The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-08

championship of 1916 will be appropriated
 before the teams head south for spring training
 Jeff Smith, the American pugilist who sued Snowy" Baker, the Australian fight promoter, for a share of the gate receipts of his bout with Les Darcy at Sidney on May p, was recently declared without redress by the jury which heard the evidence. The trial judge granted
 a stay of execution. however, and it is probable that the suit will be carried to a higher court
 In the death of Michael Ratsey, which 1 occurred at Kingston upon-Thames, Eng land, recently the watching world has lost veteran designer of racing craft, whose name was prominently mentioned on two continents in connection with the An!erica's cup race nearly 50 years ago. Ratseys yards were situated at Cowes. Isle of Wight, England, and there were built Cambria and Livona, both cup chal- lengers, when schooners raced for the great yachting prize. In 8 race across the Atlantic In 1870 Cambria defeated Hauntless by one hour and 4S minutes from Daunt's Rock to Sandy Hook, talk ing the northern course of 29l7 miles,
 while Dauntless took a southern and lerger course of 2963 miles,
 III 3t uSuSl bL tldt SdIIlo ear HI d. race with nine other schooners for the
 Americas cup, Cambria finished last
 hut got eighth place on time allowance.
 MT. James Ashbury, owner of the Cam
 bria, ordered another schooner from Rat
 sey and Livoria the cup challenger was
 launched from the Cowes shipyard in
 the spring of 1871. On her arrival here
 Livonia sailed a series of four out of
 seven races for the Americas cup. Each
 time she sailed against a single boat and
 was beaten by Columbia in the first two
 and won the third Sappho, another Amer
 ican boat. beat the challenger in the fourth and fifth contests, ending the se-
 ries and America cup races until 1875. While open racing is still regarded as impossible in France breeders of thor oughbred horses for profit rather than sport find the situation there critical. The lack of a market for young horses has encumbered the breeding establish
 ments with yearlings and two-year-olds
 and the expenses for maintenance are
 becoming burdensome Strong arguments
 have been made for a partial resump-
 ton of racing in order to class the thor
 oug hbreds with a view to maintaining the standard of future production American owners have made several entries for next years French turf fix lures. In the principal three-year- events, w. K. Vanderbilt has named 2S colts and Allies; August Belmont has entered 16; H. B. Duryea, '; Charles Car
 roll, '; Frank J. Gould, 5; Harry P. Whit ney 4; J. E. Widener 4; w. Astor Chan Ter. 5, and John Sanford I.
 Frank Moran, leading aspirant for tn. heavyweight championship, believes that Titleholder Jess Willard's chief weakness lies in his inability to assmilate hard t,l, fn o,S3r faxr drives amidships will topple the pugil- istic Colossus Jack Johnson made the same prediction just before the famous battle of Marianne. To prove the cor rectness of his theory he landed blows with the precision and power of a 13-inch l shell all along Willard's waist line. Th7 net result was several red spots on the , atter's smooth torso. Possibly Moran can dc much better but Missouri still has l several inhabitants.