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II flLE OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 21, 1909. 8 IDEAL DAY WITH WILD DUCKS Shooting at the Wapanoca Pmenre in Arkaniai. EOSPITALITY OF TENNESSEE pleadld port Flftr-SIs Hoars froi Ir York and Limit of Fifty Birds Cos Bo Qalckly " ' Rtirktl, The man of GO snuggled still lower into the recesses ot his comfortable chair In the library of one of Nsw York's most prominent clubs and removing the cigar rem his lips remarked to his companion 'that these were the days when his sport ing blood was stirred by the recollections of the fun he had enjoyed as a lad during the ducking season In northern New York when the Inland lakes 'of that region swarmed with flight birds on their way to the warm waters of the southland. "Those good old times are a golden mem ory ana now n a couple or days in a bat tery on Great South Bay or at Havre De Grace yield a score of birds I think I'm having lots of fun," he went one. "My. but I would like to have one more good duck hunt! I think I would go some dis tance to get It, too." "Could you upare a week and go with me to Arkansas? Because if you really yearn to kill ducks I can gratify the long ing In fifty-six hours from now." The first speaker, after consulting his engagement book, announced that less than twenty-iour hours would find him ready tin ma iuu, biiu a. leicsrHin wan dis patched, to a friend In Memphis that an open invitation extended the year before to would be gratefully accepted and 'asked permission to bring a friend who would be congenial In every respect. A quick reply to come at once hastened preparations and the eager New Yorkers reached Memphis on Sunday morning. At 4 that same afternoon the train which pulled leisurely across the Mississippi over the Choctaw route had a dozen shooters board already friends by that bond which the gun cements so quickly. By the rules , of the Wapanoca organization each of the members of the club Is permitted to Invite a friend occasionally, but for not more than three days, and during the time of the stay the member must accompany his guest and pay a fee of $10 a day. Club House In Wild Region. 'The famous club, whose roster contains the names of some of the best known men In America, is located lo the wildest por tion of the state about forty miles from Mnmnhl anri trt ihnc lm .dt It i, first time it Is full of surprises. The shooting is over a series of lakes, or more properly speaking, ponds, for none of them -Is more than four or five feet in depth, while several have not more than eighteen Inches of water In them. By some peculiar cataclysm of nature these ponds were formed some fifty years ago by the apparently solid ground sinking, and hero and there the shrubs and trees as they stood at that time dot the surface of the water and make Ideal , blinds from which the birds may be shot. Where nature has not made a complete job the skilled hands of the Wapanoca expert caretakers have been employed. . Fringed with cypress and willow, with bayous or lagoons here and there connect ing the series of ponds and with wild celery and rice for food In abundance, the place Is a veritable paradise for ducks, geese and swans. There are probably a score of spots from which tha shooting Is good, but of course, as is usually tha case, the birds frequently show a preference for certain districts where the feeding grounds may be In particularly good condition, and In order that all the shooters may have an equal chance a record Is kept of the kills, and prospective shooters by consulting It may learn where the best bags have lately been made. The drawings for blinds Is by lot nd so Is the choice of paddlers. Have Favorite Blinds. Each blind Is known by a name and the man who secures number one In the draw as a rule takes the stand where the best shooting has recently been had. Occa sionally a man who has had uniformly good luck In a particular blind feels him self more at home there and takes It when ever the opportunity affords. It wr.s dark when the party stepped from the train to the long platform where half a dozen neat negroes In club uniforms and a couple of barking dogs were waiting to welcome them. Lights blinked a cheery welcome from th aulenriM .) tiK hnnaa nut more than 2U0 feet away, and through the doorway there was a glimpse of a log fire In an opeu hearth, for the evenings In