The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-18
SPORTING NEWS.
Items from the Base Ball Field and Race
Course Some Billiard Events, Etc.

Happy Medium has sired twenty-nlne win
| ners of public races; six OF his get having re-.
cords OF 2.294. to $50.
| In the past ten years, Of the games played
| between the Chicago and Boston clubs, the
latter has won thirty nine aud the former
thilty-one.
The addition OF tho Worcester Base Ball
Club to the League makes the number OF
clubs In that body eight, equally divided be-
tween the East and the West.
Mr. James Il keene has recently purchased,
through m agent. eleven thoroughbred brood
mares In England. This eleven liz the nucleus
of n stud which Mr.. Keene contemplates es-
tablishing.
The proposed National Yacht Racing Asso-
citation, started In New York, and which was
intended to be q great success. has met with
very little encouragement, and It's projectors
have decided to abandon II for the present.
Miss Lula Loomer on January s. after COM
pleting her two hundredth half-milr, aban-
doned her attempt to walk several Thousand
half-mlles la as manv half hours at Allston
Hall, Boston, Mass. The alleged reason was
that SHE had contracted a severe cold. Has
kell also stopped.
Slosson informs us that he does not think
that he will ever again act az umpire In a
match He has never represented a winner
vet and twice with him In the chair Schaefer
has beaten Sexton. George guesses that II
Sexton had made 500, with q sure shot In
front Of him, he would have dropped dead
before letting go his cue New York Clipper.
The stockholders OF the Worcester Club, at
a meeting held on January 7, decided TO ap
ply for admission to the league. The nine
Of last year have been re-enRaged with the
exception of Brady. whose position at second
base will be filled bv Dreamer, and he with
Stovey OF the New Bedfords, completes the
team. Five OF the nine of 1880 hail from
Philadelphia.
Several prominent base ball professionals
rusted out and retired last season, including
two third baSemen who had led the fielding
averages in that position In both the League
and the international Association during
1878. The professional clubs throughout the
country are drafting Into their ranks more or
less young players; and fresh talent Is wanted
everywhere, and that It will be forthcoming
Is not to be doubted.
The Engiish racing season will begin this
year on March 16, at Lincoln. The Lincoln
Handicap will be run on The seventeenth and
the Liverpool Grand National on the nine
tenth. The important jumping" affairs
kempton Grand Hurdle on February 6. San
down Grand Priza, February IS; Croydon In
tarnational Hurdle March 3; and the United
Kingdom Steeple-chase, March 3.
According to an understanding we had
with Slosson on the eleventh instant we We're
TO regard him as having abandoned his pro-
jett IF challenging Snaefer for the cham
pi0ns' game medal the latter Won on the
tenth, and as leaving the field open to Sexton
In case the latter contemplated challenging,
In case we should not hear from MIN by
o'clock on the night of the twelfth. We have
not heard from Slosson.- v. Y. Clipper.
A skating tourney, mile and a half on a
half-mie track, was held at Lttleport Eng,
December 26, National Association rules gov
erning. The winner WAS A. Dewsberry, who
heat Fish" Smart in 1873, he taking the final
heat from J. Collins In On. %. The best time
uac made nv DpWSbpTry and IT, Walk QSOn