The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-03
English Lords Are Anxious to-
Attend Jeffries-JOhnsOn
Battle.
IRISH ORGANIZATION IS
PLANNING AVIATION MEET
Press Forces Freddy Welsh Into
Twenty-ROund Contest With
Packey Mcfarland.
BY RICHARD DAHLGREN
,jal Cable 10 The Tribune.

beaten Ireland Is getting ready to hold
an aviation tournament We have never
looked TO Ireland as an aerial possibility
although the island has produced some
mighty athletes. But the Aero Club OF
ireland is holding a. series OF meetings
in Dublin, Lord Mayo presiding, to make
preparations for an aviation tourney
near the Irish capital.
1t is, of course, impossible to hold a
meeting as successful as those at Don
caster or Blackpool, because the Irish or
ganization cannot raise the necessary
$50. 900. They will be content with $l0.-
600 meeting. and, as Ireland has never
seen flying meeting, even this cheaper
gathering will be quite a novelty. There
are crack aviators In both Belfast and
Dublin and the craze for awaiting has
been spreading across the ould sod ever
since the Rheims meet in France. The
Irish tournament will be held upon a
raceconrse' and those mentioned so far
are Curragh Phoenix park and Leopards-
town.
Danny Maher. tho crack American
jockey has branched out In sport and
has shown himself Just as skiliul In
guiding bobsleds as he has In guiding
horses. Maher competed at ST. Morltz.
as pilot of tho Mouse. He won the race
and later won the Rickett cup for the
fastest single course.
sled riding rIdlng Is o t;r great & Sport IT, reS- eS-
land. sit has all the exhilirauon OF
horse racing. and when I get too heavy
for riding I may devote serious attention
to sled tournaments in the mountain
countries of the continent"
Maher laughed as he added:
"You know, man never gets too fat
to guide a bob-sleigh."
Interest in Fight.
There has been much talk Of a party
OF noblemen. headed by the Earl of Rose
berry. attending the Jeffries-Johnson prize
fight In California next summer. I hear
that quite a number of members Of par
lament have expressed the hope that
they may be able to attend but a great
deal depends upon the political condi-
tons in England at the time OF the hght.
The Earl OF Rosebery, who was formerly
the sport, and l have not the slightest
doubt that Lord Lonsdale will be pres
ent The last named has contributed a
number, OF belts; insignias OF various
grades In pugilistic championships.
Freddy Welsh. the lightweight cham
pion of England. came into line too late
to save his popularity; nevertheless It
the British and American press which
finally drove him into negotiations with
Packey Mcfarland Of Chicago for fight
before the Nauonal sporting club or TINS
city, May SO, The fight is scheduled to
go twenty rounds and there will be
side bet OF $1,000 in addition TO the guar
anteed purse OF $500 Mcfarland has
referee of the National Sporting club,
be the third man in the ring,
That watchful agents of Baron Roth
schild are stationed at every important
continental money king has purchased
Nithsdale, and the horse has already
been shipped to Vienna,
II was feared for q time that the death
OF Curly Watson, the pugilist. who was
killed in a ten-round fight before the
Wonderland club in London, would re-
suit In q check on the game, but moth
ing of the kind has come yet. The coro-
ners inquest established that Watson had
trained for the fight and was In first
class condition when he stepped Into the
ring. He had drunk nothing save a
glass OF sherry, and was feeling ex-
tremely fit
] was present at the fight and. to my
judgment it appeared that heavy blows
on the heart caused watson's death
His heart may naturally have been weak
Such an occurrence as this in the United
States would likely lead TO all kinds Of
drastic laws.
Big Horse Show.
Things have indeed come to pretty
pass when the political situation is al
lowed to interfere with the decorous pur-
suance of the parliamentary golf haudi-
cap. Sadly do / chronicle this fact, At
a meeting held in the house Of commons
1t was resolved to abandon for this sea-
son the system OF a match-play tourna-
ment and to decide the event IN a day
by means OF a round against "bogey."
This departure from principle, positively
rude in its suddenness, is being under
taken taken for no better reason than that
tlon. or some other agitating influence,
arising in June.
Fortunately the majority OF M, P.'s
are fairly well seasoned In the matter OF
opposing a quantity with that name. II
may be a story about Chinese slavery,
or old age pension. or black bread-it is
to whom falls the pleasing duty OF cX-
posing Its weaknesses and finally dis
missing ii with contempt So that there
WIN be few lacking the knowledge OF
the links Of the Royal st. Georges club
next June.
The American entrants in the Intena-
tional Horse Show Will strive with Wig
orous endeavor to win the King Edward
VII gold cup, which will be the princi-
pal trophy Equally strenuous win be
inc endeavors OF the British contestants
TO Keep the cup In this country. for It is
Donated by the king and 1t would seem
S.congruous TO talse IL into q republic.
but the winning Of the kings cup in a
way follows the Same American desire
Tor European honors by marriages.
In addition TO many valuable cups. in
ciuding the kings gold cup and the Con-
naught gold cup, for jumpers, more than
s60O VIII be distributed at the fourth
international show. TO be held June 6
to 16. entries TO close May I. Besides
the. money given for premiums. the di-
rectors propose 10 spend about $3.50 900
in organizing the show For light har-
ness horses. roadsters or trotters there
arc six classes one being for champions
with a $3.50 cup added. In the harness
classes pairs and singly, there are thirty
one classes. one being for hackney stall
lions for the Oconomowoc challenge plate
of $3.50 and one for the Radiant chal-
lengc cup for gig horses. won last year
by w. III. Moore with Radiant, Among
them are also three selling classes in
which horses may be claimed at $3.50.
The Australian tennis team. which
will Invade the United states during the
coming summer, will play most of it's
important matches east OF Chicago. No
games have been arranged for in Cali
fornia. although the team will land at
San Francisco