The San Francisco call., 1910-04-05
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1t is said that if Jim Jeffries wins his coming
battle Es With JACK Johnson he proposes TO follow
trip to Africa after big game
According 10 dispatch: from Wheeling W.
v, Stanley Ketchel will undergo CD operation
for an injury to his thumb which he suffered
in his recent battle with Frank Klaus The
operation is TO be performed at Pittsburg
hospital
The. New York American team is starting
OF with bad luck. Already there many
cripples on the Yankee team.
outhelder .-Rube' Ellis Of the st. Louis Car
dinals has refused to join the team in Texas
because he was denied $500 advance money to
offered transportation for and $40 for ex-
pepses.
Zbyszko, the Polish wrestler has been
matched for a finish bout with Yankee Rogers
Of Buffalo. to be held in Wlkesbarre, Pa, on
April 2l.
Already several special trains from New York
siasts to and from the coast. and some of
these specials" even supply the seats for the
fight Besides Billy Gibson, Tom sharkey and
Bob Vernon specials there the Buckley
Oliver and the Bob Murphy special trains. On
the latter Big Tim Sullivan and his party
all Of the prominent ,sportsmen in Harlem and
the upper West Side have begun besieging
Buckley and Oliver for accommodations on their
train.
olambas. the $4,000 son of ornus and Blue
and White. is picked the star in the elder
olambala won the Twin City and Municipal
handicaps with ease last year and has developed
both strength and speed during the winter.
Olambala is in training Belmont park.
Last year he found it impossible to beat Fitz-
herbert. but with Fitzherbert out of the way
be breezed by King James in the Twin City
1t is hardly likely that olsmbala will do any
racing at Empire City or Brighton beach
George stallings says that the Hishlanders
will make the other teams hustle. He declares
that his recruits will patch up the weak places
on the team.
which comes in August this year has added a
stake, worth $4,000. for trotters -Four
stakes alone Of the Detroit meeting are worth
$2l 900. while the entire meeting will be worth
more than twice that sum- The Merchants and
Manufacturers stake, the classic of the meet
ing, is worth $4,000. Entries for the meet will
close on April 3. Purses to be announced later
will swell the grand total to s55. 900, according
to latest information from Detroit
Manager Donovan Of the Red Sox is of the
opinion that "a man T.s can no not play basket ball
is too much OF strain on any human being
1t is now said that Tim Hurst the far famed
American league umpire, will soon take flyer
in vaudeville. Timotheus should not only be a
great card for his past reputation. but would
chock full Of good Irish stories as well as mar
rstives from the ball field and ought to be a
swell entertainer
Bill Abstein is making the war correspondents
and Texas fans sit up and notice his stick work
these days. The former Gray and Pirate
pounded the leather for 10 hits In 13 times at
bat last week, earning swatting mark OF 769
for the three sessions.
The Kentucky racing commission is getting
tired of Latonia S continued postponement of the
payment Of the assessment which levied
upon II. well as the other tracks in the state.
for each day Of the races they have held.
This assessment is for the purpose of paying
the expenses of the commission and has been
made on the racetracks ever since the racing
commission was established. 1t has been
promptly paid by all the other tracks but La
tonia even for 1905 only paid a part of these
dues and for the meetings II held in 1909 with
out the authority of the commission, 1t has never
paid a cent.