The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-21
SPORTING BRIEFS.

SPORTING BRIEFS.
The latest from New Orleans is that
the racing season there will be ex-
tended 10 cover the dates of the spring
meeting at Memphis, which has been
prohibited by the new law in the state
of Tennessee. 1t is planned to run
the Montgomery handicap and the Ten
nessee derby at one of the Crescent
City tracks, but if this is not feasible
it is said that the entire Memphis meet
ing will be transferred to Essex Park,
Hot Springs, providing of course that
racing in Arkansas is not killed by the
signing of the Amts bin by the gov
ernor.
Denver Colo, Feb 21-Harry Lewis
and Mike (Twin9 Sullivan finished
their training yesterday for their flstic
battle tonight. Both are in splendid
condition and we'll able to stand a
grueling mill for the ten rounds to
which the bout is limited. The betting
is to 8, with Lewis on the long
end. The sports here evidently believe
the twin" is capable and foxy enough
to stay the limit, with q possibility al
ways present of freak result.
Philadelphia, Feb 21.-"Spike" Rob
son, the 126-pound champion of Eng
land, outpointed Tommy Murphy In
six rounds at the National Athletic
club last night There were more than
800 blows struck in the eighteen min
utes of lighting. and CT these the Eng
lishman landed the greater number
His blows We're more effective, as at
the finish Murphy was bleeding at the
nose and mouth and blood was trick
ling from cut over his left eye.
New Haven, Conn, Feb. 21-Guy
Hutchinson, head football coach at Am
herst last year, has been offered the
position of head each at Yale for next
fall by Captain Biglow Sammy Morse.
captain last fall, has been obliged to
decline the offer because of plans to
enter business next June. Hutchinson
was aIl-American quarter back in 1905.
He lives in Morristown. n. J., and is a
nephew of James A. Bailey, the mill
ionaire circus proprietor Of the Bar
mum & Bailey shows, who died last
year.
An important heavyweight fight will
be decided at the National Sporting
club of London next Monday when
Gunner Moir. the English champion who
recently defeated Jack Palmer for the
title, will meet Tiger Smith of Wales
for stakes amounting to $3.50. Smith
was a ergeant-major in the Eleventh
HussaTs, stationed in India, and only
returned to England last September
after having bought his discharge. In
India Smith literally swept the boards
his most notable achievement being a
victory over Jack McAulIffe, the cham
pion of that country. Smith is said to
be a glutton for punishment and a
hard, aggressive hitter. Moir is recog-
nized as the best man of his weight in
Great Britain. The winner Of the bat
tie win probably visit America.
If Battling Nelson fights anybody ir
England it viii be Johnny Summers
who recently lost the featherweight
championship to Spike Robson on
foul. Summers has a hacker whC
wants TO wager $1,000 on the side
while the National Sporting club stands
| ready to hang up purse Of the same
amount. the weight to be fixed at 49,
pounds. Billy Nolan, Nelson's man
ager. is quoted as saying that if the
mill can be held IN a large hall, where
thousands of spectators can be present
and the fighters can get a whack a
the percentage of the gate receipts, thu
Dane VIII accept. II the match fall
| through Summers. who says he is
1 better man than either Robson or Bel
| Jordan, will come here to chalIeng,
Abe Attel at 1926 pounds ringside.
Davenport. Iowa, Feb. 21.-Pack,
/ Mcfarland Of Chicago beat Steve Kin
ney Of Milwaukee clear to the foo
in the ninth round Of their fifteen
round bout last night. 1t was q hard
grueling fight, with the Chicago Ia,
! forcing it all the way. His short-arn
/ fighting had Kinney to the bad all tn
way, and in the seventh only the gony
saved the plucky Steve. He freshene
in the eighth, but was badly battered
while Paeky had hardly q scratch.
The University Of Chicago basket
ball team defeated the Northwestern
university team in Bartlett gymna
SUM last night by the score Of "a to
The score pretty well indicates the re
Iative strength Of the two teams, 70
/ Chicago decidedly outcIassed the Evan
ston boys.
Princeton, \. J.. Feb. 21,-SeIdom. /
the history Of minor sports here ha
interest risen so high as that over Tia
dual swimming meet which Princeto
and the Chicago Athletic club will hav