The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30

THE ALASKA C
 besides easily holding his own in
 six bouts. of a total of seventy-two
 rounds with owen Moran. Two of
 le bouts with the Englishman were
 twenty-five and twenty-three rounds
 at Les Angles and san Francisco
 Owen recently.
 Harry Gissing, the half-mile ana
 reur champion. is planning a trip O England next summer. The mid ! ilc-distanCe champion says he will
 tour through the British isles along ] win Texas Ramddell, of the Univer. ] si.y Of Pennsylvania, who won the
 English loo and 22h-yard events this l year. and between the two of them . hey out to make cleanup. Giss. l ing competing abroad calls to mind l $ mo of the former half-milers who ] tackled some of the Britons. Charlie ! kilpa,rick. the old record holder ! made a great hit abroad. as did i Johnny CT, gan. the old Princeton ] haif-milor.
 ] Floyd Mcfarland has been com. pctinE in bicycle races for nearly ] .nenty years and is reported to be l worth s1o0.000.
 1 VTSALIA. Cal. Dec. 2i. - "Orvie , Overall. promoter" is sign that i shortly will hang from an office in ] his city or Bakersfield. according -o an announcement by the lanky l Chicago twirler today. Overall will forsake baseball, he says. for the more prOsaic life of an oil mag nate. Overall and several men well i known in the financial world are at present engaged in forming two big oil companies to operate in the l Kern county oil fields. Overall. it is understood will be one of the off l CorS.
 ! The giant Cub says his retirement is final. and not fer any amount l could he be dragged back onto a l big league diamond he says. Not even if they { me make a catcher ] out of myself" said Orvie And 1 hat is saying lot, for to be a big l ,eague backstop has been Overall s pet idea for several years. There will only be one new major i 'eague manager in the field in April next for the season of 1911. The i only certain switch will be made in l the makeup of the St. Louis Amer ! jeans, from whose manageme mt Jack i O'ConuOr was depoSed last fall al 1 the instance it is said, of an off i cial higher up in the councils of 'he American league than President i Hedgr s. of the Browns
 O'Ccnnor signed a two years con ! tract with St. Louis last spring.
 The Hope Lineup. Con O'kelly is native of Ire land. 23 years of age; won the ] Olympic wrestling championship in ] lonIon;. weighs 220 pounds; stands 6 f. ct 412 inches. Ring experience seven months as boxer, fought eight time, won four on knockouts. 1 popular decisions in three, and DO lice stopped other to save cppo- ncnt. Trained by Tommy Ryan. ! Miles Mcleod was born in Mis- s0uri and has been a farmer; 26 years of age; weighs 225 pounds; stands feet , inches. Ring expert cnCe-none. Trained by Joe Choyn- ski
 Carl Morris halls from Oklahoma and has been a railroad engineer; weighs 20 pounds; is g. years Cf age. and stands 6 feet f inches in height. Ring experience - boxed a hit while a member of the United states army and since he entered he professional ranks. three months ago, he has disposed of several third raters. Trained by Ed die Robinson.
 : Jack Lester is Westerner. 19 years of age, weighs 1S0 pounds, stands feet II inches in height Ring experience - twenty-two mi nor fights. Trained by Tommy Burns.
 Walter Monahan makes his home ill Chicago, where he is now train ing partner of Jack Johnson; 21 years of age weighs 2O4 pounds. stands feet 1112 inches. Ring eX- perience - showed absolutely noth- ing in his first bout with George Cotton, in Pittsburg, on December 20. Trained by Jack Johnson.
 Bombardier Wells is the heavy weight champion of England; 23 years of age, weighs 200 pounds, stands feet 3 inches in height Ring experience-won the boxing championship of the British army while stationed in India; in recent months he has defeated all Eng fish heavyweights of any preten- ton.
 George Henderson comes from Titusville, Pa. Little is known of him outside his own locality, but he is said to be 26 years of age, and to weigh 200 pounds. His chief claim to distinction is said to be his ability to take a kick from a horse without being 'feaZed."