The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
SPORTING SPARKS
Caught, Clipped and Chron-
iCled.
Latest Events by Telegraph.
Base ball, SculIing Squibs, Personal
Points and Miscellaneous Mention.
Latest Events by Telegra
The Turf.
RUSHING TO THE RACES.

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RUSHING TO THE RACES.
SYRACUSE, NY, Aug. 9.-Wm. Fl. Wander
bilt's special train en- route to the races at
Buffalo, yesterday made the run from this
city to Rochester eighty-one miles, in
seventy-four minutes.
BUFFALO DRIVING PARK.
BUFFALO, Aug. 9.-The unfinished 2:2O
race wins won by Chance in 220k.
The unfinished 2:33 race was won by Kate
Hall in 2:25X.
Brigadier won the first race. Time, 2:23%,
2:74, 2;23A, 2:25N, 2;2GA.
Sleepy Tom took the pacing race. Time,
21615, 2:16K 2;15H, 2:17.
Aquatic.
PITTsBURG REGATTA.
PITTsBUEG, Aug. 9-Out of fourteen en-
tries in the amateur two-mile race, there
we're eight starters. Tie contestants were
sent off in two heats starting at 3 o'clock.
The winners were Babbitt, of Wheeling,
and Brinner, of Cumberland, Nd The
seconds we're Morris, of Pittsburg, and
Hardy, of Newark. These four row off to-
morrow.
The professional race was three miles-a
mile and half and return, free to all
scullers except Courtney, Hanlan and
Morris The prizes were $500 to first, 5000
to second, and 800 to third. Three heats
were rowed. Frenchy Johnston took the
first in 20:30, Plaisted the second in q, and
Reilly the third in 1925.
Baseball.
Game at 8 p. m.
Rah for the Bisons.
Oh, Calvin, you fat little rascal.
The Troys play the Bostons to-day.
The Providence and Syracuse play this
afternoon.
The Trojans have made thirty-one errors
this week: Pile 'em up.
The Chicago Times refers to the Buffalos
a. 'the Indigo-legged men,
The Buffalos are in Cleveland, where they
play to-day with the Clevelands
Burdock's errors and base hits this week
are even. He has made two of each.
The Mohawk Browns and Stars will come
together again in September. Not before.
There is not half as much wind in Chi
oago to-day as there was to-day week ago.
The SrAE will publish the score of all
amateur games, provided they are sent to
us.
Williamson, Quest, Peters and Shaffer
have played in every game with the Chica-
gos this season.
Let everybody go out to-day and see the
Reds knock more wind out Of the Windy
City Silk Stockings
The Mohawk Brown Stockings have lost
only two games this season, and the Cincin-
matt Stars have lost five.
The "only" Nolan is pitching for the
Knickerbocker Club, and has his nine in
the lead for the Pacific championship.
Personally the Clevelands prove to be one
one of the most gcntlemanly and agreeable
lot of players that have yet visited Cincn-
natl.
There will be only fifteen more League
games played in Cincinnati this season. The
Reds have twenty-four games to play
abroad.
The baseball logarithmeticians have be-
gun their annual row and regular equnoc-
tial storm OF accusations OF inacCuracy and
unfairness.
The Bufialos are another one of the clubs
that the knowing critics did not notice in
planning it out as TO who would carry the
hOnors in 1879.
Brouthers, of the Troys, has played in
LUTcc SdUlpS lIllS Weeh. Ilt WeIIJ W tlc DdI
fourteen times and made five single, one
two-base hits and two home runs.
The Albanys have so far this season made
q dozen home-runs, of which four were by
Thomas, two each by Dunlap and Tobn,
and one each by Hanlon, Burns Sulli-
van and Critchley.
In the three games this week between the
Buffalos and Chicagos the latter made seven
runs, six OF them being earned, while the
Butfalos earned only one run out of the
thirteen they made in the three games.
The Chicagos have most assuredly lost
their grip, and with it their chances of win
ming the championship and League flag,
now in Boston. The club is apparently "all
broke up" and will probably show ii from
this on by loosing large majority of the
games they have yet to play. They have
only few games to play on their own
grounds, and quite number in the East
We understand that there is movement
oil foot among the business men of Spring
field, Ohio, to organize lirst-class baseball
club in that city next season. The city has
a population of about q, 900, and was rep
resented last year by club known as the
Champion Citys, who defeated the Bostons
and other League mines. George Miller and
Mitchell were the catcher and pitcher for
the club.
The game tomorrow afternoon at the
Cincinnati Ball Park ought to draw large
audience. The two contesting clubs will
be the Mohawk Browns, the champions of
Ohio, and the Louisville Eclipse, the cham
pions of Kentucky. Each State will try to
win. A red-hot game may be looked for.
The Louisvilians have just won Il majority
OF series of games they played with the
Red Stockings for the Kentucky State
championship, and come here feeling in
frstclass trim.
Yesterdays GAMES
WORCESTER, Mass, Aug. o.
Innings ................. 2 5 789
Worcestcr..... 8 ! 0 Q 2 81 0-17
Albanys ................... 0 o 0 0 0 0 o.
The position of nearly all the League
clubs has changed slightly since last week.
The Chicagos by losing two games, have
Hropue1 hapk q littln and Providence ora