The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-26

/ unlon regatta IN the early part OF June.
Several ST. Louis gentlemen are in Chi
cago endeavoring TO get O'Leary and Har
riman to visit St Louis and walk in u siH
day contest.
Walton has sent man to Colorado u
hunt upan Indian somewhere in that com
mnnily who is said To be wonderful long
distance runner. 1t is presumed it is Wal
tons intention, II he succeeds in finding
| his man, to enter him in the Ashley belt
contest in London next June.
A sweepstakes for open yachts will take
place on Long Island Sound In June. The
yachts will he classified as follows: From
2j TO % feet, from % tn 2I feet, from q to
IS feet. The entrance fee viii be s. s, and
the course from Rker's Island to Sands
Point buoy and return, distance of 2t
miles.
About two months ago Capt. A. II. Do.
gardus issued challenge to sllt OF a pigeon
match against any man in the world. The
challange has been accepted by Mr.. Wallace,
the noted English pigeonshooter. The
match will come off at the London Gun
Club grounds, England, in July or August,
Tor from Gl00 to $500 side.
The pedestrian fever is all right and the
contestants have all done noblv, but we
know certain poor, slender woman who,
when she once makes up her mind to match
certain shade of zephyr can walk Just two
miles further than any of the winners did,
and when she gets home have enough wind
left TO give the servant blazes for not hav-
ing supper ready.
In last Saturdays issue we published q
challenge from Miss Krammer of St Louis,
to walk match with Geo. w. Whitman
for from 800 to 800 side. The challenge
las been accepted, and the stakes, which
will be 500 side, have been put up in the
hands Of Chas. Pearcy. Superintendent Of
Mussey's Billiard Rooms. The match is to
he an eight-hour contest go as YOU
please" and the pc estrians started at noon
to-day ut the ST. Georges Hall, st. Louis.
A go-as-you-please match. twenty-six
hours, has been arranged between r. r.
Kelley, runner, and J. J. Heron (whn
came in second in the last match at Wash
ington, d. G., making lO1 miles % laps in
the twenty-six lours) for $500 Il side, and
the winner to take all profits A forfeit
S75 has been placed in the hands of Mike
Scanlon;' the balance to be pnt up on May
lst The match 10 take place May 2d and
Sd, at New York. J. Brad. Adams will have
the management Of the affair.
From a gentleman who arrived in the
city last evening from Pittsburg. we learn
the following: The destruction of the Clip-
per boat-houSe seems to have brought ruin
to the club which owned it. For some time
back the interest of the members in the
club has been waning, and on last Monday
week the club disbanded. They have a
large amount of different kinds of wares,
which they intend disposing of. and the re.
returns for which will be divided among
those who belong to the organization.
Many of the members have etner Joined
other clubs or started small boat-houscs Of
their own. Morris has constructed a small
one on the bank of the river at the foot of
Eleventh street, Pittsburg.- Wheeling In
tellisencer.
An effort is being made to reorganize the
Missouri State Sp 'rtsmen's Cunning ASsO-
citation, and fo: this purpose large posters
have been printed and sent to various
towns and cities throughout the State. One
0f these posters can be seen at Albright's 8
gun store, No. 2OD North Fourth
street, st. Louis. 1t reads as follows:
First annual convention aud tnnrna-
meut of the Missouri State Sportsmen's AS
socation-S3 250 in purses casl:-Nlay 2Oth,
2lst. 22d and 23d 1870, at st. Louis, Mo.
Convention to rG-Orgauize the Missouri
State Sportsmen's Association. All clubs
in the State invited IT, be represented For
particulars, see programmes. For infOrma-
ton, apply toJ. S. Sedan. Secretary. Jas
u. Lucas, J. S. Sedan, Managers, LIB I.o-
Gust street.
New orleans Times: "The regatta to he
given under the auspices of the Hope Row
ing club of this city, will take place on
Monday and Tuesday, the 9th aud 10Th of
June next, at New Lake End. All the sub
scriptjons are filled. the medal designs Sc
lected and the medals themselves in pro-
cess of manufacture.
The rega ta will be open 10 all amateur
rowing clubs or associations in the States.
and the races will he rowed under the rules
OF the National Association of Amateur
Oarsmen. Under these rules club giving
Il regatta is required TO give to other clubs
six weeks notice Of the date aud conditions
of the races. The publication Of this pres
ent is official, and may be considered bv the
Hope Rowing Club, and may he considered
by all other rowing clubs as the notification
required by the rules of the National Asso-
ciatiun.
Tile races and medals are to be as fol.
lows:
II A four-oared shell, five gold medals
offered.
- A four-oared gig, five gold medals of
fered.
- A four-oared barge, five gold medals
offered.
Il. A double-soull shell, two gold medals
offered.
"5 A sngle-scull shell, all weights, one
gold medal Offered.
g. A sngle-scull she'll light weight, un-
der l25 pounds, one gold medal offered.
-. A working boat, one gold medal Of
fered.
"lhe circu' ar containing the programme
and rules will he ready for distribution the
latter part OF this week.
AT a joint meeting of the Regatta and
Governing Committees of the Hope Rowing
Club held last week. it was unanimously
agreed, and the faith of the Club pledged.
that in this regatta the Hope Rowing Club
| will not enter any of the regular crews of
the Club. The men will be so changed that
no crew which has won here or elsewhere
in any race will entpr in solido in the com
ing regatta. This is done to insure cour-
teIiiS reception of all entering clubs, and
to do away with the suspicion that the
Hopes are getting up regatta " confer
medals upon themselves"
s1Fanning'' Ills wife,
NJ Al.