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Boxing.


Ad wolgast's press agent says the
lightweight champion is "of a retiring
disposition" Surely seems so.
Packey Mcfarland and Jack Good
man are carded to fight ten rounds
at the Fairmont A. c.. New York, next
Tuesday night.
Digger" Stanley. the English box
er who arrived in New York this
week, will have his first tryout with
frankie Burns.
Knockout Brown and Tommy Muir
ply will meet again in New York
twelve days hence. In a recent scrap
Brown put it all over the kid with the
Irish monicker.
Bill Lang, the Australian champion,
and sam Langford have been matched
to fight in London on the sixteenth
of next month. If the dinge doesn't
win easily, there will probably be 2
reason other than ability to do so.
Athletics.
From the number of entries re-
ceived from all over the country, it is
probable that tomorrow's big indoor
meet of the Chicago Irish-American
A. C will be the biggest thing Of its
kind ever pulled off in the Windy
City.
Pennsylvania basketball five will
wind up its southern invasion by
playing St Johns College at Annap-
oils today and the Naval Academy
teams tomorrow. on Feb. the
Quakers will begin a northern tour
with Yale at New Haven, to be fol-
lowed by games with West Point,
Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and
Rochester.
Among the basketball games
scheduled for tomorrow are Yale VS..
Pratt Institute at Brooklyn; Pennsyl-
yania VS.. Naval Academy at Annapo-
lis, and Princeton Ys. Military Acad-
emy al West Point. The big college
hockey games are also 10 be played
tomorrow. Princeton meeting Cornell
at the St. Nicholas rink. New York
and Yale playing Dartsmouth at the
Boston Arena.
Baseball.
1t is stated that a new manager for
the st. Louis Browns will be named
Sunday, and the job will probably &c
to Harry Brown.
number Of professional baseball
players sailed on the Oreana this week
for Bermuda, where they will enter
tain the tourists and incidentally get
in shape for the coming season.
In the II years Christy Mathewson
has been with the Giants he has led
them to 263 victories and has figured
in only 11s defeates. His greatest
number Of successes in a season was
81, made in 1903.
Big Six" twice has twirled no-hit
games since he has been a member of
the New York club, performing this
feat against St Louis on July Is,
1901, and against Chicago on June 10,
1905.
The Chicago White Sox will begin
the spring exhibition season at Fort
Worth, Tex, on March 4 and 5. Later
in the month they will play games
with Houston, Galveston, Waco and
Dallas.
"Rube" Marquard has established a
chicken farm in the rube-arbs Of
Cleveland. "Rube" says he has had
a wide experience with fowls and he
is full of confidence in his ability to
become the poultry king of Ohio.
Cleveland will have a clerical bat
tery on the spring training trip, as
Yingling, secured from Toledo, and
Bradley, a catcher drafted from
Johnstown, Pa, are both sons Of min
listers Moreover, their papas are
proud or them.
II Hot Springs, Ark, succeeds in
keeping on the lid, it will likely be-
come the training headquarters Of the
major and big minor league teams.
In the past the Arkansaw resort has
offered too many temptations 10 base
ball players.
The Louisville Colonies, of the
American Association. and the Toron-
70 Eastern League will probably meet
in a series of four games, to be play
en- in the Kentucky metropolis next
April. II has been several seasons
since these teams have matched
their strength.
Jimmy McAleer is entertaining
great expectations OF big find in
Pitcher Busy, who last year made
a great record in the Virginia league.
He won twenty-three and lost only