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To SPORTING FIGHT ORGANIZATION MUST NOW NAME ITS CHAMPIONS f — II I 1 V| liii-i.im ii- ■ ii— m — **J One Champion Whose Title Will Not Be Questioned in Discussion of Clashes. DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 13.—The question of the championships in the various new classes created by the National Boxing association is one which promises much discussion, not to speak of the claims that will be made by the boxers who figure them selves entitled to the distinctions. Not until the new association adopts the scale as permanent, and assigns the honors in the various classes, will the matter be settled. The "minim," or 105-pound class, presents but three men worthy of con sideration: Dusty Miller, of Chicago; Jimmy Walsh, of Boston, and Griff Jones, of Philadelphia. Grave doubts are expressed regarding the latter's ability to do the weight, but last April he stepped on the scales at 104. As Griff is a careful little fellow, fully matured, no doubt he can still reach the class figure. Walsh is probably the best man of the three. He is a natural born boxer, fast and aggres sive, and with a defense which always puzzles an opponent. Unless some man defeats him before next Septem ber he will be awarded the palm. ' •In the light bantam class a great scarcity exists, and unless some good man develops in the next six months and clearly establishes his claim this class will probably be placed on the boards without a champion. Frankie Neil is the bantam champion, with but three dangerous competitors. Tough little Tommy Feltz, Johnny Re gan and Pinky Evans are the only high class men in America capable of doing 116 pounds in condition to box. Of these Evans looks best. He has always been kept under cover, and never properly boomed. In the hands of a man like Sam Harris or Al Here ford, Evans would be a wonder. He boxed Feltz a hard twenty-round draw less than a year ago, and has recently defeated Regan. In the latter bout, however, an agreement had previously been made that if both men were on their feet at the end of the twentieth round a draw should be the decision. This alone saved Regan. But Tommy Feltz, when in proper shape, and box- Ing under straight rules, can give any 116-pound man living an argument, and, in my opinion, can beat them all. New Feather Class. The new light featherweight class In cludes such men as Harry Forbes, Abe and Monte Attell. Joe Cherry and Ches ter Goodwin. Attell is the recognized champion, and Chester Goodwin should be a close second. This boy is not well .known in the West, but shrewd man agement has made him a good card in the East, where he made his name and money. He recently defeated Feltz, but the latter gave away too much weight. Forbes looks passe, while Cherry has been poorly handled. Joe's ways of living also place him on the doubtful list. Monte Attell is a comer, but he will never meet his brother for the title. The new featherweight limit. 127 pounds, was not made to suit Young Corbett, as generally supposed. Corbett ■will not do this weight, while there are any number of men in America who can and remain strong. A list would Include McClelland, who, by the way, can make 122 if pressed; Callahan, Clarence Forbes, Herman, Mike Mem sic, Mowatt, Dave and Tommy Sullivan and Hughey Murphy. Herman looks best, but McClelland, in proper shape, See our windows and you'll find what you want. Ladies' Box Calf, Vici Kid' and Velour Calf, welted sole aa «a Shoes, worth \# 4*l $3.00.... IjMLIuU ! Children's Rubbers, sizes up 4 fin to io# ./ iyc Men's Genuine Calf Shoes, aj IA ■union made, \| /lX worth $2.00 OlrtU . Ladies' Kid rn-r-un.il - Lace Shoes, f^^^^^^^H warranted all Mn&iM&iisW ■ solid leather, S^Wmm ; worth ft ft« K'/^8 Mon...vit*«u £&*/ ~*iaL Question of the Champion ships fn the Various New Classes Created by the Na tional Boxing Association Promises Discussion That Will Continue Until Scale Is Made. Is a better man than Herman. Before the new class is made permanent, the two can settle the dispute. Terry Mc- Govern would also come in this class, but Terry has retired to his home in Brooklyn. The lightweight class will include Britt, Martin Canole, Rufe Turner, Young Corbett, Willie Fitzgerald, Han lon and Buddy Ryan. Corbett looks like the champion, with Ryan, Canole, Fitzgerald and Britt coming next. Turner is a colored boy, and has hard times making a match. Corbett has shown that his heart is in the right place by renouncing all claims to the featherweight championship, and an nouncing his intention of annexing the lightweight title. Gans is out of the class. He has persistently refused to make 133 pounds for good men, even when the money was in sight. Gans has always been an unpopular cham