The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-20

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Broadway, New York.
Blower Brown has challenged Weston for
| the Ashley belt also, and 1t ls expected that
George Hazael will chip 1n. liz ne fsels right,
Dan O'Leary will probably have another Try
aiso,. provided the contest takes place late IN
The newIy-organized association on Long
Island will hold their first fall meeting at
Prospect Park Fair Grounds, On the Goney
/ Island road, September =, y ~, 10. IneTe Will
! be eighteen events.
Manager Cotton has engaged four Piute In
dinns to participate In the SIX days walk at
| the Pavilion, San Francisco. A Piute Indian
/ viii also undertake the task Of running
twelve consecutive hours at Nine. La Cha
pelle's benefit.
Battin Mack and Dolan, of the disbanded
| Uticas, It Is said, will sign with the Spring
! field Club, Battin playing second base, Mack
short stop and Dolan catcher, while Crane
and Dunnigan will be- released.
John Keeson, while engaged In q walking
match ut Chattanooga, Tenn, on July 7, was
overcome BY the heat and forced TO retire.
Now that he Is recovered, he says he has
taken his last walk tor prize.
The prizes won at the regatta Of the Ma
tiuDal Association we're presented to the WIN
ncrs In the ballroom of the Congress Hall
Hotel, Saratoga, N. X, on Saturday, July H.
The presentation address was made BY Cen
Roger A. Pryor, who found something felici-
tOuS 10 say to each sculler and crew as he
handed them the trophies
The Albany nine has won twelve out OF
fourteen exhibition games. and twenty-five
Up to and including July IL the AIbanys were
credited with eighteen successive Victories.
Miss Fannie Edwards was, at the compile
ton OF her late walk In Frisco presented
with costly gold medal, two inches in diam
eter and one-half inch III thickness, hand
somely engraved with a wreath OF laurel and
the name OF the donor, j H. Long. E wards
and La Chapelle will enter into the six days
walk at the Pavilion. at the completion Of
which Hiss Edwards will proceed to Lead
vile. to take part il q walking tournament in
that mountainous city.
A eablegram informs us that O match for
E50O has been arranged between Richard Ten
Droecks our-ytar-old colt Lincolnshire, by
year-old colt Royal, by KingCrAft, which Is to
take place the last day Of the Goodwood nett
ing, August /.
George Hazael on June u left o deposit Of
land, TO make q SIX days walk with Weston
for the worlds championship, or to join IN q
sweepstakes with Weston, Ruwell and Brown,
on the conditions upon which the belt Is held.
!. At the Grand Central, Troy, N. T., July Z,
The collar-and-elbo wrestling match between
Charles Connor, Of New YORK, and Edward
Cox, OF Fairfield, VT, was won by Conner,
who took the first and third fails. The event
occupied nearly three hours. James L. Owens
was Cox s best man, while John Hickey per
was referee. A second meeting has been ar
ranged to take place there on the evening Of
July Is.
The base ball nine from the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum, Columbus OHIO, who are now on an
extended tour, played their first game on
June n. at Springfield, with the Nationals OF
that city. The Inute5 played with but Que
error In the entire gatne and Dlahked the Ma.
tionals,, while by good Quitting they credited
themselves with SIX runs.
AT the MeWuOEt swimming hHfhE San FRAN
cisco, July 4, q race took place between Fred
Cavill and Patrick Fleming, d young Friecan,
o mile and a half. The swimmers sprang off
the pier at 5 :25 .. M, F.einiug maintaining
out with a long, nervous, elastic stroke.
Cavill lost ground from the start until the
tenth crossing, when he gained slowly for
about one-third OF the rounds. On tue twenty
fourth crossing Fleming, then nearly sixty
feet in advance, neglected. to touch the base,
and was obliged to swim back aud touch the
base, thus losing nearly twenty feet. Flem-
ing, however, soon recovered his lost GROUND,
and came out nearly 100 feet ahead. Iherace
consumed exactly forty-two minutes.
Another change ct base has been made In
Rochester by the enterprising Soule, who
found the Mckinnon barrier to his games
with League mines inconvenient, 1t not annoy
ing. by an adrOlt piece OF manRuyrlng, he
practically disbandel his previous team, and
after doing this ut once re- engaged Oil the
players he required OF the team, and, adding
some from tie diabanded ManGhesters, he
made up new team. This new E chester
nine h. claims can play League Clubs and
the first result will be profitable match with
the Buffalos at Rochester. The new team in
cudes Rowen, Leary, Lewis, Smiley, Morris
sey, Leonard, Manning, Murnan and Higham.
A recent number OF the London Sporting
Life says: The following challenge has been
Issued: Charles e. Courtney, Of Union
Springs, N. X, will scull William Elliott, Of
Blyth, ex-ehampion Of England, straight
away scullers' race, In best-and-best boats,
over four-mile course, for G400, the race to
take place either at Saratoga or Oswego, N.
z, or Springfield, Mass. Courtney will give
Elliott ESQ as excuses for the journey to
America, and will allow him to name his own
late for a match within o reasonable time.
David Robertson, Of Newcastle-upon-Tyn
mas been authorized, on behalf Of Courtney, to
Ind the sporting editor OF the Newcastle
Daily Journal ls empowered to post as first
sum ranging from G25 up to f200,
ID behalf Of Courtney, and to draw up articles.
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