The Brooklyn Citizen from Brooklyn, New York • 5

ft trrfi'Tl'iiiiwii'oni 5 Bowling; Boxing, Athletics MEWS Basketball, Gossip, Etc. 1 THE BROOKLYN CITIZEN. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1007, SUTTON WILL DEFEND TITLE. Trimming Christmas Trees in Nevada. LAST SEASON FOR PRES.

CORDES Will Never Aflain Serve As Head of Individual Tourney Albion Alleys Out. VETERAN-BOY TEAM A WINNER James Dunne and Willie Slater Defeat Corbett and Hyland in a Match. Individual Championship. Plays Ora Morningatar at Balkline in Chicago To-Night. 18.2 George Slit ton will defend llis title at 18.2 Imlkline billiards against Ora Mom-ingstar to-night in Chicago, ami it is probable Dial it will lie the bnt nun.

Ii in which a norld's i luiiiiiionsbii will he, played under the present renditions. Professional billnirdisls are opposed to games of such short durations as 50(1 mints. Jim Hart Gi.es His Idea of Practice Trip. side of the court to the other and did sjihndtd plsivinjr. There whs great x-' i'f u-rnt when both sides stood even lit i 1 1 1 with Oorbetfs hand in.

sun ns he tossed the hall it was ifhirtf his hand went out. Slater took Ins hund in nnd ns he went to th no. Iitn Dunne wntohed the outside piny nd s.nt nmit bottom brick piny to thW from wall and won the deciding ace. I 'top of this game was as follows: Du it tie and Sluter 21 Cmi und Hyland 20 The third was fine of science nd I it rd.ijinsr on both sides. Dunn md s'uter etirlv Jnsi the lead in this 1 1 1 1 but ''Ofiii won it hack and kept it, Tin ore stood: Dunne and Sbiler 2t i 1 1 ami Hyland 18 i 'Pile Hr 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 ilnii'i'-sWlH i ll l) Mil I tt.l.

i ii 1 1 1 i I .1 'I kin luindlmil Min mI-i Ii I till- IHU IK I till 1 ill l.iilim 'Mr 1 1 i wfll md I that ntiifd tlif Ii mi- 1 1 i 1 1 play I in', i ivt.sf Will mi in Inn. look- Iit8t If tt ''till ji.ii I 1 fit nt i 1 it ii 1 i il ic fd i 1 7 ihn I pir.n Jipp I.V U.8 lit I I 1111114 i 1 1 LMIIIIC .1 1 1-1 'lit fl i Ic ll a- I i I tI1( I inn i i In f'lll 8 1 if cd It i not i tin i h.s the tii i i. tin -lid Ii I1 is tiv I hips udh nun 4 rh.r I unit O'lf. ik ln ll i fl I 1 iftunifd the It ill the 't tfiin i mi fh. front 1 1 IMihd- i.

went mil in hum i i tft i in.idc is V-fp It 1 8 h.i nd .18 tied i it on nj Slater took Jits (Min tne Ini Ilf. 7 Tlu other games played were as fob. low PI in noil and Lyons Muhhill und Idddv fire only twelve howlers who have class enough to compete in a championship. There whn a meeting of the executive committee of the Greater New Yotk Individual Tournament at the Grand Central Academy to consider the resignation of the Alliion nlleys. The resignation whs accepted and the Idle Hour tilievs.

No. 1HJN Amsterdam avenue, between I5ttlh and 151st street, owned by John Chiii-imin. has been awarded the rest of the Albion schedule. Jimmy Smith, who wits the Alliion represeulHlite. will lin-islt out his home schedule tut the Idle Hour alleys.

llis hist series there will be rolled to-morrolv night with Whitehead. The match gtjmo between Champion Smith and YtKirlteis, which starts lo-night on the Tuxedo alleys, in Newark, is likely to result in general exodus towards Jersey this afternoon. As a proof of what a crowd is exis'cted to witness the games, the fact that the geberal admission is 25 cents, with seats costing 50 and 75 cents extra, is sulli-eient. The series is expected to lie a ay better tlmn the one between these two men last season. Voorheis is in better trim, und Smith, ns the result of his being hailed as champion, rolls with confidence that puts twenty pin on Ills game.