pion, owing partly to the high-handed way in which he has been managed. Al Hereford has asked for everything in sight before allowing Gans to meet any one likely to give him a battle. Here ford in at least three cities has worked a great hardship to boxing. Gans should be granted no more consideration than anyone else. If he cannot do 133 pounds, and refuses to make a match at that weight, let the men mentioned settle the dispute. Light Welterweights. In the light welterweight class, 140 pounds, a large number of men are available. Of these, Gans, Mike (Twin) Sullivan, Jimmy Gardiner, Dave Holly, Mike Ward, Gus Gardner, Jack Black burn and Jack O'Keefe are recognized as the best. Gans has been slightly bested by Blackburn and Holly in short six-round bouts These bouts were no criterion of the colored champion's true form. It is certain that Joe could easily defeat both opponents. Black burn defeated Jimmy Gardiner, which puts the Lowell man out of the run ning. Jimmy has beaten Mike Sulli van, but Sullivan boxed a draw with Blackburn. Gans, in good shape, boxed Mike Ward under clean break rules, where the champion is not strong, and where Ward is at his best. Ward was prac tically knocked out In the tenth round. Gans and Gus Gardner met under straight rules) over a year ago, and Gans won on a foul in the eleventh round, after having been given a hard beating by Gardner. Ward won against Gardner on a foul in the third round, after having been put all to the bad by Gus in the second. O'Keefe outpointed Gardner in a she-round boot, but here again the Philadelphian is not strong. He likes the long route. This gets the 140 pound men down to Gans, O'Keefe and Gus Gardner. In a twenty-round battle at 140 pounds, Gardner with his wonderful strength and hitting powers, looks like a winner. At the new welterweight limit, Joe WTalcott, that ebony piece of greased lightning from Boston, stands out alone. Next comes Martin Duffy, George Cole, Mike Schreck, Young Pe ter Jackson, Hugo Kelly, Charlie Mc- Keever and Eddie Kennedy. Tommy Ryan claims to be able to do this weight but he has not boxed as low as 148 pounds for some time. The old-timers, Matty Matthews and Rube Ferns, also class as welterweights, but are out of the running. Walcott is champion, with Cole and Duffy close seconds. Kelly and Schreck came next, and Jackson close behind. The others are trial horses only. Increasing the middleweight limit from 158 to 154 pounds may make Tommy Ryan and O'Brien protest, but if the clubs are firm, the champion ship will be awarded at these figures. These two, with Jack (Twin) Sullivan, are the best and only high-class mid dleweight men before the public. The new light heavyweight class will embrace all men between middle weights and 175 pounds. George Gar diner, Bob Fitzsimmons, Carter and Choynski, are the only men of class, and are rated in their relative order. In the heavyweight division Jeffries stands out in a frame marked "Alone." The other candidates for honors are Jack Johnson, Ferguson, Monroe, Sam McVey and Tom Sharkey. The most promising heavyweight and a possible future champion is Marvin Hart. Jef fries draws the color line, so Johnson and McVey will have to be contented to lead the mokes alone. Jeffries is, supported in his stand by the new as sociation, which forbids its members to match colored men against white men, but the officers evidently overlook the fact that this cannot apply to cham pionship bouts, as both Gans and Wal cott are colored. EDDIE HANLON WILL FIGHT CHARLIE NEARY Pacific Coast Favorite Agrees to Meet Pride of Beer City. MILWAUKEE. Wis., Feb. 13.—Word comes from Pittsburg this morning to the effect that in all probability Eddie Hanlon will stop over in Milwaukee on his return West and swap punches with Charley Neary, Hanlon announced before he started East that he was coming to Milwaukee, and it is needless to say that the coast boy and the local favorite would prove a big attraction here. Neary is slowly coming out of his dor mant stafe and is beginning to sit up and notice things again. An offer has been received from Bat tery D Club of Chicago for another meet ing with Buddy Ryan. The purse end of it is all right, but when Neary insisted that Ryan post a forfeit of $500 to make 130 pounds, the weight agreed upon, there was a slight hitch on the part of the Chi cago boy, as there is some doubt as to Ryan's ability to make the weight, and $500 ie a large chunk to lose for a few pounds of fat. Present Indications do not promise very well for the match. George Gardner, who is to meet his old foeman. Kid Carter, before the M. B. C. Friday night, is expected to arrive in the city tomorrow and will finish his training stunts here. At present he is doing his work in