The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-27
SPORTING NOTES.

Yale and Harvard will likely select
dual terms to go to Europe this sum-
mer and meet Cambridge and Oxford
Colleges, respectively. A meeting of
the two colleges will be held at an
early date to decide upon the question.
Jack Bennett, the boxer, who went
out to Owen Zeigler in less than one
round in this city last November, went
up against Joe Grim, the Italian boxer,
Friday night in Philadelphia, with the
understanding that he was to put the
Dago to sleep in six rounds. Not only
did Bennett fail in his undertaking,
but if anything was the worst off of
the two at the finish. He worked all
the tricks known in the game, but
Grim was too foxy to run into any trap
set for him.
Bobbie Thompson, the cycling pugil-
list who wants to meet Fred Douglas
of this city in Atlanta, had a lively
set-to with one Tom Broderick in Phil
adelphia Friday night, and pulled out
with a draw. Douglas is now in cor
respondence with Thompson, and it is
likely he will get on the match either
here or in Atlanta,
James Mason, manager of Jack Nc
Clelland, the fighter, and Joe McClel-
land, brother of the boxer, are under
arrest in Pittsburg, the former charg-
ed with pointing firearms and assault,
While McClelland is charged with car
rying concealed weapons. The story
is rather sensational The affair &C.
CURED in the dressing room of the the
safer at Allegheny after the Boyle-Mc-
Clelland fight. Mason claimed that he
was entitled to more money than he
had been given for his fighter Words
ensued with the other interested par
ties, and securing the gun from Nc
Clelland, he proceeded to hold up the
money pile and take therefrom $142.
He admits that he used the gun to get
the money, and says that had he not
he would have been robbed of his
rights.
Riley Grannon, the Kentucky plung-
er, who has been in such hard luck
at the New Orleans races, has decided
to lay off for week or two and then
go out again after the long green. Dur
ing the past ten or fifteen days Gran
non won $4,000, but struck a losing
streak and not only lost his winnings,
but an additional $1,000 He seems I'M
able to get a single break in his faV-
or and has been beaten out in every
race he has played by either a neck or
a nose.
A Memphis stockman who has a
number of 2-year-olds to race the COM
ing season has selected the most weird
names possible for the horses. Think
of horse being called Suicide, HON.
icide, Infanticide, Fratricide, Regicide,
Stilletto, Dagger and Destruction.
He also has horses named Anarchist,
William Mckinley, Abraham Lincoln,
and James A. Garfield. Going still fur
Their, he has John Wilkes Booth, Charles
Guiteau and the unlamented Czolgosz.
Frank Neil, the California bantam
who claims the title of champion be-
cause of Harry Forbes failing to meet
him as scheduled, owing to illness, is
heading towards the East looking for
trouble. The boys on this side of the
continent are eagerly waiting his ar
rival and if Neil can fill all the
chances given him and win out he can
return to the western coast as rich
as a small sized gold mine.
A new boxing bill will be introduced
in the New York Legislature legaliz-
ing boxing in that state 1t is said the
bill will pass and become law. What
a mecca of pugilisml Gotham will then
be. and other boxing clubs through bout
the country may as well close up bust
ness?