It is not at all Bkely after all. that there will be so much betting on the result. The match looks too much like an exhibition to get the crowds worked up to a high pitch. The men are sure to howl for all that is ill the game, for victory menus a whole lot to both of them. Billy Flanagan, of the Tribune team, is matched to meet Smith in a series best eleven in twenty-one games.

The first ten games of the match will, be rolled on the Grand Central alleys at 4 oclock Wednesday moruing. The remaining games are to be played on Me-Lntighlins alleys, where Flanagan has decisively beaten Smith, Erdntan and Hartley. The match is for $100, and it is real money, too. his in nd I hr lilies MImas Dunne und S' tier 21 1 oof Ihl.ind Id! When the spii.nd j.une u.i culled W.ls fd.iill sec lh.lt I lie (lilUlpUMii i crv nenoiis Vim tt Ihiaudi the le.id in this nl one S11I1(, oWtlm in serve. fiMwevir.

and tune nnd asnm f'onnors would turn to his younj partner and savjonhlN D'Shea Never mind. Wiliie, thou have not won On neyt Sunday William Courtney and Ihi Rame. After evrnl liHuds were I Tlmma Dunne will pluy James ITnnne, played the jw ore was nod eighteen I and William Schmidt to decide the' OVnnnell and Lyons Dr and Reed. i arc Shortell Partl.md and Connell Cae nnd "'later and Rognn Uv.in ami Hurley 1t Ward und Maekessy 21 Dunne and Schmidt T. Dunne and Corby Honey and Hanlon Duly and Campbell When James Hart was president of the Chicago National l.eagne Base Club lie gate expression In a sentiment concerning spring priutn tin tii that is coming to he regarded as true by many managers.

The purpose of training trip. lie said, is to mi I lie pla.vers in dating try playing bam country towns is ot more condition. Tliis pm king around the nmii-liarni than benefit. In the first place the blitters go against a bum lot ot pitchers aud get the idea they can nail the hall any time they want to. It takes about half a dozen league games to show them their error.

"Then the grounds usually are poor, lending to twisted ankles ami other accidents. Perhaps the worst of all is the change of dief and frequent travel by night, which go a long wav toward upsetting the benefits of the training trips. Players under Contract generally know how to play the game: they don't need any longer training thnn is required to put their muscles in good shape. They require short spell of locating flies and fungo hitting. The pitchers, of course, need more care than the other players, elusions ith the enlanrs at Iiiigln polo, hut a few weeks stay at Hot Springs Ip 1 last Friday lie Tigers had the iead should gp a long wav toward putting in the Intercity League, when they were them in fine condition.

vanished by Captain MeKeefry's boys RUGBY POLO AT RINK. Flushing Tigers Flay Fast Centaur Team To-Night Race for Medals. To-night at the Clermnni Avenue Rink the speedy Flushing Tigeis wdl itv mn- PUGILISTS WALLOWING IB A SHOWEB OF GOLD ace-. This set the onlookers applauding. Young Xlater was kepi running from one STANDING OF ELKS TEAMS.

Brooklyn Elks Are Not Making the Showing That Was Expected Jersey City Leads. Although the Brooklyn quintet of howlers are conceded to have the strongest line-up in the P. O. Elks League, the present standing of the team shows that will have to hustle to keep from being among the tail enders when the schedule is finished. Jersey City at present leads.

Billv Cordes is the onlv Brooklyn Elk who is making good in the average column. He now stands second on the list, Cnrydon. of the Jersey five, being first. The list of the arerages follow: ThiR same Herman lows to Joe Gam a battle between Jim Jeffries and a suit-at Tonopnh, recently, gets knocked able opponent, out and yet receives as a balm to his feelings. Greenriver offers $30,000 for a good ThiR is certain the golden age of pugilism.

By the same token the State of Nevada is the golden meeca for the men of the mitts. Not so many years ago two bruisers of acknowledged cleverness would get together and maul one another for the edification of a bunch of boxing enthusiasts for, purses in the neighborhood of $1,000. And the fighters of those days thought they were paid well for their services. Things are different now. Noah Brusso, better known to the sporting fraternity as Tommy Burns, received $1.25 and carfare for his initial battle.

