National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-05
SPORTING SQUIBs.

Montreal is organizing hrSt-class
jockey club.
1t is probable that the Cornell crew
will visit England next season.
California and Louisiana are the only
States in which betting on horse races is legal.
Twenty members of the New York
Bicycle Club are to start for San Francisco mex.
month.
The Oxford and Cambridge Univer-
sity boat race will probably take place the 9th
proximo.
Mr.. Whitefoot, editor of the London
Sportsman, is coming to this country in company
with Hanlan and Ross.
There is some talk of match be-
tween Luke Blackburn aud Parole, a mile and q
quarter, los or Ito pounds each.
The Passaic Boat Club, of Newark
N J., has been reorganized as pleasure club, and
has consequently withdrawn from the rowing as
ISOLATION.
Mr.. James r. Keene's Newmarket
racing team consists of eighteen, beginning with
fiye-year-old spendthrift and ending with two
year-old Romeo.
The next walk for the Ashley belt is
not likely to take place in this country. Rowen
and Weston have agreed upon British soil as the
place. but have not yet named the time of contest.
Charles RoWell is the youngest of a
family fifteen. Prior to winning the Ashley belt
in March. 1879, he was comparatively unknown
Since that important event his fame has gone
around the world.
The Yale College Ball Club will proba-
bly, pay a visit to the West during the summer va
cation, and will indulge i'll series of games with
the Western clubs. The nine is said to be very
strong one this year.
The Cornell University four-oared
crew and the Dauntless eight, of New York, win
participate in the Henley regatta in England in
the spring The Cornell crew have laid off a
course exactly as long as the Henley water, and
will begin practice as soon as the weather permits
DR. E. 7. Marsh scored fourteen con-
secutive shots in the contest for the championship
ofshooting at swinging objects in COnlon's scoring
gallery New York, and Pierre Lorillard, IT.. won
second place and the experts badge with score
ofeight balls. The mark was an inch and quar-
Ter swinging ball.
ALL the London journals eulogize
Hanlan and express the opinion that he is irwin
chile. Attic banquet given Hanlau after his last
race Mr. Innes stated that as Trickett was not
pleased at his recent defeat with Ross, he would
match Ross to row against either Trickett or Lay
cock for from 500 TO e., 600 side.
-Hanlan has written very manly
note to the London Sportsman, in which he says:
" In moment Of irritation 1 wrote hard things
about my old friend, David Ward. am very sorry
l did SO, and earnestly desire that Ward may be
the first one shall snake by the hand on my ar
rival. now see that have been misled by false
reports concerning him,
/ Eugene z. Merrill, of Boston, Mass,
viii, in all probability, accompany L. E. Myers
when the latter sets sail for England, in hope of
extending his sphere of usefulness as record de-
moralizer The Bostonian is thought to be faster
walker than any amateur beyond the seas for any
distance from to ten miles, at both of which
distances he possesses the best amateur record in
the world.
-Trickett is reported to have written
to Charles Reed of Saratoga that he felt convinced
he could beat Ross, Riley, and Hosmer. aud was
anxious to give any one of them trial. On the
strength of this letter Mr. Reed wrote Triekett that
he would back him for $1,000 against all corners,
the race or races TO take place over the Saratoga
course in July or August. Trickett was informed
that he could live at Mr.. Reeds Meadow Brook
farm, just Beyond Snake Hill, where it would cost
him nothing to train. All that Mr. Reed asked
was that if Triekett won his Reeds share of the
stake should be returned, but if Trickett lost Mr.
Reed would sustain the loss. Triekett wrote back
accepting the offer.
Tom Lane, the we'll known English
pugilist died in the New York Hospital last week
of deliriunl tremens and pneumonia. He was
sent to the hospital by his friend, Owney Geoghe-
gan, who paid all the hospital and funeral ex-
penses. Tom Lane was born in Birmingham
England, in 1872. He came OF fighting stock His
father was James Lane, and James was brother
of the famous Hammer" Lane, who, after win
ming twelve battles, was beaten by Yankee Sulli-
van in England, in desperate fight of thirty -four
rounds, in 1871. Another brother of the deceased
mans father was old Tom Lane who beat the
light weight boxer, Johnny Walker, who came to
this country in 1850. The career of Tom Lane, the
deceased, In the prize ring was successful