The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16
SPORTING.

OVER S125, 900 has been hung up in
the grand trotting circuit this year.
CoMMoDoRE ktrTsoN paid $40, 900 for
Won Arnim and his yearling daughter,
Sue Won, thrown in.
e. p. SAoKETT, Chicago, has pur-
chased for S2,500 the brown gelding
Brown Dick, 2:294.
OswEnL won the two mile foot race at
Salt Lake City, on the 3tst ult., in 13
minutes. There were six starters. The
bicycle race was won by VIM. Wood,
Walter Jennings, second.
PARIS has had big dog show. The
Duchess Eduzzes exhibited a pack OF
forty bounds, attended by four Wallets IN
full hunting costume. One hundred
and fifty prizes were given.
A BUSINESS firm of Rochester, n. Y,
has offered prize of 50, 600 TO represen-
tative of Edward Hanlan for single
scull race between Hanlan and Charles
e. Courtney, on condition that Court
ney will give bond Of SO, 900 that he
will row an honest race and to the best
of his ability.
A. b. SRAGUE, the pedestrian, upon a
wager of $50, attempted to walk across
Brooklyn bridge in niue minutes on the
Both. Supt. Hartin had been notified,
and he instructed the bridge police to
stop the walk. Sprague made two at
tempts to cross, but was stopped both
times by the police.
IT is whispered that Charles L. Court
ney, of Union Springs. N. Y, is going
| tn do OF fnl hn
| this season. Courtney is having a new
| shell built, with all the latest improve
| melits, and if he challenges the winner
of the Ross and Hanlan race at Ogdens-
burg, n. T., 1t wottld be 30 surprise.
SANDY FERGUSON, tine champion quot
| pitcher Of the world; writes from Illinois
| that he will soon visit ST. Louis and
| throw quoits at mark, allowing his
| opponents to use a rife, for money.
| His friends say they believe he can
throw with as true an airn as an expert
| rif1eman can drive a bullet at twenty
yards from the mark.
Ex-CoMMoDoRE FRANKLIN OsGooD, n.
Y. Y. c., has sold to Mr.. E. S. Jaffray,
| n. Y. Y. c., the hesteamyacht Stranger, pur-
chased by him recently at auction for
the sum of $4,000. 1t will be remem-
bered that the Stranger was built for
the late George A. Osgood and was sold
to close the estate The sum understood
to have been paid 10y Mr.. Jaffray for the
Stranger is 100000.
THE Grand Steeple Chase for the Paris
handicap, 80, 600 francs, and the Obiet
dart, valued at 1000 francs for four
year -olds and upwards, distance about
5000 metres, about tbree miles and
three-quarters, was run on the 27th and
won by Count Erd0dy's four=year-
brown gelding Too Good, Duke of Ham
ilton's Eau de Vie second, and Col j.
Lloyd's Don Patrick third Twelve ran.
Leopold de Rothschild's Thorufield fell
during the race.
LAWN TENNIS, says the Harvard Daily
Herald, derives It's name ftom Tie
French tenez, hold, as in striking the
bail the racquet must be firmly held.
The game originated in France in the
18th century, and Louis XII, Henry H.
and Charles TX. were expert players
M. Bore, who died in 1878. for many
years superintendent of the tennis coart
at the Tuilleries, was considered the best
player who ever lived. The Oldest
English tennis court was built early in
the 18th century, in Hampton Court
Palace.
THE league of American wheelmen
held business meeting at New York on
the 28th, The secretary aud tteasurer's
report showed a prosperous condition of
affairs. During the past YER 1,135 APP
plications for membership have been
made; 80 new clubs have been added to
the roll, making total of 172. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: A. n.
Beckwitb, New York, president: ". H.
Miller, Columbus. o., vice president;
Frederick jenkins, New York, cores
spending secretary; A. S. Hibbard,
Milwaukee, recording secretary; W. B.
Gilman, Nashua, N. h treasurer.
The following table shows the stand
ing of the league clubs at the close of the
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