The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-14
SPORTING ITEMS.
News From the Race Course, Base Ball
Field, Pedestrian Match, Billiard
Room, Etc.

The Troy Club has five left handed batters.
The Oxford and Cambridge match from
Putney to Mortlake takes place on the twen-
| tieth Instant.
any man In the world three miles straight
| away on the Tees, for GOO side.
The only captains so far appointed for
League teams are Clapp Of Cincinnati Arson
OF Chicago, and Morrill, of Boston.
Bicycling is RAPIDLY growinpin public favor
| and clubs are forming all over the country.
Several exciting matches have taken place
within the past two weeks In New York
Sexton has challenged Schaefer to defend
| his title to the Colender emblem, representa-
| tive Of the championship at the champions
game.
| The National Club OF Washington emphat-
| icallv denies that 1t ID going to disband be.
cause OF It's failure to gain admittance to the
! league.
John Keen, champion bicycle rider Of Eng
| land on short distances, offers to match him
self to beat the best American trotting re-
cord-2:12A. Betting Is one to four that he
will win.
| carries top weight, is the favorite In betting
on the Lincolnshire handicap. to be run on the
seventeenth instant. He fs said to be we'll at
himself.
The Yale College Base Ball Club have de-
elded not to Play with any clubs IN the Cor
| SIGNALS" compete. Arrangements have been
| made for series OF games with Harvard.
| st. Louis letter says the interest In boat
Ing there is largely on the Increase; nearly
ali OF the thirteen clubs have ordered new
boats, and have fitted up the old ones with
| latest improvements.
Harry Wright ought to belong to the
national association. The latter have adopted
| two OF the veterans favorite ideas, viz,
aboishing the foul-bound rule, and allowing
q player to use q round or tlattened bat, as he
| chooses.
Harry Wright says that never before In
the history OF base ball has there been such
| boom" of interest so early In the season.
| The Boston club has already sold more
season tickets than during any previous
| season.
According to the recently adopted league
playing schedule the various clubs will travel
the following number OF miles: Worcesters,
CATO; Chicagos, 6444; Cincnnatis, 6294; Bos-
tons. GAO; Providence, 600; Clevelands. 5592;
Buffalos, 1856; Troys, 1890; total, 1856.
| The indications are that the Worlds Row.
ing Regatta, to be held In June, will surpass
any rowing races ever held In the United
States. 1t ts probable that Trickett, the Aus
traIian champion, Courtney, Hanlan, Riley,
| Kennedy, johnson, Lee, Ross, PiaiSted and
others will be among the starters.
Bibby, the English wrestler, has been
matched against Albert Ellis, formerly OF
! London, to wrestla, Devonshire and Lanca-
shire styles, for $500 side, the match to
| take place on the seventeenth Of April next
| As both mean to test their superiority good
contest is anticipated.
The annual race between four-oared crews
of the University OF Pennsylvania, Columbia
College and Princeton University will take
| place this year on the twenty-eighth OF June,
for the Childs Challenge prize. Last year
the Pennsylvanians won, and Columbia was
! second.
It is now definitely reported that Trickett,
| of Australia. and his hackers are coming to
America and thence will journey to England.
Elliott. the English ex-champion, has decided
to row 10 regattas in this country next sea-
| son, and his first appearance will probably be
In the race Of professionals in June next.
The New York bench show for 1880, to be
| held under the auspices of the Westminster
Kennel Club, In Madison Square Garden,
April ~, % and 20. offers q larger premium
list and Of greater value than any previous
exhit Of the kind. The classes number sew
enty-four, from mastiffs to miscellaneous
| dogs Special premiums are offered for for
eign dogs. The entries close on April 70.
| The Coney Island Jockey Club will soon
| Twenty-six thousand dollars will be distrib-
uted In purses and stakes, for six days racing,
beginning Saturday, June 10, and, emitting
Monday, continuing the next five days of the
following week, ending Saturday, June 26,
The programme will be the richest and most
liberal ever offered Ia America.
John Ennis, the champion long distance
skater Of the United States, authorizes the
SPIRIT to announce that he will back himself
to skate 100 miles In eleven hours, or 200
miles In twenty-four hours. He will be ready
to skate twenty days after signing articles,
and names the Madison Avenue Skating
Rink. New York city. as the only place likely
to afford good Ice In such an open winter.
According to the London Truth certain
pedestrian, who halls from Windsor. has an
nounced his intention OF attempting to pick
up hundred potatoes, placed one yard
apart, In an hour, each potato to be brought
back to basket placed at the starting point
With surfeit OF six days "go-as-you- please"
matches and such like contests, it is at all
events pleasing to hear Of some novel feat Of
Professionalism.
The second race for the O'Leary belt, repre-
senting the six day pedestrian championship
OF America, will be contested at Madison
Square Garden, New York, commencing at
five minutes past midnight Monday. April 5,
and ending at five minutes past ten Saturday.
April 10. There is no entrance fee, as the
race Is q $500 sweepstakes. Each conteatant