Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-04-29
SPORTING.

The capital stock of the Coney Island
Jockey club has been increased to $780,
600.
WILLIE BEoKwTTH, reputed to be the
fastest swimmer i'll England, contem-
plates visiting America this summer
THATCHER, the well-known English
pedestrian, offers to walk with any man
living, from one hour upwards, for Sl00
The handsome and speedy little son of
Ne1nbrino Pilot and Lady Stewart
Hannis, 2:19!-will be guided by Mr..
James Pittit this season.
THE visit of the Scotch foot-b ball team
to Canada is to be postponed until the
fall, owing to unreasonable weather in
summer for that kind of game.
CHARLES PRICE, the English cham
pion ten mile runner, has been engaged
by Haverly and Englehart to give exhi-
billions throughout the country.
MEssRs. TRUEsDEnL and Jarvis, of
Binghamton, n Y, have purchased a
fast trotting colt for $4,000. He is full
brother of the horse Don Pedro.
HoLsKE, who is matched against Arm
strong, to walk for the twenty-five mile
championship of America, has taken up
training quarters at Mystic park, Boston.
The Columbus (Ohio) turfmen are
greatly incensed against the senate for
passing the bill prohibiting pool-selling
They swear vengeance against those who
voted for the BILL
IT is highly probable that the date of
tba arnrpocb1pu aichf poroJ inf
versity race between Harvard and Yale,
at New London, Conn.,, will be changed
from July I'd to 9th.
THE game constable of Galena, n. T.,
has been going for the fox hunters in
earnest, for their infringement of the
game laws, but most of the suits are
being settled by compromise.
A VERMONT man spent 100 successive
days in trying to run down and kill
fox, and at last when he got sight Of him
and fired shot the bullet killed 5000
horse and the fox sloped away.
MILLER, the wrestler, who recently
left New York for England, will endeavor
to secure one or more matches with the
prominent heavy athletes of that country,
to whom be has repeatedly issued chal-
lenges.
THE English Jockey Jeffrey, who rode
Parole for the Liverpool Cup, has been
engaged by Mr.. Lorillard to ride for his
establishment at Newmarket when his
weight will allow him to accept the
mounts.
HENRY LEUssING, quite young man
IS &c
stated to have lifted, without harness,
1851 pounds at the gymnasium in that
city on March 20. A number of promi-
nent citizenss witnessed the feat
The usual grand stallion exhibition
viii took place at Lexington, KY, April
r. Among others Tom Bowling. Aris-
tides, Longfellow, Ten Brock, Levet,
Pat Malloy, King Alfonso, Glenelg, Mon:
archist, Virgil, Wanderer, King Bau,
Kyde DAILY, Billet and Whisper.
Mr.. JAMES REED, the checker expert,
played at once six games of draughts
blindfolded, with as many gentlemen, in
Pttsburg, Pa, the other evening, and
won five of them, the other being draw.
His opponents were all players Of con-
siderable skill. The trial lasted three
hours and quarter.
THERE was prize fight, recently, out
on the Gray's Ferry road between John
Callahin and Martin Mcguire for $500 a
side, which lasted thirty 1.-TWO minutes,
twenty-three rounds being fought. Ma
guire was dangerously pounded and Cal
lahan fled to escape arrest. 1t is report
ed to have been one Of the most brutal
prize fights ever Witnessed In this coun-
try.--NeV York Graphic.
CAPT. T. w. TAYLOR, of West Ches-
ter (Pa.) rifle team, was riding on horse
back on the Downing road the other day
when he saw hawk cutting the mir
across field. Unstrapping his rifle, he
drew n bead on the bird at the distance
of $50 yards. Though his horse was in
motion at the time, and though the hawk
was passing like the wind, the bird fell
pierced through the body with a bullet.