Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
SPORTING.

+ E. F. To1MAN, of Worcester, Mass,
will ride sixty-two inch Rudge light
roadster, during the coming season.
ELLA Doe, the trotting mare, record
2:274, trotted a full mile on the ice at
Ticonderoga, N. Y, in the remarkable
time of 2:14.
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 SO, 900, $4,000 and
81, 900.
JAY-EYE-SEE was years old on the
29th. The occasion was celebrated by
the stable boys, and by Mr.. Cases fam
lily, the barn being decorated with
flowers.
RowEn1, Fitzgerald, Vint and Nore-
mac signed articles in the Turf, Field
and Farm, on the 26th, for the six-day
go.as-you-please match. Others prom
ised to enter.
Ar present it is conceded that Grand
Rapids has the strongest team in the
Northwestern League, says the Grand
Rapids Times. Peoria has a good club
and Milwaukee may be rated third.
A FOOT race at the New Orleans fair
1c IL, c% 1oo%u
Of Kansas, and johnson, of Pennsyl-
vania, 125 yards, for $500 a side, was
won by the former. Time 124 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 $3,025.
Twenty-one head sold for $21, ,225.
A NEW turf association was organized
in Kalamazoo on the 26th. 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 northwestern circuit.
The Farragut Boat Club, of Chicago,
will expend $25, 900 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 a 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.
Emslie and Trott, Henderson and Traf-
| fey are the batteries; Stearus, Manning,
and Hankinson, basemen; Macullar,
short stop; York, Clinton, aud Sommer,
fielders. Tommy York, late of the Cleve-
lands, is the captain and manager.
The Eau Claire Rifle Club state that
they were never beaten in 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
places the entlfe management ana pOl1cy
Of Yale's boating interests IN 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-
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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 eeat an audience
of 400. Carr is said to be the best play
or in the state, and the match promises
to be more exciting than the previous
games with Pleiss. liz. Il, 7z