Arkansas in November make a fire as I welcome as In New York at the same season. . .The visitors were escorted to a huge I room with twin brass beds, a celling of peeled and varnished logs, and upon the floor were rugs that made the realization of the locality difficult. Such fittings might have been looked for In some of the so-called joyous Adirondack camps, but the presence of so much that was elaborate . in furnishings In Arkansas was a genuine surprise. At dinner, which was served in a long low celled room, the walls of which were Covered with shooting scenes, painted, en graved and photographic, Introductions ' were general, and soon everybody was busy with the splendidly cooked and per fectly served meal. A Pittsburg millionaire who spends two " months each year at the place, told the newcomers about getting the "limit" fifty birds the day before at his favorite station, and prophesied a famous uay's port on the morrow, concluding with the offer of any of the fine guns In his rack and the placing at their disposal of his own paddler, employed by the season and generally acknowledged to be the best man in the region. Admirable Spirit Shown. This was on specimen of the spirit of hospitality and true sportsmanship encoun tered. Another was Been in Memphis on the arrival of the northern sportsman when It was learned that the man who had Issued the original Invitation had ' been seised with a sever attack of Inflamma tory rheumatism and was confined to his home. In his place thero came to tha club a typical Tennesseean, grave and courtly, the bearer of regrets that his friend was not able to extend a welcome in perai.ii, and conveying an Invitation to the second New Yorker with repeated assurancia that ' he wanted a few days at Wapanoca in the worst way and that the gentleman from New York was really doing him a favor In coming to Tennessee. About this lime tha Invalid was on the telephone saying that he would be at the train. Protest were of no avail, lie could take hi medicine Just as well at tha club house as In town and anyway ho was going. And go he did, being prac tically carried from his carriage to the train and fro in the train to the club liuus finally, saying wheu hi swollen legs were cushioned on a chair: "Did you think 1 war going to spoil your fun by not being able to come? Not on your life." After the coffee and cigar and when the party, w hich numbered upward of twenty, were gathered In the great living room of the club the captain of the or ganisation, a haidy resident, of the county la w oli a Wpnoa is located, appeared. followed bv a crowd of colored men. These latter were the psddlers, and they were to be drawn tor by lot. Drawing- for Position. Inquiry developed that thirteen men were to shoot tha next day and numbers from 1 to 13 were placed In a leathern bottle and the drawing began. On of the New Yorkers had first choice of th paddler and hi host selected a straight. haired man of 25, with high cheek bone and more of Indian than negro blood In hlfl Veins. -Tim waa hla nam mnA K j. stepped out of th ranks at the call of me rapiain. in me, a raw ror blinds the second stranger was fortunate and his host selected for him a portion of one of the upper bayous through which the birds flew from one feeding ground to the other. They afforded the Ideal pass shooting and promised great sport If there was a wind. The Other New Yorker haH ivinlh choice of stands and he was advised to try the cypress blind and the wisdom of his choice was applauded when a tall Memphlan told with never a smile of the day he had sat at that particular spot during a snowstorm trying ineffectually to shoot geese, "and there were thousands of thorn, too." said the tall one. "Well, why didn't you shoot them?" queried the Innocent New Torker. "Bause there were so gol darned many ducks between me and the geese I couldn't hit them as they flew over," drawled the veracious one amid peals of laughter from all save the bitten one, who allowed that he would be glad to treat If he would be permitted to do so. The servants were astir long before day break, fires were lighted and baths were ready and breakfast was eaten by lamp light One by one the shooters departed for their stations, those who had drawn the more distant blinds leaving first, and soon all had gone - but the Innocent of the previous evening whose curiosity about the geese had been