The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-17
SPORTING EVENTS.
Psdestrianism, Bioyoleism, Base Ball, Racing,
Cricket, Swimming and Other Sports.

SCOTS Thomas, the welI-known trotting
| stallion, has gone stone blind.
The Duke Of Magenta has 60 Ear recovered
| as TO take regular exercise.
me Albany Is the only professional club III
| the country that has never been whitewashed
winner ut the Cleveland meeting, being cred
| tied with $3.50. Rarus followed with $210O.
The Providence and Chicago mines lead In
batting, and the BOstOns and BuffalOs In
| fielding. In League championship games.
Hines, Of tho Providence team, has the best
batting average In League championship
games this season, while Woodhead, of the
Syracuse Stars, foots the list.
The new stake, the EPSON grand prize for
1881, closed with 348 subscribers. It will be
the richest On the English turf. next to the
Derby.
It seems 70 be pretty definitely settled that
the mare, ProteiDe, has gone amiss In one
vi her fore legs, and will have to be entirely
let up and cared to save her from lasting
break down.
In recent game Mt Syracuse foul-tip hit
the catcher, Dorgan. ON the head and bounded
SO high that the pitcher caught 1t before 1t
reached the ground. Dorgan just headed 1t
off.
Bertha Won Berg is stated to have won the
walking contest, six days, with Nine. Tour
telotte, at Virginia City, New, ending Au-
gust 8. She is given score OF 30s miles,
while her opponent is credited with 275 miles.
A strong nine Ia talked OF to represent Phil
adelphia on the BATTLEFIELD next season, includ-
ing-if they can be secured such excellent
players as Clapp, Egglar, Fulmer. Rieha I'd
son and Crowley Of the Buffalos, and Bradley
81 the Troys.
The 5OO-yards swimming championship Of
England was cOntended for at Lambeth Baths
London. k.Watson having offered a g25 cup for
q trophy. together with money prizes. The
Taylor second A. s. Robinson third. Time,
I'm a. -.
Lord Rosebery and Leopold de Rothsehild
are the contracting parties 70 o couple OF
sporting matches to be run ut Ascot IN 1880
and 1881. Each owner names three In either
match to bring one to the post each year. and
the conditions are S15Oo side, $500 forfeit
and hogshead OF claret.
The present favorites for the Doncaster st.
Ieger, to be run for on the tenth of Septem-
Der next are Wheel OF Fortune and Sir Bevys
The former is now rated at to 4, and the
for the last Derby. is quoted ut 80 to against
him, while Cadogan, Rayon Dor and Sal
teador who stood high for tho Derby, are
rated at 25 TO L.
The indications now are that Mollie MeCar
thy Bramble, Fortuna, Mintzer and Bush,
whacker will meetat Baltimore, and not until
then. They would make sensation upon any
course In the Easttf they could come together
Oh terms satisfactory to those in control of
them. The interestin d contest between these
cracks. however. will be greatly intensified at
Baltimore, as they will probably have add
tional competitors from Kentucky.
fifty-mile bicycle match between David
Stanton, Of London, England, and g. T. Ed
mund, Of swanson, Wales, was decided July
-, at the Bicycle and Athletic Grounds. Car
diff, the Welshman receiving two miles start.
The race was q close one, and resulted In the
defeat of Stanton by two laps and about
twenty yards five laps to the mile) The win
ner's time was 3h. Sln., while Stanton's was
"a. 59m 52s, his time from forty-one miles
up being the best ever made by professionals.
T. A. Buck, in Wilkes Spirit, never gave q
fairer criticism or more candid opinion than
the following on Lorillard's uedtng: "Paroe
has always been q puzzle. His victories sur
prised his admirers here almost as greatly as
they astonished John Bull. His defeats were
ut first equally pulling; his withdrawal
from the Brighton puzzled many people"
hut to ns there is no puzzle In his failure to
win the Goodwood Cup. Isonomy won on his
merits, and no match between the two horses
Is required to determine which is the better
For the Grand Prize of Paris of 1881 there
arc 392 subscribers, a number In excess Of any
previous year. those for ITS ~ 80 being re-
spectively 2s6, 1923 and 358. The table append
ed will show at a glance the number Of French
rs compared with the English and other for
eign nominations: