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Evening star., 1909-03-01
FOR SOUTHERN TITLE,
Soldier Burns and Tommy Lowe to
Clash Tonipht

BALTIMORE, Md, March 1.-There
will be real championship battle here
tonight. when Soldier Burns of this city
"a fifteen-round battle before the Monu-
mental Athletic Club. The contest will be
for the lightweight championship of the
south, Burns gaining the title by his two
victories over Kid Sullivan while on his
farm this season. Lowe Is the Balti-
morean's nearest rival for the honor, as
the Washington lightweight has not lost
set-to be we'll received by the local fol-
lowers Of boxing, but Washington will be
strongly represented. Close on to 100
sports are expected to come over to see
the contest. A special car of the WASH
ingtOn. Baltimore and Annapolis Electric
Railway Company has been engaged by
Washington sports to bring them over.
Burns finished training yesterday. The
soldier has worked faithfully for the ar
gument with John Link and Oscar and
Terry Martin, and when he enters the
ring he will be ready for the contest Of
his career. In meeting Lowe Burns will
face one of the fastest lightweghts in
the east and an aggressive boxer. who is
always on the go. The local boxer has
had no trouble in doing the weight. and
when he got on the scales in his gym
nasium yesterday he was fully pound
under the required weight-133 pounds at
8 pm. before the bout. Word from
loves camp yesterday stated that he
was In excellent condition and under
weight.
Fred Sears, the official referee of the
club. was named yesterday to be the ref
cree.
Evening star., 1909-03-01
KAUFMAN WANTS JEFF.
Delaney Says Big Fellow Can Have
$4,000 Side BIT.

LOS ANGELES. Cal. March lin a
letter written from his Oakland home to
Baron Long, matchmaker Of the Jeffries
A. c.. Billy Delaney, present handler of
AL Kaufman, and former trainer Of Jim
Jeffries. throws down the blazing torch
Of defiance to Jefrries as follows:
Friends of mine in New York are
ready to back Kaufman against Jeffries
for $4,000 and have posted a forfeit of
$1,000 cash IN the hands of AL Smith,
the veteran stakeholder. Of that city.
Kaufman will not meet Jack Johnson
at present; the big negro will keep AL
does want to fight Jeffries. though. John
son will soon be in this country crowd
ing Jeffrtes. and the only way jim can
avoid meeting him is to take on Kauf
man or else admit that he, Jeffries, is
a dead one.
kaufman and Jeffries battling for n
stake Of $4,000 would be a great card.
AS an inducement for JeffrieS to meet
AL we will agree to fight him in mis- own
city before his own CLUB. will allow a
Los Angeles man to referee and bet Inn
the $4,000 on the side that kaufman
wins"
Evening star., 1909-03-01
TAKE CHILLY PLUNGE.
Two Georgetown oarsmen Go Into
Potomac With Clothes On.

