St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 3, 1907

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WHY NOT HOLD A FIGHT CARNIVAL Enough Heavyweights Will Soon Be in This Country to Settle Championship. SQUIRES- FIGURES HOW ; ILL SQUIRES, Australian cham- pion heavyweight, is on his way to America. Squires wants to Eo James J. Jeffries for the world's nship. ‘'s Squires entitled to + » fight with Fieffries? Will Jeffries real- come out of retirement and fight, can the winner justly claim the World's championship? No, yes and no pmasires is certainly not entitled to a with Jeffries. Squires has never ught a first-class man. He weighs t 180 pounds. He comes to America a champion of Australia. He might as well be championship of Pun- nkville for the ciass of men he has defeat . — Squires stepped on a steamer nd for America just about the time Johnson, the big American colored: vyweight, was on an incoming mship about to land at Melbourne. d previously announced that roe Soe to Australia for the pur- of fighting Squires. Johnson met er Age the big negro heavyweight, defeat of whom Squires rests Bee of his reputation. Johnson out Felix in jigtime. Nevertheless ulrés will arrive in a = anys. He will ‘insist on fighting Jeffries has stated that if a h purse is offered that he ulres. The big fellow has fealty agreed on several occasions enter the ring again if the induce- re large enough. Coffroth, the well-known Fris- susitistic promoter, and Bill Naugh- a Frisco sporting writer, are bring- oo FR to America. Coffroth is the eine has practically the promise effries to fight at least one more effries. fant nate They After the Coint pee is not entitled to a fight vires hae done nothing. is about 100 pounds lighter than Jef- Does it not therefore seem likely the promoters are wat) Ban out to the money whether they bring off Jeffries-Munroe, Herr + Steg mate Sone = pe? Herr Placke Hand. Kid MeCoy mpion o ee Sra a annihilated ag at Philadelphia. ee: ot justly bat-) ° : : ahaaepiaachiD. Tom- he American heavyweight ee retired a se the world plon in Wate. Jeffries A ix still out of the ga hen, too, Gunner Motr, F inatish cham- weight. is on his way to this

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a Tommy Sullivan and Johnny Regan Are On for a Special Bout. oe BAPTISTE VS. contests po ee ee SANDOW Two wrestling and a thfees round boxing bout will be decided in the Olympic Theater this evening. The wrestting wHl be the real bone-breaking, muscle-wrenching, punishing, catch-as- catch-can article. The boxing will a clever, fast, three-round sparring exhi- bition, nothing more. Women will be admitted, in fact special arrangements have been made for the fair sex and no real fighting is wanted, Charles. Olson, ‘the lanky grappler, who now calls home, and Bob Ali, the Turk, in one wrestling contest, while George Baptiste, the local Greek wrestler and Young Sandow, from Chicago, will meet ‘in the other end of the double-header. “Brooklyn” Tommy Sullivan, boxing instructor of the. Missouri A. C., who is practically matcned with Abe Attell for a fight to a finish for the featherweight championship, to take place at Tonopah, Nev., next month, will meet Johnny Re- gan of Brooklyn in a three-round bout, Regan is the boxer who. fought both Harry Forbes and Frankie Neil to @ standstill when -these tamweight Reran also gave Abe Attell *“0-round battles at the West be 4 German Louis his will meet St. End Cly Regan Is one of the best defensive box- | | ers in the country. He has been out of the game for a cupde of years, during | which time he has been making his home in St. Louls. - Regan and Sullivan both started Mieir ring careers together in Brooklyn and they met in an ama- teur tournament there, Sullivan winning the decision. 7 _ putting Squires up against Jeffries for a huge purse when the probability is that Sauirea would only be able to last a couple of rounds. Jeffries is no ordinary fighter. He beat the fast, clever Jim Corlett, the shifty, terrific puncher Bob Fitzsimmons, strong, game, aggressive bulldog Shar- key and the ambitious Jack Munroe d Gus Ruhilin, and in each case his viétories were decisive. He is, or waa. a wonder. It has really been four. years *inees Jeffries engaged in what might be called | a battie It stands to reason, however, that living on a farm that the big fel. iow has not gone back to such an ex- tent that he would not be able to de- feat a man 100 pounds lighter than he. Jeffries is bound. to be a bit slower than ronan ge will stil have his crouch, through which it le almost impossite to reach | pote ils rent Bis will he Pati Kume uneDing as

