The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-20
semi-windup Of ten rounds. Malachy
Hogan win referee

semi-windup of ten rounds. Malachy
Hogan win referee.
Iowa City. Ia. Feb. l9.-Whlle Sec /
rotary Mark Catlin Of the Missouri val +
ley conference will make no ofaeial (
statement. 1t is understood that the
final organization Of the big Eve Of the
Missouri valley Is only a matter OF
days, and that the organization viii in /
clude the University Of Nebraska. even /
though the cornhuskers had no repre- /
sentative in Kansas City on the day
of the last meeting.
II is believed that the University Of
Nebraska viii come in because It's
athletic managers viii realize that ii
cannot afford to stay out. At tie same
time private advtces from Lincoln
state that Nebraska is violently oppos-
ca 70 the extreme measures adopted
Isl the western conference.
ST. Louis, Feb. 19--Mc-Aleer. manag-
er Of the St Louis Americans. has err
dered his players to report March a
ana viii leave for san Antonio. Texas.
the following day. Games had been
scheduled at Dallas and Fort Worth
with the Texas State league teams. bat
it was found advisable to cancel those
dates Practically the only games Me
Aleer has arranged for his men viii
be those played with the New York
Nationals at san Antonio. The Cardi-
/ nails will have the unique distinction
Of not having game scheduled for
their spring training trip. The squad
/ viii report in st. Louis March 81 and
4 go directly TO Houston, where it viii
remain until the opening Of the sea-
son.
Hot Springs, Ark. Feb. 19.-Youne
Kid Farmer of Cleveland and Andy
Bezenah Of Cincinnati have been
matched to fight twenty rounds here
Feb. %.
The Reno (Nev) fight promoters
seem determined to pull of the Her
mau-Corbett fight despite the fact the
kid" declared himself out Of #. III
the promoters will postpone the fight
until the middle of April they can have
Herman's services. The date Of the
contest originally was set for March
Is. but the management yesterday wir-
ed the Kids" manager it would like
to stage the so no later than March 25.
Tommy Murphy. one Of New YorSs
star performers, and spike Robson,
champion featherweight Of England,
are slated to box six rounds at Phila-
delphia tonight This viii be their
third meeting. The first was Robson's
and the second a draw, and tonights
contest probably win decide which j.
the better man.
Doc Newton, the left hand pitcher
who was suspended by the New York
Americans last year. has signed q con-
tract to play with the Montreal East
ern League club. of which Malachi
Kfttredge is the manager
Manager Riley of the Tonopah club
has postponed the Cans Britt fight
from March IS to April 10. He has
been notified by the two pugilists that
unless he posts q forfeit Of $4,000 not
later than Friday they viii stop train
ing 1t looks as If Riley's hackers have
turned him down
John Montgomery Ward is figuring
r in new baseball mystery. He has re
commended an unknown infielder to
Manager Hanlon of the Cinctnnatis
who viii sign the youngster as soon az
! possible before making known his
identity The unknown, who was dis
covered by Ward last year, has never
5 played professional ball but has per-
formed in some fast Independent teams
/ in the East. He viii find plenty 81
company in Cincinnati, as many 81
: Hanlon's new players are also UNI
known