After rowing practice yesterday morn.
his end of the bet. He was game, and
were standing on the boathouse float
fully clad in garments of civilians, when
one dared the other to dive into the icy
waters with his clothes on. Joe Wills
was the lad who did the daring and his
friend @ Sullivan took him up. Only re-
moving his coat and shoes, the latter
gave one dive and was lost from sight
in the cold depths Of the muddy river
When he came up he made for the land
ing as fast as his paddlers could bring
him, finally getting onto the float a pic
ture of distress shivering In his wet and
chilly vestments.
OF course, now, Wills had to hold uI
his end Of the bet. He was game and
like his schoolmate. immersed himself
without hesitation in the frigid liquid
They were two cold lads when they got
hands stripped them Of their garments
and brought to them dry ones OF
variegated colors in which to reclothe
themselves. After some little searching
enough clothes We're resurrected from
different parts of the ark to cover their
shivering bodies. and their return etc
school in white pants and ancient sweat
ers completed the escapade.
The number of men trying for the diff
ferent crews is increasing daily. Start
but enough candidates to fill two boats,
the squad was so increased on Saturday
and Sunday that yesterday morning the
freshmen had to make two trips and the
preps three. 1t is expected that even
more will report after Inauguration, thus
insuring plenty of material to pick from.
Among the visitors to the college yes
terday there was an alumnus who spoke
favorably OF the plan adopted of aban-
doning the varsity and starting at the
bottom to build up a new one. The ''old
boy was none other than ''BiT Rice, a
graduate of the law school last year and
for four seasons a member OF the Blue
and Gray eights. He rowed in the last
crew to get place at Poughkeepsie, that
Of 1905, which finished third, and was
captain of the last boat to row on the
Hudson. that OF 1907, which crossed the
line sixth. Syracuse having swamped be-
fore the finish was reached.
In the opinion Of the ex-leadeI it was
useless to try and develop an eight capa-
BILE of rowing four miles when the ma
jority OF men were green. Such a strain
can only be undergone by a veteran Of at
least two seasons who has become fully
developed for continual exertion of
twenty minutes. For lad in the teens
with only a couple Of months training to
attempt such a feat with any hope Of sue
cess is out OF the question.
1t is hoped that those Of the alumni
who are present in the city for the cele-
bratiOnS and indoor meet will take up
the question Of aQuatics with the student
manager. in order to see II some plan
cannot be devised to finance that depart.
ment. Once the money question Is set
getting together a varsity. especially
next spring. when there will be all the
freshmen sweeps and old college oarsmen
to choose from.
Evening star., 1909-03-01
ROOSEVELT, THE FIGHTER.
Mike Donovan Says He Would Hav
Starred as a Pugilist.

Theodore Roosevelt is strong,
tough man; hard to hurt and harder to
stop"
Mike Donovan, former middleweight
champion, thus expresses his admIra-
ton for President Roosevelts pugili"-
tic ability. It is only one Of the many
encomiums showered upon the retir-
ing executive in Donovan's book, "The
Roosevelt That Know" Just publish
ed. This knowledge was derived during
frequent sessions with the gloves"
concerning which the writer says:
Had the President come to the prize
ring instead of the political arena. 1t is
my conviction he would have been sue
cessful. The man is a born fighter. 1t S
IN his blood.
Its no exaggeration-when say that
Evening star., 1909-03-01
JOCKEY EDDIE DUGAN ASKED TO RIDE SIR MARTINI
WILL PROBABLY HAVE MOUNT IN THE ENGLISH DERBY

in some mixups with him I have been
compelled to resort to all the arts and
devices that have come to me from
years of serious fighting. often to slug
right and left. to save myself.
Il have a vivid recollection of my
first fistic encounter with President
Roosevelt The governor left me in the
old billiard room of the executive ma :
sion at Albany and went downstairs to
don his boxing clothes In a few min
utes he returned.
III was the Governor of the state OF
New York who had left me. 1t was the
hghtlng man who entered the room. He
wore a sleeveless flannel shirt, his
khaki Rough Rider uniform trousers
and tight canvas shoes without heels.
First 1 was struck by the expression of
his eyes which are large. light blue and
placed we'll apart-aggressive, fearless,
persistent.
He is about 5 feet inches in height,
but his great breadth of shoulders and
bulk of body made him seem even
shorter. His arms are short. but heaA y
and well muscled. His head is that of
the typical fighter 1t is broad and
symmetrical. poised on powerful neck
A plumb line could be dropped from the
back of his head to his waist That for
nation shows not only the fighting
spirit. but the physical vigOr to sustain
1t. His short. thick body. with its high
arched chest is certainly set on un-
usually StIOuS, SlHeWy legs.
After pullings on his gloves he step
ped forward onto the mat Most men
on coming to box for the first time
with champion present or retired.
show some trepidation. There was
none Of that here.
After we shook hands I studied him
carefully. Then / led a left jab, fol-
lowing it up with a faint-hearted right
that landed like a love tap high up on
his cheek. He dropped his hands and
stopped.
nantly: that is not fair
Il was afraid had done something
wrong.
You are not hitting me- he said
shaking his head. I'd like you to hit
out
"tAll right. governor said. think
ing to myself this man has a'pretty
good opinion of himself
we started in again, and l sent in a
hard right to the body as he rushed In.
and then tried a swinging left for the
jaw. He stepped aside and drove his
right to my ear. 1t Jared me down -
the heels.
Il realized from that moment that
the governor was no ordinary amateur;
II l took chances with him / was en-
danger1ng my reputation.
From that day 1 have taken no
chances with Theodore Roosevelt with
the gloves. I've hit him many times as
hard as ever I hit n fighter in the ring
without stopping him. and thousands
know how hard 1 can hit
Il want to say now that never saw
him vince or show even by an fnvolun-
tary sign that he was discounted in
spirit. no matter how severe the bodilv
PAIN
Evening star., 1909-03-01
AFTER AUSTRALIAN
TENNIS CHAMPIONS

