The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-03-15
SPORTING.

+. T. ToLMAN, of Worcester. Mass.
viii ride sixty-two inch Rudge light
roadster, during the coming season.
ELLA Doe, the trotting mare, record
2:271, trotted full mile on the ice at
Ticonderoga. n. Y, in the remarkable
time of PA.
SEXTON and Carter have signed
articles to play match game of cushion
| carom billiards for 81, 900 side in St.
Louis about the latter part of March.
GEORGE NASH, the youngest member
of the Springfield Bicycle Club, recently
rode on one wheel entirely around the
Hampden Park track, distance of one
mile.
IT is proposed to hold a grand inter
national billiard tournament IN Paris,
next month, for the championship Of the
world, and prizes of $1,000, $4,000 and
81, ZOO.
JAY-EYE-SEE was years old on the
18th. The occasion was celebrated by
the stable boys, and by Mr.. Cases fam
lily, the barn being decorated with
flowers.
RowELL, Fitzgerald, Vint and More
mac signed articles in the Turf, Field
and Farm, on the 26th, for the six-day
'as-you-please match. Others prom
lsed to enter.
AT present it is conceded that Grand
Rapids has the strongest team in the
Northwestern League, says the Grand
Rapids Times. Peoria has q good club
and Milwaukee may De rated third.
A FOOT race at the New Orleans fair
grounds on the 21st between KittIeman,
of Kansas, and Johnson, of Pennsyl-
vanla, 125 yards, for 2, 800 a side. was
won by the former. Time 12I seconds.
CHM & MoRGAN's great sale of
thoroughbreds at Lexington on the 9th
attracted large number of eastern and
western horsemen, and the prices OBJ
tanned ranged from $500 to 50. OPS.
Iwenty-one head sold tor S21, ,225.
A NEW turf association was organized
IN kalamazoo on the och. The asso-
citation has secured National Park for
one year, and will offer $1,000 at the
June meeting, which occurs June 10 to
IA, being in the northw estern circuit.
The Farragut Boat Club, of Chicago,
will expend s25, COO for lot and build
ing for the use of the association. Their
present quarters are leased, and it is
the desire of the club to own their own
property and erect suitable structure
for boat-house.
The Yale College Bicycle Club will
hold race meeting in June, and enter
the League of American Wheelmen, in
order that the records be accepted as
valid. Hendee, the champion will enter
the races and try to lower the records in
every distance up to ten miles.
THE Baltimore team is complete
Emshe and Trott, Henderson and Traf-
fey are the batteries; Stearrs, Manning,
and Hankinson, basemen; Macullar,
short stop; York. Clinton, and Sommer,
tielders. Tommy York, late of the Cleve-
lands, is the captain and manager.
The Eau Claire Rife Club state that
they were never beaten in a rifle contest
and do not propose to relax their grip.
Their memory is wonderfully indistinct,
as the Milwaukee Rifle Club defeated |
them at the Ft. Smelling tournament last
fall, in the championship match at 200
yards.
THE Yale oarsmen have adopted an
amendment to their constitution which |
piacA the entire management and policy |
Of Yale's boating interests III the hands |
Of the executive committee, consisting |
Of one graduate, a coach and captain. |
The entire internal business manage |
ment remains with the president as be- |
fore.
JOHN CALLAHAN, of Milwaukee, has re-
ceived challenge from Eugene Carr,
an Oshkosh billiardist. to play match |
game of French caroms. The arrange |
ments for the contest are nearly COM
pleted, and good-sized hall will be en-
gagged, as Mr.. Callahan's billiard hall is
hardly large enough to seat an audience
Of 400. Carr is said to be the best play
er IN the state, and the match promises
to be more exciting than the previous
games with Fieiss.