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the the medal-bedecked Robison and Robert memory. in base- Otherwise have as Trips and the Fans Are ball stason will have opened for ment that shone brightly in the great flash out brightly in footlight row and violins of comment, the hoarse growl all obedient to the nod and beck of Hedges. is bri 15 minutes afterwards. ings of the moment as the average St. occupant of the bleachers retained much Everything Ready for the Happy: WY van: the next @ hours the base- St. Louis. - The little bell tinkled in the wings, the sporting ele- off-season auditorium will soon be al- most eclipsed, as the baseball players the curtain goes up with a grand crash of cymbals, screeching of the shrill from the vicinity of the wise who performs on the bass fiddle pair of: conductors, Stanley Le> The last rehearsal a Things are always memories the curlv-headed critic would much trouble trying to kee» pace with do- Louisan has trying to memorize the owl car schedule. In fact. if the worthy the dope emanating from the re- hearsal period he would soon feel like a of der a shock of corn fodder to get away the first frost. first scene shows the corridors Southern Hotel and the office of Am rerican eLague Club in the for with the Union trai ready to start right Seen in the distance—a wil- | de rness of: cacti, alfalfa, sombreros. al- kalai dust, citizens of Houston and San Antonio, Tex., a Post-Dispatch weather bird on a nearby Hmb chirping cheerful weather forecastings and other ingredl- ents supposed to represent the scene amout the training camps of the dual baseball teams from the Mound City. A Busy Reporting Day. Robert Lee Hedges and Stanley Robit- son found sitting. Managers McAleer and McCloskey—not in open-faced suits cach wearling a becoming look of dig- tv—-this sets the trap for the first act. The pair of “Jacks Powell and | O'Connor, brothers-in-law and = stanch chums: Harry Howell and Charley Hemphill will probably be seen abont the office before the arrival of the other henchmen of Brownland: Hemphill came over from Youngstown with McAleer and the others have spent the winter in Bt. Louis. Then first of all will come Bobby Wallace and then it will ibe a procession, with Willis Butler, tryer-out for position of shortstop, youngest player in the Ohio and Penn- sylvania League last year and now but % years of age; George Campton, also of the Ohio and Pennsylvania League last year, etc., etc... trying to peep through the front line of e chorus for a. glimpse at the bald- headed row of St. ula fandom. The et cetera re-