Chicago, and, according to re ports, is showing all of his old-time form. THE ST. PAtJL GLOBE. SUNDAY. FEBBtJABY 14 1904. BOWLING HOCKEY CRACKS AFTER VICTORIA TEAM ( . ." '.. ~-_- ■ - •• - X^B*** :: ■ ■■• • JsE x#- * --. _hk k ___9S BILLY PARNELL. Three of the Squad From Which Will Be Picked the ASlStar Team That Is to Play the Twin City Hockey League Champions Tomorrow Night. Tomorrow evening the Victoria team will be furnished its big battle of the season. Unable to down the Victorias in the race for the Dunbar trophy, the defeated teams of the Twin City league have dared the champions to meet the pick of the league for the championship of the city, and the Victorias have accepted the challenge. Capt. Cook, of the Victoria team, has named Monday night for the clash, and the battle will be fought out on the Laurel rink, Dale street and Laurel avenue. The all-star team that will line up against the Victorias will include the fastest hockey players of the city In naming Monday as the date for the game Capt. Cook shrewdly blocked the all-stars' attempt to secure sat isfactory practice, but as the majority of the players have lined up against the champions during the season Capt. Billy Barron and his followers believe that the Victorias are to lose their first game in St. Paul when the teams meet tomorrow night. SULLIVAN LIKELY TO FURNISH TROUBLE Eastern Sports Think David Will Give Young Corbett Hard Fight. NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—Young Cor bett and Dave Sullivan will fight in San Francisco on Feb. 29, in the ring of the Yosemite club. Dave Sullivan, whether or not he manages to wrest the laurels from Young Corbett, will give him a hard fight. The battle is to be fought at 13» --pounds. Sullivan is a legitimate featherweight, and could easily make, the featherweight limit. It is obvious that the weight was made to suit Cor bett, who was to meet Britt at that same weight two weeks later. So if Sullivan should beat Young Corbett the championship will again be held by a real featherweight. Sullivan has a good record as a fighter. He has met and beaten some of the best in the fighting business. Only a year ago he fought Terry Mc- Govern in Louisville, and gave the "Terror" all the fighting he could take care of for a few rounds. Sullivan trained hard for that encounter, for he intended, if he won, to go after Cor bett and have a try at the champion ship. In the earlier stages of the battle he pounded Terry in such good style that his backers thought he was winning. Terry lost his head and fought wildly. But at last Terry got the range and dropped Sullivan several limes, ham mering him about the body. Bob Fitz simmons was referee. He finally stop ped the fight and disqualified Sullivan, stating that he had gone down with out being hit. Sullivan and his back ers and seconds were much excited over the decision, but Fitz refused to listen to any arguments over the mat ter. Whether the decision was right or wrong, Sullivan was badly battered and did not appear around his usual haunts for several days after the fight. Dave Sullivan is a clever boxer and a game fighter. Neither he nor his brother, Spike, ever acknowledged a defeat. Dave has a great left hand. He jabbed Terry McGovern all around the ring with it in their last fight. As a knockout puncher he is hardly In Young Corbett's class. He does not try to win his battles "in a punch," like the Denverite, but wears his man down gradually. Since his fight with Terry Mc-Govern until a few weeks ago, when he re entered the ring in Boston, Dave had not been seen within the ropes. But such a rest as that, when it is not ac companied by dissipation, does a boxer much more good than harm. Sullivan should be in better form than when he was fighting once a week. In build there is little to choose be tween Sullivan and Corbett. They are both short and stocky, made for mill ing, fit to fight and swing the knock out blow. Dave is broad-shouldered, like his opponent, and just as able to withstand punishment. "Fortune waits on no man," but she often gives him hints through "The Globe's Paying Wants." Popular Bowling Alleys \ 230-232 E. Seventh Street I (Near W«couta) jl Three new Alleys are completed |! Wines, Liquors and Cigars. T. C. Tel. 340 TMEK AUTO. UP-TO-DATE. FIVE POINTS BOWLING ALLEY : . OSCAR A. SCHULTZ, I ropristor. i^ Choice Wings, Liquors aniflnfi S. W. Com«r Rica and Univeriiry Avs.nu». Telephone: Twin City 179 1. St. Paul, Minn. . Special prlzss avory month for high ora. L» dlsa evening first sndthird Mondays. Prlzssfor high scores. , . RACING BASEBALL 1 w^Sfe \ * ;' 13 Eg JACK BRADFORD. TEBEAU'S TROUBLES Fielder Waldron Refuses to Play With Denver. DENVER, Col., Feb. 13.