NEW YORK, March 1.--President
James Dwight of the United States Ma
tionaI Lawn Tennis Association today
cabled challenge for the Dwight f.
Davis international cup to Secretary
Hicks of the Australian Lawn Tennis AS
sociation, the present holder of the
trophy. The cablegram read: "Challenge
on chance of sending team" BY sending
the American challenge on or before
March I. which the rules governing the
Davis trophy require, the United States
association retains its right to send a
team to Australia next November. when
the international matches are played. 1t
Is expected an American team will be
sent picked from the best players as de-
termined at the end of the tennis season
here.
Norman F.. Brooks and y. +. WildinG
successfully defended the Davis cup
for the Australian association last year
against Beals c. Wright and Frederick
B. Alexander.
Evening star., 1909-03-01
Monthly Registration Amateur Athletic Farrell
Bank Ro-JeH Says He Will Fight Johnson Bows Focking
Phtsbug Challenge for International Tenns Base Ball Notes.

mouse at Austin. prohibiting all forms of
betting at race tracks. The majority will
urge as a substitute a bill permitting the
establishment Of the Paris mutuel system
In lieu Of the pool seller. while the mi
noTity will ask that the house bill, as 1t
stands. be enacted. Advocates Of both
measures have prepared for a spirited
contest. vote is anticipated before the
weeks end.
At the conclusion Of the FL Paso CTexas)
racing season. soon to end. the promoters
say there will be held at Albuquerque,
n. NJ, a meeting three weeks in duration.
William Murray. who acts as starter for
these meetings. is also the general man
ger and chief promoter. He was once a
successful jockey at the old Brighton
Beach. Gutenberg, Clifton and Glouces-
ter tracks. and later became chief as
sistant 10 several of the Jockey Club
starters.
Evening star., 1909-03-01

| fastest according to the trained Stall
ings Judgment
Whatever experimenting is to be done
will have to come before April IL, when
the season starts. The big CHIEF is
confident that long before that time he
will have made up the 1909 Yankees jus,
as they will go through the season, bar
ring accident.
McGraw Is another manager who in.
sists that his players must sign before
starting to train. The claim is made a,
the National League Office that there
are really only two hold-ups. George
Wiltse and Mike Donlin. Mathewson Is
said to have perfect understanding with
the club. and has asked until about
March 10 to report Devlin is looking ul
some business matters relating to his
fathers estate. and will also be on hand
within couple Of weeks. according tc
late report. AS for Larry Doyle. he is
now on the train en- route to marlin to
have a little business talk about his
salary. AS John T. Brush is there also
1t is fair to presume that matters will be
Strengthened out within a day or so.
Evening star., 1909-03-01

