The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-11-03
SPOHTING.

FRANK, an almost unknown trotter,
covered a mile in oil at New York on
the 18th.
PHILADELPHIA is to send an amateur
cricket eleven to England, $40, 900 hay
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 750 miles in days, % hours.
RUDOLPH, the French billiard player.
has just issued a challenge to any one in
America to play him balk line game of
billiards for 5000 francs.
ELLIOTT, the English sculIer, intends
returning TO his native land He has
sent over q challenge to row any North
country man on the Tyne for as much
as 81 900 a 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 beat his own record, at Chicago on
the 18Th, did not come Off owing to the
prevailing rainstorm. Thousands of
people who had come from abroad to
wltnt IS the race went home disappointed.
". L. ScoTr's famous Algerian stud
of eight horses raced at Erie, on the
18th, for the benefit OF the Erie Charity
Organization Society. In the running
race, three-fourths of mile, Fishner, a
yearlipg made a heat IN :3s5, and Lu-
cretia three-iourths of a mile in 1:21.
There was large attendance.
BRoUTHFRs, of Buffalo, leads the
league batsnen; Mccormick, of Cleve-
land, is first in the pitchers record;
Bennett, of Detroit, leads the catchers;
Morrill,, of Boston, Farrell, of Provi-
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 bv Morris &
Patton, of st. Louis, to f. b Harper,
cf Woodford County, KY, for Bersau,
bay, by TenbrOeck, dam Sallie NJ, 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. Fl. BoGARDUs viii publish a
letter to DIR. W. T. 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, q yards rise: one at fifty PAGES,
American rules, and one at 100 birds,
London Gun Club rules, 30 yards rise,
for $3.50 70 $500 a side each, or he will
shoot single match for $1,000 a side
and the championship, English rules, or
for 81, 900 to So, 900 side, Birmingham
rules, either of these propositions to be
accepted within one month, forfeit of
$3.50 to be deposited.
NJ. MAMoN, the champion wrestler of
France, has arrived in New York. Mamon
has defeated all the wrestlers of England
aud France, and has now 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 to
Oregon, and has issued challenge to
Bibby for from $3.50 to $500 a side.
Mamon stands feet inches in height,
and weighs 195 pounds. He measures
IS inches across the chest, and is a per-
feet Hercules in form aud strength, and
an Achilles IN scientific wrestling. If
Bibby agrees to meet Mamon, there will
be a very interesting match.