The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06

Il gift from Edgar Palmer. OF New
York, president of the New Jersey
zinc company.
Speaking of names of prize fight
ers. it is not generally known thai
the proper cognomen of Charlie
White is Charles Ancowtz. He is
a Hebrew and was born in Liverpool,
England, in 1891. White has fought
some fifty or sixty battles with some
of the biggest men in the game, in
Guiding Kilbane. Dundee, Wolgast,
Young (Joe) Shugrue, Britton, Man
bright for White.
The National Sporting club OF
London persistently refuses to enter
INTO any alliance with other boxing
clubs, which is perfectly right and
proper, since the National is purely
as money making proposition.
For the benefit of the discontents
who are continually claiming that
the horse is practically on his last
legs, it may be stated that the
Russian government is reported to
rave offered c. X. G. Billings $780,
900 for Harvester. POI, and was re-
fused
Not to be outdone by Americans
in frenzied finance in athletics. our
English relatives have just announc-
ed to the world at large that Daw-
the Heart of Midlothian soccer foot
ball team, has been sold to the
Rovers' club for $4,000 while Shea
and Simpson. two other Midlothian
stars, have been sold for $4,000
each.
Professional billiardists of the Pa
cific coast are to have an opportun-
ity of playing among themselves for
the three-cushion championship in
July.
Having been notified by the police
hat they lave no objection to Jack
Johnson fighting a man of his own
color in Great Britain. a syndicate
If English sporting men has posted
100000 which is to go to Johnson
if he will fight Sam Langford in
London in either September or Oc
tober AS Johnson has always
feared Langford the chances are
that he will pass up the offer.
Harry Stone the American light
weight, is creating quite a furore
in England, attracting some attention
from Mr.. Gunboat Smith and Mr.. VIII
lie Richie. Pleace note the titles
given to the last two gentlemen
since they have received invitations
to mingle in society Stone has been
| matched to fight Johnny Summers,
the English welterweight champion,
for twenty rounds at the National
Sporting club of London.
After being in Australia for over
a year. Matty Wells. the former Eng
lish lightweight champion, has re
turned to dear OF Lunnun. Wells
the Antipodes that he can no longer
make the lightweight limit and Is
now fighting as welterwetght.
American cycle racing fans are
now looking to Clarence Carmen,
the Jamaica, L. L., pedal pusher, to
stop the winning streak of Leon Di-
der champion of France, who has
been wiping up the floor with every
one who has come in his way since
he arrived in the United States.
Didier says that he is willing to
meet the best that the country af-
fords; no doubt he will have the
chance.
Despite the objections OF England
and France, the Rules. Regulations
and Records committee of the Inter
national Amateur Athletic Fedora
ton has adopted set of rules pro-
posed by the American committee. The
proposed method of timing races was
what England and France objected
to most strenuously. The rule pro-
vides that when three timekeepers
hold watches on race and two
agree and one shows a different
time the official time" shall be that
of the two watches that agree.
That there is merit in the Amerl-
can cars has at last come to be
recognized by the English The
London Times recently published
an article commencing the modern
construction of motor cars mailing
from the United States" and naming
what it considered the most repre-
sentative machines.
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