The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-21
$3.50 PER MINUTE
TO BE PAID BOXER
Packey Mcfarland and Mike Gibbons to
Go Ten Rounds for s3a,soo--
Other Sporting Gossip.

II New York, Aug. 2l--New heights il
: ring finance were reached in the signing
of Packey Mcfarland and Mike Gibbons
to box in this city three weeks from to-
day. These two glove artists agreed Il
box ten rounds without decision for a
purse Of $1,000, of which Mcfarland ID
to receive $4,000 and Gibbons $4,000
No title will be involved, and even
though knockout occur the result will
be without championship value.
Under the circumstances, the paying
of 1888 per minute to Mcfarland and
$500 per minute to Gibbons establishes
what is undoubtedly new record in
? limited round pugilism. Owing to the
boxing skill and reputation of these
modern ring generals, the gate receipts
are quite likely to exceed by several
thousand dollars the purse and other
incidental expenses, but there is nothing
in local pugilistic history to warrant the
idea that the receipts will approach the
, figures reached in famous battles of the
past.
The largest gate receipts ever recorded
at bout in New York were $66,30o,
taken at the Jeffries- Sharkey 25-round
iOuSub fL 1putf ISthllu NOV d,
1899. The fight between Jim Corbett
and Kid Mccoy, during the closing days
lof the Horton law, under which some of
the greatest bouts Of modern ring his
tory were fought. netted S56,350 at the
gate. Championship fights in Nevada,
Australia, and several other points, have
drawn larger gates, but many famous
| fighters, including Nelson, Cans, Britt, |
McGovern, Fitzsimmons, Ketchel JEFF |
fries, and Corbett risked, and in some |
cases lost, their titles before fstic gath |
erings, the receipts from which did not /
equal the sum set aside for Gibbons and
Mcfarland.
The European war has taken its toll I
in German sports, as well as from the
other nations engaged in the great con-
flict. Among the latest reports from
Berlin is one to the effect that the an
nual fall races of the German Motorboat II
club usually held on the Muggelsee, near
Berlin, have been cancelled, The fact
that many n.storboat owners with their
craft have Joined the Volunteer Motor
boat corps, and the necessity of saving
gasoline are the reasons assigned. This
cancellation of the races for the second II
time deals the motorboat sport heavy
blow, for there has been nothing along |
this line since the Baltic sea trip OF
the Imperial Motor Yacht club in June,
1914. The club in announcing the can
collation. says that nothing is planned
for the immediate future.
III
An intersectional return match be.
tween the racquet stars of the Pacific III
and Atlantic coasts appears to be a Ger
tainty. The eastern tennis players are III
keen TO meet their western conquerors III
again, believing that they can retrieve II
on grass the honors lost on the asphalt II
courts of the far West. The National II
association officials are planning to III
stage the matches at Forest Hills, L. l., IL
the national championship :
tournament.
Baseball under big league system will d.
De played in Cuba next season. The new SC
organization viii be known as the Fed. $
raj league, and in the future the game Y
will be governed in the same manner pr
is il is in the United States. A national al
commission, umpires, contracts, and all "
he appurtenanees of big league baseball ell
viii figure in the Cuban organization in oN
he future. al
tn
The members of the Syracuse univer- ly
ity football team will be able to qualify
5 veteran globe trotters, when the 1915 Oh
ridiron season has ended No eastern be
ollege eleven of recent years has faced tn
$ many and as long jumps as the Or az
nge schedule calls for this fall, with a en-
Jason which begins at home on Sept. 25 ne
nd ends at Portland, Ore, on Dec 1. mi
The team starts touring on Oct. q lin
hen Princeton viii be played at Prince
IN. The following Saturday Rochester
i'll be met at home, and a week later
ie Syracuse eleven viii go to Provi.
ence TO face Brown. Ann Arbor win
: visited on Oct. 30, for the purpose Of
aging Nost's University of Michigan
-idiron clan. The first two Saturdays
November viii be spent at Syracuse
pertaining Mt. Union and Colgate
ans. Dartmouth viii follow on Nov.
!, and then the Orange eleven viii trek
Thanksgiving day will see
Il team engaged with the University of
ontana players az Missoula and on
ec. J Syracuse win close an exceedingly
Isy season by taokling the Oregon Az
cultural college team at Portland, Ore
Walter Perry johnson, mainstay Of
2 Washington American league club
tching staff. completed eight years Of
'irling service for Clark Griffith on the
Il Of the month. johnson joined the
81 I
u in his teens His big circuit debut -
Il made against the Detroit Tigers. -
4 although he allowed six hits he was ~
~ defeated 3 20 after a close game
ring his eight years with the Mash.
ton club, johnson has played in near.
400 games and has a grand batting
rage Of les and grand fielding aver.
2 Of ISL. His highest fielding average
= 1000. made IN 1919 and his best
ting figures, .264, were made the year