Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-18
Sporting Life.
IN. Y. Sun. ]

| sporting Lllcs
IN. Y. SUM-
Mir. Mackey, the California millionaire is
ready to match his Two year-old FLY Sweet
| heart against Ex-Governor SJanfori's twOyear-
OLD colt Fred Croker, for $4,000 side.
Mr.. Leonard Jerome, under the managem ent
or the Sklllful trainer Mr.. Lee Paul, is getting
a large and strong stable OF race horses together
| at jerome Park for next years contests.
Turf sports are revivng In South Carolina.
Scores OF first class race horses met In Charles
| ton at the meeting which opened Oh December
Q. Several New York and Brooklyn turftmen,
| among them Philip DWyer, were present
| Mr.. II. S. Bloodgood, OF Providence, offers to
| match little Nat or Smut against either Glad
stone or sensation. separately or as brace, TO
! hunt quail for two consecutive days, from day
| light until dark On Robins Isaad for 81 900, or
| piece OF plate OF that value.
| Mr. John Splan OF the part OF WedgeWood
| mas declared his readiness to go into great
sweepstakes. free for all stations, or $4,000 or
-, $40 each, 10 be trotted for next season. AS
mere are several rattllng stations now In train.
Ing, John will no doubt De accommodates.
| William Gale. of Cardiff, Wales, who has
| walked 1000 quarter miles in as m my quarter
hours, Is now On journey of $500 miles in
| i,W0 hours. walking mile and half at the
| beginning OF each hall hour This performance
IS taking place in the open air, near London.
Barrett, one of the most promising sons of
| Bonnie scotland, has been sent 10 England. It
Is 10 De hoped that he viii prove an exception
| 10 the many great horses that have been
wrecked On and after crossing the ocean, such
| as Falsetto, Lord Murphy, SpendUnrlft, SIy
| Dance. Mistake, and others.
| Robert Watson Boyd of Middlesborouch. prob
| ably the best OF the English oars,nen who
| made failure when he rowed IN this country
| is said TO be anxious 10 meet Hanlan. He must
nave plucked up his spirits during the last three
| weeks, as he did not even take part In the inrer
| national regatta for the American prizes Ham
| ian offers to row Boyd fortnight after his
match with Layc9ck, for s2,5oo a side, SO that
I nj
| chance to defeat the champion.
| Whistler and Bibby and then MuIdoon and
| Whistler. are TO WrtLhe In the tireSome contOr-
| ions called Grnco Roman wrestling about holi-
cay uLnes; III hardy seems possible that the
Old aport-ioving and blood letting Greeks and
| Romans were patient enough 20 sit six hours
| looking at two Wellmatched athletes in their
vain attempts to toss each other by grasplng
! persplfing neckS, arms, shoulders, backs and
! breasts Some modern changes should be made
| In the rules that would Insure something be.
! siuts draw liz hall nights work. These
! draws are becoming decidedly monotonouS
| One of the most unsatisfactory and thanlless
poSltlon5 III this world 8 TO act as Judge IN
| Held trial OF dogs. PIous Jeems and DIR. Young
came all the way from Mississippi to Judge tbs
| dogs On Robins Island. Gentlemen. said
| r1Ous Jeems. when the dogs were first sent
| Into the field, 1--WE are strangers to all OF you
| ilnd your dogs. so there is one thing you can
rest rest assured OF, and that Is that the best dogs
will get the prizes This made each man with
oog IN the lists happy, for he felt that the
Judges must see that his dog was the hest
When the trials ended forty-tye men out of the
fifty sWore that southern sport5men were not
the men TO judge eastern dogs.
