Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-28
Athletic and Aquatic.

James T. Tivey, the champion anna
teur hurdle runner, beat his own record
at 100 yards recently by ! of a second.
Tivey ran the distance in lag seconds.
John Brooks and John Warde are
to fight according to the Marquis of
Queensbury rules, for the championship
of Wisconsin, about August s, at Mil
waukee.
Capt. Webb and Dennis.F. Butler, of
Philadelphia the latter relative OF
Mike Donavan, the boxer,l, are an
nounced to swim two miles at Atlantic
City, n. j., about July 30.
The captain of the Canadian yatcht
Atlantic says that before returning
across the st. Lawrence River he would
| like to sail race with any-IAmerican
yacht of the class of his own.
Members of the Westchester Polo
| Club opened the session of Newport, X.
l., July Is, when w. X. Shorn, jr., +.
| o. Beach, and Thomas Hitchcock won
eight games to one for Carroll Bryce
and H. G. Lorillard.
Warren Smith, of Halifax, \. s., has
been doing all his rowing on the quiet
this season, and is apparently in coed
condition. He speaks hopefully OF be-
ing able to accommodate Elliott, the
English Oarsman, before the season
closes.
| Upon the day Hanlan issued his chal-
| lenge to row any five men in the world,
| forty-eight hours apart, he was just
twenty-seven years old. Instances are
rare of q man attaining at so early an
age the leading place in his chosen line
of life.
Among other members Of the fancy
who travelled far and wide to be present
at the Sullivan Wilson setto were the
sexagenarian John Rooney, of the
Rams Head; p. II. Morgan, the canine
king of the Morgan House, and Daniel
| Toumy, a protege of Rooney, and good
a hand at fisticuffs as is to be found on
the beautiful isle of the sea" for a
young 'un.
The wrestling and clinching that
were INDUCED in at the Sullivan Will
| son fight were against the rules of the
Marquis of Queensburry, as well as the
hits Sullivan gave the Englishman be-
| fore he could get on his feet. But no
| fouls were claimed and the referee did
not order him to break when Will
| son put his arm around Sullivan sever
al times to prevent his getting in a blow
at full distance. They all seem satisfied
with the amount Of money taken in.
AT the sculler's race between Lay
cock and Boyd on the river Tees, in
England, fully $4,000 persons were esti-
mated to have been present. The
shores were lined along the whole
course, and eight or ten steamboat
\ yachts took the middle of the river.
Places ON some of the boats were taken
at 81 apiece. The betting was in Boyd's
favor before the race, and he was sad
ly disappointed man before the close,
for in the first mile it became evident
he was defeated. A collection was
made on board the referees boat for the
4 loser.
E. c. Layeock was announced to
leave England for Australia on July Is.
| William Spencer, representing Wallace
Ross, endeavored to get on q match be-
tween the latter and the Australian but
Layeoek refused to make q match to
row in England, although willing to
have ''a gon with Ross at the Antipodes.
In letter he says: GAS have to row
there about the end of September for q
prize Of ESQ, it would not pay me to
stop even were Ross and his hackers to
make mea present of goo. In con-
clusion, / beg to state that, if Ross likes
to pay Australia visit, 1t will afford