Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-20

PsuI Hines has at last signed to play AZ
Providence next season.
The contemplated trip OF the Cnicssv
e,nb To California has been abandoned.
1be seulI race between Elliott and kiley
tor Si 0CO was also postponed on accounts Oh
the roughness Of the water.
Tho tbree-year-old FLY Dutch oven,
uinner of the English st. Leger, mas nO 20
duripe her turf career, the sum OF $oo,Soo'
OF the tbirty-three errors which Burdock
nsds dnr;ne the championship season OF
1882. twelve were made In the oos'on'
games. ,n.
GINS wilson's ]. P. Morris and o. A. Hic-
kok,s Oyermsn trot next Wednesday, al the
Gentlemen's Driving Park, New YORK ior
s., 500 side.
A. A. Swan, of New York, has bougns
for $40, 600 the trotting horse Maxey C0oo,
which showed private trial Of 2:2s1s. Ihe
horse was sired by Happy Medium, dam
by Jupiter, and has record OF 2:3o.
The ]. A. Hoffman medal and colors are
still in dispute 1t is not yet known
whether the Kelly's or the Allegheny stars
will be awarded the prizes.
Ten rifles have been ordered for the Anne
rican team for the next international mill
tary match, in case the American rines
are not as good as required. Modihcaaons
in the present terms Of the match Will also
be asked.
The PLAYERS who have actually signed to
play in the Boston team next season are
Whitney, Morrill,, Burdock, Sutton, Wise,
Hornung, Burlington, Dickerson. Two
catchers and right.fielder will prooaoiy
sign in few days.
Matte Graham, owned by ]. IL. Batche-
lor, has trotted twenty-six race this season,
and never lost an entrance. since ne mas
owned her, he states, he has trotted her IN
lOl races, and got piece of the money In
100 of them.
The pedestrian Rowell is training in New
York, under John Hennessey and Charles
Barnes.ey; Hazael is being handled by
Charles Vaughan, the English walker;
James Smith attends to Fitzgerald; Henry
MCGEE looks after Vint; George Beatie
grooms George Noremac; c. X, Davis
coaches Daniel Herty; Hughes takes care
of himself. All these are in Brooklyn.
Hart is being cared for by Happy JACK
Smith.
The last of the great races in England
will be run as follows: Criterion stakes
(six furlongs), Monday, October %; Cam
bridgesbire lone mile and 240 yardsh Tues
day, October %; Dewhurst plate (seven
furlougs) Wednesday, October %; Liver
November 8; Lancashire handicap Zone
mile) Friday, November 10; Derby cup
lone mile), Tuesday November IA; Great
Shropshire handicap Zone mile( THURSDAY,
November 16.
At Vienna, last month DR.. Carver's Amer.
lean Stallion Cupid trotted $500 metres
(69 feet less than two miles and q quarter),
in 5:35H. On the second day OF the meet
ing Cupid trotted a mile heat in 2:4H.
and a second heat in 2:25. The fastest mile
trotted in Austria previous to this per.
Torrance was in 2:29, and the lowering OF
the record caused great enthusiasm among
the Viennese. Cupid is small brown
stallion about 10 hands, and said to be by
King Herod. He was purchased through
the offices of Herr Siberer, by Count Des-
seroffy, a Hungarian nobleman, who has
an extensive stock farm, and will be used
for breeding purposes. The price paid was
1900 forms, about 81, 0O0.-Boston Herald.
A number of prominent oarsmen met
yesterday morning in the shop OF bill,
oliver, at Harlem, to witness the laying Oh
the keel OF new shell boat for the cham
pion rover of the world, Edward Hanlan.
On Sunday last Hanlan, while rowing on
the Harlem, asked il there was any builder
that understood the fitting Of Claspers pat
ent "fin," device for the steadying OF the
boat in windy winter. The person whom
he asked replied: "Oh, yes; Bill oliver
used to be Clasper's right hand man."
Hanlan forthwith made the acquaintance
of oliver, to whom he stated just what he
wanted, adding: "You can take your own
time about the building of her: Iwon'tneed
her before the spring." The boat ordered
by Hanlan will be OF Spanish cedar, 81 feet
inches long, IL inches wide, and will
weigh when finished twenty-eight pounds,
row locks included. She will be fitted with
three water-tight compartments, the bulk
heads being at either end of the cockpit,
SO that in case the boat should ship sea
the water would remain in the cockpit,
the strongest part of the boat, as well as
being the most convenient place in the
boat for weight.cariying. The patent "fn"
is an arrangement similar to the center
board of sailing vessel. 1t is OF steel, one
thirty-second of an inch in thickness,
twelve inches in length and three inches
deep. 1t is placed about four inches from
the stern-post in a water-tight brass well
and is fitted with notches and can be low
cred or raised at will according to the state
of the weather. This boat when finished,
will be the first ever built in America fitted
with the "tinn