His recent mixup with Philadelphia Jack OBrien in Los Angeles netted him exactly $10,000. Kid Herman, the Ghetto champion, fought his first fight in Chicago and received about four bits for his portion of the work in a bout in which he proved the victor. Battling Nelson earned 82.50 for his first appearance in (hieago and was presented with $18,000 as his hit of the battle with Joe Cans at GoldheW. Gans received $12. last for his Nel- son fight and (17.000 for slowing away Kid Herman, a total of $29,000 for forty-nine rounds of milling.

Gans had. tip to the time of the golden age in Nevada, been fighting for more than ten years. During that time lie mnv have earned a trifle more thRn $29,000 all told, hut bettor portion of ttpnils. Gans is to receive $15,000 from the Tonopah Athletic Club if he heats Jimmy Britt in March. His portion will be 000 if he loses.

Scores of ehampioins have made less in their entire careers. Rhyolite, it is said, offers $50,000 for WHITE SOX ABE ECONOMICAL Game. To-Night. Nelson vs. Ivostcr, at the Universal alleys.

Cohn vs. Durand, at the Rnperha nlleys. lielitas vs. Ross, at the Columbia alleys. Steinquest vs.

Schwcbkc, at the Broad-wav Arcade. Weingarth vs. Hall, at the Riverside alleys. As the result of all the criticism heaped upon the Greater New York Individual Tournament, President William Cordes announces that he will not serve as the chief executive of the tournament next season. Cordes also says that he is in favor of permitting a committee of newspapermen select the contestants.

He takes exception to the letter of George Bell and the comments thereon in last Saturdays Citizen. He says the tournament has class, but admits tljere are not eighteen bowlers "of championship calibre. Again Cordes pays thnt it is hard to get contestants willing to put up the $25 entrance fee. He admits that in a championship tournament it would be better for all concerned if there was no entrance fee. Bert Allen und Champion Jimmy Smith both say that at the very most I A.

II. 1HN SKATERS National Skating Association Gets a Warning. After a conference 6f the officials of the Amateur Athletic Union held yesterday it was decided to inform the National Skating Association that unless they at once rescinded the resolution adopted at their meeting held on Jan. IT the Amateur Athletic Union would cancel alliance wilh the National Skating Association and assume all control over amateur skaters and skating in the United Stntcs. Following is a copy of a letter sent yesterday to Secretary Francis M.

Clarke: In view of the action of the National Skating Association at its meeting held on Jan. 17, where you, in effect, decided by a vote not to recognize the alliance of the Amateur Athletic Union with the Canadian Am a tent Athletic -Union, as well as the alliance with the Amateur Athletic Union with your own association, I beg to advise you that unless yon rescind at once yonr resolution passed at that meeting, as president of the Amateur Athletic Union, I will order a telegraph vote cancelling at once the alliance with the National Skating Association of America, and the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States will assume control of amateur skating in the United States. A notice will be Bent to every skater in the United States to the effect that should he compete in violation of our alliance with the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union at the skating tournament to be held at Montreal on Feb. 2 the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States and the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union will disqualify each skater who takes part in this unsanctioned meeting. Very truly.

JAMfiiS E. SULLIVAN, President." Chairman John J. Dixon, of the National Registration Committee, has instructed each member of the National Registratiorff Committee of the Amateur Athletic Uitiou to notify all skaters in each district of he Amateur Athletic Union that should they compete in Montreal on Feb. 2 they will be disqualified by the Amateur Athletic Union and the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union. President Sullivan said yesterday: The attitude of the National Skating Association amused me very much.

We have tried to build up that Association by keeping our bands off skating. The Amateur Athletic Union never wanted to control skating, bnt when we have an alliance we are going to back up the association with which we have the alliance. Thats just what we have alliances for, and if the National Skating Association does not rescind that resolution at once the Amateur Athletic Union will tnko control of skating and the National Skating, Association will cease to exist. In other words, if they want to be good hoya and continue their alliance with the Amateur Athletic Union they have a chance to hold another meeting and rescind their resolution. Otherwise, they will lose control of amateur skating.

