Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13
SPORTING.

OVER $126, 600 has been hung up in
the grand trotting encuit this year.
COMMODORE K11soK paid $40, 900 for
Won Arnim and his year1ing daughter,
Sue Won, thrown in.
E. P. SAcKETr, Chicago, has pm-
chased for $500 the brown gelding
Brown Dick, 2:293.
OswE11 won the two-nile foot race at
Salt Like City, ON the 31st ult., in Ii
minutes, There we're nix starters. The
bicycle racs was won by VIM. Wood,
Walter Jennings, second.
PARIS has had big dog show. The
Duchess Eduzzes exhibited a pack of
forty hounds, attended by four Wallets in
full hunting costume. One hundred
and fifty prizes were given.
4 BUSINESS firm of Rochester, N. Y,
has offered prize of IS, 900 to represen-
tative of Edward Hanlan for single
scull race between Hanlan and Charles
4. Courtney, on conditions that Court
ney will give bond of $40, 600 that he
will row an honest race and to the best
of his ability.
A. B. SRAauE, the pedestrian, upon o
wager of $50, attempted to walk acIoss'
Brooklyn bridge in nine minutes on the
3Oth. Supt. Hartin had been notified,
| and he instructed the bridge police to
stop the walk. Sprague made two at
tempts to cross, Int Was stopped both
| times by the police.
IT is whispered that Charles E. Court
ney, of Union Springs: N. Y, is going
to do something wonderful on the water
this season. Courtney is having new
shell built, with oil the latest improve
menfs, and if he challenges the winner
] of the Ross and Hanlan race at Ogdens-
burg, N. Y, it would be no surprise:
SANDY FERausoN, the champion quot
pitcher of the world, writes from Illinois
that he will soon visit st. Lonis and
throw duoffs at a mark, allowing his
opponents to ttse a rifle, for money.
Ills friends say they believe he can
throw With as true an aim as an expert
riAe~ an can drive a bullet at twenty
yards from the mark
Ex-CoMM>.DoRE FRANKL1I OsaooD. N.
Y. Y. c., has sold to Mr.. E. S. Jaffray,
lN.Y.Y Y.C., thestcamyacht Stranger, pur-
chased by him recently at auction foE
the sum of $4,000. It will be remem-
bered that the Stranger was built fo1
tito late &c; rye A. Osgood and was sold
to close tire estate. The sum understood
to have been paid by Mr.. Jaffray for the
Stranger is $50, 600.
The Grand Steeple Chase for the Paris
handicap. $4,000 francs, and the Objet
dart, valued ut TO- 900 francs for four
year olds and upwards, distance about
> 5000 metres, about three miles and
three.quarters, was run on the 9th and
won BY Count Erdody's four-year.Old
brown ee|ding Too Good, Duke of Ham
ilton's Eau de Vie second, and Col. j,
Llovd's Don Patrick third. Twelve ran
leopold de Rotbschilds Thorntield tel
during the race:
LAWN TENNIS, Says the Harvard Dali.
Herald, derives it's name flom tn
French tenez, hold. as III striking th
! ball the racquet must be firmly Eeld
! The game originated in France in tn
18th century, and Louis X1., Henry Ii
, and Charles TX. were expert players
r M. Borre, WHO died in 1873. for man!
years superintendent of the tennis cOur
a at the Tuilleries, was considered thesbes
= player who ever lived. The oldes
a English tennis court was built early i,
the 10th century, in Hampton Cour
! Palace.
: The league of American wheelme1
q held a business meeting at New York OF
d the 2eth. The secretary and treasurer
report showed prosperous condition
|. affairs. During the past year l, 1876 ap
0 plications for membership have bee
made; 81 new clubs have been added t
K the roll, making total of 172: The To-
8 lowing officers were elected: A. y
@ Beckwitb, New York, president: W. q
g Miller, Columbus. O., vice president
/. Frederick jenkins, New York, CORE.
:, spending secretary; A. s. Hibbar6
= Milwaukee, recording secretary; w. I
= Gilman, Nashaa, N. H treasurer.
4 The following table shows the stand
8 ing of the league clubs at the close OF tn
games on the LIST inst: