The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
The Journals Page of the Latest Neys of happenings in the World of Sports
PRINCIPAL SPORTING EVENTS
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
List Gi1e Most Important Fights, Horse Races, Baseball Eqeuts
During Year Just Closed


recorded below. Record-breaking perform
ances and deaths of sportsmen are not in
cluded, as they appear in this
paper. With those exceptions the chronolo-
gy of the year is as follows:
Jan. 5-Jockey Hicks confessed to pulling
horses at New Orleans. Starter Richard
Dwyer fined $500 by Worth Jockey Club for
%assaulting a newspaper man.
Jan. 7-Call issued for peace conference
of American and National leagues. Hiram
Johnson, winner at New Orleans, Dec. "a,
1902. is found TO be a ringer.
Jan. 10-Magnates of American and Ma
tlonal leagues sign treaty OF peace at en-
%cinnati, agreeing TO contracts and territory
and awarding players.
Jan. 12-August Belmont buys Bennings
race track. John T. Brush starts fight
against baseball peace treaty.
Jan. 13-Win Mercer. Detroit pitcher, COM
mits suicide at San Francisco.
Jan. 14-Young Corbett defeats Austin
Rice in eighteen rounds at Hot Springs. :,
Jan. 16-John 7. Brush ~enjoins National
League magnates from ratifying baseball
agreement.
Jan. T7-Coach Yost is r~e-engaged by the
University of Michigan.
Jan. 19-Sheriff Barrett, on orders from
Governor Yates, stops boxing in Chicago.
Jan. 20NNational League ratifes peace
nati. Governor Cummings stops boxing in
Iowa. Governor Garvin prevent Corbett-
McGovern fight in Rhode Island.
New York. for $1,000. Entry of Gold Heels
to Suburban refused by Coney Island Jockey
Club. because of Owner e; j. Arnold's con-
nectiOn witt get-rich-quick concerns.
Jan. 30-Arthur Curtiss made football
coach at the University of Wisconsin.
Jan. 31-Bill to prevent betting on horse
races introduced in Illinois Legislature.
secretary of the Western Jockey Club to
succeed Harry Kuhl, who becomes manager
of Hawthorne. Ban Johnson charged with
fraud in management of affairs of the Balti-
more club.
February-Jockey Buchanan is suspended
at New Orleans on charge by Sam Hildreth
that he deliberately pulled the horse Tel
anon. Jack Johnson defeated Denver
Ed Martin at Los Angeles for colored
heavyweight championship of the world.
Feb. Horton wins the Burns handicap
at Oakland.
Feb. 9-E. ]. Arnold & Co. cause run on
other get-rich-quick concerns. Agents OF
concerns barred from New Orleans track.
Olympian games for 1904 officially trans
ferred from Chicago to st. Louis.
Feb. 13-Savable is made f~avorite for
the American Derby in first winter book
quotations. w. T. Foss wins amateur bill
lard championship at Hanover Club, New
York.
Louis on charge of turf investment frauds.
Feb. 1.-TWO horses killed and Jockeys
Waterbury and Bozeman injured in accident
al IngleSide track.
Feb. 22-Limit of loaded ball is placed at
1872 pounds by American Bowling Con-
gress.
Feb. 23-Joint committed on baseball rules
adopts the foul strike regulation of the
National League. Claude wins the Call
fornia Derby. Horses of E.. j. Arnold & Co.
are seized at Chicago.
Feb. 25-O'Leary bowling team of Chicago
wins the national bowling championship at
indianapolis. Terry McGovern knocks out
Billy Maynard in fourth round at Philadel-
phia.
Feb. 26-Young Corbett and Eddie Hanlon
fight twenty rounds to a draw at San Fran
cisco. Setback and Collins, of Columbus,
O., win the two-men team bowling cham
pionship at Indianapolis. Cue experts, after
n triple tie in international tourney in Paris,
go to law over the title.
Feb. 27-Harry Forbes defeats Andy
Tokell in ten rounds for worlds bantam
| weight championship. McChesney is sold
to L. E. Smathers for $4,000. Dan Jones,
of Milwaukee, wins the national bowling
championship at Indianapolis. Philadel-
phia National League club is purchased by
a syndicate.
March 5-Jim Corbett and Jeffries sign
articles for a championship fight.
March 10-W. III. FiZer ruled off the turf
| at New Orleans on charge of doping horses.
Bill to permit boxing is introduced in Hi
March l2-President B. B. Johnson an
nounces that American League Will locate
its New York grounds on Washington
Heights, Manhattan island.
March 14-WitfUll wins the Crescent City
! Derby at New Orleans. Wisconsin defeats
Chicago in indoor meet, 4212 10 3412.
March 17-Tarrasch wins the international
chess tourney at Monte Carlo. Shamrock
III is launched.
March 20-American and National Leagues
agree to blacklist contract jumpers.
March 21-Chicago defeats Illinois in in
door track meet, As TO IL.
Mach 26-Barca wins Arkansas Derby al
] Little Rock.
March 27-Benny Yanger defeats Hugh
McFadden in ten rounds at Detroit. Tommy
| Foster. ridden by Cash Sloan, wins at 200 to
! at Bennings.
March 2S-Michigan beats Cornell in in
door meet, 4212 to 2915.
March 29-Postal authorities at Washing
ton start war on racing tipsters.
March 3O-OOdnung wins Montgomery han
dicap at Memphis McChesney, the favor
tie. finishing tenth. w. S. Bass, of London
| pays R. S. Sievier S125. 900 for the flly Scep.