The Portland daily press., 1879-10-06
SPORTING.
The O'Leary Belt Contest.
An Exciting Contest and Big Score Elk
pected-The Entries-Description
of the Belt

New YORK, Oct. 1.-The preparations for
the walking match for the O'Leary Belt are
being pushed rapidly forward at Madison
Square Garden. More than thirty stalls or
houses have been partitioned off under the
Twenty-seventh street gallery, in which the
pedestrians who stay to the end will spend
their brief hours OF rest. A space will be set
off along the edge of the track for the attend
ant of each man, so that he can minister to his
principals wants ON the track. The mems
quarters have all been furnished with cots and
mattresses, tables and chairs, gas and gas
stoves, and all the housekeeping appliances
known to the siX-days pedestrian. A dealer in
furniture does this free of charge, for the sake
of an advertisement which he is allowed to put
up in the building. The accommodations for
the half-hundred scorers and lap-tenders are
on the inside of the track, opposite where they
were in the recent As 'oy belt contest.
The defect in the loisth of the track recent
ly used made it necessary to lay an entirely
new one, which was begun yesterday and will
be completed under the supervision of w. b.
Curtis, of The Spirit of the Times, to-day. 1t
was marked out by Mr.. Haswell, and he has
given certificate that it is $50 feet long eight
cen inches from the border. When the saw
dust was removed from the old track it was
found to be almost as hard as a pavement, and
very uneven. The new track will be composed
of layer of tanbark covered with four inches
of loan, over which thin surface OF sawdust
will be spread
OLeary's call for the tournament for the
championship of America, and % paid the full
entrance money. From them the referee select
ed %, and subsequently ten more men were
added OF them Blower Brown is the most
noted, yet nearly all of the men have fair rec
ords, and good match is assured. Cromwell,
the first man on the list, is an Indian scout and
trapper from California. 7. I. Costello is, in
reality, the noted rat-catcher, but he is entered
under the name of Dushane. Two Canadians,
who have carried mails shoes. and
said to have wonderful endurance, are to start.
The walk is to be very much after the fashion
of the Ashley belt walk. 1t begins at o'clock
Monday morning, and last until II O'Clock Sat
urday night. There is No gate-money nonsense
this time The winner is to have $4,000 cash,
the second man $4,000, the third $1,000, and the
fourth $500 Thirty-tive men will unquestion-
ably start
The belt for which these men will contest is
the handsomest of the pedestrian belts now
almost innumerabe. 1t is on exhibition at
Cox Brothers store, just below Tiffany's. 1t
is made of sterling frosted silver, and weighs
nine pounds. One hundred pennyweights OF
gold have also been used in its decoration. The
body of the belt is of silver link netting, 81
inches wide, connecting six medalions. The
centre one is six by eight inches in size, over
which is shield holding the stats of the
American, English, French and Irish flags, ON
which appears the words, "O'Leary Cham
enh Fl ne 4 a4s Of 81 aay ams are
set with diamonds. In the centre of this
medallion is solid gold figure of walking
pedestrian patterned after O'Leary; and on
the supporting medallions on each side are
similar figures of pedestrians jogging along or
running. AT the bottom OF the centre OF the
shield is an eagle ON bunch of laurel, and the
words Strength and Endurance" All the
medallions have sprays of oak, holly, palm,
ivy or shamrock over them, while at the foot
is bunch of French lilies, Scotch thistles or
1s.ls 49, nn
most ar istic finish The cost of the belt was
$761 to the manufacturer and only $500 to the
purchasers.
Betting books have been already opened for
the match, in which "Blower" Brown is the
favorite, and is quoted even against the field.
He stands feet inches in height and weighs
1873 pounds, and is considered the greatest long
distance pedestrian in the world Bets are
being made that he will surpass Rowell's last
record in the coming contest to l is offered
against Grassland; to 1 against Edwards,
Cromwell Davis or Fitzgerald; 10 to l against
Behrmann, Broadgeest, McLeavy or. Boyce;
II to / against Curran Dushane or Pierce; -
to against Allen or Eckerall, and 20 to 1
against any of the others.
The different privileges in the Garden have
been sold by the O'Leary party for $5,o96.
New York, Oct. 5.-Midnight.- great
six days walk for the O'Leary Belt bids fair to
cause almost as much excitement as the recent
contest for the Ashley belt. The start, as adj
vertised, will be made at one o'clock. When
the doors were opened at $50, fully 1900 per-
sons were on hand.
The contestants are Jos. Allen of Mass, J.
III. Behreman of N. j., j B. Briody of Green
point, j. A. BroadgeeSt OF Canada, Blower
Brown of England, M. M. Costello of N. Y,
Richard Cromwell of Cal, Peter Grassland of
England BENZ. Curran and p. Davis OF n. r.,
J. j. Dickinson of Pa, Jno Dillon and Robert
Dugan of N. Y, J. P. Dushane of Pa, w. e.
Eckersall of CHICAGO, T. L. Edwards of N. Y,
A. Elson of Conn, C. Faber of N. j., p. Fitz-
gerald of Montreal, c. Fox of ILL.,, HI. Howard
of n. Y, VIM. III. Mclean of Pa, j. McLeavy,
J. Mahoney, Nicholas Murphy, l. Perkins,
Albert Pierce and S. p. Russell of n. Y, /.
Spellacy of Penn, VIM. TAFT and G. Walker
Of N. Y.
The Baltimore Walk.
BALTIMORE, Oct 1.-The walk here ended
tonight with the following positions OF con-
testants Hughes 1st, 376 miles; Redding I'd,
:357 miles; Coleson 3d. 34S miles; Hosmer 4th,
347 miles; Campana 9Th, 800 miles.
More Sawdust Fiends.
NEW YORK, Oct 5.-Madame Anderson,
who began here last evening y walk of 1886
quarter miles in as many consecutive quarter
hours, was stopped at midnight by the police
for "A hours.
BOSTON, Oct. 4.-Johnson, of Chicago, began
here tonight a walk Of 1900 miles in 1000
hours.
WASHINGTON, Oct. A man named Post
walked 1O7 miles in 26 hours in this city, win
ming $500 and receipts, $1,000 more, finishing
this evening.
Base Ball.
Brockton-Brocktons II, New Bedfords g.
AT New Haven-Jersey Citys 8, Yales 80
At MISUNDERSTANDING 10, Holyokes 1.
AT Worcester-Bostons 8, Worcesters G.
seven innings.
Collapse of the Ashley Belt Walk Scare.
New YORK, Oct. betting men refuse to
reopen their books because of the shortness of
the Ashley belt track, and it is doubtful if suits
against Weston, Ennis and Krohne would re-
suit in anything since all of them walked
miles over their score by walking on the out
side of the track, and could easily have made
the additional half dozen miles had tn ey not
been deceived by the scores.