The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-29

Dett has shown his return to fOrm III the fighting game by defeating Phi
 Brock and Harry Ferns at New Or.
 leans there has been a demand for him l@o come to New York and appear be- ] fore some of the local clubs A num- Der of the managers of the clubs have
 wired the former featherweight cham pion offers to come north but Terry
 McGovern,s conoueror has not yet been heard from.
 ! Boston JanI 29.-Cornell entries, more 1 than a dozen in number. for the Bos-
 ton Athletic Associations big indoor
 meet February 9th. have just been re-
 ceived here. Besides the quartet of re- 1 lay runners who will try their speed
 against Hariett Jack Moakley. the Cornell ceach. will bring on several good men for the sprints runs and l field events. Moakley believes he has l the material for another champion. Running against Harvard in a relay race in the meet is somewhat of a novelty. The Crimson teams have generally clashed with those Of Yale ill the final event of the meet. Last year Cornell met Dartmouth and Penn
 sylvania in three cornered relay and won handily as the feetness of c. M.
 French. the former Worcester Aca-
 miler.
 Springfield. Mass. Jan. 29.-Deter- mined to be up with the times. the
 Springfield Aero Club at it's annual meeting voted to buy a balloon the size of the Massachusetts of the New England Aero Club and an order will be sent to-day to Leo Shortens in New York to begin work. The balloon will be 16,o0O cubic meters. 15.000 feet larger than tho Boston. which the club used last summer. 1t will be capable of carrying three passengers besides the pilot
 Chicago, Jafl. as.--Reports from the Pacific coast to-day say that Battling Nelson and Packy Mcfarland will be matched for a contest March II. Nell son has written for the engagement. Mcfarland is considered the best drawing card and arrangements are now being made for the match.
 New Haven, Jan 29.--Announcefffef was made at Yale to-day that there was a financial surplus from the jun for promenade it has been decided to donate to the benefit of the Yale crew. The fund will be given as memorial to Dwight Griswold, the Varsity stroke who collapsed in the boat last year and who died in San Francisco few weeks ago.
 New Haven, Jan. 29.--Ed Walsh, pitcher for the Chicago Americans to- day started work on the candidates for Yale,s baseball batteries and by spring hopes to have done such a neat job of coaching that the Blue will have several first rate pitchers and plenty more well developed material. To- days work consisted chiefly in getting acquainted Nwith the men.
 n T~r., not he will be sure of $50,000, which he will receive for a twenty weeks vau- deville engagement. This means that he will not be able to enter the ring for at least six months, and that at the end of that time if Johnson will fight him the big fellow will require another spell of at least three months to put on the finishing touches. Jeff will be ac- companied on the trip by Billy Delaf1- ey, his trainer; sam Berger, his spar ring partner, and a small army Of camp followers. He will do a train- ing stunt lasting one hour at each per- fornlance which will include punching the bag, skipping the rope, work on the pulley weights and with the dumb 1 bells, exercise on the rowing machine and boxing three or four hard rounds. He says that he will also take outdoor exercise in the shape of long road runs l in the morning and will be particularly careful as to his diet. In this way Jeffries believes that when his theat- l ricai tour winds up he will weigh l about 240. pounds and that he will re- 1 quire Q period of more strenuous work 1 to scale at 228 the weight at which l he says he will be at his best.
 John L. Sullivan and his manager, 1 Frank Hall, are still offering a S75.0OO | purse for the proposed Jeffries-John- | son go, and if they secure it they say l they will select Savannah Ga, as the | battle ground. Those who know about Savannah say that while the minor bouts can be pulled | off there the moment a heavyweight | mill is arranged for that | city there will be interference by the State authorities. If Jeffries and John son meet in this country it is a safe