Its something that's up to them to decide. Its at just such times as this that the Amateur Athletic Union wants to show that it stands for clean, honest sport, and we will not tolerate competition between professionals and amateurs in any branch of sport over which we have jurisdiction or of which we approve. If thata the kind of competition the National Skating Association wants the sooner they lose control of skating the better it will be for all concerned." BASKETBALL FOR $1,000. Crescents, of Paterson, Are Willing to Play the Great Team of CAT'S KILL, N. Jan.

this winter there has been a contention by the Crescent basketball team of rater-son, N. and the Gioversville (N. team that each was the champion basketball team of the world. About two weeks ago the Crescents were defeated In two games by Gioversville, and the teams have been doing considerable talking. On Saturday night the Crescents plnjed the' a tali ill team here, and won by 2i to 12.

Before the game begin Captain Paul-' paugh of Catskill announced he had been authorized by Gioversville to say that that team would come to Catskill any time and play the Croecents for fun or money. 1 Captain Downey, manager of the Crescents, accepted the challenge, and stated that they would play Gioversville within two weeks for (1,000 or any part of that aasonat ting any results to show for them. team who know baseball as no other The illustration applies to the White men in the world. It is the judgment of Sox perfectly. It is an economical team.

these men during every game that has It makes every hit and every run count. 1 pulled game after game out of the fire. When a White Sox hatter gets safely A clever trick play or a bit of coaching to first base he is dangerous man to 1 on the side, line has turned 'defeat into any opposing team. Many Cleveland victory time after time at the South players get to first base and die there Side grounds. or are caught trying to move around, I Fielder Jones is acknowledged as one simply through lack of proper judgment of the greatest managers that has ever In base stealing the White Sox are far handled a ball club.

He is a hard work-in the lead of the Cleveland team. This ing manager and he begins his hard work is not because the local players are faster at the first game in April and never lets on their feet than the Cleveland players, up until the last game is played in Oc-but because thqy steal at the proper time tober. and are helped by the batter and the He has the confidence and respect of coachers. The Sox stole 213 bases during i every player on his club and they stand the season, while the Cleveland players by him and tight every ingh of every stole but 165. This shows great superior game.

ity in that department of tne game, espe- In looking over the scores of last sea- best team, mati li. as each side has won on LISTEN TOJHE EVERETT Says He Actually Had leff Beaten Once. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 21. Jingle, jingle, go the thousands of plunks that await the man who hooks up with Jim Jeffries.

The merry sound draw's a new challenger each week. O'Brien, Burns, Johnson, Hackenschmidt, Moir, and Squires have had their day, and now Mexican Pete" Everett, of Oklahoma, is to the front. He wants a fight with Jeff, so he says, and -wants it badly. To hack up. his claim, he points to his fight with Jeff in 1898.

Everett claims he had the best of that go. although the records give Jeff the decision. He also has quite a list of knockouts. 1 Iu making public his challenge, Everett says: I am after Jeffries scalp, aqd I am ready to agree to almost any terms to get a fight with him. I fonght him nine ygars ago in San Francisco.

Tht-sports that night were offering odds that 1 would not last four rounds. My managers and friends were covering th money. "At the end of the third round I was going easy, and bid fair to take Jeff into camp. The sports saw this and had the polios stop the bout in the fourth to save their money. I am 30 years old, and weigh 185.

I was never in such good cohdition. I fed that the championship of the world hangs in the balance, and that the odda are in. my favor. Mexican Pete expects to get a match with Mike Schreck, at Denver, CoL, within a few weeks, and says his showing there will prove that he is of cham-' pionship caliber. He has wired an acceptance of this match to the manager of the Denver Athletic Everett has a decision over Sharkey in one round.

He claims a knockout, but the records say he won on a foul. He went 20 rounds with Jack Johnson at Victor. Col. He knocked out Denver Ed Martin to three rounds; Billy Woods, champion of Utah, in nine ronnds; Ike Hayes, champion of Montana, eight rounds: Ed Cuff, three rounds; Mike Sullivan, champion of New Mexico, two rounds; Jack Turner, champion of Arizona, three rounds; Oliver Ostendorf, champion of Oklahoma, nine rounds. SPORTING GOSSIP Join the East, is the slogan of I tie letics at Michigan.

