Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-18
SPORTING EVENTS OF ALL KINDS.
News From the Track, the Diamond
and the Ring.

News From the Track, the Diamond
and the Ring.
MuldOon, the wrestler, has gone on
Southern tour.
Hosmer will begin training the Prince
ton College crew on Saturday.
The famous Hillsdale Crew of Michigan
are to reOrganiZs this season.
Manager Barker is tickled with the way
his aggregation defeated the Detroits.
Ross has ordered new Ruddock boat
which will be completed on next Tuesday
Dave Lynch has not yet replied to
Jimmy Weeden's challenge to fight for sat
isfaCt on.
Shaw, the pitcher of the Detroit I.ssguers
was baJted freely by the Baltimore AssocI
alton club.
The Allegheny reserve team play at
Portsmouth, OHIO, to-day, and at Columbus
tomorrow.
Daniel D. Driscoll, the professional oars
man, has been appointed policeman In
Lowell, Mass.
Myers, Waldran, Fredericks and Murray
of the Manhattan Athletic Club leave fo-
England on June 4.
d. A. Mcmillan threw a 20-pound stone
lO7 feet u inch in five trials, at San Fran
cisco, 3 rev days $50.
Manager Chapman, Of the Detroits, says
his club was umpired out OF the games
they pisyed in Baltimore.
Jack Bro oks, an old time English puGi.
list, who fought Jack Hicks, Duck Ingram,
Daniel Brooks and others, died recently.
Mary Scott, boxer, OF Fall River, NJ 4ss :,
has Issued challenge TO fight Daisy Daily
or any other female sr rrer in the country
Starkey, Secretary C the Board of Wa.cr
Commissioners in De,roit, is claimed to be
The oldest ball player living. He played in
1851.
Nick Lsyberger formerly of Pittsburgh,
is practicing with Hosmer in Boston. lay
berger is the champion halt-milas oarsman
in the country.
J. X. Keens,s Blue Grass, entered for the
CITY and Suburban Handicap to be run 10
London on April 23rd, has been with
drawn on account OF an injury.
Paddy Hughes, of Pueblo, Cal, isauother
heavy weight pugilisr who promises to as
toDish the sporting fraternity shortly by
defeating some alleged champion.
The Ohio Legislature recently added to
the statute book a clause making glove con
tests punishable with fine OF not more
thsn $3.50 or Imprisonment for three
months.
Hosmsr has received new shell aud is
practicng daily on the Acushnet river,
New Bedford, Mass. He has received no
reply to his challenge to row three miles for
Sl,CCO or more.
There are thirteen married men in the
Allegheny club. In the regular niue
Swartz vOOd, Taylor, Butler, Battin, Albert
Fox, Miller and Knowles are married. In
the reserves Peters, Mcdonald, Balsley,
! Lansing and Cross are married.
William Page Phillips, of the London
Athletic Club, who died a few days ago
wss famous amateur runner. He headed
the record for l20 yards and $50 yards al
one time. He was defeated by l. E. Meyers
in o quarter. mile race in 1881. He lived at
Woodbridge, London. The deceased was
% years of sge.
Considerable difficulty ishsd in shipping
scullss TO different parts of the country, IS
some railroad companies refuse to carry
them on account Of their fiimsy nature
Some charge sxorbitsnt prices for trans
portating them. Since the Cuban war boat
builders have been unable to get Spanish
cedar and are building SOULS from Mexican
cedar.
At the Newmarket Craven meeting the
race for the Craven stakes, for three year
oldS, wss won by Mr.. Foy's Scot Free by
three lengths; z Bird's Doncsster Cap,
second; Duke Of Hsmilton's Loeb RAMA,
third. There were ten starters, including
Lorillard's POnIisc. Betting az the start
was six to one a-ainst Scot Free and seven
to enc against Doncas,er Cup, two to one
against Loeb RAMA.
Conley, the scu Ter OF Portland, Maine
and his backsr. are diSgusted st what they
term the pusillanimous conduct Of Tsemer
and his bxcker, Eph Morris. Conley's
trainer says: when We frst challenged
Tsemer il was thought q race would be ar
ranged within q week, as rsemer had gone
so far IS TO challenge Hsnlsn just as he
had decided to go abroad. Ii is eviden,
that Teemsr is not snxious TO row Coniey,
.lse be would not ask for such ons-sidsd
sgreement. Coplsy hiss decided that his
adversary will not make match With him,
but be will leave the deposit at Boston To
bind a race between any sculler at present
in the country, not excepting Ross. He
will enter the professional regatt1 on the
81. Croix river, Calsis, Maine, on Jaly 2ith