Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-05-04

$500 for his release from Manager Nc
Graw of the New York club last fall
and another offer of 800 from the Phil
adelphia club. Now he cannot dispose
of the young catcher to advantage unless
by chance some big league club should
be in need OF a man.
A compilation Of the team batting ay-
crages in the American association shows
that Milwaukee leads, with an average
Of ,3333. Columbus. which was expected
to have quota Of hard hitters. is at
the bottom. Toledo leads Columbus,
with an average of .233. The table is
as follows:
milwaukee, -. 1913 st. Paul. ... .2Go
Indianapolis 800 Minneapolis - BOB
Kansas City. .2S9 Toledo ....... 233s
President Grillo has already disposed
of the protest in the Kansas City-Indian-
apolis game of last week. where Capt.
Ryan of Kansas City protested a decis-
ion of Umpire Pears in the tenth on a
foul ball. The game goes to Indianapolis
as Umpire Pears decided and the official
is upheld.
Rossman, an outhelder, has been re-
leased by Cleveland to the Holyoke
iMasso team. from which club he was
signed by Cleveland last year
Frank Duncan. 20 years DID, was hit
by a batted ball in an amateur ball game
at Baltimore and died later.
If championships are won and lost in
siX-rOund contests then Mike (Twin) SUI
livan of Cambridge, Miss, is the white
welter weight champion of America by
reason of his victory.aover Martin Duffy,
the claimant, at onesof the Chicago Ath-
letlc associations recent boxing enter
iainments, says George Siler. Duffy won
his championship spurs by defeating
Matty Mathews and Rube Ferns.
Peter Maher, the Irish champion, came
to life Saturday at Philadelphia and pro-
ceeded to put Jim Jeffords to sleep In
two rounds.
Jack Dougherty stopped man named
Buddy King in one round at Cudahy.
Jack did not have his hair mussed-
Harry Stout was referee.
Joe Walcott the colored welterweight,
and one of the greatest fighters in the
business, got into another shady contest
at San Francisco Friday. He is charged
with losing purposely to Dixie Kid in the
twentieth round on foul. Walcott says
he was double crossed. If so it serves
him right. for he has handed out some
queer deals in his ring career. Clubs
should fight shy of matching such men to
begin with.
Willie Britt, manager of his brother.
Jimmy Britt, and Sam Harris manager
of Terry McGovern, Will meet in New
York Thursday to talk over details of Il
match between Britt and McGovern.
It is probable that Charlie Mitchell,
the English heavy weight, will appear III
a few bouts of short duration within the
next two weeks in the east They will
be exhibitions only.
Details for the appearance in Indian
apolis on May II of Hugo Kelly, west
ern middle weight champion, and Jack
(Twin) Sullivan of Boston have been
completed. The men have signed articles
calling for 15S pounds at 3 o'clock.
The eighth annual interscholastic
games of Princeton university, held at
Princeton, We're won by Lewis institute
of Chicago with total of 2S12 points
Mercersburg got second with 1917 points,
and the Central high school of Philadel-
phia third with IA. Thirty-two schools
were represented. Hoganson of Lewis
ran the 100 yards in 10 fiat and Shepard
of Brown covered the mile in 4:42 5.
r. L. Trube of Yonkers ran two miles in
1921 So.
At the annual track games of Yale
university in New Haven, Conn, the
timers caught the time of the final III the
100 yards dash at 8 As seconds. The
race was won by D. 7. Terry, 1907 A
strong wind helped and the record will
not stand. In the 22O yards dash &. ID.
Long, 1904, made the distance in OH SD.
within two-ffths of a second of the
worlds record.
In track and field meet at Fond du
Lac, high school athletes of that city
won from the Oshkosh high school by
score of 81 TO %.
In triangular athletic meet at Wau-
sau, between Stevens Point, Grand Rap
ids and Wausau the Wausau team won
with total score of SO points; Grand
Rapids was second with 81, and the Ste
vens Point athletes made but II.
Horsemen have been notified that the
management of the grand circuit trot-
ting meetings in August at the Empire
City and Brighton Beach tracks contem-
plate offering $4,000 for a stake race
for 2:15 trotters at each track.
Moharib. long-legged but well-6nished
son OF imp. Esher and Reflection. won
the first Kansas City Derby Saturday.
He is owned by John w. Schorr, the
Memphis brewer, and was ridden nicely
by Lucien Lyme. Distance, IA miles.
Time, 2:10.
Arrangements have been completed for
the second Franco American revolver and
rifle match, to be reported by cable be-
tween a team of fifteen marksmen of the
Cerce DIES Carabiyers de Paris and Il
team of fifteen of the Manhattan Rife
and Revolver club of New York. The
Frenchmen will shoot on May s, u and
Is, the Americans at Greenyille, \. j.,