rewarded. His blind was not more than half a mile from the club house and there was no hurry for him, as It was desirable that the others should be located before his departure. Wise Decoy. Daylight revealed th character of' th country. Ths horizon was fringed with tall cypresses with her and ther a burst of vivid green from occasional clumps of wClows. Jim, laden with shells and. th lunch baskets, walked In advance to show the way and less than 800 feet brought the boat house in view. There was a tremend ous quacking and flapping of wings from half a dozen ducks In a wooden crate near by and upon being asked the reason Jim rt piled: "They knows where they all's goln'." Ihty wero live decoys and later they were to give an Illustration of their Intel ligence that was almost uncanny. The boat, a broad beamed, flat bottomed affair, had In its bow a swinging chair and in this the shooter was told to sit. Between his feet was a tin can containing shells and when the lunch basket and the crate of decoys had been disposed. of the dusky paddler pushed Into the stream, which at this point was not more than twenty feet wide. He used a long pols to rropol the boat and was as picturesque as any gondolier of the Grand canal. His shirt was open at the throat and his clnewy arms were bared to the elbows. H was rubber-booted to the hips. There was a muttering now and then fiom the decoys" as the boat passed be tween he wooded banks of the narrow stream. Th sun was rising gloriously, promising a perfect day If the wind should freshen a trifle. There was a rumble . of thunder In the distance or a of a train passing over a long trestle or railroad bridge and this was repeated at intervals, finally causing the Inquiry, "What was that?",from the man In' the bow. s "That's a few ducks getting up out on the' lake," was Jim's reply. The stream wound in and out of the cypress and soon thore was the whistling of rapid pinions and ducks darted with whirlwind speed through the tops of the trees. From far up the lakes and bayous sounded the chorus of number twelvos and tho fingers of the New Yorker twitched nervously, eager to begin the slaughter. FIGHT BIDDERS ARE VERY SLOW Seem Afraid They'll Be Outbid If They File Karly. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-Fearlng that If they should send in their bid now to Stake holder "Bob" Murphy for the champion ship fight between Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson the amount of It might become known and thereby reBult In losing them the contest by having others outbid them, such cunning fight promoters as Jimmy unrom. jacK uieason, Tom McCarey and Hugh Mcintosh have consequently made no attempt to file their incentive with Murphy and will not do so until a few days before the bids for the fight are opened, which will be on the afternoon of uecemDer i. Both Gleason and Coffroth stated h they had plenty of time In which to put In their bid, and on that account they would make no attempt to turn It In until a, few hours before the time slated for them to be opened. Sam Bereer. nuiuir for Jeffries, announced that he Is receiv ing telegrams every day rrom fight promo ters all over the United States saying that they will put in a bid for the bout. "I am not worrying over the bids Just now," said Berger; "the only thing that Is troubling me Is whether I ran .t enough men to act as sparring partners ror jerr wmie he is training." INDOOR SPORTS ON TURKEY DAY Bis; Meet Is Planned for Gotham on Thanksgiving. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-Many stars of the cinder path and board floor will com pete In the games of the Twenty-second regiment engineers at the armory on Thanksgiving eve. Notwithstanding the fact that all the events are closed to mem bers, the latter rank among t(je best In tho metropolitan district. Sheppard, GIs sing, McEntee, Koch, Drlscoll, McDowell, Cassassa, Sullivan and scores of others will be there. The 1,200 and 000-yard races will be the feature of the big meet. Shep pard, Closing, Sullivan and Drlscoll will meet In tha 1,200-yard races, and It Is be lieved that a new world's record will b es tablished. While chief Interest will be manifested in the 1,200-yard race. Interest will not be lacking in the 600-yard race. In which McEntee, Koch, Cassassa and Mc Dowell will run. THREE-YEAR TRACK AGREEMENT Michigan nod yracne Represent F.aat nnd