Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-02-03
SPORTING NEWS.


Paul Jones. the star fullback of the
University of Michigan's 19O1-19O2 team,
has been engaged by the Western Re
serve management of Cleveland, O., to
coach its football team next fall.
Nebraska university has closed con-
tract with Minnesota for football game
in Minneapolis October 20.
While the baseball magnates settled
the territory proposition for the Western
league to their satisfaction a the Chicago
meeting it is by no means settled that St
Joseph will be in the league. j. II. Van
Brunt, representing the interests of his
brother, w. T. Van Brunt, has sent for
President Sexton to visit him and make
a few explanations. No one in st. .Jo-
seph seems to be willing to back team
in the six-club league which Tebeau has
framed up.
Jack Deering. who pitched for the New
York American league team last year,
has signed a contract to play With the
Toledo team for the season of 1901
Deerng was secured by Toledo in ex-
change for klelnow who caught for the
Toledo team last season.
All things in the boxing game come to
the man who can deliver goods and stow
people away via the Knockout road
Hence Jack O'Neill the only PhiIadel-
pha feather weight who can hit and keel
his men over, has forced even the clam
my west to recognize his merits The
west has been Icy enough towards east
ern feather weights since it was handed
samples like Eddie Lenny, Crocky Boyle.
and Hughey Murphy, but the west is gen
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man who can really fight Jack O'Neiff.
handicapped by no-decision rule in Phil
adelphia. has risen superior to that rule
and has established his status by batting
all his victims into old Morpheus drowsy
realm. O'Neill has fat offer from Mil
waukee for q bout with Charlie Neary
or Battling Nelson. O'Neill has won
forty-two fights. thirtv-two of them by
knock-outs.-Ch Chicago Journal.
Daniel Mahaney, a famous baseball
catcher. committed suicide at his home in
Springfield, Mass, by drinking carbolic
acid He played on many teams during
the '90s, including the Washingtons and
CincnnatiS
The American Derby of 1904 will haze
So, 900 added money, the same amount
that was added to the race last year. 1t
will be run on Saturday. June Is, and
The entries will close on Thursday, Feb
ruary %.
After six slow and unsatisfactory
rounds of boxing at the Chicago Athletic
association Saturday night between
George Cole, the Trenton negro, and Bill
ly Stiff, the Chicago heavy weight, the
wind-up Young Critic gained the decision
over Martin Judge after six rounds of
clever boxing. George Memsic won the
decision over Young Scotty. In the other
prelminaries Paddy Nee and Mike Bart
ley and Eddie Ray and Joe Sherlock
boxed six-round bouts to draw decisions.
1t is understood the Watita league and
Battery ID. \. A. of Chicago have entered
q practical agreement that hereafter in
making matches. whether preliminaries
or wlnd-ups. negroes and whites shall not
be pitted against each other.
! A special from Oklahoma City, o. T.,
says: Baseball in the Southwestern
| league will open up about the last Sun
| day in March. Ted Sullivan of the
| Texas league has withdrawn from that
| league and has written Managers Flaher
! ty and Rogers Of this city applying for
the managership of one of the teams in
| the Southwestern league. He will prob
ably be assigned the Guthrie team Cy
| Mulkey. who managed the Paris, Tex,
| team last year and won the pennant in
the Texas league, has also applied for a
| place in the Southwestern league"
| College baseball of the highest class
will be enjoyed in Beloit the coming
summer. SO far games have been ar
ranged on the home grounds that will
bring Wisconsin, Purdue. Notre Dame
| Chicago and Northwestern university.
The complete scredule to date is as fol-
lows: Wisconsin at Madison, Saturday
April Is: Wisconsin at Beloit, Saturday,
April 20; Purdue at iBeloit, May 3; Lake
Forest at Lake Forest, Saturday, May
| :: Notre Dame 1T BeIoit. Tuesday, May
! 10: Chicago at Beloit, May 10; North
western at Evanston, Saturday, May q /;
Evanston at Beloit, Friday, May 81; Be-
lott at Madison, Decoration day game,
Notre Dame at Notre Dame
Edward Hyneman, one of the stock
holders of the Philadelphia National
| league club, is confident that Eagle-Eye
Beckley of the Cincinnati club will play
in the Quaker City next season. The
inducement must be of a pecuniary char
acter, as Jake is wanted by st. Louis
also, which teans he would perhaps cap
|
Hannibal, Mo. Beckley has had an
honorable career on the diamond.
Tim Murnanefs booming Baltimore for
place il the American league in 1905.
He says y ashington is a dead baseball
! town.
Jay Andrews will manage one of the
new teams in the Western league, and
he will take Jolly Kink Kelly, Pacific
National favorite, with him.
1t is improbable any English athletes
will compete at the st. Louis exposition
games. The committee of the Amateur
! Athletic associa tion at u meeting in Lon
don decided it was impossible for fnan-
cial reasons. Alfred Shrubb, who holds
the three-mile amateur record, is unable
personally to pay the expenses of a trip
to st. Louis.
| William P. Slocovics of New Bruins
wick, n j., a great Yale and Columbia
football player, is dangerously i'll in San
| IL,