The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1905-07-22

to take place at Brunots Island race
track June % and -. The meet will be
held under the auspices Of the Auto
mobile club Of Pittsburg. W. W.
barley, chairman Of the race commit
tee. il now in the East completing ar
fragments with the best drivers.
Abe Attell and Jem Bowker are a.
good ~ hooked mp for an internation-
al featherweight championship fight At
the true featherweight limit. The
American and the Briton have come
to terms on weight. 40 pounds At :
O'Clock on the afternoon Of the night
OF battle. They will probably fight be-
fore the National Sporting club Of
London. and have agreed to post
u, 900 each ~ forfeit and let this
forfeit 90 ~ side bet.
In New York private gymnasium
before select crowd Of sportsmen,
Fred Beell Il wisconsin and Ton Jon
kins u Cleveland wrestisd Ter el.eoe
side. Besll. d whom little was
known, vrestled tho old champion to
standstill and then threw him after
struggle lasting two hours and ~
minutes. Jenkins eventually won the
match through superior weight, but
declared when It was over that Beelj
was the hardest opponent for his size
and weight he ever met"
James Braid, Scotchman, won the
forty-dfth annual British open goli
champiouship At st. Andrews links
Scotland. with q total score of SIS
This IL the second time that Braid
has earned the distinction Of
champion. Last year at Sandwich.
q much less diMcult course than St
Andrews, Jack White won with Q
score of 1ss. J. H. Taylor. the Eng
lishman who won the previous opeS
tourney held At historic 81 Andrews
in 1900. totaled 500. But tbs course
has been heightened to s,sss yards and
has been provided with new bunkerA
Advices from Australia show that
Bernard B. Kieran. 4 17-year-old boy
Of Sydney. IL the greatest swimmer
the world has yet produced. Kieran
10 an orphan. who was placed ON the
training ship Sobraon In Sydney har
Dor. As he grew older he developed
remarkable ability As = swimmer, and
by the time he was IL he had beaten
every one in his line. From 40 yards
to i've miles no has beaten all worlds
records, and he soon will reach Eng.
land to compete in the championship
events. He has gone 200 yards in
z:13 IS. 40 yards in 5:25 3-5. and
one mile in 23:16 IS.
Louis Rogers Browning, . star in
the baseball armament from 1885 to
1896. and known to every fan In the
union ~ Line EN- Out Pete" IL In.
sane. His commitment to Central
Asylum for the Insane At Lakeland,
Ky, was ordered At the instance Of
his sister. Softening Of the brain IL
his malady. Browning unquestiona ably
was one Of the greatest batsmen the
national game has known. Starting
in 1882 with the famous Eclipse team
Of Louisviile, he played here until
1888. then went to Pittsburg, in 1890
to the Brotherhood team of Cleveland,
In 1892 TO Cincinnati. rnd ended his
professional career in 1893 in Allen
town. Pa.
John Middle Sky. full blooded
Choctaw Indian. weighing 45e pounds,
arrived in Minneapolis June .. J. n.
Sky Is the latest aspirant for pugii-
istic honors. and his manager. H. r.
Blackwell Ii taking him East. where
he will be trained for the prize ring.
J. II. Sky stands seven feet IN height,
II - years old. and wears IAN shoe
He was too big to occupy . berth in
= sleeper and had to sit up four nights
o. the way east from Portland. He
halls from Yuma, Arix., and his man-
ager thinks he win whip the world
whe1 he learns . bit more about the
boxing game. Beside this Indian,
Je1rSss. Sullivan and even I'd Dunk
hosst. are pigmiea. He IL . Natural
athlete and aesyite his great eaIk 1
perfectly proeostioasl