Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-31
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PHILADELPHIA is to send an amateur
cricket eleven to England, $40, 900 hav-
ing already been subscribed.
THE Maple Leafs claim the champion
ship Of Wisconsin, having won twenty of
the twenty three games played.
ALFRED Nixon, champion of the Lon
don Tricycle. Club, has just accomplished
a ride of $50 miles in 8 days, % hours.
RUDOLPH, the French billiard player,
has just issued challenge to any one in
America to play him balk line game of
billiards for 5000 francs.
ELLIOTT, the English sculler, intends
returning to his native land. He has
sent over a challenge to row any North
country man on the Tyne for as much
as 81, 900 side.
The race between the sloop yacht
Oracle and cutter Bedouip, off Sandy
Hook, on the 10th inst, was won by the
cutter. The weather was stormy and
the start was made in perfect gale of
wind.
THE advertised race of Jay-Eye See
to best his own record, at Chicago on
the 18th, did not come off, owing to tho
prevailing rainstorm. Thousands OF
people who had come from abroad to
witness the race went home disappointed.
W. L. Scorr's famous Algerian stud
of eight horses raced at Erie, on the
18th, for the benefit of the Erie Charity
Organization Society. In tho running
race, three-fourths of mile, Fishner, a
yearlipg made heat in 1881, and Lu-
cretia three-fourths of a mile in 1:21.
There was large attendance.
BReurHrRs, of Buffalo, leads the
league batsmen; Mccormick, of Cleve-
land, is first in the pitchers record;
Bennett, of Detroit, leads the catchers;
Morrill,, of Boston, Farrell, of Provi-
dence, and Denny, of Providence, lead
the basemen; Glassock, of Cleveland,
leads the short stops; Horning, Of Bos-
ton, has the highest average among the
felders.
THE highest price paid for three year.
ling colts, &18, 900, was given by Morris &
Patton, of St. Louis, to F. B Harper,
of Woodford County, Ky., for Bersau,
bay, by Tenbroeck, dam Sallie M, by
Longfellow; Freeman. bay, by Ten
brock, dam Belle Knight, by Knight
hood; and Tenstone, brown, by Ten
brock, dam Lizzie Stone, by Enquirer,
They are said to be the finest colts ever
seen by their seller and sold with all
their engagements.
CAPT. A. 81. BoaARDUs will publish a
letter to DR.. W. F. Carver, now in Chi
cago, stating that as both hold cups EN-
blematic of the championship of the
world at wing shooting, he proposes that
they put up both cups and shoot three
matches to decide the matter at 100
birds, 81 yards rise: one at fifty PAGES,
American rules, and one at 100 birds,
London Gun Club rules, 80 yards rise,
for $3.50 to $500 side each, or he will
shoot q single match for 81, 600 side
| and the championship, English rules, OF
for 81, 600 to 900 q side, Birmingham
rules, either of these propositions to bt
| accepted within one month, q forfeit o.
$3.50 to be deposited.
NJ. MAMoN, the champion wrestler o1
France, has arrived in New York. Manor
has defeated all the wrestlers of England
and France, and has COW come to Amer
lea to try to win fame and fortune by
competing with the champions Of this
country. Mamon says that he is pre-
pared to wrestle Edwin Bibby, or any
wrestler in this country, from Maine tt
Oregon, and has issued q challenge te
Bibby for from $3.50 to $500 side
Mamon stands s feet 8 inches in height,
and weighs 1876 pounds. He measures
48 inches across the chest, and is per
feet Hercules in form and strength, ani
an Achilles in scientific wrestling. L
Bibby agrees to meet Mamon, there vii
be very interesting match.