NEW YORK, March 1.-Will Jockey
Eddie Dugan pilot the winner of the
English Derby. and will the victor be an
American thoroughbred? That question
will keep the turf world alive for some
time as the clever little pigskin artist
has been offered the leg up on Sir Mar
tin in the classic event, provided Harry
Payne Whitney fails to send one of his
stars to the post. Judging from the
stable of three-year-oes that Whitney
shipped to the other side. it is hardly
probable that he will have one Of them
carry silks at EPSON Downs in this blue
ribbon race. as none has shown the abil-
1tv to match it's speed with the colt that
won fortune for John f. Madden last
season.
When Sir Martin was sold to Louis
Winans for $50 OO0 ii was admitted ON
all sides that the American turf had lost
one of the gameSt thoroughbreds that
eyer performed on the metropolitan clr-
cult.
The fabulous amount paid by the Eng
lsh turfman was realized through the
fact that Madden had Sir Martin nomi-
mated to all the rich events he was ell
cibIe to on the other side. and the Derby
was the chief attraction,
Horse Has Great Chance.
That Sir Martin has great chances of
capturing the Derby must be admitted
by all who have seen him in action. 1t
Is an indisputable fact that he possesses
the sameness necessary to carry him
over a distance and is right there with
the speed The Derby will be run May
26. and the field will have to travel over
one mile and a half on the turf course
II Sir Martin can improve this season
that he dlSDIaVPO
last wear the horse that carries of the
prize will have to beat this son OF
Ogden 1t is only necessary TO take "a
line on the performances of Sir Martin
in the F'latbush stakes at SheepShead
Bay Beaten by Maskette. the whirl-
wind fiIly of James r. Keene. in the Fur
turity. the chestnut colt came back and
in a race at seven fUrlongS ran the MI!
into the ground. His showing in that
feature proved him better over distance
than in sprint.
Sir Martin rarely gets going at top
speed until half a mile has been COW
cred and then he Is travelling like the
Empire express. If Trainer Cannon can
get this bundle CT grit and speed in
good shape by the time the bugle calls
the field to the post in the Derby. then
Bayardo the colt that is looked upon by
the British hOrsemen as invlncible, will
have to look to his laurels.
Quoted at 16 to 1.
The men who quote future odds on
all the English. events don't seem to
figure highly on the chances OF Sir Mar
Tin in the Derby. as they have made him
fourth choice at 16 to /.
Dugan leaves here under a contract
calling for a salary of $4,000. With
his outside enga gements. the boy should
clean up at least $4,000 the first year.
There is one point on which Dugan
will be compelled to exercise the greatest
caution. His reputation for rough rid
ing has preceded him. He received Sc
we're setback the latter part of last sea-
son, when he was suspended for the
balance of the year for causing an ac-
cident that laid two riders up for months.
The reason Dugan has left the coast was
that the stewards set him on the ground
for two weeks for his old fault.
Evening star., 1909-03-01
Turf and Track Notes.

What is evidently an official outline of
the plans Of the Maryland Jockey Club
for this spring Is found in the Baltimore
Sun. The management counts on there
being 400 horses at Benning and in Mary
land and Virginia, hence there will be
plenty Of material, not counting many
owners who Will leave California in time
for the meeting. which will begin April
24. In defending its policy of not giving
any stakes al the meeting the officials
say that frequently such races degene-
rate into walkovers. Added money to
steeplechases and all fiat races of a mile
Or upward will be not less than 500 the
Maryland officials say.
At the age Of nnety-four there lives in
England a man said to be the oldes, in
the world who has been a professional |
Jockey. His name is Simmons Jackson
and he still has vivid recoliections of in
cidents which occurred eighty years ago.
jackson is now a pensioner of the British
government.
One OF the features of a recent day's
racing at FL Paso. Tex. was arace for
woman riders. At Tampa a feature was
a revival of the "Scully" race by which
the winning horse is exiled from the
turf. In this instance the winner is so
good specimen that he will aid the
breeding interests of Florida
whether ringside betting shall be ban
fshed from the race tracks of Texas will
be the question at Issue before the senate
OF the state legislature during the coming
week. Today two reports will be pre-
sented by committee to whom was re-
1erred the bill recently passed by the
Evening star., 1909-03-01
PLAYERS ORDERED
TO REPORT TODAY

