Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15


| ting only. Fleming surprised the book
! les by winning, and while he was held
at short odds to win, because he was
coupled with Mark in the straight bet
ting only, those who were willing TO
take him for the place got twice as
much as they would have drawn down
had they played him to win. The anna
teur gamblers had to use field glasses
to convince themselves that their eyes
were not fooling them as they stood in
the ring and gazed upon the unusual
spectacle of the books Offering twice as
much against the chances of a horse to
run second as was offered against his
chances to win.
The Broadway Physical Culture club
announces another class boxing show for
Wednesday night, four bouts at three
rounds each being scheduled between
pupils at the club, and broad jump
contest also will be pulled off, E. o.
Van Pelt and John Berry being
matched in this event. The boxing
bouts will be as follows: w. L. Beau
champ VS.. Rodney Hill at 154 pounds,
Gregory Watry VS.. Chick McGinnis at
lbs pounds, Earl Bentley VS.. John Berry
at 142 pounds and Fred Wallace VS.. s..
Yarneil at 122 pounds.
George Memsic and Frank Picato,
who were matched up Saturday by
Manager McCarey for a ten-round bout
March 2, will go into training at once.
Mer1sic will go back to the EaStside
club, while Picato will train at the pa
vilion at Maud Junction. There will be
more betting on the result of this bout
than has been the case in any recent
scrap, as both boys are popular and
have an army of Staunch supporters
among the fans.
Jack Johnson is scheduled to sail
today from Sydney for Vancouver,
from which point he will proceed i'm
mediately to Galveston via Frisco and
Los Angeles. He is due to arrive at
Vancouver March IL by sonnet sort Of
figuring. It would be decidedly pleas
ing to the fans if one of the local pro-
moters could match Johnson and Lang
ford for a local scrap for the title.
1t is also announced that Tommy
Burns has decided to become per-
manent resident at Sydney. He has
cabled instructions to his brother, Ed
Brusso, at Frisco to leave on the next
steamer for Kangarooland and Mrs.
Larry Heating will accompany him to
join her husband, who is brother-in-
law to Tommy. Keating was with
Tommy at the fight with Johnson and
it is presumed that they will embark
in business in Sydney as Eddie Brusso
says that Burns and Heating are plan
ming to engage in the hotel and theat-
rical business there.
Clark Griffith is feeling very jubilant
at getting Oakes from the Angel club.
He is quoted in an interview as saying
that he has secured the greatest ball
tosser in the Coast league ranks. OakeS
will play in right field and undoubtedly
will make good right off the reel.
Fans f1ocked to Jack Doyle's South
side club by the hundreds yesterday
and were entertained by the youngsters
who are training there. Ad Wolgast
and Freddie Corbett boxed three furi-
Gus rounds, Jack~Redmond and Walter
Fisher went over the same route to
dead heat and White and Hefron did
another turn at the same distance. All
the boys showed up as being in fine
fettle and ready to make any opponent
hustle to beat them. With baseball
games and training stunts every Sun
day afternoon, Doyle seems to have
converted Vernon into one Of the most
popular resorts in this vicinity. He
never was connected with a failure or
a dead issue, anyway.
Maurice Sayers and Johnny Murphy
are u luTHlSn In0 main event at
Dreamland rink, Frisco, next Friday
night, being scheduled to step lively
over the twenty-round route. This
should furnish the Frisco fans with a
classy entertainment and classes with
some of the minor event cards that
Manager McCarey has been staging at
popular prices-some Of them, said.
LIeXican racing under American
auspices will begin next fall, when
meetings will be held at four cities
Matt Winn, Maj. Algernon DANGER
field, the governor of Chihuahua and
several others organized the four-city
circuit last Friday and have begun
preparations for building four racing
plants at a cost of 100000 each. This
makes it look very much like racing
would become an assured fact this
year in the southern republic and ow-
ing to the prominence of the Americans
interested and the confidence which
horsemen generally have in them, the
meetings viii not lack in patronage by
American horsemen. Arrangement
will be completed for making easy en-
trance and exit of horses through the
various border cities.