Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-18
Something About Baseball, Prize
Fighting, Wrestling and
Polo.
GLEASON STILL CALLED KID"
American Entries to- Olympic Games
In London Will be Thoroughly In
Vcstlgated Before Acceptance.

MArathon race OF The NOW Illinois
Athletic club, at Chicago, Sept. z.
Polo is likely to claim attention in
ternationully, An American team, un-
der the captaincy OF Cehg Wads-
wordth OF the American embassy.
London, Is talked of for Q purpose of
arranging match with the Partisan
team.
1t Is becoming more and more evil
dent every week that the American
regatta to be held at Philadelphia.
May %, soon is to become one of the
classic events Of the intercollegiate
rowing season. Although the regatta
contains but one event exclusively for
college eights. the support OF the uni
versitY men has made this one of its
features and has helped TO draw many
of the club crews every year. For the
first time since the rtgattas were
started Yale university has decided TO
concentrate all her efforts TO turning
out a second varsity eight tow In the
big event for Junior college crews.
Gleason, who Is playing second base
for the Phillies, has passed his twenty
first year In major league baseball and
still they cali him Kid"
Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch
may turn pugilist. He says: with
two months time ] am ready to meet
Squires, the Australian scrapper. Fail
ing. either Burns, OBrieu or Schrcck,
whichever wants TO come and set my
money, win be welcome. / will back
myself, and have Kid McCoys word
that he viii train and coach me during
my training period" GutCh does not
care to tackle Champion Jeffries.
Regarding a sculling race with Ed
Gle Durham, James Wray said - am
going to Detroit the day after the
Harvard Yale race at New London,
having signed contract with the De
uoit Boat club, ] shall be there until
oct. /. AT present | have no time for
practise, and should want at least TWO
months work before the race" bur-
nan, who has returned to Toronto
from Australia, where he was beaten
by George Towns in March, declared
that it would be impossible for him
tC accommodate Wray or anyone else
with a match IN America after Aug.
!, as he expects to go to Australia
to row Towns for the worlds cham
pionship next winter.
More than 5000 ball players are
now engaged Al salaries ranging from
500 to $1,000 a month by the 80
leagues operating under organized
baseball. Every player Is guaranteed
his fun salary,
Automobile trips across the cpnti-
nent, having become 20 commonplace
as to attract little or no attention
these days, a Montana enthusiast has
devised a more severe undertaking.
Starting from New York on June I,
Rodney Wellington Hey of Bozemau
Mont, will set forth on journey
around the whole border line of the
United States, which means a trip OF
about 10000 miles.
Commodore c. Vanderbilt of the New
York Yacht club has sold his ~ foot
Rainbow to the Horreshoffs. His new
etsfII lot
bow. She is one Of the new Shooters
that Herreshof designed under the
new rule
The British women's golf champion
ship tournament will be held at New
castle, Ireland, beginning May G, and
the American champion. Miss Harriet
Curtis, will be starter. Her sister.
Miss Margaret twice runner-up in this
courrry for the nation title. is also
10 enter. Altogether, 10 entries have
been received
The second race for the Roosevelt
and Kings cups at jamestown will
take place Friday, Sept. 10. Yachts
Friday the thirteenth" will not act
as a hoodoo on tho regatta.
a new EnElisn-built cight-oared
racing shell, patterned after the boats
used by Cambridge and oxford, the
last two seasons. has been constructed
for the Harvard university crew. and
is now on the way to this country on
"A transatlantic steamer.
Butte, Mont. is 10 have a forty
day-race meeting, beginning July l.
Michigan's absence from the "blg
nine track meet at Marshall Field,
Chicago, June l, may be offset by the
participation of Leland Stanford uni
versity and the University Of Cali
fornia.
Billy Hamilton, Jesse Burkett and
Hughey Duffy, who ten years ago were
fighting each other for the batting hon
ors of the National league, are now
minor league managers. Hamilton
still holds the big league record for
bases stolen for a single game. Ho
pifered seven sacks in a game with
Washington when that team was In
the old league
In all probability the famous Pilgrim
association football team OF England
win tour Canada and the United states
this summer.
"Squeers," which IL distinctly Aus
Andrew Jcptha, colorod welterweight
champion Of England, plans to visit
America.
Tommy Leach. Of the Plttsburghs.
says that the club that hents Nc
Graw's team will land the pennant.
large delegation of eastern bowlers 10
take part IN the American Bowling
congress tourney In Cincinnati next
February. and that the affair VIII be
tho most thoroughly national bowling
conyocn ton that ever was held In
this country" said President August
Hermann Of the American Bowling
Coach Kcene Fitzpatrick is highly
enthusiastic over Mlchigan's chunces
In the eastern intercollegiate meet 20
be held al Cambridge on June !, Tho
coach says that less than 80 points
viii win the meet, and he calculates
that the Wolverines VIII win 30
An OFFER Of a $4,000 prize Tor tho
first successful aeropnne flight from
London 10 Manchester IN England has
been made. a-.,
Cookers chestnut colt, Orby IN the
English Derby
mis- wear 81 600 000 v'lll be distributed
in harness horse racing.
Chicngos Bohemian society VIII send
a team 10 the funniest at Prague m
The $4,000 Charter Oak caught
6s entries. The $4,000 trot at Column
bus has a entrles
A guaranteed purse Of $1,000 for
foals Of 1901. 10 be raced as threo-year-
olds IN 1910. has just been opened by
the management Ut the Minnesota
cochato. ANN, has been bred TO
30 mares this spring -. ..,.
Al Hayana, on April II, 10000 people
Witnessed the deciding game for the
championship OF Cuba, the Almendares
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