Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-02
SPORTS AND SPORTING.
Gossip Gathered from the Field, Tur
and Ring


The Boston Bicycle Club will have a
ladies' night on Nov. 20, and on Thanks
giving day will take their final road run
for the season.
Arthur Hancock has gone to Australia,
where he will be backed against the best
men that can be found to walk any dis.
lance between 10 and 20 miles.
Advices from San Francisco state that
Herbert A. Slade and Clarence Whistler
are to fight for $500 and the gate receipts
London prize ring rules, in three or four
weeks from signing articles.
The Athletic Base Ball Club is going
to New Orleans this winter. They viii
play at all the prominent Southern cities
en- route. Southern managers should adj
dress at No. 139 North Eighth street,
Philadelphia. They open in New Orleans
Dec. IA.
George John Bonner, the champion
cricketer of Australia, recently in Eng
land with the Australian eleven, is 6 feet
6 inches high, and has now everything
be cOntended for, including the prize for
the 10O-yard champion runner of New
South Wales. He has thrown cricket
ball 1919 yards.
Latest advIces from Australia state that
Hanlan and Clifford will not row their
match before Feb. 7. The return match
with Beach, which it was stated was fixed
for the second Tuesday in May, has, ac-
cOrding to the Sydney newspapers of Aug.
., been declared off, Beach claiming that
! Hanlan agreed to row no races before the
match with him. Beach now challenges
/ the winner of the Cllfford-Hanlan match.
The fifth contest for the Ashley belt,
! typical of the siX-day go-as-yol-please
| championship (twelYe hours per day. of
| the world, will take place during the
/ week commanding Monday Nov OF
London; first prize, Sir j. d. Astley's
! championship challenge belt (value
| f1OO) and ESQ; second, go; third, f10;
| fourth, G6; fifth, "a; sixth, IS; 81 to ali
men not getting prize who travel 800
miles.
The following players, now in League
| clubs, took part in the professional cham
| piOnship campaign of 1874: Arson,
! O'ROurke, White, Eggler, Start, Sutton,
Force, Hines, Burdock and Manning.
! Those in American clubs this season who
! were in the championship campaign of
| 1874 are as follows: Matthews, York,
! Nelson, Gerhardt, Remsen, Battin, Full
mer, Farrar, Barnie, Mack, Snyder and
/ Bond.
! The COney Island Jockey Club has ar
ncunced the following dates for its meet
ings during 1885: June meeting-Thurs-
| day, June II; Saturday, IS; Tuesday, IS;
] Jul 10 RobuAudY9 US 4 uCSud13
| Thursday, %; Saturday, 81; Tuesday, 80,
and Wednesday, July 1. Autumn meet
! ing-Saturday, Aug. 80; Tuesday, Sept.
| /; Thursday, 3; Saturday, 3; Tuesday, 8;
Thursday, 10; Saturday, y; Tuesday, 10;
Thursday, II, and Saturday, 10.
William Gale, of Cardiff, England, who,
in 1881, walked 5000 quarter miles in g.
| coo consecutive periods of ten minutes
each, keeps modest little shopOn George
street, just west of Plum street, Cincin-
natl, Q. Aside from being a pedestrian,
| Gale is a frst-class artist and taXider-
mist, and does much of the work that dec
crates the walls and windows of the sa-
looms of Cincinnati. Gales speciality is
| making pictures of pugiIists and of stuff
ing dogs for exhibition.
The Exposition nine, composed of Sc
lected professionals, who are to play
during the Worlds Exposition at New
Orleans, now stands as follows: Emslie
ard MountjOy, pitchers; Miller and
Peoples, catchers; Coleman, LIST b.; Nc
Phee, I'd b.; Kelley, S.; Carpenter, Sd b. !:
PeltZ, /. f.; Jones, C. f.. Miller and Peoples
to alternate in right field. The following
dates are already arranged: Sunday,
Nov. 2 and Q, the Exposition nine with
Louisville; Dayton, 10Th and 23d 3Oth
and Dec. Z, with Ted Sullivan's St. Louis
team; 14th, DIST and 2Sth, Philadelphia.
The first Sunday in January has been left
open; the 18th, 18th and 10Th with BaIti-
more.