Wttt. NEW YORK, Nov. 20 Relations between Syracuse and Michigan in foot ball have been strengthened by a three-year agree ment for a track meet. It Is presumed that Syracuse, having failed to meet any response from Cornell, got Michigan as a rival worth while. Whether Syracuse will meet th Indians and Colgate, too, is not yet certain, but a track team can stand three meets in a season. This also will give Michigan a fair try out before th Intercollegiate champion ships. Hitherto th Interstate games and th O. S. Y. meet liave been about all th Wolverine had, and those two meet weren't ttst enough. With Syracuse to tackle, ther will be something for Ui Michigan men to work for. JAMES C. RICE OF COLUMBIA The Rowing Coach of the Ikw York Oarimen. MASTER OF "WIDE EXPERIENCE Born In Scotland and Lived In Canada rostklsg nnd Polling: with Hnnlan nnd Other Great Professional. When a man had fifteen uncles, not to mention a father, who followed the sea It Isn't at all unnatural that he should have a bent toward the water. And It Isn't an odd thing, either, that although all fif teen uncles came to be drowned while they were sallormen that a man should still stick to the water, even if he did heed his mother's requests not to go to sea. Al though, to be sure, James Campbell Rice, w-ho coaches the Columbia university oars men, doesn't get his living from the high seas, but rather on the fresh water, some may object that the Hudson is salt, even as far north as Poughkeepsie. where the Intercollegiate rowing regattas are held an nually, but that hardly spoils the point. Rice never has been a sallorman In the strict sense of the word. He Is keen on Ice yachting. r He thinks sailing an Iceboat Is his strongest point, although there are folks, particularly at Columbia, who fancy that he doesn't do anything else as well as he does teaching the art of pulling an oar. When Rice was coaching the Detroit Rowing club some years ago he had a lot of amusement In the winter time sailing boats In the races around there. When Rice first came to Columbia, or, rather when he was Just engaged by the crew there, many persona spoke of "young Jimmy Rice," and the casual Impression was that he was a newcomer In the rowing game who was getting his start with a college crew. As a matter of fact Rice Is 39 years old. Furthermore, he Isn't a Canadian, as many persons believe. He was born In Dundee, Scotland. His mother was Scotch and hi father Irish. "And I guess I'm an American citizen, all right," says Rlc. "My father fought under Com mander Strlngham in th old Minnesota, and if that doesn't make me an American cyizen I don't know what does." nalaed on the Water. When Rice wa really young Jimmy, the family cam to this country to live. For a time the Rices were in Philadelphia and then they moved to Toronto. There they lived at Harlan's Point, a plaoe named for the great sculler. All the early part of his life Rice was very friendly with the renowned oarsman and the rec ord show that in 1896 Rice pulled two races against Old Ned. "I had him In the second race, the one at Sault Ste. Marie, that year," says Rice, "because Ned had a big heavy boat and I had a light one that Wallace Ross owned. But I couldn't afford to beat him, because I'd have lost my Job training the old fellow If I had. So we bluffed 'an exciting race and Ned won." Th very air of Toronto was full of row ing in thos day and Hanlan wa the great man in the time when Rice was a very small boy. "I remembered we onoa old an old fellow a towel for $1 that we said Hanlan robbed down with," says Rice. "Whenever a boat got broken up w took the Umbers, broke them up small and sold them for souvenirs to the folks who wanted to get them, a if they were piece ot Hanlan' shell." It was th most natural thing in the world that a boy reared in that atmos phere should be keen on rowing. Th very sight of the great turnout of folks to wel come Hanlan whenever he returned to hi town would be enough to make any boy resolve to become a great sculler himself. So Rice knew very well this man, whom he followed by not so many years as coaoh at Columbia. There was another man whom he saw in those days. It was on one occasion when Rica was a very young lad that he was going across the ferry at Toronto In company with his father and they saw a sculler coming down the water In a shell. Early Glimpse of Courtney. "He was a big, handsome