Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-15
SPORTING NOTES.


Jim Jeffries and Jack Root will be
Hugo Kclly's trainers and advisers in
his Los Angeles fight with Tommy
Burns.
Mrs. John f. Madden, wife of the
noted turfman, has entered suit for ali
mony against her husband. She asks
for $125,000
Edward Mcconnell, retired light
weight pugilist, committed suicide in
Wilmington. Del, Thursday. by cut
ting his throat.
Southern California has every rea-
son to feel proud of two such indis-
putable champions as Miss May Sutton
and "Jeems" Jeffries.
Canada won the Kalapore cup at
Rislcy. Eng. Friday. Score: Canada,
15S: Trdnsvaal. 756; England, 752; New
Zealand. 7ia; Guernsey, 754.
Jack Curley, the manager of John
Willie, says he will soon challenge Mar
VIII Hart on behalf of the Chicago box
or. Willie is also after u match with
Schreck.
Edgar G. Holt of Lawrence, Mass,
the Princeton tackle, who also won his
"H" as guard on the Harvard Varsity
| eleven. will be assistant coach at Wis
cousin, this fall.
Geo. l.. Wrcnn, Jr, and r. E. Fincke,
| the Country Club of West Chester, Pr.
won the special doubles lawn tennis
| tournament on the courts of the Ards
| ley Casino at Ardsley- On Hudson, N.
Y, Friday.
William l.. Lush, of the Cleveland
American League nine. who coached
Yale's champion baseball nine this year.
has signed a contract to coach at
New York.
The East and West will meet in a
handball double for the sun, of $3.50.
Farrell and Sullivan, of Chicago, have
| been matched to play Bruder and F'la'l-
erty, OF Jersey City in Il series of twen-
ty-onc games.
Gov. Hanlys determined opposition
tn pool selling on horse races and his
threat to impeach the sheriff of every
county III which pool-selling is permit
| ted, has caused the abandonment of the
various harness meetings announced
| for northern and central Indiana.
w. L. Samuclson Of Provo, Utah, has
broken the worlds bicycle record for
Il half mile. paced. professional, at the
saucer track at Ogden, Utah. He cover
| ed the distance in 81 is seconds. This
is 3-5 seconds better than his own
previous record CT So 3-5 seconds.
Ben Jordan. the little English boxer.
who was the first to stop little George
Dixon i'm his winning streak at the old
| LenOx Athletic Club, i'm Lexington av-
| cnue, New York, some four or five
years ago. has retired from pugilism.
| Jordan was made Il good offer recently
| to visit this country, but he declined.
| saying the young blood now engaged in
| the boxing game was too swift for him.
Commodore. w. X. Vanderbilt of the
Seawanhaka Corinthi:tn Yacht Club Of
| New York mas presented Il cup to he
| raced fol- in the latter part of Septem-
bcr by moter boats driven by internal
tional combustion engines. The race
is to be run without time allowance. on
| the sound. The distance for the con-
| test is 100 miles. the only restriction be-
| ing that the boats shall be propelled hy
internat ional combustion engines. The
exact date will be settled later.
| Jabez White. the English lightweight
| champion. who recently fought James
| ErItt for the lightweight championship
of the world. but lost. is back at his
| home in birmingham. Eng. When ques-
TONED rs to the way he had been treat
cd by the Americans. White said that
he WAS never treated better in all his
fife: that everything possible was done
1 to, l., ;t-,& 10
said that in Britt he found a speedy
| tw,.-handed boxer who could take any
amount of punishment. White further
stated that he would make another trip
| here, this fail. when he would engage
in some six-round bouts before again
| tackling Britt. The latter has promised
| White Il return match.
| Springfield Union: While Marvin
Hart "A kaintucky gentleman. is strut
Fling about as the heavyweight champ
ion and discussing the adHisability o.
| drawing the color line: Kid Mccoy
contemplating matrimOnv with a rich
widow jim Torbett preparing for sea
son of Shakespearean tragedy. Gus
| Rubin thinking the whole matter over.
John l.. Sullivan having his own troub-
| les keeping on and off the water wagon
| these hot days, AMI Charlie Mitchell
| counting out the horses that fall in tn"
| jumping races at Brighton, old Bob
Fitzsimmons is. according to reports.
| trying to get his young wife to return
| with him from Paris. where she went.
with $4,000 of Bob's money 20 have her
| voice cultivated. Fitz haG an mixing
that she was going 10 side-step him.
and this is why he is in Paris. accord
| ing to the gossips along Broadway.
Poor old Fitz has had a checkered mat
rimonial career, but it seems he is not
yet out Of the troubled waters OF doubt
and uncertainty.