, 1877-01-21
BILLIARD:

Mr.. Bensinger, representative Of the ]. N.
Brunswick & Balkc Co.. sent to st. Louis yes
terday to learn the whereabouts OF Sexton and
| SlossonJ He desires to arrange for some ex-
hibition games here. Milwaukee also wants
them.
! Lon Morris, the well-known' amateur, desires
TO play Frank Parker a game of 900 points
French for 500, and if Frank accents, as there
lsyery little doubt that he will, the game will
take place Wednesday evening at No. II Mon
roe street.
The Northwestern Congress has received in
formation that the medal crookedly won by
Shaw is now in pawn Ia New York City. Tt Is
proposed to secure it, and hold it in readiness
for another and legitimate contest from which
both Shaw and Burleigh are barred. II the
medal can thus. be secured the proposition to
have new medal made will be abandoned.
CURLING.
The sporting eyent Of tie week in Chicago
has been the curling tournament, which was not
so largely participated in as WIS hoped but still
there we're clubs enough to give considerable
interest to the contests 1t has already been
stated in these columns that the Four Brothers
Club, OF Toronto, won the Gordon Medal, and
- the South the Dalrymple Medal, while the
Detroit Club carried OF tic District Medal. It
should be added in favor OF tho Scotch national
game that its first exposition in this city was at
tended by nothing but the best OF order and
good feeling: No betting was heard, and the
dition to the circle OF sports.
The game between the old and Young men
will take place tomorrow at Lincoln Park, the
contestants being eight men over SO wears of
age, against eight Under that age. The follow
ing players will take part in the match:
~ nOnsr.f(1y-.W1son, Marshall, Kirkland, Hutton.
Under d7y-Dnncan, Howic, Keyes, Hogg, VIII
son, Forrest Irons, Martin.
Play will begin at l: 80 p. III. sharp. -
ROWING.
The Pail Mall Gazette laments that the scull-
ing championship has gone to Australia, having
been taken away from Sadlcr by Trckett; and
It adds that If Higgins, now champion OF Esl-
gland, does not take up with Hanlon's clal-
1en{e' he may very hkSly tind the latter in Aus
alone the worlds championship eau be won.
The determination Of the National Associa- |
tfon OF Amateur Uarsmen to hold its next regatta
III Detroit is q gratifying one, and will do |
more than little to make the Association !
National. as it has claimed to be. The member
shin has bccn confined to Il few clubs in the Mid
die States, with only one in New England, two
from the South, and comparatively small |
number from the West. The result Of holding
the regatta in the West will undoubtedly be to
and, instead Of the present membership, to
swell it to 10o. The Detroit regatta will be one
Of the best ever held and the largest.
THE TURF.
The sports at Hartford, Conn have laid out
d straight-away mile track on the river, and re-
cently challenged the Aliddlctown men to come
over and trot horses. They came and won every
race, and now the Hartford people think they
have had ali their work for nothing:
= The California papers announce that J. G.
Simpson, Theo. Winters, B. Timons, n. P.
Barnes, John Cutler, Hcnry Walsh, J. n. crabb,
md W. K. Armstrong are subscribers to the
our.mile-and-repca race, to take place. Feb. e,
IN the Buy District Course, but fail TO give the
lames OF the horses.
The trotting gelding Dick Swi,e1er, we'll
snown as the former property Of Henry W. En-
mons, of Rome, and recently sold to John F.
H. has been purchased By James Golden, rho
Erove him in his races last summer the price
'aid being $4,000 cash.
4 few weeks ago paragraph was started in
n evening paper of this city to the effect that
lr. Goodrich's Granville was seriously and dam
1 the lack OF news, the statement xas widely
opsed. Mr. Goodrich, In speaking of the horse
ast wcok: sailed the complaint from which he
ad suffered nothing more than wind collie, aud ,
MD that he was now entirely we'll.
OF the numerous fast trotters that Commo-
ore Vanderbilt owned, he had in his stables |
the time Of hls death only Small Hopes, +
loun tain Girl, md Arthur Boy, anu these now 2
ecome the property Of his residua:y lccatee, u
'll1iam H, Vanderbilt. During his last Illness | a
e presented Prince and Rob Roy to his BROTH
r, Jacob Vanderbilt. During his life he owned t.
etsy, Commodore, Fanny, the Emnerson colt, | u
oe, Postboy and Ploughpoy (pcraaps as fast t
team Us were eyer hitchcd together), Noun =
i'm Boy, Lady Rackns, Daisy Burns, Harry y
|ar(cr, Nettie Morris, Prince, Arthur Boy. q
fountain Girl, Rockingham, Myron Perry, and .
impress. =
Ex-Gov. Stanford, Of Californa, has re- N
,ntly made another valuable addition to his | y
ready numerous and powerful stable Of trot- p
aascd from Charles Robinson of Nesr FORK, his n y,
,uns stallion, Gen, Benton, 9 years old, by =,
en-. Scott, dam By Gray's Hanbletonian, G.
X the large price Of S16,0c0. Gea. Benton I b,
q bar, 16 hands high, possesses great speed, | Sc
ID has shown mile IN private in 3:a0k Mt o,
obirson purchased him last Angus; for s6,?<D, g.