1 Some of the othay Western colleges ask if the East know it is to be joined. Good-bye, old horse, good-bye! Ant shows are getting to be as good a place for the women to show their fine drawn as the old horse shows ever dared be. Pitcher Hailing, of Texas, is to get a tryout at Boston. What a lot of railing there will be if he doesn't makt good. A life preserver on that, please, Joe Gans says it is surprising how-many people there are in New York wba remember, him now and want to bozv row two bits.

Mike Donlin has lost 20 ponnds, hto broken leg has healed and he haa qmt Bnck up. What do yon expect all at once? The way McGraws, agents are getttoy busy denying tales of an insurrectioa among the Giants last year leads some tn believe the tales are true. We ss it coming. Young Corbett asd Tommy Murphy are to fizbt to a finish ah -Tonopah. If a clause could be insertwt.

that the loser coiHd never fight again, it -might be a good thing. Tri-State League is putting on In the short time it has been within th fold it has found spire momenta to an range for farms. The axman is to be worked overtire at rittsbnrg. The ball players on th.g-tenm must be cat down to 20. Canadian bowlers are knocking at door of the American Bowling Congiaai M.

Daniels snd II. J. Han matched for a 1.000-yard swimming ra at New York February 23. Tito Kingpin when it comes toliaailKr nnntlT hall players is Joe fantillon. Ted Bullion.

Did you nofh-e tnh-s of $50,000 po took to cover at the same time it announced Tonopah was stung Iff tMj on the Gang-HtroaB f.Ufi i i 4 i from he flermout Avenue Rmk by 2 i goals to (I which put he latter team at i be top Of the li-t. Ibe entaurs haw I till list. The Ceil til lip have been showing oiisider.ihlo form of lute, i jnd with the knowledge that their opponents hud suffered defeat for the Hrst time should play a hard game with additional conlideme. Between the halve, there will he a half-mile novice race for two handsome medals of hilr and bronze. Croat are the newspapers.

A Missouri Legislator is out with a hill to kill racing by prohibiting newspapers from publishing racing news. i Goldfield will haug up a like amount for a match of good calibre. Then there are a host of other mininl camps that are ready and willing to tos stheir monev in the air for a little pugilistic excitement. But is it the fun the battles furnish that prompts the promoters in Nevada to get busy? Not much. Nevada needs advertising.

Every sporting page in America gives just so much free advertising to the forgetting the old Sage Brush nickname and adopting the other. I They are wise people in Nevada, even if they are extravagant. I And the men of the mitts are getting the harvest, I This is certainly the golden age of pugilism. OH TOE FIELD on one can pick out game after game that the White Sox won coming up from behind. Many other teams wonld give up when the opposing team starts out Jhe limelight.

As a master of advertising Coffroth is a wonder. Just at the present moment, during the in ter He sighed tip the articles that' hinds the "Pride of California to a battle with Champion Joe Gans at Tonopah on March 17. and will handle him throughout his weeks of training. Coffroth seriously thinks that Britt has a chance if he trains properly." aud Jimmie intends that his man will he fit and ready when he steps into the ring with the colored wonder. BOWLING GAMES TO-NIGHT.

Amphion Tournament Seneca va. Myr-tlp. at the Amphion alleys. Aforning Newspaper League Tribune vs. Telegraph, at the McLaughlin a'leya.

Jr. O. V. A. M.

League Warren No. 1 vs. Old Glory, at the New Eldorado alleys. Fifth Avenue Palace Tournament-Welcome vs. Yanina, at the Fifth Avenue Palace alleys.

Sunday Sehool I.eegne St. Peters, Greene Avenue. Strong Flace, at the Fraternity Hall alleys. B. P.

O. Elks Home Tournament-Teams Nos. 15. 3. 7, at the club alleys.

Stock Exchange League Read. Dooley, J. H. J. at the Universal alleys.

fl. P. O. Elks l.eagne Jersey City at $taten Island. Heptasoplis Tournament Vidette vs.

Bay Ridge. Silk City vs. Williamsburg, at the Broadway fillers. National Provident Union League Logan No. 1.

Fort Greene. Centennial No. 1. at the Universal nlleys: Ben Franklin League Eagle. Financial Chronicle, Mail, at the Graud Central st-levs.

Royal lArcannm Major League Bush-wick vs. De Long, at the Universal alleys. i er a It a fi aht i gish nng i ng tire Sail Francisco. Coffroth is looking af- the affairs of James Edward Britt. money; i hit THE MGOVERN BENEFIT.

