Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-08
Rules Adopted for Worlds Cham
pionsbip Baseball Series
This Season,
BRITT AND NELSON MATCHED.
Old John L, Sullivan Issues Singing
Def to Bob FiizsimmOns -Tels Dis.
agreeable Things Ia Letter

Rules and regulations governing tho
worlds championship games between the
pennant winning teams OF the national
aud the American leagues were given out
this week by Ban Johnson, presi-
dent Of the American league The
rules govern all points that have
proved distractions to such contests
I'm the past and have the approval
Of the national baseball commission, The
agreement as adopted by the two leagues
calls for a championship pennant Ind
an appropriate emblem In the form OF a
button TO be given TO each player OF the
utle-wlnning team il Is also specified
In the agreement that the national com
mission reserves the right TO nominate
the series al any time when the IN
terests Of baseball demand such a sen
and also 10 award the title to one OF tho
contrasting teams, regardless OF previous
The series is to consist OF seven games
TO be played at the end OF the cham-
pionshlp season each year Three games
Will be scheduled in each Of tho ties
of the contesting clubs, the commission
determining by lot whore the hrst three
games shall be played II II should be
come necessary TO play a seventh game
to decide the championship the commits
sion will determine In which city It Is 20
be played, The agreement also provides
for two empires for each game, one uin-
pire coming from each OF the leagues
Tho umpires win be subject 10 the or
dors Of the National Baseball commits
sion,
The players Of the two clubs will set
40 per cent Of the gross receipts OF the
first four games, 10 per cent OF IBIS
amount viii 80 70 the winner OF the
pennant and q per cent 20 the loser
The national commission Is 90 receive
10 per cent of the gross receipts from
all Of the games and elter ms amount
and that paid 70 the players have been
deducted the rest Is TO be divided equally
between the two clubs
Each Of the clubs participating In the
games Is 20 guarantee 70 the national
commission that 1t viii play all q tho
games called FOR and will not exercise
any arbitrary right to withdraw before
the series shtll have been completed ot
the series shall have been completed or
termined.
Bob Fitzsmmons recently received tho
following singing letter from old John
l.. Sullivan. OF course II VIII be regarded
as a Joke;
Sir--T am told that In ono ~ your inter-
views lately you stated ! could whip
nine-t enths Of the fighters Of { day. Do
you want me and the public e. believe
that you are the other tenth ard the only
pebbe on the beach, II your statements
are true, this Is the only way can figure
Il out.
81 am told that you further say that
II you had met me 4 years ago IT would
have been, all right that you had more
ambition then I give you my word th1t
mad | met you ~ years ago, or any time
within the last " years, ! would have
| jolted your Stats 10 hard that Your
thinking procltVitles would have been
| thing Of the past and, u you want 20
meet RE IN the ring any time within the
next year / VIII guarantee IN hnnd you
punch that viii take all the Kidding
Nov can make arrangements in
Oklahoma, San Francisco ard one or two
| other places whore wo can meet + 10
rounds and u you viii put yourself on
record by writing me a few lines over
| your signature, win go ahead and ar.
range TO meet you within eight months
| for six or ten rounds and the purse shall
| not be less than $1,000 and the winner
shall take all
| many friends left IN America, and they
| are not dead ones, and II was only yes
! terday / was offered the purse which
refer to, II the contest would take place
| In Guthrie, Okla,
Now, il you are afraid OF me. como
out like man and say go, for ! don't
I propose 10 kid the public and my
friends and, furthermore, ! don't pro-
| pose to allow them 10 be 'kldded' by you
| can take It IN personal way or bus
ness way, whichever You like
III you want TO box me six or ten
rounds and not fight me % rounds, why
! / viii arrange for the meeting But II
| It Is to be 20 rounds want at least seven
| or eight months TO train IN. II II Is to be
six or ten rounds ] will require but n
very little time; and If you are afraid
| TO meet mo, for heavens safe say 50
and stop making these cracks that you
are ready to meet any man In tho word
| no one barred for that kind Of a game
| does boxing no good
| lt is not improbable that Battling Nell
son and Jimmy Britt viii meet IN another
Queensbury argument IN san Franc SEQ In
! the near future, The match Is made pos
| sible by the staying OF the Ralston anti
| boxing bill which met death In the Cali
| yornia legislature Had the bin not been
killed. Al Hereford, who Is in Frisco
! with Joe Cans stood ready TO offer the
| pair a liberal purse to hght before his
! club IN Baltimore In speaking Tor Cans
| Hereford says
Joe will take his time a/ let the
asplrants for the lightweight, title settle
| matters among themselves, lie will be
ready az the proper tlmo to defend the
championship"