The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-01-10
SPORTS
Notes of Many Sports.

Jim Barry of Chicago and Jim Flynn
the Pueblo fireman, who are sched-
uled to fight in Los Angeles January
II, have agreed to fight winner take
all.
Southern baseball league is to cut
salaries 10 per cent.
Chicago will be a candidate for next
years A. B. G. tourney.
Cincinnati, with the signing of Mike
Murray, has secured the contracts of
all it's players for 1908.
Although several American turfmen
have eligibles for next years English
derby, w. X. Vanderbilt and August
Belmont will probably be the only
ones represented in the big classic.
John L. Sullivan has saved 100000,
and may go to England with Jake Kill
rain as sparring partner. Sullivan
says: when l close my present tour
of the country l will have money
enough to buy the place l want down
near my old home town of Boston.
Rugby having been introduced at
Stanford and Berkeley with fair sue
cess, an attempt now is being made
to have southern California take up
the English style of football in pref
erence to the American game.
Marvin Hart, having practically dis
posed of his business establishment
at Louisville, has arranged to go to
Hot Springs to begin training, and by
February Is he expects to be ready
to box any heavy weight, bar none.
James Butler, the well known New
York horseman, has presented the
beautiful country seat known as the
Reynard estate, at Tarrytown, to the
convent of the Sacred Heart of Mary,
in memory of his late wife. The prop
erty was valued at 100000.
Paymous, the long distance swim.
mer, is in Los Angeles and laying
plans to swim the Santa Catalina chan
mel July A. The channel is twenty
seven miles wide, two miles wider
than the English channel.
Little Rock, Ark, has set the pace
for OTHER southern cities by buying
the baseball park where the southern
league games have been played, with
the intention of converting the park
into a field for athletic contests of all
sorts between school and college rep
resentatives.
Cy Young, the oldest man in years
and point of service who is playing
in the fast set, has signed a contract
for 1908 with the Boston Americans,
which will mark his nineteenth con-
secutive year as a conspicuous figure
in the sport, seventeen of which were
spent in the major leagues.
University of California circles have
been deeply stirred by the announce
ment that Ollie f. Snedigar, one of
the best known sprinters who ever at
tended the state institution there, in
tends to enter the Presbyterian min
istry.
The most notable deal in bull ter
riers on the Pacific coast which has
taken place in the last five years is
the purchase of Champion Edgewood
Biddy by c. G. Israel of Seattle. The
price paid to Frank T. Dole of New
Haven is quoted at $1,000. Not since
the importation of Champion Wood
cote Wonder by the former fancier,
o. E. Heydenfeldt, has such an i'm
portant deal in bull terriers taken
place. Champion Edgewood Biddy is
admittedly the greatest bull terrier
bitch in this country. Her wins num-
Der over 100 firsts and she has won
nineteen times first in winners class
and several times won the special for
the best dog Of any breed in the show.
H. H. Pagett of Cleveland recently
offered three life size oil paintings of
winners in competition throughout
America in National Association of
American Homing Pigeon Fanciers
districts. The winners, to be photo