Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-08
PACK JOHNSON is scheduled to az

TACK JOHNSON is scheduled to ap-
pear in this city for the first time
tonight. The Kruger Auditorium
is the place where those who wish to
see the man that Jim Jeffries hopes to
conquer will ave to go. Jack. it is
said. will be in good shape for tonight's
show. having played no matinee today,
and it is expected he will give Newark
ers a chance to see him at his best.
The reports hat the show would dis
band here are denied by the advance
agent of the show, who says that the
big negro goes to Boston next week.
Just now there is a whole lot of talk
about the negro ''stalling'' to send up
h odds against him. It's rather early
20 start that game. People will be able
to judge for themselves when they get
a good look at the negro champion.
Johnson is undoubtedly a great fighter.
and whether victor or the vanquished
on Independence Day, he will nave
proved h If Jeffries trims the Gal
weston negro he should get credit for
two things--one for recovering a title
he had given up and the other for beat
ing one of the greatest fighters that
ever lived.
Either George Memsic has conn back
with a5crash or Ad Wolgast is not the
wonder he is cracked up to be. 1t looks
as If the latter is the case. Though
Wolgast got the decision, a
draw would not have been much amiss.
A study of the fight shows that Bat
Ting Nelson won't nave a hard battle
retaining his title when he meets VOL
CAST on W~ashington's Birthday.
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The story won't down thai Captain
Eddie Hart. of Princeton, will not play
next year. 1t Is said that the commit
tee of three surgeons and the graduate
advisory committee has decided that it
is hazardous both to the player and the
game to allow Hart to play. Like
Lieutenant Graves up at West Point
in 1905, Hart51nay remain as captain
with either Sparks or MacGregor ais
field captain. It's too bad that Prince
ton loses such q man AS Hart.
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According to present indications it
would appear that the last part of the
National League schedule for this next
season Will be "a continuous line of
double-hsaders Charles III. Ebbets, of
he Brooklyn Club, who is drafting the
schedule of 16S games, say the stunt is
easy: all one has to do is Il schedule
double-headers. That ma be all right,
If it does not rain too much before the
last stretch.
President Lynch, an advocate of the
twelve-month contract for ball play
ers. has intlinated that before long the
clubs will adopt the all-year-round
contract. Mr.. Lynch says that the
nI1Ih nuyr1nVr III NOT @ktnat 81. x,Ax-
going on trips to Cuba and playing
football, If they will only ask permits
sion of the owners. If the latter do
not care, why IS it necessary for the
players to ask permission?
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H. L.. Rollenetz, the well-known base
!. ball manager, has secured Olympic
Park, and will run indoor baseball
mes there every Thursday night. The
.,s res are to be played in the dancing
,aspHon and are to be tho same as out
81 aseball in every respect, with
nlAeption of the ball and bat. There
.na1 dancing before and after the
~ a,A@piesent he has signed up five
,a,ai ~lhtblayers, whom he will announce
+,.esda Q1l day or two, and any of the
e pc ENDS who have ~frequented Wei
- 5ycr'S Park will be sure TO see
ons of the good old-time baseball games
which we had down there last summer.
The contest will be between the All
Leaguers and Newark.
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TO the Sporting Editor of the Evening Star:
Kindly give the breeding history of
Sterling Mckinney, 2:o6%. Where did
he take his record? j.. A. B..
Sterling Mckinney is a brown stall
lion, foaled in 1900; sired by Mckinney,
Ell, dam Twenty-third, by Director
1889; granddam Nettie Nutwood, by
Nutwood, 800. He was bred by James
w. Rea, of San Jose, Cal. He took his
record August 8, 1908, at Kalamazoo,
Mich.-Ed.
To the Sporting Editor Of the Evening Star:
Where was Packy MacFarland born
and what was the date of his birth?
FIGHT FAN.
At Chicago. H., November /, 1888.
Ed.
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To the Sporting Editor Of the Evening Star:
Was there ever a white scrapper who
gained any fame by the name of Jack
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