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.
BnLIARDs.-It is no easy matter to score
forty-dve by successive counts at the French
gane-it is generally considered great feat to
sco,e hfty. Yet these are mere commonplace
~ tno SUMMATION of Mons. Pierre Carme; and
~ P!ool tnat to him those performances are In.
signhcam which others pronounce excellent
3r mssvea,oos on Monday, the 9th inst, the
Wits run of 2o7 at the American game. made =
run q 25S at the French game /! al 255 the
balls were in contact, and had to h snotted.
and at 25S the balls were 80 placed that Mon,
sieur pronounced it Impossible to carom. Thee
2oS points were made W fifty minutes, and ct
no Mme were tne pals Criticized or wedged.
ed between Monsieur Carmeahd Dudley Kava-
nagh are virtually agreed upon. The oniv
thing which remains to be settled before the
games are closed ia the order in which thew Are
to be played. NJ. Carme wishes the games to
be played in the order in which they have BEEN
named in his challenge; and 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.
I The proposition of William Goldthwait.~ to
the effect that he would play the American
game with any one in the country, for So. 500 q
side, on either the 9th, 28th, or 29th day of
June, has been withdrawn, Mr.. G. announcing
that " circumstances have determined him to
retire to New Hampshire during the summer
The TURIN the great two mile race at
Woodlawn. between Asteroid and Loadstone,
3m 36Is. and 3m. 38s. was made by the bav
son of Nebula. We consider this the best two
mile race ever made in America, for, though
single heat has been run faster at New Orleans,
it was not with full weight up; and though
MOllia 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. HIS,
which is that OF these four miles. It is proper
to state here that both these colts were bred bv
Mr. 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. A great amount of
money-proba6ly $50, 900, 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 fonr-year-olds at present.
By telegraph from Farther Point. we have
the news in brief form that the Derby at Ep-
som was won by the French bred colt Gladia-
teur, who, it will be remembered. won the two
thousand guinea stakes at Newmarket, He
achieved much easier victory ct Epson than
at Newmarket, for the Derby was won by two
lengths in canter. The owner of Gladiateur.
Count lagrange is said to have won $40O, 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.4
Gladiator 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 fetlock Joint of
the Oft 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, o mare by Gladiator who
was easily beaten for the Derby by Bay Mid
dleton. He won the Clcarwell Stakes last.
year, at the Second October meeting at New.
market. Gladiator has now won two of the
and If he should carry off the st. Leger, he
will do what no other horse save West Austria.
liam has ever done.
From the Clipper of this week.
THE RNa-Jimmy Elliot wants to fight his
old antagonist, dim Dunn, for $4,000 side,
according to Dunn's own challenge In our last
issue, and Is willing to give him bis 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 So, 000, 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 bis 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 $40. 600 Cos 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 1913 lbs. on Tuesday, the first Of
August, for 81, 900 side, and weigh and toss
between 10 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 80 miles from
Philadelphia
From the New York Tribune Of Tuesday.
TRorTNe MATcH.-Yesterday the great
trotting 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 Thone
| was backed to win the race at 800 to 60 on
her. She won the first heat very easily in Z. "A
| by ten lengths Dexter having been carried to q
| break by the rapid rate the mare trotted the
first half mile having been done In /. 09s<.
which is at the rate of 2.191< to the mile. III.
second heat In which 800 to $40 was bet on
LADY Thorne, was won by her cleyerly d
2.16I by length, and the betting was nov
a1O0 to $40 that che won. Dexter won tn
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 hel
race Ivy two lengths in 2.26L.
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