The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-01
LATE SPORTING NEWS
Especial from United Press.

Especial from United Press.) New York, Oct. 1.-New York sport
 day over the report from France that James J. Jeffries thinks that a fight between himself and Jackson for the championship of the world is worthy of a purse. of $150,000 They seem to think that if this is Jeffries' price, the fight will never take place. Parti- sans of Johnson are shouting, "I told you so,'' and are insisting that Jeff ries never had any intention of enter ing the ring with the negro and that
 he will take the position that the prize offered is not sufficient and will continue his career in vaudeville so long as he can draw the dollars from the box office. This is denied by the
 Jeffries partisans who insist that the big Californian simply wants all he can get out of the battle and they say that so soon as he returns to this country the difficulty will be smooth
 ed over and the articles for the fight
 signed. New York, Oct. 1.-7With the sched-
 ule for the worlds series arranged
 came the announcement of the date for the Billy Papke-Harry Lewis battle
 before the National Athletic Club here October 9th is the selection of the pro-
 moters. Papke has postponed his fight with Jimmy Gardner scheduled for Boston on Oct. T., to get himself in shape to meet Lewis.
 Washington, Oct 1.-The first prize | in the Munsey reliability race from 1 Washington to Boston and ret urn was l to-day awarded to the Elmer car en- tered by Frank Hardart of Philadel- | phia and driven by his son Frank Hardart, Jr. The prizes in their df- visions went to the following cars:
 Maxwell, Crawford, Elmer, Marian Simplex and Renault.
 New Haven, Oct 1.-The Syracuse | football team under the leadership of
 Head Coach Tad" Jones, the, famous | Yale star, arrived here at noon to- day. The men will be taken to Yale Field this afternoon where they will | be put through long practice and to-
 morrow morning will indulge in a | light signal drill.
 | It is announced that Jack Welch will be the referee of the Ketchel-John-
 son fight on October 12 in San Francis | co. It is stated further that the se- | lection was made at the time the ar-
 ticles were signed in New York, and that Welch was Johnson's one and l only choice for the position. The story goes that Johnson would have refused to sign unless the selection of
 Welch had been ratified at the time. | The choice is a good one and will | find favor with the sporting men. In
 addition to being thorough judge of
 the fighting game, Welch is a deter
 mined, self-reliant fellow, who will
 stand for no fooling.
 Betting has started up with Johnson
 a top-heavy favorite. The price against | Ketchel is 10 to and even money is l offered that Ketchel will not last | twelve rounds.
 q am going to root hard for Ketch- | e1," says John L. Sullivan. He's a | dead game young fellow and knows
 how to fight. It is the duty of every white man who has red blood in his veins to pull for Stanley, for. he's got
 the nerve and courage to tackle the l best negro pugilist the world has ever seen, barring Peter Jackson. If Ketch- | el wins I hope he will draw the color | line. Jeffries? Oh, he was a great fighter once but I think he'll never be the same man again.