Great Array of Athletic and Vande. ville Talent for Wedneaday Night Event. The committee of the Terry McGovern benefit fund have to-day arranged for Sie Ilassen Ben Ali and his wonderful troupe of Arabs, consisting of over twenty-five, to appear at the Terry McGovern benefit which takes place on Wednesday evening at Madison Square Garden. They have also selected William A. Brady to respond to the toast of the Best Litfle Boy of Them All.

In conjunction wilh the above the management have secured, besides the many noted boxers snd wrestlers throughout the country, Root and Foglor, champion six-day bicycle riders, in a five-mile exhibition on home trainers; George Reno, in his comedy acrobatic act; Ren Shields and his minstrel first part, consisting of Americas most capable comedians, including James Morton, Sam Bernard, Bob Dailey, Max Silver, George Cooke, Johnny Stanley, Slivers, Bill Redmond and Montgomery and Stone. The committee have received a wire from John I Sullivan stating he will try his best to be on hand. He also donated $100 to the fund. A feature of the attendance that evening will be the large number of well-known society woman who have subscribed for boxes and choice seats and who will grace the occasion with their presence. Unglaub Has An Idea to Produce Some Swatting.

WILLIAMSPORT, Jan. A. Unglaub, the crack first sacker of the Williamsport Tri-state Club, who was recently awarded to the Boston Am-relcans by the National Commission, has "devised a rule which he says would pro-dime more long hitting in hail games. In order to give the heavy hitter his due advantage over the light hitter Unglaub says the outfielder should be limited to a certain territory. He suggests drawing an arc from one field line to the other at a distance of 80 yards frojji the home plate, using the plate aB a center.

This will give a quarter circle, eveTy point' of which is 80 yards from the home plate. Outfielders are to play on the inside of this circle until after the ball has been hit by a hatter. The batter who can drive the ball 100 yards or more will have an opportunity to get a long hit instead of having the fielders judge his hit and pull it down at a point more than 100 yards from the plate bv a phenomenal catch. Unglaub says that tne fault of the present rules Is that the long hitter has only a slight advantage over the light hitters, because nine times out of ten the fielders will Judge the batters manner of hitting and arrange themselves in the field to suit the occasion. This are will give the heavy hitter an opportunity to drive the bail far into the deep field and get a clear hit for several bases.

CHAUNCEYS LOSE THREE. Grand Centrals Easily Bent Them la Grand Central To I meat Series. The Grand Central five won til three games from the Cbaunceys in the Grand Central tournament Saturday night. Moore rolled the best of, the Grand Centrals, getting a 202 average and the high score, 230. GRAND CENTRAL.

De Mott, 181, 157 104 Moore 177 23.) 105 Sehroeder 100 183 183 Prime 178 150 101 Meyer 173 218 137 Totals 897 952 870 CHAUNCEY. eially when it is shown that the Cleveland players had almost a fourth more men on the bases than the Chicago club. So we see thnt base stealing has been a prominent factor in the many victories two or three runs to the good. But the for the White Sox. Bnt thnt is not all 1 Sox fight all the way.

ctcu if their op-hy any means. Tho greatest power of poneuts are six runs or more to the good, the White Sox lies in the baseball knowl-, Once in a while they pull ahead and it edge of the players themselves. Besides only takes a lend (if si few games to being almost as good fielders as one can win pennants. A half a game ahead of find, there are several men on Comiskeys 1 the. second team is plenty.

CHICAGO, Jan. 21. It has always been said that a team that hits makes runs. And it has further been said that a team that makes runs wins games. But we find according to the official figures of the American League, that Cleveland made 1,513 hits during the season, while the Sox conld hammer out but 1,130.

Wc also find that the Naps made 663 runs during the year, while Comis-keys team scored by 570, almost TOO less. But in looking at the games woe we find that Lajoies tribe conld mnrk up but 89 victories, while the Sox won 93. It is not the hits or the runs that win the pennant. It is the games. Just where the power of the Sox lies to win games with few hits and runs has puzzled the fans of the entire country.