Billiard experts are combining their skill to
practice games at present. Edward McI.au RI
IN, one OF the Youngest Of Philadelphia's play
ers, did the last fine work In public, whining
the championship OF the Keystone State from
helms, Estephe, Dodds, Bullock and Hunter, In
tournament In Philadelphia, which closed De.
cember d. Jacob Shaefer declares that the pres
TJp 10 for
another chance at Champion Slosson. The
champion expresses willingness to meet Jacob
On ms return from france for restricted rail
match at 81, 500 side. The postponement of
| The match between FinauX and Slosson to De-
cember 20 has disappointed the billiard men
mere. me match Is 5000 points, to be played
| In nVe nights, 600 points each game. Play was
| TO have begun on the evening OF December Z, In
| the dining room of the Grand HOTEL after din.
| ner. SioSson Is reported 70 have made run
| Verging on 1000 points in recent practice
| game.
| The Wordy war Which Carver AMI Bopardus
used 10 wage on this Side OF the ocean will per-
! maps be transferred to the other, as the doctor
| mas challenged the captain to a match, near
| London, at hundred pigeons for 81. 500 a side
| and the Championship of the world. The med
lca ad man used TO De thought the better at the
| rifle, and the military man at the shotgun hut
| they found extreme difficulty In coming to-
| getEer IN match. A challenge would be met
| oy counter challenge, not to shoot that
match, but another and much better match.
consisting OF about fifteen sections; this again
would be met by replication proposing m
shoot with one hand. or blindfolded, or on
| horseback, or In some other extraordinary Way:
| Then carver would suggest shooting at glass
| balls with rifles. and Bogardus would promise a
match with my boy Eugene Whether the
new transatlantic negotiations Will 90 on in
this familiar way to an emu as Ruthless remains
| TO Oe SEEN At all events, 1t Is noticeable that
IL Is proposed to settle the championship of the
WU5f at pigeon SHOOTING In England between
sc4iling is roWed there between foreigners.
EveryoCdy remembers hearing of the myste.
o sor Invention I'VE which Courtney was to bring
course. but which he concluded to forego. The
I map OF the British scullers to Compete
YIN Tue pest I canadians Australians and
americans s Yea mas In like manner led them to de-
vices Tor making up by gas wlndSatls and other
cohtilVanceS the required difference OF skill in
rowing. Hosmer Experimental with one of
tHeSe cOntflvances, w1n1sail on the foreparU
Oh MS Doat, 10 his race With Leycock. and also
Ia later race; put 1t was Hanlan's opinion
Ina1 II cost nlm NJ. four np lengths Newcastle
promising. He introduces bags OF hydrogen
gas fore and aft In the shells. In the emntV
spaces ordinarily covered with canvas. This,
lott has roWed one OF these gasbaG boats in
fast time possibly Boyd may be thinking
about one, In talking OF rowing against Hanlan
orally against mechanical devices of which SnIv
one side takes advantage. STILL whenever such
things are mooted. the oarsmen from the Amer
valuable points about them as soon as any
EOdy.
Boston has just organized new cricket club
to be known by the name OF the city. Phila-
delphia's club prizes for the past season have
been substantially settled, though the official
presentations may not have occurred. The
Young America. long the champion club of the
United States and Canada, takes the Halifax
Cup, originally won bJ Philadelphia In 1876
from All Canada and from the British officers
OF Halifax and Bermuda, and now employed to
sgnalize the status OF the local clubs as there
is no prospect OF its ever being recovered by
the British and Canadian players. The other
leading clubs followed In this order Merlon.
Girard, Germantown, Chestnut Hill. and Rel
mont. The batting prize goes to Robert s.
Newhall: usually considered the best batsman
of America, with T. Hargrave OF the Glrard sec
ond, and Sutherland Law OF the Merton rllird.
1t had been supposed by many that Law would
take the bowling prize, judging from his re-
markable execution against visiting clubs: Init
another Merton bowler. w. G. Lowry, surpassed
him In the local matches, thus taking the
bowling prize, with Hargrave of the Girard
second, II. w. Brown Of the Germantown
third, Law fourth, and d. s. and C. A. NeWhaiI
nth and sixth. OF twenty games which these
six Philadelphia clubs played with the best
clubs OF Canada, New York and Baltimore, they
won seventeen, drew one, and lost two. One
OF the noteworthy individual performances was
Il. 3. NewhalPs score Of 100 against Toronto:
another, 9. S. Newhail's $50, not out, against