The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-05
SPORTING SPARKS
Gathered at Home and Abroad.
Billiards, Personal Points, Pedes'
-o. trianism, Turf Talk, Comments on b..
. yaa Coming Events, and Miseei-
lsneous Matters Of In
tersst In Sporting
Circles.



The Riversiies uf Riverside, have reor-
ganized for the coming season, with the fol-
lowing players: Sol. French, catcher Pen
dIeton, pitcher Herman Blair, first base;
Miller Outcalt, second base; Mcdonald.
third base; George Kalkcr, short stop; Ev.
rHall. left field; George Draper, center iieidi
and Mcconnell, right field. As will be
seen, the team comprises some good ball
players, and the Riversides ought to be the
crack amateur nine this season i'll this VI
cinity.
The Stars must be twinkling very dimiy.
We never hear anything about theproposed
club
The following games will be played to-day
in the East, weather permitting: Boston
and harvard College, at Boston; Defiance
vs.. Princeton College, at Princeton; and
picked nine match at Prospect Park.
A Council Bluff Club has challenged the
Omaha nine to play match game for $ioo
a side.
MIR. Refs, of last years Chicagos, is in
Dubuque Iowa, and will pitch Tor the Du-
buque Club this year.
Ii is base ball when one lady monopo-
Lies partners enough to have nine on
side. Any lady will agree with us.
The meeting of the Northwestern League,
TO be held this month, will be held in
Davenport instead of Dubuque.
, The managers of the Cleveland Club win
= sell season tickes at $15 for gentlemen and
$40 for ladies'. The ladies' tickets only are
good for the Grand Stand.
, TURF talk.
,, Proteine is still on Gcst street, but will
be taken out TO Chester Park as soon as the
weather becomes warm enough.
Congress Lord Bercsford's steeplechaser.
t had a fatal fall while doing four-mile
. training gallop in England.
r lydia Bassett now i'll this city, viii soon
| be taken to Pigua by her trainer, Dave
Muckles and prepared for the spring races.
The owners of the famous trotting mare
Proteinc challenged Bonesetter for either
2 SIS, 600 or $4,000 a side, mhe heats, best
three in five and telegram from Cincin-
natl states that the match has been ar
q ranged.-[New York Clipper. The Clipper
man is 'oif'--very "muchly" 80. In the
!, first place, Proteine'S owners did not issue
l challenge, but accepted one from Demis,
a owner u Bonesetter Bcmis is now in the
G East, and Proteines owners informed lie
= this morning that race had not yet been
h arranred, but probably will be soon.
+ Charles Benton of Davenport, Iowa, hat
!. sold the mare Fannie Fern TO JOS Phillips
y y of Chicago for $500
G The pooling privileges Of the st. Louis
& Jockey Club for the spring meeting were
r awarded 10 Watts & Go. of Kentucky foi
c $500, although there was IL similar bid
n and one of 81 100 from st. Louis people.
q One of the directors urged the claims OF the
y, residents as against strangers, but was IN
y the minority, and the Kentuckians carried
off the cake.
| 4 ,,,1 hnr,t Nt,
Il ieges of the Kentucky Association were
', Yesterday opened at the office OF Grinsteat
y Il Bradley and &. H. White & Co. Bent
:, the highest bidders they were awarded the
= pool privileges at ~ 526, an advance on las
~ wear S bid of $40
Ie The booth privileges were let out at tn,
n. same time and place 10 J. NJ. Lawrence a
y, 81, ,N52, An examination OF the above bib
II will at once convince all who cry ahGn
u, hard times" that times are really better
-, al any rate the above rents are higher b!
~ over $500 than any ever obtained before. =
IL Lexington Press.
"Bye and Bye" the two-year-old sister 0
\. Bramble, tie famous running horse is 81
well thought of by her owner that he re
fused all offer of 81 800 for her She va
le purchased as yearling for $500, and vii
le make her first appearance in June on tn
as Chicago driving course.
" BILLIARDS.
a, Harry Choate plays n fine two cushio
In carom game. We would IKE to see tn
=, "Iniunr Of st. Louis, come over here an
- tackle Harry again.
The amateur tournament OF Sexton's
e. drawing to close. The leader has wo
es five games and lost three. After havin
won five games and lost none, the stronge'
es player Withdrew.
a Randolph IIeiser recently run 142 at th
or Champions game in Boston.
~ The Calender tournaments are of, bl
III n,ay be held next fall.
re John Farley, well-known billiard en
W. ploye, died in New York last week.
Of The West needs to look ont for its billiai
ret laurels At the Champions game, whic
MI restricts rail nursing, Siosson at the East
ioa scoring almost as large averages as Schaef
at the West is making at the old three bs
" galnc. The Oceidcnt should stir its 'chat
yer pion'' up. He will scarcely make
1t 'scratch' and run 20S from it, the ne,
IN time he meets Siosson. Lightning d
M strike twice in the same place at the Coop
ia- Institute last February but it never strik
H., the same man three times. Next trip
u. ~ will have to be all billiards. 1ol
,.o Clipper. ,.,,.
; a wore filled last evening at game OF tiftec
bali pools between 6. Il. Wahlstrom, d
ar Swedc, and Samuel Il. Knight for a pur
acAI Of $500 and the O'Connor medal, embleI
- ntic of the worlds championship. Wi
'.A "a the exception Of II few good combinati
l;eV shots, the opening games were not char;
the terized by any specially brlliunt plays, I
'of men alternating in their credit marks
be the first five games On TIE 10th gai
,er Knight obtained the lead ior the first tin
~, ,l,o ,oora Standing Knight 10 WahlstrI
NV O The next bout placed them even. 7
our next six games were accredited TO knigI
lalt A lead obtained by brilliant playing u
our his opponents bad luck. Knight fna
won the match and the championship b.
score Of 81 ganles to Wahlstroms
IN. y. Star.
A match game of billiards will be play
nts in three weeks at Frankfort, Ind, betwt
lei. Jack Garrett, of that place, and ia