National Republican., 1881-01-03
SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

The skating season has opened in earnest and
all the ponds are well DatrOnized.
Hanlan and Laycock are both in ricttraining
for their race. which will take place the Thames
on the Eth instant.
Frank Hart dropping 50 soon out Ofthe I36 hours
race i'll Boston, connected with his sickness last
summer in Boston, looks as if the young man from
Hayti was breaking up.
Clarence Whistler and William NuIdnOn are to
tackle each Othcriua GI5eco-ROman or draw match
1he first week in January. This is to be for the
championship of the world.
The South Carolina jockey club, encouraged by
it, recent success, has determined 10 have another
race meeting at the Washington course Charles
ton, on February to y inclusive.
Fred Plai>tcd intends to row number of races
next season. He has already selected the men
with whom he is prepared to make matches and
has forwarded challenges to them.
The New Orleans trip that Lee, Plaisted and
Kennedy intended 70 make has been abandoned
and the OarSnen have returned to their respective
quarters 10 chin boating until next season
I. G. HOlske and D. \. DIiscoll have at last
signed an agreement for Il twenty-five mile heel
aLu-toe race I0r rthe championship OF America and
s5U0 a side. The match is to take place in New
York February l, 1851.
Hanlon has been offered $500 for the shell in
which he defeated Trcket, but he declined to
sell, Prelerring to bring it home with him. His
practice boats were disposed of easily Tom
Green purchased two of them.
great deal of dissatisfaction is felt at the ter,
mlnatlon OF the billiard match III Paris between
announced until il can be aSceTtained whether the
playing was perfectly fair.
The Yale College crew have contracted with a
Chester firm to build steam yacht, the dimen-
sions of which will be 10 feet in length 6 feet i
inches wide, and fleet hold The builder guaran-
tees the boat to make twenty miles an hour
Billy Edwards, the plucky lightweight, will have
a benefit at Terrace Garden, New York, January j.
at which Whistler and kimball will wreStle in the
GrCcO-ROman style and the wind-up will be a
set-to between the beneficiary and Harry Hicken.
Edward Bibby has issued fresh challenge to
any man in America William Muldoon or Thei-
baud Bauer preferred, TO Wrestle him in either
catch-as- -catch-Can, Lancashire, or Grpco-Roman
style. The best two in three or three in five fair
falls, for from $50 to 500 a side.
The following entries for O'Learys walking
tourney nave been made so far: Mike Goodman'S
unknown, Albert Pearce, John Fitzgerald, George
DutTane. Chester p. Lewis, Owen Feeny Fred
hFOhne, and Chris. FabeT. The entries will close
uary n
John ". Cozard, noted professional short-dis-
lance runner, was killed recently by his hacker
IN Denver, Col. CoZard induced friend to back
him in an eighty-yard race TO the extent of 5000
ana at the same time entered into an agreement
with his opponent to lose. The race was sure for
CoZard, but he was beaten and before he returned
to his quarters was shot
The first of a series of three races between John
Keen, the champion bicycle rider of the world
and j. Edmunds, the Welsh champion. was run
recently at Cardiff, Wales. The distance was
twenty-five miles, Keen conceding Edmunds 12O
yards start. Betting was six to four on Keen, and
ne won easily, riding the distance in one hour
twenty-five minutes, and twenty-seven seconds.