy Ryan for
the championship of America has been
turned over by Billy Muldoon to a Catholic
diocese of Buffalo TO be used as a convent.
Kid Mccoy is in London. 1t is said that
he is living a life of luxurious ease, not
trifing with %trifies. treating the world with
best thanks for past favorS and more to
come if fortune has any to spare. He is
open to a practical engagement with an
English boxer If a purse of $500 is offered.
kid" Weller predicts a record-breaking
future book on the American Derby. He is
sITeaGy 0G He saRs he 20 w dgu rfye out Enr the pro- pro-
the place of honor. Weller will likewise
have future books on the Montgomery
ndn0lcap, the Harlem ana the Hawthorne
handicaps.
While in England O'Brien took part in
five fights and was successful in all. 1t is
estimated that he cleaned up at least 5000
by these victories. His one main object in
coming home is to post a forfeit to meet
Tommy Ryan. He want TO fight for the
middle-weight championship of the world,
and is willing to meet Ryan for the title.
Jacob Hoffman, recognized as the premier
starter before the public to-day. will retire
from the turf next season. Hoffman has
tired of the game. lie has been careful
with his earnings and has accumulated
embark in business. What this business Is
Hoffman refuses to divulge for the pres
ent. n
When James j. Corbett came upon the
stage of a New York theater to do his
monologue stunt Friday night he espied
Champion Jeffries in the front box, and GO
ing over to the ~conqueror warmly grasped
his hand. The crowd yelled for a speech
from JEFF. but Corbett explained that JEFF
was a fighter and not a talker, and the
explanation made a hit.
Eastern critics unite in the opinion that
Yale is fortunate in having two weeks in
which TO prepare for the Princeton game.
and point to the formers glazing faults In
the Columbia contest to support their opin-
ions. 1t is generally conceded that a repeti-
ton OF the hesitation and all-round slowness
exhibited against the New Workers will
prove fatal TO the blues hope of defeating
the tigers.
Jack OKeefe announces that he has Sc
cured a meeting in Helena. Mont. with a
lightweight of Buffalo, Kid Fredericks.
who has been beating the best men they
have in that section. The articles call for
a meeting Thanksgiving evening. the weight
to be 15 pounds at 3 o'clock in the after
noon. O'keefe already has signed the
agreement and will leave for Helena about
Saturday.
Under conditions which he demanded,
which allow him an American jockey, rub
Der, stable help and exercise boys, George
Walker. the former Schorr trainer, who has
sent more Derby winners TO the post than
any other Western trainer, has signed a
contract to train the stable of a German
baron. whose home is at Frankfort-on-the-
Rhine. Walker has arrived In Lexington
to gather his help He win be married to