The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-04
SPORTING NOTES.

Corbett had everything his own way
relative to the terms and agreement
for match with Jeffries when they
met few days ago to talk the mat
ter over. Jeffries wanted the winner
to take all of the purse, but Corbett
insisted on a division of rs and 25 per
cent, and the big boiler maker con-
scented. Then Jeffries declared against
using bandages on the hands, and again
Corbett insisted to the opposite, and
had his way. Jeffries did very little
talking during the meeting and allow
ed Delaney to act for him. On the
other hand, Pompadour Jim engineered
his own end of the discussion, and al
lowed no one to talk for him. The men
also agreed that California is the best
place for holding the battle, though
they will entertain the best offer where
there is likelihood of the match be-
ing pulled off.
The members of Connie Mack's Phil
adelphia Athletics baseball team are
showing up well in their spring prac-
tice at Jacksonville. Last Sunday they
played a match game with a local
team, and a battery loaned the Jack
sonville aggregation, and "eat 'em up
by the score of 10 to 0. Mack is we'll
pleased with the condition of his men,
and especially with the work of the
new pitchers ON trial, and it is very
probably nearly all of them will make
the team.
A friend of Twin Sullivan, the boxer
who is in the city, says that Sulli-
van has been done an injustice in the
statement that he is afraid to make las
pounds for meeting with owen Zeig-
Ter. 1T is well-known fact" says
the sport, that Sullivan cannot make
the weight required of him and be
strong. He can make 154 pounds, and
stands ready to meet any man in the
world at that weight. Zeigler knows
he can't and won't make 14S pounds
hence his continual challenging of Sui
livan for a match. If they ever meet
again it will be at weight best suited
to Sullivan's condition. No one can
blame him for not giving away weight
when it would be detrimental to his
strength and speed"
w. H. Schick, Jr., the crack Harvard
Splinter, broke the indoor 70-yard run
at the open track meet of Column
bia College last Saturday night by COW
ering the distance in LIS seconds, and
clipping off 2-5 of a second from the
previous record.
Nearly every scrap of bronze plating
received at the Herreshoff shops at
Bristol, r. l., last winter has been
used in sheathing the new syndicate
boat which will be a candidate for cup
defense honors. The sides of the
yacht are now well covered and it is
expected to have the plates nearly all
in place by the end of the week. When
the plates are all in place it will take
another week to complete the riveting.
Then the work of completing the deck
will be resumed. The mainmast has
been completed and all is needed now
is the bending on of the rigging.
BY defeating Andy Tokel, the Eng
fish bantam boxer, Harry Forbes, the
hitherto champion of America of that
class, becomes the recognized cham
pion of the world. He will, therefore
be besieged with challenges from ali
parts of the world to say nothing of
the crowd of American boxers who will
be camping on his trail, the most
prominent among them being Tommle
Feltz, who, ii is said, Forbes is afraid
to meet. There are many sports
throughout the country who believe
Feltz can master the champion, and
there is very little doubt but what
Feltz will make him fight or forfeit
the title.
Matchmaker McMurray received a
letter yesterday from Billy Barrett
the boxer now at Gateacre, near Liv-
erpool. England. stating that Jim
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