Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-17

concluded the Club will settle with eacl
contestant that has not used or shot at al
his birds, at the rate of IS per dozen, ant
will collect from those indebted for bird
at same rate. When more than one enter
from one club or locality, the birds can b,
sent in one coop. We trust that our fel
low-sportsmen viii assist us IN inaugural
ing this much needed feature, which vii
not only give all better birds, but viii pre-
vent the dealers from demanding such ex
orbitant prices as has been their pleasure
and custom on all such occasions. BY ur
gent request it has been decided to handi
cap Crittenden Robinson to 81 yards, w
E. Gerber to 26 yards, and Frank MaskeJ
to 26 yards. We earnestly request that
each club in the State will be represented
and that some steps will be taken.to form
State organization, which will certainly
meet with the approval of all true lovers
of the gun. Entrance, to be accompanied
with coin, will be received by ]. NJ. Hotz
Secretary, up to the 10Th day OF Septem
Der, who will also be pleased to give any
further desired information.
CRICKET. The well known game, cricket,
| which Is now IN season-the name is Of
doubtful derivation-is number of cen.
turies old, but how old has not been ascer.
tanned. 1t is thought to be identical with
club-ball, played during the fourteenth
century, and originally called handyn- and.
handoute. Although strictly English, ii
has been introduced into Scotland, Ireland,
the United States, and other countries, but
it is never played with such ardor and so
generally as on British soil. Almost every
school, village and town of England is pro-
vided with a cricket ground, and it is con-
sidered so healthful an exercise that every
body is encouraged to engage in it. Many
Englishmen ascribe their physical vigor TO
the game, which is often recommended by
physicians, especially for persons of seden-
tary habits. There are various examples
of men once thought to be going into de-
/ cline who have grown hearty, muscular,
and rugged by this exercise. A number OF
players over there make it trade, earning
their livelihood by matches with amateur
clubs and by instructing others. The noted
Marylebone Club is the standard authority
on cricket, its rules being recognized as the
| true code all over the world The Eleven
| of All England and tie United Eleven,
both professional, are ranked as the best
cricketers extant. The game has grown
to be quite popular here, and the mode of
| playing it has much advanced. Five Ameri-
can clubs have shown themselves to be
| formidable rivals of English clubs, and
they are steadily improving.
ODD NOTES.
| The National Association of Amateur
Athletics has reinstated William Z. Pitman
in the amateur bicycle list. Correct.
Thirty .seven seconds for quarter of a
mile on a bicycle is Walter Phillips time,
made on the Belgrave road, Leicester, Eng,
June llth
The Staten Island Cricket Club defeated
the noted Germantown Club OF Philadel-
phia in match played Saturday at Staten
Island. The score was 81 to so.
T. P. Donaldson defeated I. T. Drill by
one lap in a three. hour go-as-you please
race at the Clinton Athletic Club track,
Brooklyn. June 18th. He scored 10 miles
in three hours.
OLeary will give another six day, twelve
hours day, heel-and- toe walk in Buffalo,
beginning August 9sh. The first prize will
be the sum of 81, GOO, and the winner will
become the possessorof the Championship
Challenge Belt"
The eleven of st. Paul's School, Con-
cord, N. H., defeated the eleven of the ST.
George Club of New York in game of
cricket, played June 9th on the st. Georges
Cricket Grounds, Hobol1en. The score was
l07 to 50.
The grand bicycle meet at Coney Island
in the early part of September next is ex-
citing much interest. The Manhattan
Club will assume all responsibilities, and
it is to be hoped that the clubs throughout
the country will lend their aid in making
the affair the success it should be.
Theibaud Bauer is out with card to
wrestle GrecoRoman style any man in the
world, for from 500 to $500 side 1t
won't do, MIR. Bauer. The people have
had enough of your championship
matches Go West, where you are not
known. Turf, Field and Farm.
The Boston Athletic Association will
| take charge of the new amphitheater,
which will be located on Park Square, Bos-
ton 1t will have cinder track suitable
for pedestrians, fourteen laps to the mile,
and other accommodations for amateur
athletic sports.
a former Fish Commissioner of one of
the States, who writes over the nom de
plume of Ecaile in The Sea World, don't
think much of California fish. In his opin-
ion they are the poorest specimens for
table or any other use that he ever saw or
ate, from the devil fish to the little smelt. !"
That.was great feat. of Captain b.
gardus in his second match with Rimell,
standing at thirty yards, five ground traps,
killing so out of 100 birds, and the last
bird falling dead three feet outside the
boundary He shot IS straight his forty
seventh was the one he lost, and then he
killed 80 straight. Such score has never
been made before never was expected to
be, and we don't believe will be again, ex-
cepting, perhaps, by Bogardus. Truly,
Bogardus as a shot is a wonder, and we
very much question if we shall ever see his
equal. Chicago Field.
Jacob Schaefer has sent to George f.
Slosson a peculiar challenge to play game
of billiards, l 600 points up, for $1,000 a
side, at either the champions game or
the regular three ball French carom game.
Sehaefer deposited with the donors of the
Brunswick emblem $3.50 as an "eydence
of good faith in issuing the challenge.
He, however makes two stipulations-one
to the effect that if Slosson consents to
play the "champion's game " for the Col
lender emblem, the game shall be extended
to ], eco points, instead CT 600, as at pres
.ent, and the other that if he decides to
play the " unlimited rail game, " the choice
of cushions shall be decided by toss.
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