Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-01-17

SPORTING GOSSIP

William Sutton has become the hold
er of the worlds championship AZ 1871
ballIline billiards by a tochnicality
which acts as depriving Hoppe Of that
title. This peculiar turn Of affairs has
been brought about because Ut Hopes
dallying with the attractive offer he
recently received from an academy In
Amsterdam. Holland. and his failure Ia
cover Sutton's challenge forfeit last
Monday, according to the express stip-
uations of the rules governing the
championship. AS Il result Sutton Is
now the worlds champion at ISL and
1872 balkline. and he is the first player
To hold two such important titles AT
the same time In the history of the
game
As gu''lal reason for his contcm-
plated forfeiture Of the championship
7 Hoppe said ycsiC:lsy that he wished
I 10 g. augual 80 taat ha might take his
sister. Vera. wiih him that she might
cultivate her SOPRANO voice.
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/ Cincinnati. Dee. 29.--August Herr
mann for president of the American
Bowling Congress and Cincinnati Tor
| the 1908 convention. This will be the
slogan Of the Cincinnati bowlers Al
II meeting of the City Association,
which comprises more than a hundred
clubs. II was agreed to present Mr..
! Hermann rs u candidate for the place.
He has consented TO make the race.
The congress will hold it's annual con
, yention and tourney In st. Louis dur
+ ing the latter part of March.
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II IL altogether likely that an all
English crew will go to jamestown Ex-
position next year To row all-Canadian
and all-American crews. writes Rich
ard Dahlgren. "a well known English
correspondent.
7 The project has not gone yet beyond
talk. and Il Is altogether doubtful II II
ever will get much beyond that noint
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Warren Il. Schatt. the old Cornell
runner and now Rhodes scholar ~
Brasenose college. oxford. is home foI
the holidays. and has had great dea
oi interest to say about English ath'
letics rs they pertain TO university life
In an interview which was published
In the Cornell Daily Sun. he says:
Among American colleges Harvard
Is looked upon by Englishmen as head
ing the list In all athletics. and when
the Harvard crew was defeated during
the last season II was supposed that
they were the champion Oarsmen oi
America"
The possibility Of arranging an In
race, seems rather remote, he thinks
Discussing the matter Of which team
would be the probable winner In an in
ternational contest, Schutt Is o! the
opinion that In "a track meet the Amer
leans would be the certain winners. IN
cross-country race, however, he be
licyes that the English runners woult
cross the line first While confessinl
to the possibility of prejudice. the for
mer Cornell runner gave his opinion
that the English spirit Of athletic train
Ing was far better than the American
Idea. largely through the fine preiim
, mary training which boys Ia hisl
schools receive.
Fighters OF all ages and classes viii
take part IN the benefit to he tendcre,
the once great and eyer-popular fight
or. Terry McGoyern. AT Madison SQuar,
Garden, January %. Terry will neve
be able To fight again, hut the man,
friends the little fighter made durin,
|, his career have decided 10 come To hi
rescue, aud Sam Harris, his old-tini,
: manager, Is engineering wha: Is OK
, pccted 10 be the most successful here
/, III that has ever been given for 4 light
"a
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, Toledo, Ohio, Dec, 29.-John l.. Sui
, iyan has accepted the Baltimore club
|, Terms to box Kilrain and Mitchell fou
rounds each. Kid Cutler will wresll
Gotch.
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Fred Taral, the leading Jockey q
Augtria-Hungary, rode SO winners 4
:, 81 races. Geza Janek. a Hungarian
I boy, is next, with n winners. Birken
:, ruth, 50, and Huxtable. is winners
, come next, leading Harry Lewis VIII
a used to ride for Mr.. Seagram, am
a whose score was 30 winners In 20
q mounts, Lewis will ride In German