The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-20


that Jack Wilson, the fighter he is to
meet in Augusta, is more of a heavy
weight than middleweight, but that
he is going to tackle him, and expects
/ to win.
Gov. Yates of Illinois will prevent
the glove contest tonight in Chicago
between Bonnie Yanger and Young
| Mowatt, if possible, and with this end
in view has directed a letter to the
sheriff at Chicago, calling his attention
to the law and directing it's enforce
! ment. The matter has stirred the
! sports of the Windy City, UP con-
siderable, and they are wondering if
the chief executive intends to put a
! quietus on the game for good George
Siler, one of the best informed II en-
| in the world of pugilism, in a letter
to the Chicago Tribune says that fake
| hghting, dishonest principles and I'M
scrupulous managers, are hurting the
game all over the country, which one
fact is the main cause of the trouble
| in the Hoosier state. Savannah can
attest this fact
Orville G. Frantz, the crack first
baseman of the Harvard baseball team
will be debarred from playing on the
| team this season. Frantz admitted be-
fore going to college this season that
| he had played ball on a Western team
| for which he had received $12 a week
| as expenses. This is regarded by the
college faculty as professionalism, and
the great player has been ruled out
Of the game. His loss will effect Har-
wards field badly it is said.
For the first time since 1894 Princeton
and Pennsylvania will play baseball
this year. The game will be played at
Princeton and the resumption of foot
! ball will likely break the estrangement
entirely and cause the two to meet
next season in football
Georgetown" Duffy has entered the
invitation forty yard dash at the in
door meet of the Boston Athletic Club
| on Feb. IA. He will have against him
Snoop, of Chicago, Scheuber, of Hart
ford, and Eaton, of Amherst
The former Meadville, Pa, trainer.
Chas Marvin, who has made more
champion horse alive and dead than
any other trainer in the world, has at
last decided to take the rest of his life
easy. He will sell all of his stable but
two blood mares and two youngsters,
and will go to the Lexington track
where he will do little racing train
ing and breeding, but not enough of
either to interfere with pleasure.
A stupendous fraud it is believed,
was unearthed last Thursday just in
time to prevent thousands of dollars
being lost on the Forbes-Neil prize fight
for the bamtamweight championship of
the world, which was scheduled for
that night Forbes, who holds the
championship was being backed
heavily all over the country to win
while in San Francisco men were
plunging on Neil to do Forbes. Forbes
was not in the deal, but it had been
planned to Job" him out of the fight
In the afternoon he was taken violently
i'll and was pronounced unfit to engage
in the fight. 1t looks that a drug had
been used, but whether or not no one
will take the responsibility of assert
ing.
John T. Brush, the New York base
ball magnate, has attempted to break
| up the ratification of the peace COM
mission in the baseball muddle, and
| has caused an injunction to be served
upon President Pullman of the League
preventing him from signing the agree
ment reached few days ago in Gin
cinnati. This act may bring on other
serious complications in the arbitra-
| ton which had about been settled.
| A bill has been introduced in the
| New York Legislature against the
| printing of literature, cards, etc, that
| forecast the winners in any kind of a
horse race, or other contest, either be-
tween man or beast. and is prescribed
as bill against tipping" This will
be a hard blow to the "touts" who
earn their living by steering ignorant
people up against sure things"
Black stockings, belts and caps, with
white uniforms at home and Yale blue
when on the road, win be the new uni
form of the New York Giants the COM
ing season.
Jack Monroe, the Western pugilist,
is having time second to none in
Gotham. He is making money so fast
that he don't know what to do with
1t, and delights himself in scattering
coin to the newsboys Just to see them
scramble" Monroe so far has not got
ten the big head, but he is fast learn
ing the fighters strong point-lip, and
if he keeps on for a few weeks will
makes himself as proficient in this
particular requirement to be a success
fur scrapper as any of them. Monroe,
Jeffries and Corbett are the foremost
heavyweight fighters before the pub
lie to-day. and much is being said
about the new luminary who gave the
champion such a surprise. He is some
thing on the Sharkey build. being
feet liz inches tall weight 1875 pounds:
neck IL inches chest, normal, Az in
cles: EXPANDED, 81 inches: waist 36