Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18

number, and suggesting Trickett of Aus
tralia, Boyd and Elliott of England, Court
ney and Riley of the United States, and
Hanlan, Ross and Smith of Canada.
ATHLETICS.
James Albert has issued challenge to
John Dobler for the O'Leary y hour cham
pionship belt. Dobler recently won it with
Ala miles.
P. j. Mccarthy defeated 81. Sadler in a
twenty. mile run at Woods Athletic
Grounds, Brooklyn, August 18th. The
winner covered the distance in hours 8
minutes and so seconds.
Holske, before retiring from the pedes-
trian arena, would like to meet Harry Arm
strong once more He offers to walk the
ex-amateur champion l5-mile or three
hour race for $500 side
T. p Donaldson, of the Clinton Athletic
Club, won the amateur swimming match
in the North River. recently, defeating j.
B. LOOMS, of the Williamsburg Club. The
prize was the Dexter Cup, offered by the
proprietors of a private bath.
The wonderful performances of the young
athlete, Lawrence E. Myers, have at last
found their way into English exchanges.
The London Field, Land and Water and
Referee are complimentary in their re-
marks on the great achievements of the
phenomenal flyer"
E. Van Schoening won the 25-mile swim
ming match on the 22d August, over Geo.
Werhan. The course was from Pier No.
|, North River, to Norton's dock at Long
Island and back, and Schoening swan the
distance in nine hours. WeIha gave up
the contest when but little more than half
the distance had been covered.
"The Pie Eater" Norman Taylor, was
defeated at Keene, N. H., recently. He
undertook to run 10 miles while A. I'll.
Libby walked six. Libby won in l hour
minutes 40 seconds. Either the Pie Eater
was not right or he has strayed from the
paths of the righteous and joined the hip
podromers. The old man can do much
better than 10 miles in / hour minutes 40
seconds.
ODD NOTES.
The following score was made by the
Glenbrook rifemen the other day Smith,
"A; Ryan, 43 Morrin, 43 Robinson, AZ
Meloche, 40.
The section of the game law prohibiting
the taking of salmon with net or seine be-
tween sunrise on Saturday and Sunday at
noon is still in force.
John Anderson, resident of Big canyon,
Lake county, killed on his ranch, one day
last week, panther which measured eight
feet four inches from tip to tip, and weighed
between It's and 200 pounds.
State Fish Commissioner Redding has
caused the District Attorney of Calaveras
county to serve a notice on the Lodi Irriga-
ton Company that it must not stop the
passage of fish up the Calaveras river.
At the late regular monthly shoot of the
Carson Guard, Jonathan Saffell, whose
nickname is "Old Reliability" succeeded
by score of A in winning the company's
gold medal for the third time, and it now
becomes his property.
The archery clubs of Gold Hill and Vir-
ginia, says the Carson Tribune, declined to
shoot for the prizes offered at the late pic
mic OF the Miners Union. There were,
however some other contests. The silver
toilet set offered as first prize for ladies'
archery was won by Miss Mary Griffin, of
the Merry Bowmen, score 81; the silver
cake basket, second prize. by Miss Felice
Genesay, score 33. Leon Hall of Gold Hill
won the bow and arrow, first prize for iu-
venile archery, and his brother, Joseph
Hall, won the culver of arrows offered as
the second prize.