The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-12
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.
Montreal will have a club in the Eastern
League next season, or their hackers say
they will bust up the organization.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that the
ring at Latonia is alive with touts who
are sneak thieves of the meanest kind.
Sig Hart is anxious to rematch Mowatt
and Mike Memsic, and also hurls a def at
Benny Yanger to meet Memsic at 126. ring
side.
Milligan. the New York's new southpaw,
won twenty-one and lost six games last
season. President Brush paid $4,000 for
him..
| The Annapolis team has received a great
loss from the illness of Right Tackle Far
ley, who will not be able TO play any more
this season.
A rumor is in circulation in Milwaukee that
Henry Killilea has sold his holdings in
the Boston American League Club to Bos-
ton capitalists.
John Keefe. who umpired in the Southern
League last season, is an applicant for a
position on either the American or Ma
tional League STATS.
The Carlisle Indian team has strong hopes
or defeating pennsylvania next Saturday:
Some new tricks are being learned and
will be used Saturday.
Otto Wonderly, the jockey who rode Gold
Heels to victory in the Suburban last year,
has been engaged to ride for Frank Regain
this winter on the Pacific coast.
Jack O'Keefe and Benny Yanger. 1t Is
By their manager and Will do" a vaude-
Vile circuit with a boxing and bag-punching
speciality.
Patsy Sweeney now wants to tackle Joe
Cans. The men may be matched soon be-
fore a Boston club, and the bout will be one
OF the best things Cans has picked up IN
some time.
The game being played by the middies is
not encouraging for their contest with the
army, but the naval cadets have the habit
of getting together in fine style for their
big game.
Corbett and Hanlon claim to be feather
rionship of this class. but still they will
weigh lS pounds, just eleven pounds over
the recognized limit of the class.
George Dixon's victory over Pedlar Pal
mer In England Monday night was the most
remarkable performance that has been done
in the ring for a long time. Dixon was a
marvel years and years ago, and appears to
have recovered some of his lost form.
Tommy Cody. of st. Paul, is game. He
proved 1t In a private fight near Coney
island the other night. Though knocked
ry Sullivan, the ST. Paul boy fought tin
he got one on the Jaw that put him to sleep.
A Philadelphia paper says: Despite
Munroe's avoirdupois, he rates with Carter,
Hart, O'Brien and Choynski. and IL he is
able to hold his own with any one of the
quartet he may be considered seriously in
a bout with Rubin. Corbett. Fitzsimmons
or Gardner"
1t is said the New York State racing COM
mission will recommend that the Legisla-
ture add thirty days to the present allot-
ment so that there will be racing In New
e aoah f Mew 4orR l track se pee viii, b be ta alio vs. d'f fe
race for thirty days.
The colors of Perry Belmont will be miss
ing from the turf next year, as he has made
up his mind TO sell out all of his horses.
A month ago he sold several two-year-olds
and River Pirate. He has announced that
he would dispose of the remainder of his
string which includes a number of year
lings. He will probably race again in 1906.
when Belmont Park opens.
Champion Jeffries has an idea that Jack
Munroe did not whip Peter Maher strictly
on the level In Philadelphia Saturday night.
and. therefore. Is of opinion that Munroe
is no nearer being a champion than he was
before that fight. Jeffries argues rightly
that Munroe must show something better
than a victory over the decrepit Irishman
to earn him a place among the topnotchers.
Seventy-six boxes for the Army-Navy
football game at Franklin Field were sold
In Philadelphia Monday for $1,000. This
sum will be added to the sale of 5000 tickets
sent TO the University Of Pennsylvania,
Sailors Home. There are ninety-six boxes
in all upon the field, but twenty are re-
served for army, and navy officers. The
So aisnsS' price pa'o was S''V' 'ne lowest was
Betting upon the coming big football
games is lively in New York. In the Broad
street curb market betting started at 500
to $40 on Yale against Princeton and later
reached 500 to $50 on Yale. The closing
odds were: $50 to 500 bid on Princeton,
500 to $50 offered on Yale. Bets at odds
of 3 to / were freely made that Yale will
defeat Harvard in the game scheduled for
Nov. q. Odds of 10 to 8 were offered on
Columbia against Cornell for next Satur-
days game, while 1 to 2 was bid by Cornell
supporters. Even money was offered that
Yale wins the rest of the games that she
plays this season.
The impression has taken root that before
next season opens up the Eastern Jockey
Club will have yielded to the general de-
sire of horsemen by appointing a board
of handicappers. Not a day passes that this
owners and trainers. A canvass of Eastern
{ horsemen recently showed that more than
so per cent, Of them were DESTROYS of a
change. 1t Is said that several of the mil
, lionaire turfmen have followed the sug-
I gestion originally made by l.. ". Bell, and
) have promised to use their influence with
7 the racing authorities, who are seriously
, considering the matter.
4 9TH relative defects of the new rules can
be said to have been tested in the Penn
sylvania Harvard game" says John Dennis
the new code-that which Is now played
between the twenty-ive-yard lines and re-
quires at least seven men on the line of
s-crimmage-the team with the heavier and
B stronger line has an immense advantage,
I and the work of individual line men counts
more this year than it has for many seasons
= III CoicSC ihot 10, III tbC opSi
. style of play, one line man breaking through
can create havoc with almost any of the
. opposing eleven's offensive plays"
Jack Root remarks: Having heard so
often that a man weighing LIS pounds is
: big enough to whip anybody l will go forth
: and do the best L can to ascertain the
: verify of the statement. I'm not up to the
l75-pOund mark-could do that figure ring
: side, untrained-but 1 will take "a chance
2 Just the same. Would prefer Jack Mum
roe, because he Is said to be hunting for
fights. / have decided, in future, not to be
so parlorish in my fighting. In previous
battles ] was too gentlemanly. | have
always done my best to avoid even an acct
z dental foul and no man can say that l ever
tried to injure him or damage him save
with the fat end of the padded gloves. In
2 return, L have been mauled and yanked
1 around by fighters who didn't appreciate
good treatment. especially by one George
won't rake UP ancient history. / want to
whip Munroe, Hart. one or two more and
. then take care of Gardner"
o Princeton always has a stanch defense,
g but her offense since the great team of 1896
3 has been feeble, a fault from which Yale
= suffered noticeably in 1898 and 1899. In the
> last three years Princeton's offense was not
TO be compared to Harvard'S or Yale's, but
this year the Princeton coaches have taken
this bull by the horns so that
the offense is in keeping with the defense,
For the last six years Princeton has not
3 scored more than one touchdown against
Vale in auy one game. In fact only fwc