—Another of Tebeau'3 prospective players has been taken and if the present clip con tinues the Denver team will be very short of members when the season opens. The latest steal is that of E. J. Wal dron, whom Tebeau had supposedly se cured to cover the center territory for the local aggregation, but now the news of his signing a contract for the com ing season with the San Francisco team is out. Waldron is a former Western league player, having covered center field for the Kansas City Western league team last season and made a remarkable record. He is a brilliant fielder, a fine base runner and a slugger that will hold his own with most players. This crack fielder has been playing since 1885 and has batted above the .300 mark in each entrance. The coast magnate is complimenting himself on having- the good luck of se curing the crack fielder. JOHN L. A CHAMPION Sullivan Still Holds the Bare Knuckle Title. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 13.—The gold and diamond studded belt which was presented to John L. Sullivan as commemorative of his championship right with Paddy Ryan, and which dis appeared about ten years ago, now turns up in the possession of Jere Donohue, of this city, who exhibits the trophy among his art collection. Don ohue secured the belt for $10,500, which is slightly more than the value of the metal and precious stones. Sullivan was said to have pawned the belt soon after he lost his cham pionship to Corbett in 1891, and few have seen it since. The inscription on the belt is as follows: "Presented to John L. Sullivan by the Citizens of the United States, July 4, 1887." Pictures of Sullivan and Ryan, sev enteen large and many small diamonds adorn the trophy. Sullivan won the bare knuckle cham pionship in defeating Paddy Ryan at Mississippi City, Miss., in a f ght last ing nine rounds. To commemorate the event Sullivan's admirers raised sev eral thousand dollars and purchased the belt, which was presented at a public function. Sullivan kept the belt a short time after he lost the glove championship to Corbett. The bare knuckle title he still holds. REN MULFORD JR. TO MANAGE WASHINGTON Cincinnati Man Is Slated to Lead the Senator Team. MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Feb. 13.—Ren Mulford Jr., a prominent sporting writer of Cincinnati, has been slated to manage the Washington American league baseball team the coming season. Turners to Pfay U Freshmen. The West Side Turners' basketball team will meet the freshmen team of the Uni versity of Minnesota tomorrow in the Turner gymnasium. The teams will lineup as follows: Turners. Freshmen. Stoven G Schukneckt Krieger or Halich... G Harris Schoenlg C Hardesty Snow F Redman Dreves F Mcßae Three I. League to Meet BLOOMINGTON. lIL, Feb. 13.—Presi dent Edward Holland, of the Three I. league, today issued a call for the spring rheeting to t>?t upon a schedule for the season of 1904 and for the transaction of routine business. The meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 23, in Chicago. There are no air ships advertised among "The Globe's Paying Wants," but they're about the only things that aren't. THE RING i | I BILLY BARRON. BILLY BARRON. YOUNG CORBETT TO HAVE MING STABLE Champion Will Go Into Busi ness With Jockey C!em Jenkins. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 13.— Champion Young Corbett is to become a horse owner. Owing to the great success he has had during the past week, when he won something like $30,000, he feels that the race track is a pretty aoft place for him when his fighting days are a thing of the past Corbett will form a partnership with Clem Jenkins, the well-known jockey who met with so much success abroad for the past few years, and who last season rode for Sanford & Son. Jen kins will have charge of the horses and do the training, while the champion will do the betting for the firm. It is said that Jenkins will go to Rancho Del Paso, the great Haggln breeding establishment near Sacramento, and select some choice yearlings. Jimmy Rothwell, the brother of the champion, will exercise the horses in the morning and act as betting com missioner during the time the race are run. This will form one of the strong est combinations in the West, and much success ought to attend the ef forts of the celebrated duo in their un dertaking. MIC-MAC TEAMS TRIM LAURELS AND GORDONS Fast Work of First and Second Sevens Lands Two Games. The Mic-Macs defeated the Laurels on the Mic-Mac rink in a hard-fought game. Ine Mic-Macs were ahead at all stages. Miller opened the game by scoring for Mic-Macs and soon after repeated the trick. Then Fred Minser made it 3-0 for the Mic-Macs just before the close of the first half. In the second half the Laurels did bet ter, and held the Mic-Macs to a single score, which Fred Minser made. The fine