The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-13
SPORTING NEWS.
Summer sports-Regatta Races and Athletic
s Exercises.

$1,000 SPSA
Exercises.
Sitting Bulls nephew is said to have been
defeated u g recent walking contest at VIM
jim White, OF the Cincinnatis. leads the
batting OF the League up TO date, while ct the
foot OF the list stands his brother, VIII White.
Mr.. E. j. Baldwin, the owner OF NOBLE NC =.
the Garden City stakes, two and o half miles,
run at Chicago on Wednesday, t~wenty-fifth
ultimo. The Mutual pools on this race paid
$I7 60. a.
gatta at Salem, Mass. July 4, and the prize
winners were: First class, Excelsior; second
class, Fanchon and Nettie, third class, Holda
Couuette and Vesta.
Wallace Ross and Warren Smith are now
talked of as lit subjects for q sculllng match
and betting men. A gentleman In Boston has
also offered to match two men (Hanlon, Ross
and Courtney barred to row Smith and any
other Haligonian three races-tWo singles
and d double scull-for O good round sum eacn
race.
During the first two months Of the League
championship season the Chicagos did the
best and the Cineinnati5 the poorest fielding,
while the Providence Club LED IN batting, u
which respect Boston was the weakest. It
begins to look as though 1t was George Wright
rather than Harry who was the spinal col
umn Of the Boston Reds. \
A catboat race was gotten up at Newport,
r. T.. July 4, three boats starting Id the first
class, four In the second, five In the third and
three III the fourth, with this result, there
being two prizes in each class. Carrie ana
Hebe, Quits and Dick, Leona and Jerboa, ana
Martina and Warsafraw.
match was arranged between Prof. Cavill,
the English long-distance swimmer, and y. !.
Fleming, OF Frisco, for $50 o side, distance
one and one-half miles. The race was To nave
taken place at the Newport Baths, Oakland,
Cal. July 4.
All effortis being made to form Q new base
ball association for next year, limited to the
New England and Middle States, which could
and would furnish ample support with q
greatly diminished circuit Ct travel; 2
with O. proper code OF regulations as TO the
admission Of clubs and o judicious adaptation
Of tariffs, there would be less expense, more
clubs, increased receipts and greater inter-
est.
In the League up to July | are as follows:
Larkin, D., Chicago; Snyder, c., Boston; Nor
rill, 1st b., Boston; Burdock, "a b., Boston;
Richardson, 3db, Buffalo; Wright, 9. g, Prov
idenee; Jones, /. f., Boston; John ORourke,
G.. e., Boston; Evans, L. T., TOY.
The five-mile bicycle championship was
| commended for by five blcyclists, under the
| auspices Of the Bicycle Union, at Stamford
bridge, London, Eng, June -. The winner
20 Is seconds. i. Z. East was second, q yard
before w. u. Ainsiee, who was thirty yards In
front of w. Wyndham.
At Ravenswood, L.. T., July 6, J. J. Swords
s miles 2 laps; Il. Burke second, Z miles laps:
John Stubbs also picked up fifty stones, placed
a yard apart, In ID m. 30s. There%Will be sports
there to-day, July ID.
The annual sailing regatta at Boston, Mass.,
July 4, was a complete success, the wind being
stiff and steady from the southwest, and CIV
ing the yachtsmen all they wanted to do to
keep their craft going nearly right. Fey cas-
ualties occurred, however. There were forty
one starters In the nine classes, ana the win
ners were: First-class sloops, Madcay; first
class schooners, Fearless; second-class
schooners, Humes; second class centre
boards, Shadow. third-class centre-boards
Fannie; fourtf-class centfe,boards, Fancy;
Sunbeam; fourth-class keels, Crescent.
The two days championship In swimming,
contestants to swim not more than fourteen
hours a day, wasdecided at the Tower Hamlet
June i6 and II. There were twenty applicants
for chances to compete, the tive selected being
w. Beckwith, G.. Fearn. ~. Il: Collinge, w.
| White and w. Capes. The others had no
chance with Beckwlth, and the contest admits
of no description in consequence, the result
being as follows: BeckWith, 20 miles "a
lengths; Collinge, IL miles / length: Fearn,
IL miles % lengths; White, 10 miles 10 lengths.
On the Fourth the novelty at Newport, T.. !,
was d submarine race In the harbor between
John Connery, OF Fitchburg, Mass, and A.. P.
| Felies, OF the United States navy, given IN
| der the auspices of the city council commit
tee. The match was for $500 a side, distance
97O feet. The men while under water. encased
Iii their submarine suits, were each obliged
to pull q boat in which there was q man,
| whose business 1t was to pump air to him.
The contest excited great interest, and 1t was
witnessed by at least ten Thousand specta-
tors. Connery was decidedly the favorite,
and he was backed heavily. Capt; John Wa
tars. the we'll known wrecker, who had charge
81 the race, was confident from the start that
Connery would win. He was correct 10 bis
opinion, as Connery beat his competitor ten
minutes.