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and it is yet develop be ,re- youngsters deal may this wouldn't for a couple of not regretted. A for Mertes and | bretted, either. Two thousand dollars and two likelies " of suddenly being ordered I | | | : {for Mike Grady. Not so bad, ¢ t bridge of an airship: Roy Hart- Rockenfield, Tom Jones, Spencer, \Fred Buelow, Fred al.—meaning. ot! all will be found in the assemblage the report- ing day sceie. Joe Yeager, utility landers, touted as a year, a good fielder and clockwork, a veteran in the been secured in exch: ing » for Rickey. While the exchange occasioned surprise among some, with the really wise {it didn't. Rickey not a rapid thinker and has not always been up to | the notch on the inside play, although a good backstop. On the other hand, McAleer has beerm after Yeager for | more than two years and he can be used to stop ‘up gaps at either second | @ while, at least. All Australian or third base, the exchange prove a good one. Pete O’Brien Now O'Brien wi: perament and could neve lining in any of sometimes threatened to «d: land. Moreover, he. allow® 7 into poor condition dur! ig. the ih, pine Season Lulow eal plains of a quick thinker, ticipation onto the zell, Ike lack” (+ lade et ers in There be a large gathering ifans at Union Station to see te There will be a gation the other end of the. line receive teams, and during the ‘lowing three or four weeks there be prophecies gaiore gallivanting over . the wires from the Special seers in the ‘Southland, and muck adored pictures of het that have been and heroes that to be, will prove a source of joy heart of the sporiing in ‘agxuedom’s newspaper will the ‘cams off. at the the High- hitter last steady as game, has | ‘Branch’ man of pinch fo}- will is oes expect to the major | editors TOW. AS Training. of the Soon Be In Ss agrret Rut while the should | and Cardinals will 1@ material for discus . there will be so many fanning bees imisti i- worthy of r see » si sideration, irine the next three weeks th ‘“ugsue baseball clubs will at vari Se south and Dixon 1} From the the Atlantic " ‘oast to the Texas the select exponents of Sim's greatest door game will dress rehearsal for the championsh trips indisp: favor until period it was ¢ prac under the best they This worked great players, for the latter Browns th nine-tenths of bv St. Louis- doings fur? lis SOT roes is of is thie f training us : M:; Sori iz orests of aust Thicle e@ found on ine the ki f 4 it requires a tactful manager to >} with. This is the McAleer brand ; dual player, for Manager Jimmie Training it a saw-off between the iron hand an garded as the glove of gentleness in dealing wide men of this stripe and he knows when | Refore this to apply either O'Connot Spencer, he plavers Buelow and Stephens id make &a/!stand and solid backstopping wall {| War | vs ;Snip an tive With the Cardinals. ror March’ often brought “e of the old ones and a list of | and cold weather and colds ones will report Manage fat t] season of the year and rheun Closkey. Who will stay and who tism following bruises and strains gO remains for the training peri rd ing pra frequentiv hampered decide, and it fs impossible predict | e1 during the whole season. much at this moment. In of the; times the players would not get. full t youngsters may be found | throw!ng arms until dur man to replace Jake Beckles hasemen are not growing on these days, and Becklev will retained untiiosome stroke of luck gives another first icker Cardinals. ‘‘Buster’’ Brown will on the pitching staff and Arthur ketter will have a try at Qe ping wall this year. ike Gra ip season to the South, nanhie aid iriy nineti ustomary the grand- eould now re- not the e } plent) i batter } will | then takes h spend a League selected as the Brooklyn c} believes seasickness will offine t of he wil! Baden, Ind.. where they exciting the admiration of rusth bel'cs. Cirieansa, tructed Indiana aprings,*and they Ned Han Wednesday. four Weeks and return . fo. the . Bim onny. Kia S made them players and rounds frisky for the early pennant race, 75,000 Spent Training. and liedges will each spend to $8000 the. Southern basing an estimate on this, about will be expended by the various owners of major league There are s#me returns receipts from jexhibition but seldom has money} from this been sufficieht to meet hotel railroad fare and other Iinciden- ra squad of 2% or 8 players for $6000 on shape of

ex-champion National League | York has fixed upon the itinery for the season. to Los Ahgeles, Cal. | will travel ants sturted last |Monday 6) trip, the longest trip ever by a baseball club for The objective point and the players wiil the route. After on the Pacifid wiil return by} me back over) a the St. Louts Antoni. training is join at two- (‘oast, Me- Sthies southerly Americans This will llv be the greatest pre-#easo0n vear and Manager Mc- work his team! as hard to}! the Giants as he; Will later to her teams in |the pennant 1.0S8 the | ‘—. Tike 33 fa35 will e at San travel almost 46 |‘ norrow they leave or their tri to Mexico City, | tal of Mae xico The team will! ed into two squads and will play on before Sox will Tor tne <;,nnts a im Us Where.the Others Train. Americans wili this yedr,. and tomorrow for the month will be iapent in resonant voices |so0o0n become wie a soft drawl Larry La- is h to thé same state, at Ma: bacon), althougty that consumed, The train trey trip the York GiA., York Né&Ww ianta, New one at 4 f ‘? y departments of these two teams week at Hot Springs and} regular detachments. | ja scheduled ito arrive fn’ on Mareh 4. This meet several National before turning to the Jag kaonvijie, Fia., has tt aining peemquarters ib. Pataey Dh novan | her iis ah of ball players is heir to, and take the team down the-coast steamer. Chicago the gton Tex., gin puht will ; clubs al capital’ now at West are consuming famous eprings and (‘ubs are aters of the there they will proceed to New where they will start a long of exhibition garnes, Pittevure Pirates are ales at- | by the walers of the fa "ious Ko there on Later they £o on to Hot! nd remain until April 3 Verily

