The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-03

he pitches an average of two games
week he will receive $333.S3 per game
Averaging six balls, including fouls for
each batsman, with thirty-siX men at
the plate in each game, Chesbro will
receive $1.S5 every time he delivers a
ball to the plate. How is this for earn
ing money?
John L. Sullivan has volunteered his
services at the benefit to be given j.
B. Mccormick, better known as MA
CON-" the great sporting writer He
will likely spar with Choynski, the
California heavyweight. who will also
lend his aid to the benefit.
Bob Fitzsimmons has accepted the
offer of the Fort Erie Club to fight
Tommie Ryan for a purse of $25, 900.
Ryan will also accept the terms and
there is all probabilities of these glad
iators meeting some time in the early
spring.
Cornelrs football team is having
trouble in arranging it's schedule for
games in the South. The two games
with the University of Alabama have
been cancelled owing to the finances
of the latter college not being sufficient
to defray the expenses of the game.
Cornell has games arranged in Virginia
and the Carolinas.
st. Louis will likely secure the Olym-
plan games in 1904 as Chicago, the
strongest rival, will probably withdraw
in favor of the former city. The rea-
son assigned for Chicago's withdrawal
is that that city does not wish to OPP
| pose anything that would detract from
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
| during which it is proposed to hold the
games.
The magnates of both the major
| baseball leagues have decided to start
the season on the afternoon of April
%. The same rules as last season will
govern, except that it is proposed to
cut the number of balls required to
give a batter his base down to three,
instead of four. The schedule provided
lao games for each team.
C. B. Cory, the Boston expert golf
player, captured the prize in the semi
finals and finals at Palm Beach last
Saturday, the prize being an unusually
handsome silver dish
Yale's rowing team is badly crippled
by the loss of three of it's best men.
Johnson is too heavy, Daily is not ELI
gible just now, and Bogue, the stroke
for year, is suffering with a badly
| sprained ankle.
Jack O'Brien, the Philadelphia mid
dleweight boxer, is suffering with a
broken hand, the result of his recent
| meeting with Al Weinig the bicycle
boxer. The knuckle bones in O'Brien's
right hand are badly fractured, which
will necessitate his quitting the boxing
game for some time.
Cresceus, the great trotting stallion,
| will be driven against his present
worlds record the coming season,
paced by an automobile. George
Ketchum, owner of the horse, is now
driving him in exercise against a fast
racing machine.
J. f. Kelly, known. all over the world
as Jimmie the Gray" died last Sun
born so years ago in a hut, but an in
stinctiye knowledge of gambling in
his early days led him to the SPLEEN
doris of Monte Carlo, and there in his
old age, surrounded by those elements
that go to make Monte Carlo the gam
bling center of the world Jimmie the
Gray" cashed in.
The leading automobilists of the
country are of the one opinion that it
| is possible to do a mile in 80 seconds,
but they all concede that a differently
built machine will have to be put UP to
make this terrific speed.
While exhibiting in Omaha, a few
nights ago, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim
Jeffries came near having a go in
earnest. 1t is said the big boilermaker
went in the ring little bit the
worste from the wine that is red. Bob
! took advantage of the fact and tap
ped" the champion too hard. This got
his Irish up and he began a chase of
the red-headed fellow with blood in
his eye In every mix they roughed it
and Jeff got decidedly the worst of
! the encounter. The audience became
excited and the curtain was run down
with the men clinched hard and fast.
| Afterwards neither of them would talk
of the affair but the opinion is that