The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-06
Sporting Sundries.
Items Circling Around the City
and Globe Caught and
Chronicled.
Bcalling Squibs, Pedestrian Points,
Personals, Turf Talk, Baseball
and Minor Miscellane-
Gus Mention.
Sculling Squibs.

A. G. Banks proposes t. give VIM. Hig-
einbotham part of his name.
The Missouri Rowing Club have three
barges and one fohr-oared ontrigger.
Captain George W. Wheeler left this
week, with sailboat G. P Wheeler, for
Pomeroy, Ohio and will be gone two
months.
George H. Hosmer of Boston, Mass, hav-
Ing heard that Mann, OF Halifax, N. s.. is
desirous of rowing him, intimates his will
ingness to make a match to scull three
miles for $500 side.
Considerable comment has been excited
by the report that Lyons and Mccain were
organizing club or crew. We have infor-
nation from reliable source, stating there
II nothing in the report
The Yale University crews as at present
constituted, is as follows: Atkinson (bow(
Freeland, Howard, Hooper, Tr mble, b.
con. Otis, Brandegee (stroke); Hammond
and Hemenway, substitutes.
Oxford VS.. Cambridge.-The Cambridge
University crew made their first appear
ance OH the Thames at Kingston, England
March 1st. Both the Oxford and Cam,
bridge crews are expected at Putney early
next week.
The Halifax IN. S.) Rowing Association
are bringing out another aspirant fol
aquatic honors this season. His name is
Alfred Ham, and he is native of Sanbro,
N. 8. He is to go in training under the
care OF Warren Smith.
The first race this season between the
Acme and Aquatic Clubs, for the perpetual
silver cup won last season, and now in te
hands OF the Aquatics, will probably take
place in May. Tne cup is to be r0wed for
three times each seas III, the nrst race
taking place in MAY. The second should
take place the first of July and the last
race the latter part OF August.
A corresp pondent, who sends his name
and address as a guaranty of good faith,
writes as follows to the Clipper concerning
the Hoyt-Leahy race, aud from the tenor
OF his epislle it would seem that he knows
considerable about what he writes:
SAN Francisco. CAL, Feb. 10. 1880.
Editor New York Clipper
SIR-In sporting matters The Clipper has
been my Bible FIR the past twenty years.
aud / hate to see it imrosed upon by the
people who manipulate the barefaced impo-
sition upon this sport-loving community
which someb DIV has dignified with the
name of boat race. / refer tn the Hoyt
and Leahy affair. An enthusiastic individ.
ual in boat alongside of me took the
time with an ordinary watch, and made il
forty-nine minutes. Now if YOU will make
allowance for the errors insepurable from
such primitive method Of taking the
speed of a sculler, and be liberal, for a
handful of minutes is nothing out here,
you will have the time consumed by Leahy
in going over the course The easy style
of the winner in going home proved con-
clusively that lie was not troubling him
self about the time; and as his opponent
was fully mile in his rear he was nloder-
ately sure of winning the stakes*. Finan-
cially considered, it was a success for the
managers, but they had considerable leek
TO call it boat race.
Yours, truthfully, SPECTATOR
THAT'S ironicai.
Pedestrian Points.
Rogers walked II miles in hour and 80
minutes the other day in indianapolis.
Hibbs seemed to be favorite with the
ladies IN Indianapolis. Probably because
he has the b.ood of the noble red man in
his veins.
Alfred Elson is credited with running s
miles in 81 minutes and q seconds on q.
lap track at Alston Hall, Boston, Mass,
February 23d.
The seventy-two hour go as you please
match at indianapolis, closes at IL O'Clock
tonight. There will be six prizes awarded
as follows: First Az per cent, second, 2;
per cent, third, Is per cent fourth, 10 per
cent, fifth, per cent, sixth. per cent
All the prize makers must make over 30(
miles. 10 the first winner a gJld prize
goes in addition to the above.
The six-day go-as-you-please match be
tween O'Leary and Weston C ,mmence
Monday in San Francisco. The 'Frisc,
Daily Alta says: The long-talked-o
match betw cen tie two noted pedestrians
Dan. O'Leary and E. P. Weston, has beer
definitely arranged to commence ut th,
Mechanics Pavilion, Monday, March Sth
at l q. H., and terminate Saturday, the 18th
at IL p. IN. The contest will be a six-da,
60 as-you-please, for Sc, 900 side. O'Leary
is now in San Francisco and Weston is eI
route. The former stated TO representa-
tive of the Alta that he challenged Weston
IN 1879 for match in this country. but th,
latter declined, unless the match came
off somewhere in Europe. The reason
assigned was that that vas NOR,
neutral territory. O'Leary refused tt
agree to that, considering the United
States sufficiently neutral for all pedes
trian purposes. Weston at length, con
sented to walk in America, but tho mattel
must take place in San Francisco, in March
The coming meeting is the result OF tba
modified proposition. OLeary says he di,
not care to walk in England, because i
was not profitable. He would feel sure O
$4,000 receipts for sIx-days' walk in Ney
York, and from $4,000 to SIS, 900 in Chica
60. 1t was for that reason better to NEE
in this cuuutry, because, if contestan
cot beat, lie would at least have the salts
faction Of not getting beat for nothing
o. Leary states that he beat Weston in Chi
cago, in November, 1875, in six-days
walk, by 81 u miles. and again in L ,ndo
In Msicn, 1917, for f500 a side, by 10 mile,
OLeary making $40 miles to Weston's blf
Since then, he sa.s West n maze $50 mile
III a go-as-you-please. He says he can bea
Weston in walking, but the latter is goo
man i'll a goas-you-please-s ar
running. OLeary will he ,rn,embered i
THIS city, hav,".s ..s walked here several yeal
The coming match will be Weston
ksst visit to California" tH
TurfTalk.
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