Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-09
Sportinc Notes.

Sporting Notes.
The annual Henley regatta will be held
on the Thames this year, July 3 and A.
Handsome Professor Miller is coming
all the way from Sydney to have his face
disfigured by John Sullivan.
An effort is being made to get Ross and
| Courtney to row a race for a purse of
$1,000 when the new regatta course at
Oak Point, Long Island, is opened.
| Edwards. the champion Australian pc
destrian, has accepted the challenge of
/ Vaughan, the English champion, for a
six days match, and has put up forfeit
of $3.50.
1t is probable that Schaefer and SIosson
Will be matched to play tiye-nights' bill
/ lard contest, in Central Music Hall, Chi
cagO, upon the return of Schaefer from
abroad.
Its reported that Plunger Walton will
! go to England early in April, taking with
him the well-known jockey William Don
Ohue, to ride his flyers in some of the big
stake races.
1t is probable that Schaefer is on the
ocean, hOmeward bound, unless he has
delayed for a few days longer. He and
NlgnauX were to first give an exhibition
at Lille, France.
George Bubear, the English oarsman,
| and Wallace Ross, the New Brunswick
sculler, are practicing assiduously for
their match of March 10. Betting is five
to four in favor Of Bubear.
Oxford is already the fayorite over Cam
! bridge, and the supporters of the dark
! blues are confident they will win the
English University race of 1884. The
race viii be roWed on April ).
Joseph A. Byrnes, of kangaroo proclivi-
ties, is credited with having cleared LOO
feet in nine stand-forward jumps, and 81
feet inches in three standing jumps, in
Cobar, Australia, January Is.
Peter Mccoy, a fighter travelling with
Sullivan, threw bottle Of champagne in
in Clarence Whistler's face. The next
instant Mccoy was flying through the
air. After he landed Sullivan carried
HIM home.
Since Goldsmith Maid placed Mystic
Park in front with 2:14 in 1874, fifteen
tracks have surpassed that time. Ont
tracks 2:11 has been beaten; on seven
tracks, 2:12; on ten, 2:13; on fifteen, 2:14.
Rochester leads with Maud SIS 2:1OL.
VIM. La Chappelle, a Frenchman of
splendid physique, has announced his in
tention Of joining in the ROwell- Fitzger-
aid siX-days' race. There will be a big
field of starters. The Turf says there are
thousands of dollars ready to be wagered
that ROwell will be in to stay.
The widespread interest manifested in
the National Horse Show, last season, has
induced the association 10 increase the
prizes and repeat its annual exhibition,
at the Madison Square Garden. The show
will take place May 81 to 81, inclusive,
and the regular prizes have been increas-
ed to ST., 400.
The tight Of the Harvard faculty against
professionals taking part IN college sports
is likely to come to a speedy end. The
faculty have instructed the Standing Com
mittee on Athletics TO notify the Confer
ence on Intercollegiate Contests that they
desire further consideration for tho
purpose of coming to some understand
ing. The students believe that an ar
rangement satisfactory to them will be
made.
A note from a prominent yachtsman on
tho other side of the water gives the in
formation that Commodore j. G. Bennett
is having two or three steam launches
built by Williams & Robinson, Thames,
DittOn, Eng, and that one of them will
take part in the Nice regatta. The
launches were designed by Mr.. T. Beaver
Webb. The NamOuna, Commodore Ben
nett's large yacht, will shortly leave
Southampton for Nice.
Six horse shows are annually held in
France under the auspices of the Societe
Hippique, of which the Marquis de Nor
nay is President. Within ten years this
society has distributed in Bordeaux alone
$4,000. There was large attendance at
the recent exhibition, in which many Of
the horses shown were from the training
ca breaking schools at Bordeaux and
Rochefort. The prevailing type of car
riage horses contains a mixture of Arab
blood and a dash of the thoroughbred.
Many of them are used for coachers.
Mr.. r. J. Hancock, of Virginia, breeder
of the famous trio Eole, Eolist and EOlite,
does not believe in racing horses before
they are three years old. When he sold
Eole it was stipulated that he should not
run before he was three-year-old. Eolist
was only run three times as a tWO-year-
old, and Eolite he kept himself until he
was three years old. 1t is said that the
price lately paid by Gerhard for the
last named was $4,000. War Song has
now produced three sons, who have been
sold by Hancock for $25, 900 in the aggre-
gate, and this, too, as untried colts.
Thomas Chaplain, of Roslyn, L. l., the
famous yacht builder, in a letter to the
Sporting Times says: 81 have never known
such a demand for yachts of very light
draught and small displacement as there
is at present, and, despite the predictions
of those in favor Of heavy draught, enor-
nous sails and tons of lead, nearly all the
nonpariel sharpies ordered are wanted for
general coast cruising, and not especially
for use in shoal or smooth water. / am
now at work on five sharpe cabin yachts
to order, among which and next to the
largest is that of Mr.. 7. p. Bond, of Savan-
nah. She is AZ by II feet and 4 feet depth
of hold, has centrebOard, ROslyn yaWl rig,
and has a draught of IA inches"