The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-04

NOTES AND NEWS.
Game this afternoon. ....>.
Clapp the climax, Johnny. f-e
Trottng at Philadelphia this week, COM
mencing to-day. sfttt4 VL5gEI y
Hanlan rowed over the course at Wash
ington, Saturday, for the first time.
Englehardt gives another pedestrian tour
nament i'll this city week after next.
The Chicagcs were out at the old ball
grounds yesterday afternoon practicing.
Next Sunday the Buckeyes will play the
Brown Stockings at the Cincinnati Ball
Park. gs
The next club to visit Cincinnati will be
the Clevelands. They will be here the
last of next week.
Bradley is good umpire, and will be a
favorite here if he continues to umpire as
he has been doing.
"We trust in our experimental nine,
and hope for victory. ."-[Troy Press. Those
who trust" generally quit loser.
The races begin at Lexington Saturday,
at Louisville two weeks from to-day, and at
Cincinnati four weeks from to-day.
The Chicagos and Cincinnatis play to-
morrow, and the two clubs leave Thursday
morning for Chicago, where they play Sat-
urday and next week on Tuesday and
Wednesday. "5...
st. Louis Post-Dispatch: "There is talk
of match game of billiards for consider
alton between Tom Gallagher of this city,
and Eugene Carter, of New York. The
match, if arranged, will take place in ST.
Louis" ..0s...
Saturday a great many walked back
from the ball grounds, being unable to get
aboard the cars, which were crowded to
suffocation, almost. Messrs. gentlemen, put
few more cars on the track to-day and
tomorrow. "If .. 4
The Detroit Jockey Club is out with a
programme for four days race meeting,
July 7th to 10th. Immediately following
the Chicago meeting. In added money
and purses, $1,000 is hung up. The stakes
close June 1st.
We understand that there will be no
twentv-cent tickets sold at the ball games
this year, as there were last year after the
fourth innings but the full price will be
demanded at any stage OF the games
[Provi dence Star.
Bells Life says: "John VIM. Oakden
10 years OF age. champion 500 yard shot o
England, challenges any man in the worlG
to shoot forty shots at 500-yards target
four feet diameter with eight-inch bulls
! eye, or he will give eight points out o.
eighty shots for 4250 side. and 100 guinea
challenge cup. He will give or take ESQ fo
expenses TO any part of the world"
The New York Sun says People wht
have been betting that Courtney's boat
will be sawed again on May 10th will d,
well to hedge. That peculiar oarsman il
now said to have invented rig with which
he will beat Hanlan about mile. Whethe
Courtney will be allowed to run his rig il
the Potomac race is another question. On
the whole, it is probably fortunate that Mr.
Blaikie is referee; that hehas entire con
troll over the award of $1,000, and tina
Riley is ready to pull in case Courtne.
should not be allowed to use his rig ant
should refuse to pull without it. AS thu
far explained, ''in reality the rig has no re
laNen to the scull, and yet it has" Per
haps the rig is on the reporter.
All kilograms from Capt. Anson to th
: home management while the Chicago team
is on its travels are sent in cipher. 1t ha
been demonstrated that telegraph Oft1ce
are very leaky, and that Information tina
belongs of right to the Club management
alone frequently finds its way to the pr
} session of gamblers, who use it to their ad
vantage at the pool-roons. We will sur
: D se Anson and Flint were to be taken sic
. tomorrow afternoon in Cincinnati 80 tina
! neither was able to play. A telegram t
this effect written In plain English woul
/ u = Il = II. Al
thing gamblers as have confederates in til
, telegraph offices, and the sharps would us
: the knowledge to pluck the uninformet
The use of cipher code would render tn
sharp practice Of this kind impossible, an
+ for this and, other sufficient reasons the sy
TEN iiss been adopted by the Chicago Clu
Management Chicago Tribune.