The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-23
SPORT.
The Latest News from the Race Course and
the Base Ball and Cricket Field
Rowing Races, Bicycle
Matches, Etc.

moving haCesy DlCyCle
Matches, Etc.
A gentleman of Reno. New, writes that hi
has skated $50 miles In ten hours on roller
skates.
John Keen, the English bicyclist, recently
rode 7STs miles In : hours & seconds. The last
26 miles were the fastest on record.
The Paris Jockey Club Ia said to have on lite
list Of members . sovereigns, 30 dukes, %
princes, 95 marqnlses, 3S7 counts and yis.
counts. and 81 barons.
The bicycle fever has broken out with re-
newed vigor In the East. Boston has a dom
matches In contemplation, and New York will
inaugurate one within a fortnight.
The aculling match between Elliott and
Boyd, for G40O, has been definitely arranged.
The contest will take place on the Tyne on
Monday, February 9, 1880.
Boyd, the present champion sculler of Eng
land, who defeated Higgins by four lengths
recently on the Thames championship course,
has adopted the American rig and style.
The regulation distance from the strikers
position around the bases n back to the
home plate is 100 yards. The credit of run
ming this distance In 14Ia second Is given to
Gore, right fielder OF the Chicago club.
Rumor has 1t that Robert G.. Morrow, the
owner Of st. Julien, has refused Oh offer OF
$40 900 for him. st. Julien, by the way, will
make an effort to beat his own time over the
Oakland Park Course, Cal.
An event of the cricket season Of 1879 was
the renewal OF tho series OF International
contests between the United States and Car
ada, the first Of the season being played last
August In Ottowa. In 1880, the return match
will be played In Philadelphia.
"A correspondent writes from Lexington,
Ky, that ''the spring OF 1880 will bring into
the training stables Of the South and West
fully 1000 horses, the largest number ever
trained in one season In the Mississippi val
ley"
Mr.. Pierre Lorillard has just received the
Epson Cup won by his horse Parole in Eng
land. The custom-house detained 1t for nom
payment Of duty. The entrance value was
S2499. and the duty charged was 1899 GO, or
40 per cent. The latter amoun had to be
paid before Mr.. Lorillard could obtain the
cup. @ ~
Horsemen acquainted with the track regard
the first quarter of ut. Julien's wonderful
mile as the most remarkable. The turn Is
sharp, and the track Is not rounded up.
Rarus could never trot 1t faster than 34Ha sec
onds, and Judge Fullerton, who Ii very
speedy for the first quarter, never took less
than 80 seconds to trot 1t. Yet st. Julien
went to the quarter-pole In SO seconds.
The proposed rule Of the English Jockey
Club, which prohibits Jockeys from owning
horses or betting on races, meets a response
from members of the fraternity demanding
semi-annual instead Of annual payments,
which now prevail, and urge that II SO paid
jockeys would, perhaps, have no occasion to
bet. The Jockey Club, however, In the meal-
time has rejected the proposed rule providing
for licensing Jockeys" out of which the con-
trOversy grew.
Hanlan has decided to 20 to England and
defend the ownership OF the SpoTtsnsan's chal-
lenge cup. The conditions attached to the
cup provide that only tho best men In Eng
land can compete for 1t; consequently Hanlan
will wait for a challenge from the winner of
the Elliott-Boyd match before crossing the
Atlantic. From England, IL successful there,
he will probably go to Australia to meet
Tricket. Hanlan received q formal demand
for the cup from the trustees this morning,
and replied to the tenor OF the above by cable.
The fielding records, according to positions,
that stand highest in rank have been officially
announced by Mr.. Young, the secretary of the
League, 40 follows, namely : As pitcher aHa
right fielder, leading Id two positions. Mo
Gunigle, OF the Buffalo Club; as catcher,
Flint, Of the Chicago Club; first baseman,
Arson, Of the Chicago Club; second baseman,
Quest, of the Chicago Club; third baseman,
McGeary, Of the Providence Club; short
left fielder, Jones, OF the Boston Club; centre
fielder, Eggler, Of the Buffalo Club.
An immense interest conferred In the late
in England between Mr.. Fl. l.. Cor
It's, amateur bicycle champion, n Mr.. John
Keen, professional bicycle champion, to test
tuS lfldllfS bdpdpllIllCS IL JIG dLltltii dliu
professional at twenty miles, five miles and
one mile. COrtis won the twenty mile match,
Keen taking the two last. Six thousand spec
tators were present at the five and one mile
The mile was made in 2 minutes
50 rs seconds, the five in Is minutes 80 Sec
Time OF the twenty miles not given.
The year 1879 Is certainly the phenomenal
era for trotting. It has witnessed the reduc-
ton of the three-year old record from 2:2S to
Q ::23lLss, of the four-year old record from 2 .24ll4
To 2:Igs4, and Of the tive-year old record from
2 ::2nIs to 2:1S. And now, most important of
all. the fastest mile on record, 2:12s.,
with the prospect Of a still further reduction.
Such wonders time produces, and still The I'LL
Innate speed of the American trottpr an
ishes like the mists at dawn. Within five
years we predict, with confidence, that some
threp-yaar old will reach 2:20, some four-year
Old 2:17, and that the full mile will be COW
cred by the trotter OF the near future in 2 s0S.
But even then it will not be safe to say that
the limit of speed has been reached.
Grpc0-R9man wrestling Is, as a spectacle,
the most beautiful OF all the athletic games,
and It's popularity has been lessened only by
the persistent dishonesty Ut its professors.
The best wrestler We ever saw in America
recently published, over his own sigma
ture, the startling confession that, Of his many
dozen alleged matches in this country, only
one was genuine, and it Is generally believed
the records or other noted WrestIers have
Just one less honest contest than his. Lovers
Of this sport are likely to have in a few weeks
al opportunity to see a genuine struggle be
Tween acknowledged experts. The recent
at Madison Square Garden between
Edwin Bibby, champion OF England, and