The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-23
NEW SERIES-NO. 6O4
SPORTING NEWS
From Wilkes Spirit of last week,

Sporting NEWS
From Wilkes Spirit of last week.
BLLIARDs.-Iti is no easy matter to score
.ovty-nve Dy successive counts at the French
gane-lt is generally considered great feat to
score fifty. Yet these are mere common-place
IN tne estimation of Mons. Pierre Carme: and
as prcol tnat to him those performances are In.
slgnlhcanS which others pronounce excellent
OF marvellous, on Monday the 9Th inst. the
I.!1e,N rIelcnau s II IN emulation of John McDe.
run Of 25S at thu French game At ok the
balls were in contact, and had to be spotted.
and at 2oS the balls were 80 placed that Mon
sieur pronounced it Impossible to carom. These
2oo points were made IN fifty minutes. and at
no Ml time wv. were the balls crotched or wedged.
ed between Monsieur Carmeahd Dudlev Kava-
nagh are virtually agreed upon, The oniv
thing which remains to be settled before tha
games are closed is the order in which thew are
to be played NJ Carme wishes the game, tn
be played in the order in which they have been
named in his challenge; ard Kavanagh wishes
to toss for the choice in this proceeding. There
is no likelihood, however, that this Indifferent
matter will prevent the matches being made.
The proposition of William Goldthwait. to
the effect that he would play the American
game with any one in the country, for So 500 a
side, on either the 9th, 28th, or 29th day of
June, has been Withdrawn, Mr.. G. announcing
that " circumstances have determined him to
months"
THE TURF.-In the great two mile race at
Woodlawn, between Asteroid and Loadstone.
3m. 361ls. and 3m. 3Ss. was made by the bav
son of Nebula. We consider this the best two
mile race ever made in America, for, though a
single heat has been run faster at New Orleans,
it was not with full weight up; and thousR
Mollie Jackson and Sherrod ran the last two
miles of a three mile heat at Woodlawn faster,
they neither of them made two heats of
two miles in the aggregate time of I'm. 14Ls,.
which is that of these four miles. It is proper
to state here that both these colts were bred bv
MIR. Alexander. This performance by Asteroid
at Woodlawn, coupled with what we have so
recently seen Kentucky do at Patterson, has
created an extraordinary interest in regard to
the meeting of those two horses on the race
for the Saratoga cup. great amount of
money-probably $4,000, has already been
laid about them in this city. In some instances
Kentucky has been backed against Asteroid
and RhinOdine coupled, but we have not heard
that any odds have been laid as between the
two four -year-olds at present.
BY telegraph from Farther Point, we have
the news in brief form that the Derby at En-
som was won by the French bred colt Gladia-
teur, who, it will be remembered, won the two
thousand guinea stakes at Newmarket. He
ocn,o'0u LnuCn easier vlctory az EPSON than
at Newmarket, for the Derby was won by two
lengths in a canter. The owner of Gladiateur.
Count Lagrange, is said to have won $4OO. 900
on the race. The colt was hardly heard of in
the betting until after he had won the guineas.
when he was made first favorite.
G!adateur is bay colt, with star in the
forehead standing above fifteen hands three
inches high, with powerful, muscular frame.
He had an enlargement on the tetlock Joint of
the OIL fore leg, but it never made him lame.
During the winter he had the influenza and
coughed great deal. He was got by Mon
argue, who won the Goodwood cup the year
that Prior and Prioress ran for it, and his dam
was Miss Gladiator, mare by Gladiator, who
was easily beaten for the Derby by Bay Mid
dleton. He won the Clearwell Stakes last
year, at the Second October meeting at New.
market. Gladfateur has now won two of the
three great three-yearOld events in England,
and If he should carry off the st. Leger, he
will DO what no other horse save West Austria.
lian has ever done.
From the Clipper of this week
THE RING-Jimmy Elliot wants to fight bis
old antagonist, Jim Dunn, for 81, 900 q side,
according to Dunn's own challenge In our last
issue, and is willing to give him 6is own time.
from days to months-in fact, almost anything
to get match. For this particular object the
Young Giant visited our Office on the 18th
inst, in company with Dan Noble and Jim
Colbert, and left 81, 900, remarking that "that
stuff talked all languages" and expressed the
most earnest hopes that it would be covered
without any more newspaper talk. Should
Dunn refuse to stand by his cartel, or refuse
to cover the same in two weeks from the date
OF his challenge, Elliot is willing to let the
money remain to make match with any man
in America for SIC, 900 (s5, 900 side) and the
championship, in four months from signing
articles, not barring Joe Coburn, ''or any other
man."
Articles have been signed. sealed and de.
livered for Johnny McGlade and Jim Turner
to fight at 128 lbs. on Tuesday, the first of
August, for 81, 900 side, and weigh and toss
for choice of ground the day before fighting
between 1O A. M. and IL NJ, ct McGlades own
house, % South street, Philadelphia. The
battle is to take place in the State of Pennsyl-
vania, not over 100 nor less than so miles from
Philadelphia.
From the New York Tribune Of Tuesday.
TRorTNG MATCH.-Yesterday the great
tro:ting match for $1,000, mile heats. best
three in five, in harness, between the celebrat-
ed fast trotters Lady Thorn and Dexter, the
former trained by Sam Mclaughlin and owned
by MIR. Rolph, Of Philadelphia, and the latter
trained by Hiram Woodruff and owned by Geo.
Alley of this city, came off on the Union
course The attendance was the largest we
have ever seen on any trotting course this sea-
son.
On the track, before the start, Lady Thorne
was backed to win the race at 800 to $40 ON
her. She won the first heat very easily in 2.24
by ten lengths Dexter having been carried to o
break by the rapid rate the mare trotted the
first half mile having been done in 1. .09s<.
which is at the rate of 2.1915 to the mile. The
second heat, in which 800 to S20 was bet on
Lady Thorne, was won by her cleverly in
2.16L by length, and the betting was now
800 to $40 that che won. Dexter won the
third heat in 2.27, the mare repeatedly break
ing in consequence Of having cut her quarter
slightly. Still, two to one was current on her
! ladyship, aud she won the fourth heat and the
| race by two lengths in 2.26L.