The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-15
SPORTING NEWS.
A Number Of Interesting Sporting Events
The Base Ball Clubs Rsorganising
for the Coming Season
Minor Matters.

Charley Busl, IL broken down.
The sum OF Sill 1901 IG stakes were won In
Great Britain last year.
Mapbouauet, the celebrated French steeple-
chaser, was aod recently Tor $4,000.
I,eadvlle haa two race tracks. Spring and
fall meetings Will be given, with SIG, 900 In
purses.
More horses are In training FOR this year'a
races than was ever before known In tho
| world.
The longest throw mnde last season was Inv
Jim u'Rourke, who "tmpeled the sphere las
yards.
John Keen. the Enpltef hlnycllat, afTara to
| wager $1,000 asainat $4,000 that he will beat
the beat American truttlnu record for one
mile.
Out 1T fifty games played laat aeaaon be
| tween Lesgua and National cuhs, the League
clubs won 80. the Nationals "a. and were
drawn.
i Price tn the amount Of $500 ARE offered for
| a long distance bicycle competition 10 take
place NJ Agricultural Hall, N, Y, the second
ur third weak III March.
Delasatea from twenty or more Yacht clubs
! are ~ meet In Nav York toward the close of
thia mun,h for the purpose Of forming a ma
| tunal yachting association.
| American horapa bred north Of the Rio
| 1rande ran IN. t9as races during the year
ts19. This includes races run In other cuul,-
II
/ Mr.. James Gordon Bennett Ii to shoot al
| fifty ptgenna, twenty eight yards rse. against
/ Mr.. Shellhrnrk, 1T the Nottingham Gun
Club, for $4,000 side early In April.
| Bnneaetter md Charley Ford were matched
| IN Chicago, February 2, to trot y match for
$4,000 on the Chicago Club track June 8. The
owners put up $500 each IA forfeit
John Hawdon aud Joseph Kempter have
| been matched to row from the Mansion
/ House tn the suspension bridge. IN the Tyne
river. Euglan . for $500 eide. February ~.
/ The Nationals. Of Washington, claim tn have
completed arrangements with the Chicago,
| Cincinnati and cleveland cllha for a series III
| games In the West hefoie the opening Of the
| League season.
Parole Il holding HE own, white Fasettn Ia
improving In England. Peter, by the Her.
| NIT, the formidable En4ltsh four year-old, Ia
locked upon by tutfmen to hurry UP the
| American colts.
| The race Tor tho long distance champion
| ship df England belt between Blower
| Brown, The holder. George HaE4el and Sam
| unl Day. htWns Monday morning at AHrieul
| tural Han. talinaton.
| Lnrillard'a aueaptanoea Tor the spring han
| dieapa III England were announced February
3, and the cable infnrma us that they include
| Parole. Falartto, Mistake. Wallenstain, Sly
Dance. Pappooae. Geraldine Nereid and Bo-
reaa.
More than nifty pedestrians have entered
| Tor the aeventy-haur Ho-aa. you-pleapa race
which Ia to commence Mt Music Hall, Boston.
Masa., under Capt Halleek'a management,
February II. About thirty Will be allowed to
| etart.
It ia aaid that two Of the patent medicine
firms Of Rochester. n r., intend putting
mines III the tield 40 an advertisement III their
WARES during the coming aasaon, but are
holding back at present In order to get
players ut ANAL salaries.
Our English cousins have abolished the
weight allowances to American bred horses.
This ia a recognition Of equality which has
heretofore heen denied. The handicap is now
the other way, for American horses must
stand the long sea voyage and the change of
climate,
Samuel Day. now In training for the Eng
ltsh Guardianship rompetition, on January
"a, at tho Drill Hall, Kingston, Eng., made
An attempt to cover aixty-thrte mites III ten
hours on q twentylap track. He aceom.
pliahed thu aelf-mpoaed task In nine hours
twenty-four minutes three seconds.
The idea has been mooted Of having some
vt the exuerta try the three bail game IN a
h1,Sll table. with 2, Inch balls, The lighter
halls cannot be held tn the rail- like the beav-
Ter. and nd-tbetahle play IT, OF rourae,
more difficult With a smaller diameter to the
spheres and on larger table surface.
II waa officially announced On February q
that the Waleaters had been elected to mem.
herahtp ia the league, and that that body had
also voted that II was not advisable tu increase
the members beyond eight clubs. its present
number. believing that to be az many IA eau
be successfully handled and play out a we'll
arranged schedule
In the coming race for the O'Leary helt
there is no entrance fee. and the manager re-
ceives nothing from that source. The $500
which each contestant puts up forma Il aweep-
stake. which the stakeholder pays over To the
winner. The manager has no Interest In this
money, and Il would make no difference to
him II It were 500 or $4,000, instead Of $780,
The Clipper publishes communication
from An Englishman," who offers TO shoot
Capt. A; III. Boaardus match OF one hundred
hlrda, five ground trapa, thirty yards rise
English rules, the birdie to be retrieved by
dog. for from $1,000 to $2n00 ade the match I
to come on Ia this country In June or July |
and the captain to allow $500 for expenses.
=. T. Weston. rep'ies to o'Learv on the
question of the formers proposition to make T
six-day match, TO be tramped IN England, |
that the people OF New York gave him IVES
tom 10 the last Astley belt walk the best of evil
dence that they did not Hike him. He there
they walk IN the city of Dublin, and, to make |
1t an object. suggests $1,000 side az the I
stakes.
An event productive Of a noteworthy per-
formance was the 100 miles heel-ani- toe walk
for 500 side, contested III National Hall. st.
Louis. Mo. February 5 and G. by John b.
Hathaway who last fall astenished his
friends by walking so miles In hours Al
minutes without once leaving the track. aud
Fred Gtlch. the New Orleans Pet" who has
OF late figured In y number Of local contests.
without, however, winning anything. Glitch
retired at 81 miles, but Hathaway having
made y number Of side bets that Il. cassitated
his keeping on. did 80. and finished 100 miles
Ia % hours AZ minutes. He had, however.
waeered to walk "A hours without once leav-
ing the track or suspandinG locomottau. and
kept TN for the remaining II min
utes. covering all additional 1922 is of a mie
Worcester surmounted the difficulty sup
posed TO b. In the way Of It's admission to the
League, except by a unanimous vote, by
furnishing the sworn testimony that Wor-