work of Weitbrecht in goal was main ly responsible for victory. For the Mic- Macs Miller, Fred Menser and Brown did the best work, and Bond and Moritz played a good game for Laurels. Mic-Macs—W. Minser, goal; Rood and Mackey, point; O'Brien, cover point; Brown and Palmer, left wing; F. Minser, right wing; Johnston, rover; Miller, cen ter. Laurels—Weitbrecht, goal; Bond, point; Olund, cover point; Leonard, rover; Moritz, right wing; Struthers, left wing; Kellier, center. The second team of the Mic-Macs de feated the Gordons on the MicMac rink by the score 6 to 1. Palmer made three goals for the Mic-Macs in the opening half. In the second half he scored the opening goal, Foley following and then Palmer landed the final score. The Gor dons score was made by McNair in the first half. The teams lined up as follows: Mic-Macs. Gordons. Tierney G Prouty Erdhal P H. McNair Root C P Ramsey Palmer R B. McNair Ruff ....: LW Burns Foley R W Oilman Crosby C Brooks Y. M. C. A. INDOOR BALL TEAM LOSES AT PRESTON Tigers of That Town Trim Local Players by One-Sided Score. Special to The Globe. PRESTON, Minn., Feb. 13.—The Pres ton Tigers met the indoor baseball team of the St. Paul Y. M. C. A. here tonight and gave the St. Paul players a bad beat ing m a one-sided game. Score, Preston 27, Y. M. C. A. 0. The St. Paul taam was completely outclassed. St. Johns Defeats Normal. COLL.EGEVILLE, Minn.. Feb. 15.—The St. Cloud normal school basketball team wag defeated here tonight by the St. John's university team. The game waa fast and the teams made a hard fight. Score, St. John's 19, St. Cloud 11. FEBRUARY TROUSER SALE FEBRUARY TROUSER SALE THIS SALE GIVE 3 YOU A CHANCB to buy your year's supply of trousers at a saving of about half; I am making to your measure the best trousers that money can buy at *3% to |6%; regular price. $5 to |12; perfect fit guaranteed. Tailor Lee, He Satisfies. Grand Opera House. % SPORTING GEAR AND NICHOLS OFFERED TO BUY KANSAS CITY BALL TEAM Tebeau Can Turn Over His Cowboy Holdings for Real Money and Avoid Syndicate Baseball—Fire Ruins Game at Baltimore—List of Jump ers to Outlaw League. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 13.—1t de veloped during the bowMng- tournament at Cleveland, Ohio, that Charlie Nich ols, who managed the Kansas City Western league team last season, and Dale Gear, who managed the Kansas City Association club, made an inef fectual effort recently to secure control of it association club at that place from utorge Tebeau. Charlie Nichols, who will manage St. Louis in the National league next sea son, said regarding the affair: "Gear and I could make a success of the team in Kansas City and the people there would welcome the change, but it will never be a money-maker while Tebeau has the club and at the same time owns the Louisville club in the same associa tion. We were willing to purchase the club at a reasonable figure, but from what we could learn there was no chance of getting it. I am still ready to go into the deal and buy the club any time Tebeau wants to sell out, but it will have to be deferred a year now, as I must keep my agreement with the St. Louis people for next season. How ever, if I can get hold of the Kansas City club with Gear I will be" ready to leave St. Louis a year hence and handle the Blues. This can be done with the consent of Mr. Robinson, owner of the St. Louis club. "The effort of one man to control so many franchises will not help the game. I think Tebeau knows there will be a merger of the major leagues before a great while and for that reason he is hanging on so as to get into the vari ous leagues when the real shift comes." Fire Kills Game for Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 13.—Al though the Baltimore ball park Is not reported as destroyed by the great fire, there can be but little chance for the national game this season, and one of the best cities on the Eastern league circuit, as well as one of the most fa mous centers of the diamond sport, is off the map for at least one year. Base ball's best patrons are office men, clerks and the myriads who make their livings In the business section of any city, and with the business section erased from existence these people will be too busy struggling for a livelihood to care about diversion. Baltimore, although fallen to the level of a minor league town last season, is a city of historic interest and deep fascination to the student of baseball history. Good ball clubs have been nu merous at Baltimore, and the diet of oysters and terrapin, to say nothing of Baltimore rye, seems to have made the players fast, gingery and scrappy. Greatest of all the Baltimore teams was the one which won the National league pennant in 1894, 1895 and 1596. This club was not only