Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-11-17
SPORTING.
...BREkITIES

Junk" Russell, who made such a
good showing against Young Corbett
at Philadelphia, is scheduled to fight
Dai Hawkins in the near future.
Hawkins had almost passed from ring
memory. Years g he was famous
for his w~alloping left punch. On the
afternoon of the CoTbett-Fitzsimmons
fight at Carson City he defeated Mar
tin Flaherty, in the same ring, in
eight rounds. He made money and
went skylarking down the champagne
n lobster route, with the result that
half the second raters in the country
took his measure. Now it is said he
has, like McGoyern, come back, and is
able to give a good account of him.
self.
1t may be that Jack Sheridan will
be induced TO reconsider his decision
to quit umpiring. American League
officials are said TO lave offered him
a nice increase in salary to reconsider
his decision to give up the indicator.
Arlie Latham, the most original
man that stood in the coaching box.
will next season manage the Jackson
vile, Fla, team in the South, Atlantic
League.
Htzsimmons calls philadelphia
Jack" O'Brien a jumping four-flush."
VIII the patient compiler Of the
Questions n Answers" column
kindly tell us wherein and wherefore
this sort of a four-flusher differs from
the ordinary kind?
The only thing New York fans have
against Wee Willie Keller is that he
lives in Brooklyn.
"As soon" said Bob Fitzsimmons in
a New York interview, "as l have
showed O'Brien into the discard, | am
going to fight anyone that wants a
crack at me. Marvin Hart will be
given first call. | figure that 0'Brien
will last a good many rounds, for he
is part jackrabbit, but in the end
will rock him TO sleep with a rap on
the jaw"
o Criger and Jesse Tannehill, of
the Boston Americans, and Tom
Doran, of the Detroits, will make a
trip from Cincinnati to New Orleans
in a house boat, starting on their jour
ney The last of the month, and reach
ing New Orleans early in the spring.
They will fish and aunt on the way
a bear hunt in Arkansas being plan
ned as a side trip.
Joe Cans, who went to California
without a hard dime TO his name, says
he expects to get back, back, back to
Baltimore in the happiest toys he has
worn In years. He's got his eyes on
some easy money out there, and he
needs IL, you bet, he needs it.
VIM. r. Reed, coach Of the Harvard
foot ball team, has written a letter to
the EnprpfArU nf fhn Harvard Grann-I
ates association, advising the aband-
nme of foot ball unless the evils
that now surround it are eliminated.
Il have become convinced that the
game. as it is played today, has fund
amental faults which cannot be re-
moved by any mere technical revision
of the rules" says Reid. Brutality
and evasion of the rules are faults
which Reid says should be remedied,
If the game is TO be a permanent col
lege sport.
In the event that athletic relations
between Harvard and Pennsylvania
are severed, Michigan will probably
be taken on by. Pennsylvania. In the
west the news of a break between the
two big colleges would be received
with Joy if it would result in matching
the west against the east. Michigan
is believed by unbiased critics to be
the strongest foot ball organization
in the country. but has made repeated
failures in its attempts 10 get a test
of strength in a game with an eastern
college eleven.
Mayor Dunno has given permission
TO the Illinois A. c.. TO hold an anna
teur boxing show next week. II is
whispered that some of the amateurs
are what might be termed near-pro'
~fessiOnals.
The showing Of Tommy MowatI
against clever Abe Attell at Philadel
phia has sent his stock bounding up.
wards. His admirers now assert that
he can defeat Terry McGovern, and
are willing 10 post a forfeit as eyi
dence OF good faith.