man," says Rice. "He wore a whit rowing suit with a large blue star on his chest, and h had a white skull cap with a blue tassel. I re member now how he looked, a powerful, great man, with black curling whiskers. He reached away out for the water and caught-it hard and swung through with power and grace. A splendid looking man he was in a boat. I asked my father who It was. That' Charlie Courtney,' he told me." That was Rice' first view of th man, whose chief rival as a rowing coach h Is today. Some folks, Columbia folks, of course, may be suspected of prejudice in the matter when they say they think Rice Is fully Courtney' equal as a coach. When Jimmy grew up and was Just in his teens he got Into the rowing game. He rowed a number of races, in particular one with Ralston at Orllla In 1888, which he won. In 1889, when the Canadian Row ing association held a meeting at Hamil ton, they threw Rice out of the amateur ranks, saying he was a fisherman. So as soon a he was no longer an amateur he went into th professional gam with spirit. It was th thing in those days, when all the money chasers got their re wards large In money and popularity. Even when so young Rice turned to the coaching game, so that his record as a coach goes back twenty years. It seems odd that this lad, not yet of age, should have been coaching suoti men as Hanlan, Durnan, O'Connor and others, as well as rowing In races with them. He was with Ryan and Durnan In 1892. In 1894 he and Jak Oaudaur competed In the greatest race of Rice's career. This pair beat Ras Rogers and Eddie Durnan. Rice was In a four that rowed In Texas In 1894, HoBtner being bow. Rice 2, Teemer 3 and Gaudaur stroke. The English crew beat them. He rowed around a great deal and In a great many places, fifty races altogether, nis last race being In 1898 at Halifax. N. B., where he and his partner were beaten by the Lynch brothers. His nine-year career as a professional covered races with and against all the great men of that time, and he and Hanlan were a strong pair. What Yon Are Count. "Folks don't care so much to know what you've done, as what you can do," Rice told a man once who asked htm for a his tory of his career. But It Is Interesting to know that Rice had charge of the Argo naut Rowing club from 1894 to 1897; was i h the Brockvllle Rowing club in 1898 and 181-9; went to Detroit to the boat club there until 1904. coaci.ing also when not engaged at Detroit the Ottawa Rowing club and the Toronto Rowing club, and eventually en ttred upon his college rowing career with an engagement with the Weld Boat club at Harvard. This place he held until 1906. It was In 1MM that Rice was In Brock vllle for the Canadian regatta there. His Brockville club was contesting against crews coacbtd by Hanlan. The two met in a hotel and old Ned boasted of hi oarsmen. Kice said his men would win and the natural outcome was a bet. Rice's men cleaned up. At the time there was present a man who took no part in the discussion, but looked Rice over carefully. This man was Francis 8. Bangs of Columbia, who u up ther to Uaulan, whom he bad Union New known for several years. Mr. Bangs en gaged Hanlan the next spring for Colum bia's coach, but he didn't forget the younger man, and It is to Mr. Banks that Columbia owe, having the rowing coach who has helped to rain the standard of piformnoe of the Blue and Whit to something like that of th old day, the vi ry old day now. It wss, In 1906 that Morton Bogus and Frederick "B. Irvine, both of them much Interested In the direction of Columbia rowing, were up In Toronto visiting Han lan, and Ultra they met Rice. Hanlan had been out of Columbia for some time, his contract having expired in 1903. Columbia went In for graduate coaching for a time, Jasper T. Goodwin having been In charge from Hanlan' leaving until the end 01 th season of 1906. There was some talk then of Rice coming to Cplumbla and that, added to some other things that had been said before by Mr. Bangs, ended In Rice' coming down to New York to see about things. Ht got a contract to coach at Columbia for a year, both side to se how they liked the ar rangement. Colombia Scared Cornell. Th Columbia crew of 1907 1 history. It rowed Cornell to three feet In four miles. Incidentally, It may be ald her, thai was the first crew of eight men that Rice ever taught to go four miles. He came to PoughkeepBle that year, not