the greatest ever seen in Baltimore uniform, but one of the grandest in the records of the game. Ned Hanlon picked and drilled the men and had the fortune to assemble good batsmen and fast base runners, who were also of the scrappiest and most waspish temper on the field. These men were molded into a playing machine which fairly sparkled as it worked. They were incredibly fast on the bases, past masters of the art of working pitchers and bewildering the opposition, brilliant fielders, and the worst pests with whom any umpire ever had to contend. The personnel of the team was changed year after year, whenever Hanlon saw a chance to strengthen, but among those who last ed longest and gained fame that shall never die while baseball history sur vives were Keeler, Kelley, Jennings, McGraw and Doyle. This club, after winning three flags, and holding the af fections of the Baltimore rooters a3 few teams have ever done with any constituency, found itself at last a dead issue. Baltimore had become pen nant-wearied, tired of glory. The at tendance fell away to almost nothing, the team sank in power, and Its stars were merged with Brooklyn. The city passed to the American league and then to the Eastern. Its baseball gran deur had departed. Outlaws' List of Jumpers. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 13.— The coast men have been casting ac counts the last week and the following men are found to be under the necessity of having their proper league and club . __£ —Ri_> s __9 -sp __sa_. v Hm____ ' _v__BEkßdb^ 7 j_a DALE GEAR. Kansas City Man Willing to Relieve Tebeau of His Blue Team. o o o decided by the national commission when the question of the disposition of the players comes up in order to ad just matters for peace between the out laws and organized leagues. The list of names to be presented to the Eastern body as under coast con tract is by club as follows: Loa Angeles—Gray. Hall. Newton Wheeler, Reeling, Dillon. Flood, Smith Toman, Ross, Bernard, Cravath. Spies! Eager. Raymond, Miller and Hoy. Portland—Nadeau, Freeman, Butler Van Buren, Shields. Thielman. Catcher Shea, Castro, Drennan. Steelman, Druhot, McCreedle, Tacoma —Keefe, Fitzgerald. Daramann, Hogan, Graham. Doyle. Nordyke, Casey Eugan, Sheehan, Ilildebran:^ Mel.augh lin. Lynch, Hannivan. San Francisco — Wftalen, Cutter. B. Jones, Yerkes, Massey. Anderson, Gra ham, Irwto, Wuldron. Marshall, Meany, Hansen, Leahy. Oakland—BoettiKfr, T-ohman, Schalfly, Franeks, Devereaux, Kruger, Dunleavy, Ganley, Mosmraan. Graham, Whitiiilsr«. Buchanan. Feeney, Wienig, Clancy, Free mer, Schmidt, Streib. Seattle—Hughes, Barber. Williams, Schock, Braahear, Mobler, Schmeer, Hall (Russ), Delehanty, Smith (Carlos), Van Haltren. The list includes about eighty-seven names, but in many cases there will not be great disputes about them. Some of the cases are ancient history, and some of the players in question have gone out of the business. In some few cases there will perhaps be fights for men and a real cause for decision on the part of the national :. commission. Strobel May Get Hawley. MILWAUKEE. Wis., Feb. 13.—"Pink" Hawley, who in his time was consid ered among the best pitchers in the business, will undoubtedly wear the uniform of an American association team in the 1904 season. Although Hawley has not signed, he has received offers from several clubs in the association, and when the season opens he will probably be on the staff of Herman Long's Toledo team. Lor,g is said to be in correspondence with the former Brewer and it is likely that the deal will be closed in a few days. Hawley returned to his home in Beaver Dam last night after spending several days in the city. The former star said he had not made up his mind to get back into the though he intimated that with a little training he would be able to g<> the distance with out any trouble. Watkins' No. 1 Team. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 13.—The announced line-up of the Indianapolis team for the coming season gives Wat kins Harry Allemang, who was with the Saints last season. The present personnel of Indianapolis is: Pitchers—William Phillips, Otto New lin, Jacob Yolz, Harry Allemang. Turn Williams, L. T. Cromley, John Fisher, B. J. Barney, Clarence Dunbar. < Catchers—F. S. Leslie, M. K. Reydon, Orville Woodruff. Outfielders —George Hogriever, C'y Coul ter. Steward Strader, John Hsndricks. Inflelders —Arthur Hess, Guy Dickey, George P. Kihm, Bert Haas, "Dutch" Schaefer. Barger Defeats Townsend. TTXEDO PARK, N. V., KH>. 13. In the semi-finals fur the gold racquet at the Tuxedo Tennis and Racquet club today, Milton S. Barger, of New York, del E Townsend Irvin, of Tuxedo, in three straight sets: 15-9, 15-6, 15-3. Barger will meet E. Edwards in the final match to morrow.