Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-11
Out-ofDccr Sports
GAMMA PHI LIZ Aarl.rI

The Carroll Rife club. Of Westminster Nd,
will meet the Maryland Rife club Of baltimore,
and the Columbia Rife association of Washing
ton. in contest at the range OF the latter %
the 18th Instant
The ST. JoHN's CHURCH TOURNAMENT.
The festival for the benefit of II. Johns
church, AT Nancy Carroll place. Montgomery
county. Nd. closed Yesterday with tourna-
ment. in which Is knights participated. The
following knights won: George Kemp. first
prize; Ollie Clark. second prize: Frank Clark
third prize; Frank Shugrue. fourth prize. TIE
crowns We're bestowed 10y the successful knighfs
upon the following young ladies: Miss Berthe
Crandee queen; Miss Mary Stubs. first maid;
Miss Katie Boyle, second maid and Miss Nettio
AcAulifie, third maid.
SARATOGA RACES
Inc winners at Saratoga yesterday were A
IoilowS First race. one mile Mr. p c. Fox's
Maggie Aver: time. G4Sis. Second race a mi1o
and half, McGayock a Co.'S Boulevard: tine.
2;Ss1S. Third race a mile and a furlong Morris
Co s Fellowplay; time. l:56lS Fourth race,
threefourths of a mile won by DIVER Bros
Charley Gorham; time. INK. Rob Roy came
In nrst and was ahead all the time In the first
race. but 1T was given to Maggie Aver on -
count of a foul.
ROCHESTER, RACES
The following is summary of the events 6
Rochester yesterday: 2:23 class postponed from
yesterday -Edmund Thome. 2. :. T. 1. 1: Kate
Sprague, 4, l, 1. 4, 4. 3; T. b. Thomas. 1, g. "a
2. 2; Pilot B., 5, 4, S, 8, s. o: time 2201S, 2:IS
2sS1S. 2:2o. 2l9bs. 2:25. 2:2s class, purse IL 500,
divlded.Irogbadonr. l, /, l; Annie W., 3. 2. .;
Argonaut, 5, 8. 8; Forest Patchen. 4, 4. S; 81.
Reno. 6, 5. 4; Stellac, s. dis. time. 2:23 e:2lL,
22lh Pacing race-Little Brown jug, 1. 1. L:
Matte Hunter, 5. 2. ?; BAY Billy 2. 3. 4: Lucy.
4, A. Rowdy Boy, 3. 5. 5: time BIS 2:l5. 2: i6
Mr.. Vanderbilt and party will be- present Thurs
day TO witness the attempt ofMaud 5. 20 lower
the record.
ANOTHER GREAT RACE.
The very close race at Saratoga Tuesday BE-
tween the Kentucky thrce-year old Getaway
and the Virginia three-year old Eole. i'm which
the former won by short head. owing IL h
claimed, TO the superior riding of Getaways
Jockey, has led TO match race between those
horses for 81 500 side, which is to be run Fri
day, each horse to carry 40 pounds. Eole has
been purchased by Mr.. A. Hunter. New York
thurman, whose colors he will carry In the
match race. the distance of which will be oae
mile and five furlongs
BASE BALL YESTERDAY.
At Philadelphia H. Athletics 9: at
Worcester, Mass.-Troy 4, Worcester 8; at Bos-
ton-Bostons 9, Providence 5.
Stanley is accused of employing chained gangs
OF slaves In making road In Africa
Philadelphia drug clerk Numbered In COM
pounding dose for his own taking, and lost his
life thereby.
Dan Rice the clown, married a PENNSYLVANIA
deacon's daughter; but the union OF church and
circus was not happy, and the wife Is suing for
a divorce.
A Chicago boy and girl of Is and IA were
whipped by their parents a remedy for love-
sickness, but they defeated the cure by poison
ing themselves to death.
The newest reproach cast upon Cincinnati BY
Chicago is that the Ohio city uses half its water
supply i'm making beer and the other half In
Scalding the bristles of hogs.
Alven Palmer, of FenimoTe, Grant county,
Ill. died Sunday OF what the best physicians
Whereabouts say was genuine Asiatic cholera.
Mr.. Ira Brown, the well-known real estate
man OF Chicago, highly endorses st. Jacobs Oil.