The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-08
lRa THE WORLD OF SPORTS
ATHLETIC CARNIVAL
IN VARSITY ARhORY
Students Display Prowess In
ALI the Forms of
Sport

The biggest indoor athletic event of the
year at the state university was held in
the armOry last night II consisted OF
wrestling. boxing and fencing.
There was large entry list and the con-
tests Tor the championship honors were
spirited In ali the events Several prizes.
consisting Of gold watches. were awarded
10 the winners by the athletic board of
control.
One Of the most interesting contests
OF the evening was a wrestling bout be-
tween MattSon and Gordon the Mime
apolis policeman. After 35 minutes and 20
seconds of slow work on the mat. Gordon
succeeded IN downing his lighter opponent.
There We're eight entries for the fencing
contest. +. ". Crosby. r F. Sanford. J.
Magnuson. d. W. Dolby and Paul Magnu-
son. The contest. with championship hon
ors. went 10 Paul Magnuson.
In the boxing events some of the best
amateur exhibitions ever seen at the uni
versity were displayed Neils Rain was
pitted against Leland in the lightweight.
and the match was called a draw. Rain
challenged his opponent to another contest
to remove the tie. but Leland refused.
Cady and Gessert put on the mitts in
the middleweight class. and the latter
succeeded in administering a knockout to
his opponent in two rounds.
For the heavyweights Tom Collins en-
tered the ring against Garfield. the all
round champion of the university. who
sustai ined his record in three rounds OF
fast. clean work The match was un-
doubtedly the best seen at the university
in years.
The first two rounds in each boxing con-
test were for one minute each and the
third for three minutes.
The first two bouts of the lightweight
wrestling event resulted In a draw, while
in the third Lundquist threw his opponent,
Holcomb. in minutes and 30 seconds
Deering and Boerner contested for
championship honors in the middleweight
class. The first round resulted in draw.
but in the last two Boerner got two falls
from his opponent. one in minutes and
4S seconds and the other in minutes and
6 seconds.
In the heavyweight class Meyer worst
ed Harrison getting two falls. one in 3
minutes and so seconds and the other in
, minutes and 10 seconds.
Pardee was third entry in the heavy
weight class. and in two short bouts Of
40 and 45 seconds defeated Meyer and won
the university championship.
The contests were catch as catch can. the
winner getting best two out Of three
bouts The bouts were OF six minutes
each.
In the ey-mnastic contests. consisting OF
club swinging and work on the parallel.
horizontal bars and horses. Harrison.
Strang, Labbit and Campbell won places.
PuIIiam's Bulletin
NEW YORK. April President Pull
liam of the National Baseball league to-
day announced the following contracts and
Contracts-with Boston. w B. Lauter-
born and F: c. Raymer: with Philadel-
phia, Hugh Duffy. John Titus. John SUIT
hoff. F. J. Corridor, William Washer.
Charles R. Pettinger Ralph C. Caldwell.
Charles S. Doom. William J. Duggleby.
T. F. Sparks William Gleason. W. L.
Bransfield. Roy A Thomas. NJ J. Doolan.
o. A. Kruger, M. Kahoe. Fred H Abb
bOtt, z. F. Courtney. S. Magee and Au-
gust B. Miller
Releases-By Pittsburg. Ralph Savidge
to Savannah Ga. and Fred Bridges to
Springfield. H.. by Brooklyn. Q. o. Jor-
dan to Atlanta. Ga.
Terms Accepted-By Boston, Jacob
Volz.