Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-11-10
SPORTING.
..BREkITIES

outlaws-will put a team in Pittsburg
and give the town 25-cent ball next
season. The outlaws are showing the
greatest activity in this history. II
the press dispatches are to be relied
upon several of the big league clubs
will lose some of their stars, as Hat
tering offers have been made to them
to go with the outlaws.
1t was necessary to call out the po-
lice to suppress the enthusiasm OF the
students at Madison over the defeat OF
Minnesota by Wisconsin.
A squad of police escorted the Am
herst team off the field after the game
with Holy Cross at Worcester, Mass.
The trouble was p~recipitated when
Captain Hubbard of Amherst kicked
Hetherman of Holy Cross owe the
eye. breaking the skin and drawing
blood.
The elimination of rough Rlaying
in foot ball seems to be a Welsh rare
bit dream. The short arm jolt in the
scrimmage played its usual conspic-
nous part in last Saturdays contests.
The swapping of Yale last Saturday
compared with the small score Prince
ton ran up on the red and white. taken
in conjunction with the defeat of the
Tigers by Dartmouth. forecasts defeat
for Princeton when it lines up against
Yale for the final big game of the
season. True, Princeton entered the
Dartmouth game with three substi-
tutes in the line, but the team played
it's best ball against Columbia the
week before, and the showing was
lamentable compared with the over
whelming work of Yale against the
same team.
Fall racing opened at Nashville,
Monday, with prospects for n OF
the best meetings ever held at Cum
berland Park. over 500 horses are
quartered at the track. Francis Trev.
elyn will be presiding judge.
Willie Keller, of the New York Am.
orleans, is said to have Sc much
money he hires two experts to sit up
all night counting it. Keller pays
taxes on real estate in Brooklyn, New
York City and one or two places in
Jersey.
The reason Joe Cans went 10 Frisco
was to be at the ringside on Thanks
giving night to challenge the winner
of the Gardner-Sullivan fight. Gan,
was given a straight tip before he LEFT
Baltimore that there was not a chance
of his fighting either ma this month
but he decided to go .lst the same
Eddie Hanlon insisted on getting the
$3.50 forfeit money posted by Aurelis
Herrera, eve though Herrera was toe
i'll to get to the ringside at the Pacific
A. c., at Los Angeles, last Friday. The
Mexican says he will even up will
Hanlon for taking mis- money wher
they meet.
Joe Walcott is nj with an an
nouncement that he has said farewell
to the ring. 81 retire an undefeatet
champion" he says. Walcott is 3;
years old, and has fought 116 battles
Teddy Kelly beat him in three rounds
in 1891. Mike Harris got the decision
over him in four rounds in 1895
Tommy West fought him 10 round
tn a draw in 1896, while a year late
West got the decision over him in z
rounds. Kid Lavigne whipped him i
70 rounds in the same year. In 1892
'Mysterious" Billy Smith took hi
measure in 20 rounds, but he bea
Smith in % rounds in 1900. Tomm
West beat him in II rounds the sam
year. In 1901 he lost in 10 round
on a foul to kid" Carter, but late
same year Carter knocked him out /
Z rounds. Others who later took hi
measure were George Gardner, Fran
Childs, Sandy Ferguson and Dixi
Kid.
The wave of enthusiasm that wa
expected to sweep over sportdom TO
lowing the announcement that Fit
simmons is 10 fight O'Brien seems
have flattened on the sandy shore
doubt. 1t is not regarded among tn
probabilities that Fitz can stow ava
the clever que of Kaufman, q
the Lanky One has taken on age an
the stiffness of muscles that come
Herewith. The sorry exhibition FIJI
made with George Gardner two yeal
ago is still fresh in the minds OF rin
followers.
Jimmy Gardner and Mike Sulliva
are in San Francisco training for the
match next month.
The boxing game is having a hai
time of it these days. With the go
ernor of Michigan i~nstructing II
sheriffs to stop the bouts in that stat
the lid pressed down tight in Chicag
an ominous lull in ST. Louis, the pa
nut M all through the south and sing
p~rospects of a change on the ngI
man. a long. hard winter seems abo'
to set in for the Ons Of Hltlm.
Quarterback Stevenson of PennsI
mania. was ordered from the gan
with Lafayette Saturday for strIklI
an opposing player in the face, knoc
ing him down. One OF the first NOV.
for eliminating roughness from II
game should be to perpetually dlsp
Stevenson from all gridirons. He 81
dom goes through a game without ]
sorting to rough house methods, al
The sooner Pennsylvania drops hi
from its squad, the better it Will
for the game.
J. W. b. Tewkshury. the famo
sprinter. is I'M with fever in a PhiLad.
phia hospital. Tcwsbury was 10 ma
rum a l0U-yard race with EdWa
Flynn. at Scranton, Pa, for a stake