But the main reason lies in the fact that they never waste their energy. Some families can live and live well on an income of $1,000 a year. Others go into bankruptcy on $2,000. The first family makes every dollar count, while the second lets many slip away without get CRESCENTS TIED FOR FIRST. Thursdays Game Between, Cham-lens and St.

Nicholas Club Will Decide Honors. The hockey teams of the Crescent Athletic Club and the St. Nicholas Skating Club are tied for first place in the tournament of the Amateur Hockey League, hut the matter of supremacy will be settled this week. These teams will meet in a contest at the St. Nicholas Rink next Thursday evening.

The. standing ot the teams to date follows: Club. Crescent A. 3 8t. Nicholas S.

3 Hockey New Tork A. Some surprises bare been furnished in the intercollegiate tournament. Harvard has won 'the championship for several years, but was beaten by Princeton last Saturday. -The standing of the clubs to date follows: To Meet Parsons, Hillman and Pilgrin at Pastime Games. As a fitting climax to several weeks of arduous endeavor and persuasion, L.

Jones has notified the games committee that Melvin the Irish-American A. C. star, would positively continue in the special 660-yards run at the games of the Pastime A. C. which are to fie held at Madison Square Garden on Satnrday evening.

February 9. President John P. Beyle of the club and 4i. M. L.

Sachs, of the advisory committee, who have been also interesting themselves in Hiis race, have received positive assurances from Harry Hillman and. Paul Pilgrim, of the New York Athletic Chtb. and these in addition Nil B. Parsons, of Hale 1 Diversity the New lork A. who has al- ready stated his intention of competing, should result in the greatest race of the season.

Parsons defeated Sheppard at this distance at the indoor championships of the A. A. U. There are many who say that the race was not a fair criterion of Sheppard's worth, as he had run in a l.OOD-yards face the previous evening, and was not in proper condition for a vnirnt race. Hillman has run this distance in 1 minute 12 and 4-5 seconds outdoors, nnd Pilerim was the winner of the 400 and 800-meter races at the rtlvmpic games in Athens last spring.

Parsons, in addition to holding the A. A. U. indoor oh'anipionship at this distance. also hohls the indoor record of.

1 minute and 14 seconds. GANS OFFERED $45,000. Matchmaker Riley, of Nevada, Makes Record Offer for Gans-. O'Brien Battle. Cofforth Will Handle Britt for the Gans Fight.

James Waldorf Coffroth, who has made a cool million in the prizefighting game and ia the acknowledged premier of the emm Club. Princeton Dartmouth Harvard Yale Columbia W. I I 1 0 0 La 0 I 1 1 PC. .500 .000 .000 TYLER F. 0.

TEAM FOR 1907. The Tyler Field Club will have a strong basketball team for the season of 1907,1 and wants to book games with teams whose players average from 14 to 16 years of age. The line-np of the team is as follow: McCormack, catcher; Nevill, first base; Cummings, center field; Tyler, left field; Dooley, shortstop; Clancy, third base; 1eterson. pitcher; Daley, second base: Murphy, right field. They would like to hear from a few all players and a good catcher.

Address John Tyler, No. 38 Pacific street OUTDOOR SKATING TO-DAY. There will he skating at the Saratoga Rink. Saratoga avenue and Halsey street, to-day. und on Wednesday races between -sonic of tho fastest Waters in the y- ough will taka places i PHILADELPHIA, Jan.

21. Joe Gans, the lightweight champion, has refused the biggest offer ever made to a boxer to appear in this cily owing to the fact that a $45,000 pnre awaits him in Nevada if he will meet Philadelphia Jack O'Brien there. Matchmaker Jack McGnigan yes tenlay tried to induce Gans to sign artl-clies to box OBrien six rounds here, Gans declined, claiming tbRt he is tied up with Britt for Tonopah next March and cannot tight any one before that time, i When pressed to accept for a later date Gaus announced that he and O'Brien had been offered $45,000 for a fight on July 4. and that as lie is confident that he can defeat OBrien hi a finish fight he would prefer to light under the terms offered in Nevada ruthcr than six-round host in the East, If Tommy Burns is not too busy chai-h using Jeffries he might listen to what It is not often that be hi. lent his ttl.il-1 Cre in To A ity to the management of boxers, but rottuds or Toimuv inav take all the when he does his man in I.