10, ee and this bunch believes in the water wagon for conditioning purposes. jon and his Cincinnat! young- in Mariin, Tex., next They will there will be i night ide | Tournament Committee only awaits the | completion ‘sweep up the loose odds and ends and announ¢e | burg, re turning i a | selection of St. ,Cnmaner lof changing ten pine for each and every : committees in ALL SHAPING FOR BOWLING CLASSIC rr Record-Breaking List of Entries Are In and Schedule Is Making.

Local Champion Experts } to Win Fresh Laurele March 18,

P ‘ - MATCH WITH CHICAG The revolver and pistol experta, wi assemble weekly on the Chestnut revolver range and at the Capt. Academy, will have the again demonstrate thelr @up over the other exponents of the sh kame In this country on March 1% being the date selected by marksmen to pit themselves ag the representative shots of the. bo cities of the United States from Francisco to New York tn the national revolver shooting fs S. E. Sears, a member of 4 Louts Revolver Club and ‘eeant the local police force, is the Bram world's champion with the reve and with Sears, M. Summe Croseman, Paul Frese and J. W, min heading the list, there fo 4 ot doubt but what 8t. Louls will am in ahead as formerly. In ow those already named the chemi compete: T. M. Borker, 0. B Kleeck, Theodore Hilpert; Sim Pr Cc. M. Barnard. Charlies Jobnac Waldt, Mra. C. C. Croseman, Lat meister and Adolph K and Price are members of a Amateur Revolver Club and, @ amateura, both have made ¢« showing on short i

HERMANN LOOKS GOOD entries for the seventh annual tournament of the American Bowling Congress, to be held tn St. Louls March 16-31, closed last Friday night at mid- and in record-breaking time the schedule Will be out. In this schedule, so far as possible, every request for a special date and hour has been granted and but! very few of the hundreds of visiting bowlers will be disappointed in the time best suited to their conventi- ence. Every loose end of the mass of tall has been gathered up and the The alterations being street building to of the made on the Olive to entertain the from Chicago, Cincinnatk Sf. Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Pitts- New York, Philadelphia and the other citlea large and small who have this year entered teams for the. grand ‘ountry- -wide competitions ; guests of the St. Louta bowlers » royally received. That prince of fellows, Otto Stifel, president of National Tournament Committee. aved great tact and wisdom tin his Louisans to serve on the teception Committee. In seeking for representative citizens, Mr. Stifel did not overlook elther Stanley Robison of the Natioral League Baseball Club or R. L. Hedges of the Americans, and (jov, Folk and Mayor Rolla Wella were both named, Mr. Hedges hae stated that he wonld serve and has complimented the local cammittee highiy on the excellent work it has accomplished tn maintaining the supremacy of St. Louls bowling inter. eets, Immediately following the big events, all of the St. Louta teams entered tn the national affair will be tnvitedsto rtici. pate in the especial handicap tourna- ment arranged for the express purpose of determin ing the strength of the tocal teams which competed and for which special prizes will be offered. If there is time, the women's teame of the city and any that may be among ry ay vielting delegations wtll be given a on the atlere. The tnnovation iteelf ready hosts Paul, The of the # abled to compete at cost _—, 2 ig the St. Lowuls ay Willow Rifle sad oo club five-man team competing ts one that will prove very popular with the bow!l- “rs. leoent Teame Practicing. During the last week the sporti editor of the Post-Dispatch em the epportunity to visit the vartous | bowling alleys ae the i , unding im the eta B in soety column. AH of the local full swing, and