The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-08
SPORTING NOTES.

Pugilism Just now is on a boom
throughout the country. and more fight
ing gas is eminating than can be check
ed in some time. All kinds of chal-
lenges are being hurled back and forth
by aspiring boxers, who according to
their CAB are willing to perform any
old kind of a freak to get on a match.
First it was Jeffries and Monroe, then
Sharkey got back in the game. Corbett
has had his bellows at work daily after
the big champion, while Tommie Ryan
is camping on the trail of Fitz. The
latest addition to the wind fight is Kid
Mccoy, who is out in a sweeping defy
to Ryan, Corbett and Marvin Hart,
whom he thinks he can put away and
has posted deposit of $500 to bind a
match with either of them.
The trainers of Bob Fitzsimmons
claim he can easily make 1853 pounds,
the weight Tom Ryan wants to meet
him.
Bobbie Walthour the great Southern
bicycle rider, is now in the hands of d
competent athletic instructor and is
filing out by a new line of exercise II
number of undeveloped muscles. Wal
thour will remain in Atlanta until June,
when he will go to Providence until
Sept. Is. when he viii sail for France.
Senator William A. Clark of Mon
tana will, it is announced, engage ac-
lively in horse racing this season, and
has consulted with prominent horse
men relative to buying 'ready-made"
racers or yearlings. In due time 1t
is Mr.. Clark's intention to establish
a breeding farm.
An effort will be made by the pa
irons of boxing in Connecticut to have
a bill passed legaliZing boxing in that
state. 1t is believed the bill will be-
come a law.
A team of professional English ath-
letes will shortly invade this country
and try conclusions with the profess
sional pedestrians on this side of the
pond.
country are awaiting with much inter
est the experiment which Coach Ellis
Ward is to make in rigging the shells
for the University of Pennsylvania
oarsmen. Ward says he will decide
once and for all times which is the
best way TO rig boat, American or
English style.
Catcher John King who has an Of
| fer to sign with the Chicago National
League team, has about decided to
quit the game and open a tailor shop
in Kansas City.
Andrew Freedman. for years presi-
dent and principal owner of the New
York baseball club, is making an eff
fort to get back in the game and
has his eyes on the franchise Of the
Philadelphia National League team
Freedman is conceded to be a very
poor baseball manager and the poor
showing made by New York when
that team was controlled by him is
credited, to his disposition to rule or
ruin.
Jim Corbett will make his debut in
legitimate theatricals next season,
the firm of Sullivan, Harris & Wood,
having obtained the play Jim Bludso"
for that purpose. Corbett will appear
in the part now taken by Robert Hill
lard.
H. T. Woodruff has been elected
secretary of the Western Jockey Club
to succeed George H. Kuhl. resign
ed, who will return to Chicago as
manager of the Chicago Jockey Club.
Sporting men are of the opinion that
Young Corbett is liable to lose his title
to some second-rater because he is too
careless in his training. A second
rater is sometimes as good as a fat
champion, and often better. Corbett's
experience with Billy Maynard has APP
parently brought him to his senses,
and he announces that in the future he
will be in condition when he goes in
the ring.
The Newark, N. J., bowling team
claims to have broken the worlds rec
ord Jan. 20, when five men rolled up
the large score of 1872 pins in one
game. The players and their scores
were: Montgomery, 1888; English, 10;
E. Weiss. 229; Noack, 299, and Richtie,
201. Total 1872.
After fierce fight which lasted ten
minutes or more, Cy Seymour, one
Of the pitchers of the Cincinnati base
ball team, soundly thrashed Jesse and
Lee Tannerhill of the New York team
in a saloon fight Thursday night and
came out of the fracas without a
scratch.