Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-02
SPORTING.

"BIowER BROWN, the well known
long distance English pedestrian, died,
March 8, at Turnham Green, London,
Eng.
The Chicago Bicycle Club has made
arrangements for its annual tour. The
start, by rail, will be made from Chicago,
July IS. The wheeling tour begins at
Niagara Falls, and extends to Boston,
| Mass.
a WRESTLING match for $500 side
has been arranged between Ducan O..
Ross and Matsada Soralkichi, the Japan
ese. The wrestle to take place In
Cleveland, April Z; two bouts, catch as
catch-can, and japanese style, with q
toss for finish.
AT the Liverpool spring meeting on
the 2Sth, the grand national steeple-
chase handicap for 1000 guineas was
won by Fl. +. Boyd's 6year-old bay
| gelding Voluptuary; M. A. Makers g.
year-old bay mare Frigate second; Capt.
Fishers year. old Roquefort third.
There were fifteen starters.
The consolidation of the Maple Leafs
and Arctics, formerly the leading
amateur base ball clubs of Milwaukee.
under the name of the Cream City Pro-
fessionals, bids fair.to prove satisfactory
to the public. The Cream Citys are
managed by James F. Mckee and will
act as reserves to the regular Milwau-
| KEGS.
THE cricket team to be sent to England
from Philadelphia, May next, is as fol-
lows: T. e. Brewster, E. W. Clark,
Sutherland Law, John B. Thayer, ].
Allison Scott, David 2. Slower, William
Brockie, Jr., all of the University of
Pennsylvania and local clubs; j. NJ.
Fox, n. @. Lowrie, Hazen Brown, How
ard McNutt, Charles A. Newhall and
Robert S. Newhall, of TIE Young Amer
lea Club. One more player will be add
ed, making fourteen in all.
FRANK II. HART has telegraphed from
San Francisco that he has started for
New York, and Immediately upon arriv-
ing will go into training for the six days
go-as-you- please championship race,
which begins on April %, at Madison
| Square Garden. The entry list now in
cludes Rowell, Fitzgerald, NOremac,
Vint, Hart, Hazael, Howard, Smith,
Burreu, Herty, Wallace, of Chicago,
and an Indian from Michigan. Every
thing points to large field of starters
and an exciting contest.
PRESIDENT lvERsEN and Manager Nc
Kee have completed the selection
of uniforms for the Milwaukees and
Cream City Professionals. The Milwau-
KEGS will be attired III suits of electric
blue, trimmed with cream-colored fan
mel, and the steel-grey uniforms will
also be worn with cream-colored stock
ings and mixed caps. The reserves, or
Cream City Professionals, will also carry
| two uniforms, one of white flannel and
another of chocolate-colOred material.
Red stockings, belts and caps will be
worn with the former, and cream stock
ings, belts and caps with the latter.
A New YORK special to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer says: The agreements
| for the Ross-Courtney race have come
back from Union Springs, whittier they
were forwarded for Courtney's sigma
ture. He signed on Tuesday last.
James Pilkington signed as Ross attor-
ney on Thursday. Pilkinton and Nagle
agree to furnish a $4,000 purse, the
winner to get So, 900 and the loser $500,
Courtney and Ross agree to be on Pill
kinton and Nagle's Oak Point premises
on or before May "a, and stay there IN
til the race is rowed on the afternoon Of
the 30th, and to row ''fair, square
race" The race will be three miles
with turn.
THERE was a good attendance at the
clay pigeon shoot at Western Union
Junction on the 25th. In the 2O-shot,
fifteen yards rise, W. e. Roe, of Racine,
made "A; D. L. Bush, Racine, Il; E. j.
Darling, Milwaukee, 10; S. Meunier,
Milwaukee, II; E. Ludwig, Milwaukee,
IL; viii Dyer, Racine, 10; ". Thurston,
Milwaukee, 6; Geo. Roe, Racine, s. In
the 1O-shot, 18-yards rise, w. H. Roe
made z; s. Meunier, 10; D. L. Bush, s.;
Ludwig, of Milwaukee, 6; Earring, g.;
Geo. Roe, 6; P. Herrick, Racine, 5; W.
Thurston, z; G. E. Simpson, Milwau-
kee, 3; w. L. Stone, Milwaukee, 1. On
account of the high winds the shooting
Was done at short range.