The Chicago correspondents OF the
Washington papers have been making
quite an adoo over the fact that Man
ager Cantillon has not been in the Windy
city to welcome the Washington players,
who are to meet there to take train for
the training camp at Galveston. If there
have been any players belonging 70 the
Washington club in Chicago the past
couple of days it was the result of their
own inclination, as Manager Cantillon
told all his men to report to him today
President Noyes has been in constant
communication with Manager Cantillon
ever since the big league meeting and Joe
has been holding down the other end OF
the telegraph fire at Hickman. KY.
mo one expected Cantillon to be in
Chicago before today said President
Noyes. this morning, land he will reach
there about around the noon hour. The
players were ordered to report today and
the team will leave for Galveston tonight
Those players who went ahead of time
have only themselves to blame"
Evening star., 1909-03-01
JEFF SAYS HE WILL
FIGHT JOHNSON

OMAHA. Neb., March Jim Jeffnes.
the champion heavyweight of the world,
with his wife and Sam Berger, his spar
ring partner. passed through Omaha last
night. bound from Los Angeles to New
York. where he has twenty-week the
atrical engagement at 81 900 week. To
a sporting writer in this city Jeffries said
emphatically that after his theatrical en-
gagement he would meet Jack johnson,
present champion. He said he felt it his
duty to the sporting public to make at
least an effort to reclaim the heavyweight
championship for the white race He said
he was through with the fighting game
until johnson won the crown
Evening star., 1909-03-01
INTERNATIONAL FOOT BALL.
England Defeats Ireland in Annual
Rugby Match.

England and Ireland met this year at
Lansdowne road, Dublin. for the annual
international rugby match, and the Rose
triumphed over the Shamrock by score
of II points to 6, or. in other words, two
goals and one try to goal. 1t was re-
markable as being the first occasion in
fourteen years Of England being sue
cessful On Irish soil. 1t was an excep-
tionally fast match all through, and the
victory Of England was attributed more
to the slow and inaccurate work Of the
Irish backs than anything else. The
Englishmen played with better judgment
and stayed we'll to the end.
Evening star., 1909-03-01
.CANT|L[0N REACHES
CHICAGO At NOON
Large Group of Players on
Hand to Greet Washing
ton Manager.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, March Joe Cantillon
reached here this morning from Hickman,
KY. but didn't show up down town.
Meet you all at noon,' said Joe over
the phone and rang off.
Tom Hughes says that as near as he
can remember Freeman, Milan, Street,
Witherup. Shipke. Unglaub, Mcbride and
Conroy had been in to see him and that
Blankenship and Johnson came together
from the coast. Bill Burns should get
in at noon and will then wrangle with
Cantillon as to the money. The boys all
say, according to Hughes. that they
think Delehanty is set and determined in
his holdout.
There was never any one any more
obstinate than Del" said Milan, land
when he says he won't do anything a
team of oxen couldn't change his mind.
Same with me, too. I want to get my
troubles fixed up
George Mcbride is enthusiastic over the
prospects. II never saw a team mended
better, or with more accurate Judgment
as to the spots that needed mending than
ours,' said he. "What did we need? A
catcher who would alternate with Street
and who could hit some. We got him in
Blankenship. Then we needed one more
pitcher, a good. reliable man. and think
Gray is it. Last Of all. the 1nfield had to
be repaired, we simply had to have third
baseman. With all due respect to Shipke
Cnglaub and Elberf1eld. think Conroy is
the goods. Shipke is wonderful fielder,
but admits that he can never bat In
glaub says he would feel at home any
where but at third, and Elberfleld, even If
we had nailed him, hasn't the arm Of
Conroy."
II don't know whether / stick or stum-
ble." said little Bert Kelley.
IF Joe doesn't want me this spring,
can do we'll right here among the semi
pros. Still. / believe l could make good
with stronger team back of me, and
the team now looks plenty powerful
The team leaves here tonight for Gal
weston.
Evening star., 1909-03-01
Gotch to Wrestle Yussif.

CHICAGO. March 1.-F'rank
Gotch, champion wrestler of the
world, and Yussiff Mahmout. the
latest of the Terrible Turks" were
matched yesterday at Toronto and
will meet in Chicago about April IA.
The match will be for the worlds
championship. the title Gotch won
from George Hackenschmidt last
April. 1t will be for the best two
out of three falls at catch as catch
can style. The match will be held
at the International Amphitheater
in the stock yards. The purse Is
said to be $4,000 with the division
yet to be decided on.