The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-21
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Australian. Monarchist and King Alfonso
one hundred and nine games played scv
cnty-Rour won, thirty-iiye lost Thus read
the record OF the Boston Club for the pas
season.
Efforts arc being made to establish d 90
operative jockey club In the South and West
Why not have II NATIONAL Jockey club. ant
east aside all Jealouses 7 New York Sun.
The racing season III Australia ~ now nj IL
height. There are upwards OF three hundred
thOroHghbredB IN trimming ut Pennington
three miles outside of Melbourne. Victoria.
Blood stock appears to Ne at Ii discount II
| England just now, ms Secret, winner OF the
Garrick wo-year-old plato at the kemptor
| Park Spring Meeting, was recently sold at
auction for 500.
Blower Brown, George EIazael and Samuel
j Day have signed articles to mix for "the long
| distance championship of England belt" Ia
/ be competed for In London during the week
commencing february, 1880.
| A. " Sinclair, London. has beaten the last
| amateur record from \ to 5D miles Nv fair
| walking. Time eight miles. hour, > min
| ~ sec, nineteen miles. Z hours, w. min ~
| sec; fifty miles, hours, b min. . sec
According I" the table hy which the cham
pionthip contest for 1879 was officially de-
cidrd, the Providence and Boston clubs We're
the only ones in the league tint played tho
tul number ~ GaHtl required hy tho Bchc-
dHIe, w: ttghty-four
Mr.. +. Lnrilaris stable ut Newmarket
numbers sevcnt"cn, with two more to IN
added u brother 70 Paroin and Il brother To
NeriaG othprom-inR ynarlnEs The great
thfee-year-old Falsctto is reported n little off
with hopes of u apcsdy recovery.
The officials OF the Oxford and Cambridge
University Boat Clubs havoc decided that the
animal eight oarrd rae" between Oxford and
GHnbtdga shall y" rowod oyer the Thames
course, from 'Hiuey "a Mortlalle, III March
Il.kF h /,
training.
Manager Baucroft 7niled thu other day for
Havana iii charge III an American nine
They will play series of base hall matches
with the Almnndarrs md other Cuban clubs
They also propose Visiting Galveston and
New Orleans and playing during the winter
IN the South.
Warren u. Smith, the Halifax narsman. who
during the season has twice defeated Evan
Morris, the rX-champion oarsrnan OF the
United States, will work IN the gymnasium
until thesprtng He will then challenge any
man In this world tbackcd by the Halifax
Association to row five miles for $1,000 side
The Chicago Jockey club meetings will
embrace forty-onc races, with purses of the
Aggregate value of ST. 800. The Sherman,
Palmer fremont and Grand Pacific hotels,
each, have stakes called after them and each |
OF them has contributed $1,000 to the racing |
funds. Bemis' brewery and Iiaverly's Thea |
ire each give 800.
Articles for wrestling match for c100 |
side have been signed III lIondOn by Emile |
Ragnter champion OF France and America |
and George Graham, the Well-knOWn English |
OF the sport. The contest, which |
will be according TO tho French rules, will
lake place In about three weeks time, and will |
30 the best Of five falls. J"
The Coney Island Jockey Club Leonard
Jerome, president, has secured splendid
piece Ut land at Sheepshead Bay, within five
minutes walk Of Coney island beach 1t is
To have ut least two courses, ono
over turf, and two racing days each week,
rom the middle Of June to the end Of Sep
embcr; 100000 are to lie expended on build
ngs and improvements.
The Brunswick and Bake Company has
series Of billiard games to be
,layed alternately i'll New York, Cincinnati.
~ Louis and Chicago, the playing TO begin
iurinE the holidays. Cash prizes to the
mount of $4,000 will be offered, and the game
will b four-bal cushion canm. Scha4fer,
sexton, Slosson, DAILY, GARNER, kudophe,
1artrr and Joe Dion are named as the
players.
The English, IN matter Of sport, are q long
nation. Count Lagrange, d French
nan, has, with French-bred horses, won more
money III England this season than any Eng
tsh owner and yet in the races in Franco
lorses bred In England are not allowed to
ompete. The Grand Prize Of Paris Is the
My exception to this hard and fast rule.
bout twice out Of three times hy English
lOrses.
From the other side comes news that sew
raj cricket teams are organizing with view
! visiting America next season. There will
rObabiy he visiting team made up Of south
ountry amateurs early III the season. Daft !
'lll. III all probability como direct to lhia- !
rlphia In tie fall. and a professional eleven, !
4crulted from Yorkshire and lancashire,
$50 contemplate crossing the "siIyery streak
Q try conclusions with their American cu1ls-
Us some time during 1880. !
OF the winning owners in England and Scot !,
and last season Count da Lagrange won ~ !
aces and 1916. Lord Falmouth Ii races and !
23a12S j; Duke Of Westminster, 81 races and |
l6 293l ); Lord RoSebfrry, b races and tt3- !
l334 Lord Anglpsea. rs races AMI EI3 ,2as.
Ierfe Lorlllard won 7 Races ana E557i. Sir
Ohm p. Ashley Won II races AMI Eil25; Mr.
(. Bush, another Well known patron of the z
rf pedesttIap5m AMI boating, g races and i
5l29, MI. Il. len Broeek, an American, . 7
aces and t742; and Mr. NJ H. Sanford. an l
Their American, races and G374. i
meeting of delegates from non-league !
uhs WAS called by Mr.. Bancroft, Of the Wo,-
'ster Club in New York, on Friday, to con
MT az Is the adylsabilitv of remaining in the :,
ational Association, or forming an Eastern i
ague. There We're no delegates present at ! -
IL hour set down for the meeting, and il Wa =
ated that the Eastern league project had =
zen abandoned, and that the clubs Or WASH !
gton, Baltimore, Philadelphia Jersey City, :,
lbany, Worcester Holyoke and Springfield =
ould enter for the national pennant II Buff
10 and Troy follow suit a brilliant national
mpaign would be insured. Il
Stanton and Keen, the English bicyclists, f.
ntemplated trying their speed against II
me Of the fast trotters Of the country for ) r.
20 miles, but the season has 50 far adj i
need that they will be obliged to abandon the a. a.
"a. They now make the following PROPOSE
ms: Mr.. Stanton will match himselfto ride