The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-30

about match between himself and
! the big boilermaker.
j. B. Mccormick, the great sporting
writer known throughout the world as
Macon, is to be given a benefit at
industrial Hall. New York. Feb. IS.
among the first to volunteer his aid
is Jack McAuliffe, ex-lightweight
champion boxer, who will spar with
Jack Fogarty. Other athletes from
all parts of the country have volun-
/ teered to participate. Macon" illness
Is such that he will probably never be
able to work again.
! The Brooklyn baseball team has
| tired Of irving out new material and
/ this season will have in its compo-
sition such old time stars as Hugh
Jennings. Joe Corbett. Jimmie Hughes,
! Charles Irwin and Eddie Wheeler, with
| the possibility of several more veterans
OF the game being secured Jennings
! Is now coaching the Cornell team.
| Weldon Henley the Atlanta pitcher.
| has declared that he will not play in
the team of that city this season, but
will don a Philadelphia uniform. Hen
ley was one of the star pitchers of
the Southern League.
A contract has been let by a party
of New Workers for the building of an
| horsepower racing automobile
The machine is expected to be the fast
est in the world. and must show the
designated power on the brakes at the
end of a thirty-minute test.
Edgar T. Glass of Yale, the most
wonderful guard that ever played on
an American football team, has been
| declared ineligible to further contest.
The sacrifice of Glass is said to be due
to the college wishing pure athletics,
but in what manner Glass is ineligible
has not been stated. The matter is
causing quite a stir in college circles.
The Mowatt-Herman boxing match
Tuesday night at Jackson, Mich, came
to peculiar ending, Herman falling in
the tenth round and rolling over groan-
ing with pain. He was carried to his
dressing room and a physician sum-
nioned. 1t is believed that he hurt him
self in falling on his own twisted leg In
the wrestling mix-ups. The referee
has reserved his decision, pending the
physicians finding of the injury.
Miss Stebens, popular society belle
| of Walkerton Ind. committed suicide
Wednesday by taking morphine. Be
fore she died she declared that she
was the wife of Verne Hardenbroke,
the puglist, who won distincti<n Sby
defeating Kid Mccoy. She claimed
that she married Hardenbroke five
years ago, but that he was paying at
| tention to another woman, which
| caused her rash act She was regard
ed as one of the most beautiful wom-
en- in Indiana.
L. P. Moore of Cleveland, O., says
that the talk of doing a mile in thir-
ty seconds with an automobile of the
present designs is entirely out of the
question. He, however, suggests a de-
sign for a racing machine that he be-
lieves will make that time.
Tom Sharkey, the pugilist has pur-
| chased the fast PAGER Greenwood, and
has the idea in his head that he would
| do well on the race course, which sport
he may take up. He could not do
worse there than he has in the prize
ring.
Joe Yeager, the boy plunger, who has
been such a sensation on the race
course, dropped in at the course at
| New Orleans few days ago, and while
he did not go there for the purpose of
| plunging, picked up S1S,OO inside of an
/ hour and walked away as if nothing
whatever had happened.
! An important development is likely
! in college baseball. Plans are on foot
! for the formation of an intercollegiate
! football league to comprise Yale, Har-
ward, Princeton, Pennsylvania and
| Cornell. These five mines are the lead
! ing factors in college baseball, and a
| championship schedule would do much
towards stimulating interest in the
popular sport, and would undoubtedly
settle the question of the college cham
| pionship, which is often in dispute.
The formation, however, will likely not
take shape in time for this seasons
games.
The Chicago National League base
| ball club will make the long trip to
| Los Angeles, Cal, to do its preparatory
training for the seasons work.
The question of whether or not the
fine set of steel spars, blocks and other
yacht rigging recently shipped from
New York to England, is intended for
Liptons new cup challenger. has been
settled by an English writer, who as
serts positively that they will go in
the racer. He compliments American
, builders, and says that no such work
is done on the other side of the pond.
| The sails for this yacht will also be
made in America, and of American
cloth, so, virtually speaking, the chal-
! lenger will be about as much American
as English in everything but name and
register.
scott Mccoy Ill.