knowing a thing about the course and not having had a chance to learn by experience how to coach oarsmen to cover the four-mile dis tance. But his crew was right, and so have been the succeeding boats of Colum bia. Th man never have been in bad physical condition through overtraining or tinder- training. Such misnaps as nave ueen nui fered have been because of things beyond the control of any trainer. Th varsity eights of 1908 and 1909 both finished sec ond, and at the end of the race this year Columbia raised Rice' pay and gave him a contract good until the end of the 1913 season. If both sides are pleased then the contract may be extended to 1918. Rice Is probably the best paid rowing coach In the country. The Rice system of coaching, a far as can be learned by observation, constat In keeping the men In good humor. "Rowing is thousands of years old," said -Rice, "and no one man has a 'stroke' of his own. The thing you have to do is to keep the men wo. king, and you have to be sure you're not driving them too much. Thes fellows have a lot of life before them, and I don't want to send any man out into th world anything but better for the physical ex el else he gets from rowing." And most of them are testimony to the good effect of careful training. This year' vaislty boat contained two men. Renshaw, bow, and Hamann, two, who when they entered college weighed about 142 pound each. In the race In July, three yeare after their first race, they wer both 170 pounds, perhaps a trifle over. These are Just two. That la regarded as the way to bring men up. They don't feel overworked while they are training and the Columbia crew have been able to go the distance. Coaching; hr laaoeado. One day in the rowing room Rice bent solicitously over a freshman on tha ma chines and felt the end of the oar handle the lad was gripping. "Hsy, the sap's running out," he said. " Better loosen up a little on It" Another lad was rowing with arm as rigid as could be. Rice de tached his hands from the oar handle and worked them back and forth so that they crooked at the elbow. "They do bend," he said, looking around to some other freshmen who giggled. "I thought he had a ramrod through 'em." "Don't work your arm out so to the side," he told another oarsman one day. "That's the shoemaker's stroke," as he Illustrated the movement of a shoemaker pulling threads through. "That's the fourth today," remarked on of the can didate for coxswain. "He' had th crawl stroke and th banana stroke the on Tho Safe Road to Travel M ESecMc Mfj MM Trams Every Day Electric Block Signals Dining Car Meals and Service Best in the World " Steel Passenger Equipment Dustless, Perfect Track. For literature and information relative to rates, routes etc, call on or address City Ticket Office, 1324 Farnam St. PHONES. DELL DOUG. 182S AND IND. A-3231. NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION. OMAHA. NED.. DECEMBER 6-18, 1909. IE that come In bunches tha wet and dry stroke the one that keeps the oar drier than It' wet and now It's the shoemaker's stroke. Rice's strong point Is irony. "Pull, now, No. 2; you couldn't pull a hen off her nest," he rips out at some unfortunate. When someone is dumping the boat after a rough water row tries to dodge out from the boat as It is tossed, to escape the drenching: "That' right. Be Bure not to get near the water. You might catch cold," Rice Is likely to say. In spite of It, however, he Isn't really mean to the men and he generally manages to say something to the sorest of them Just when he's most angry, that puts him back In good humor again. In other words Rice is rather a diplomat with his men Ha doesn't rule with an advertised rod of Iron, but his word goes Just as effec tively. It takes a man who understands men to be a trainer of athletes of any kind. Rice knows 'em. It may be mentioned that there is a Mrs. Rlc and a James Campbell Kenny Rloe, the latter S year old and weighing forty-eight pounds. KLUTG MAY QUIT BASE BALL GAME Old Friend Think He Will Not Again Don Uniform. NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Jimmy Callahan, the ex-Chicago ball player, la In town for th purpose of trying to get Jim Jef frie to sign a contract to appear with a big athletic show for several weeks In Chicago and other cities In the west. When Callahanywas asked what he thought of the chances of Catcher Kllng playing again he said: "I would not be surprised if Johnny never played professional base ball again. If h does It will not be with the Chicago club, for he and Murphy are bitter ene mies and you can bet that ha will never again be a member of Murphy's team. Kllng ha enough to keep him for the rest of hi life. In th five games that he played with my club, the Logan Squares of Chicago, I had to pay him $1,8G0, and besides ha made $50 a night giving exhibitions of pool playing at on of the big billiard and pool parlor in Chi cago. "The only chance I see of Kllng playing again Is for Charley Murphy to let him go to some club in th east, like Brooklyn, where he could be th manager. ' I think that If any club secures him they will surely have to pay him $10,000 for hi serv ices, and h Is worth every bit that money, as. he is a wonderful catcher, hit ter, thrower and, I might say, a great manager." JOCKEY CLUBS LIKE THE DECISION Layer of Odd May Work in th Open Next Year. NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Jockey club mem ber, turfmen and persons Indirectly in terested in racing are apparently well satis fled with the decision of the court of appeals, which makes oral wager and the displaying of odds legal. It 1 generally agreed that the verdict would clean the atmosphere next season in that th various officials and the police would have a Una to go by, but it was also admitted that better have no greater privilege than tho enjoyed this year under difficulties. The point has been mads doubly clear, however, that a man may writ odds on his program and display them to his friends, who may be willing to make oral bets with him on tha races. In a word ther can b no legal restriction on bet ting execept in the wagering of cash, a point that will probaby be raised later on. Persons who believe In racing and like to make a bet under this ruling can visit the tracks next season and back their opinion without fear of arrest. Other persons who prefer to bet against a hors' chance can do so freely and can offer odds without Interference Ju.t so long as they do net record transactions. Pacific tt 2H NEW RECORD FOR BIG FIGHT That is. Looked For in Coming Jef-friei-JohnBon Bout. ONE PUNCH MAKES A F0BTUNE Jeff Ha Been In Fair Boat Which Hair Broken th Record on Receipt and This Will Be the Fifth. NEW YORK, Nov. 2o.-A fortune In one punch. Ther isn't any doubt that th winner tf th Jeffries-Johnson fight will establish a new record In the amount of money won In a single enoounter In the ring. The fighting gam la th most lucrative voca tion In the world. Joe Gans went to Fort Erie, stepped Into th ring with Frank Erne, shot out his right, and right there was created a new lightweight champion. That one punch netted Oana at least 1100.000 worth of engagements. Although never officially given out. It is said that the gate receipt for th fight between Jack Johnson and Tommy Burn, pulled off by Hugh Mcintosh, the famous Australian promoter, at Sydney last De cember amounted to considerably over 1100,000, so It would not in the least surprise the club managers of this country If some one should be compelled to offer more than 1100,000 for the Johnson-Jeffries con test In this country. In fact, a well known 'Frisco promoter Is willing to give that much, if not more, for th battle, which will undoubtedly break all records in this country for attendance. This will be the fifth oontest In which Jeff engaged that broke the record. When he whipped Tom Sharkey in New York, the Coney Island club announced that the gate receipts totaled $ii,000, of which the fight ers received over 136,000. The Jeffrles-Cor-bett battle In San Francisco drew a (06,000 house, and their contest In New York City also drew a big house. The Jeffries-Flti-Simmons fight for the world's champion ship also drew heavily, the receipts being $63,000. Although In no way official, the follow ing table of big purses received by the fighters will be found very Interesting by the fight fans: FIVE BEST FIGHTS. Contests. Gate Rec'pts. Nelson-Gans, at Goldfield $(19,715 Jeffrles-Sharkey, at Coney Island.... 67.0H) FltZHimmons-Jetfries, at Coney Island M.uou Corbett-Jeffrles. at Han Francisco.... 