The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-05-19
TURF NaTEs.

TURF NOTES.
MAUD S. (2:10D weighs 995 pounds,
and is In excellent condition.
MONROE CHIEF (2184) and the old
gray PAGER Lucy (2:14) are now at New
York, to be shaped for the summer CAM
paign.
AT Suffolk Park, Philadelphia, last
week, Ike Schultz took the race IN the
2:40 class. Keno won the 2:23 class
race; time 2:26!, 2:26, 2:27, 2:274I, 2:284,
2:304,
A MARSHALL, Mich, dispatch says:
NJ. Y. Wagner has bought for $S, 900 the
stallion "Black Cloud" record 2:17I,
the fastest stallion time except Snug
gler's Gasp. He will be campaigned
this year.
In the first of the Fair Associations
races at Louisville recently, Joe
bunker won in the 2:19 class, III
2:22, 2:212, 2 2:224, 2:23. lothian won the
$50 class race; time in each of three
heats, 2:29l.
JOHNNY MURPHY, Robert Bonner's
driver, drove Packard a mile in 2:16t,
over the track of the Gentlemen's Driv-
ing Association, New York, on the Sth
inst. Mr.. Bonner S sporting friends had
assured him on several occasions that
Pickard was able to travel in at least
2:23, and on the date named Mr.. Bonner
told Johnny Murphy TO test him, with
the above result. Mr.. Bonner made
Murphy present of a handsome sum o.
money.
THE weather was wet and disagreta-
bic at Lexington, ky., on the 11th, and
there was small attendance in conse-
quence, In the mile race for a purse Of
Sl75, for all ages. Sadie McNairy was
first, Newsboy second, Greyhound third;
time, 1:571. In the Straus stakes, for
all ages, mile and sixteenth, Rufus l..
was first, Long Knight second, Renob
third; no time taken. In the selling
race for purse of $3.50, one mile and
quarter, Silvo was first, Lutestring Sec
ond, Bubbler third; time 2 20
AQUATIC
The sixth annual regatta of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Amateur Rowing Asso-
citation will be held at Pullman, H.,
July 9th and 2Sth. The aggregate
value OF the medals and prizes is over
81 600.
THE Halifax Rowing Association has
agreed to accept Hanlan and Lees
proposition for four mile race with
double sculls August 18th, with Homma
and Conley of Halifax, the place of the
race to be hereafter named. Amended
articles will be forwarded to the New
York Turf, Field and Farm, where $500
has already been placed by each crew.
BRTIsH yachtsmen are leveling covet-
Gus eyes at the queens cup, so long
held by America. Two large cutters
Just launched on the Clyde, were built,
1T Is SAID, for the purpose of crossing
t ne Atlantic to wrest the prize from
American yachtsmen. One Is COM
posite 7O-tOn cutter named the Mar
iorie. She is IS feet long and II feet 6
inches wide. The other is called the
Atlanta. She is 92 feet 8 inches long
and measures 125 tons. The Atlanta is
built of steel. The two cutters are
heavily ballasted with lead.
THE final arrangements for the boat
race between Hanlan and Kennedy we're
completed on the Sth inst. The first ar
| ticles of agreement were entered on De-
cember IA, 1882 when it was decided to
row seull race of three miles and one
turn for 81, 500 a side. One thousand
dollars was placed then with Hamilton
Busby and another 81, 600 was putup on
the Sth. The final deposit of $500 will
be made on May 25th. 1t has been
agreed to row on May 30th on Point of
| Pines, Revere Beach, Boston. If either
of the contestants become Ill, or is unable
to row according to the agreement of the
racf, he will lose his deposit
GENERAL NOTES.
The close of the horse VS.. bicvcIe
race in Boston was witnessed by 1000
people. The score stood: Horses 92I
miles; bicycles, 500.
A ROLLER SKATING race, three miles.
at the Michigan Avenue Rink, Chicago.
was won by Scott IN II IN. 49, g; Fos-
ter second, Hogarty third and Becker
! fourth.
IL the Giaco-R Roman wrestling at
Kansas City for $500 aside between
Cannon, the English champion, and
| Clarence Whistler, the match was de-
clared draw.
WM. CUMMINGS, of Paisley, Scotland,
and who has run one mile level faster
than any man living a min., IG 5 sec,
May IA, 1881, at Preston, England, will
shortly arrive III this country. He viii
run at st. Louis On July 4th.
FREMONT DAVIS, the colored club
swinger of Bellevue, Ohio, and cham
pion lightweight of America, had pri-
vate contest in Detroit recently. In
which he defeated F. Fieldings, of that
city, for gold medal George l.. De-
ball, of Toronto, Is now backing Davis
to swing with E. Crossman on the I4th
in Toronto, for $500 against diamond
medal.
THOMAS WALLACE, of Chicago, de-
feated Eugene Carter in an exciting
game, at the preliminary New York
cushioc-carom tournament Saturday.
Seventy-slx innings were played, aud
the score was: Wallace. 400: Carter,
$50. Wallace's average, 55-19; Carriers,
51-5. Wallaee's highest run was 50;
Carter's. 30.
The Milwaukee Rife Club had its first
shot of the season, at Shooting Park,
yesterday. The first shooting was
at ceniers," the scores made being:
Robert Rom, ID; Herman Meuuier, Is;
Stephen Meunler, II Christ Schmift, z;
Jos Guscbl, 6; August EneeI, ;: John
Meunier, 5; L.. ID. Greer, 2; George
Drought, 2; Conrad Stein, /; Adj Fien-
hold, l. The ." King target shoot fol-
lowed, ten shots being allowed with a
possible 80. The leading scores were:
Robert Rom, zoe; H. Meunier, 1879;
/ Stephen Meunier, 1879. Tne next was
the Union target, with three shotF,
giving possible IS. The best scores
/ were made by Stephen Meunier. 66, and
John Meunier, 60