62 S0 corDett-McCoy, at New York IN SAN FRANCISCO. Jeffries - Corbett Brltt-Nelson (1906) Guns Britt'. Brltt - Corbett Jeffries - FltxBlmmons Jeffries - Ruhlin Brly-Nelson (1904) Burns - Squirts O'Brien - Fltxsimmons Corbett-NelMon (1!04) Corbett-Nelson (19u6 Brltt - White O'Brien - Kaufman Neil - Tenny Nell - Hyland Hart Johnson IN NEW YORK. Jeffries - Sharkey Jeffries - Fltxsimmons Corbett - McCoy Corbett - hliarkey Huhlln - Fltxsimmons , Ituhlln Sharkey Sharkey McCoy Jeffries - Corbett McGovern - Ern Sharkey - Fltxsimmons McGovern Ilxon Choynskl- - McCoy IN PHILADELPHIA. Nelson - McGovern IN GOLD FIELD. Nelson Gans IN TONOPAH. Gans - Herman 67.000 62,340 48.311 3S.0UO 81.SO0 80,4? 2,900 2T. 251 lti.lir? 14 21 11.38 9,1V) 6,410 6. 270 6.211 6,200 67.0(i0 B.-...-HXI 67.0"O 40.t0 45,l( JU 4O,0"0 37. 0) 8f.noo 32,(j0 26.000 24.rtii 2U.OO0 23.000 69,715 30.706 IN NEW ORLEANS. Corbett fcuillvatf ifi.000 WELSH IS AFTER BAT NELSON Coming to America Expressly to Meet Him In the Hi nr. NEW YORK. Nov. 20.-Freddle Welsh, who recently defeated Johnny Summer for the lightweight title of England, is coming to America soon for the expressed purposi of forcing Battling Nelson to fight hlra for tha lightweight championship of th world. The little Englishman has been vainly seeking a match .with Nelson for two years, but In view of his grip on thi British championship he believes that thli time Nelson will have to either fight or crawl. Welch Is well known In thlB country, where he has boxed in all the large cities, He humped Into the limelight when he boxed a twenty-five round draw with Packey McFarland at Los Angela a yeai ago last July. In that affair Welsh, in the opinion of many competent critics, had a distinct advantage and should hav re ceived the verdict Later the Briton mad Abe Attell look like a selling plater in fifteen round bout in th same place. It la true that Welsh had the advantage In weight, but the way he outboxed th scien tific featherweight champion left no room to doubt his quality. Welsh has challenged Nelson repeatedly, but without receiving recognition. H haa posted $5,000 in cash a a forfeit, and aide bet on several ocoaslons, but Nelson haa Ignored him. Ho haa threatened to claim the lightweight championship by default, but th Battler haa merely laughed. One or twice NelBon, when cornered, haa ex pressed a willingness to fight Welsh "soma time," but that is about all. Now Welsh is coming back to this country with increased prestige and a Just demand for a match. Ha says he will post a 16.000 forfeit upon his arrival here and will lssu a challenge to Nelson to fight twenty rounds, forty-flv round or to a finish at 13S pounds ringside, th American light weight limit. He say the $5,000 can go a a side bet and that he will let Nelson decide upon the division of tha purs. Welsh declare that he will agree to California aa th battl ground and will be ready to fight within two month after he reaches here. The English champion also set forth that h ha first call on Nelson and that the latter will not be called upon to meet the winner of th Wolgaat-PoweJl fight on November 33. In a battle to a finish Welsh might be a hard proposition tor Nelson unless the latter possessed his old endurance. There is not a scientific thing about boxing that Welsh doesn't know. H ha a phenomenal defence and Is lightening itself in landing blows with either hand. But he lack a knockout punch, a his recent mill with uramers well illustrated. He is physic ally strong, though, and has undoubted stamina, being generally regarded by ring sharps as essentially a long distance fighter. With superior endurance he might be able to tire Nelson out unless the latter happened to reach him with a knockout blow. In a twenty round bout, howeven, Welsh might be an easy winner on points, as Nelson is not a boxer in the strictest, sense of the word. At any rate It is th prevailing oplulon that Welsh is entitled to be heard. PROFESSIONAL TRACK COACHES Cartntell Returns from England to Train North Carolina. NEW YORK. Nov. 20.-Nthan J. Cart mell, the former University of Pennsyl vania sprinter, who turned "pro" a while ago In England, Is to coach th University of North Carolina track team next spring. Cartmell haa a formidable reourd from lxty yards to 440 yards. He is on of th few collegian who hav entered Into th busi ness of coaching track athlete after they finlshrd their college work. Dr. William, at Minnesota, a Yal manj preceded Dick Grant of Harvard a track coach of th Gophers. 'Lonio Btagg of Yale looks after th track men at CUcagat m although, h haa other dutlea. '
