Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-03
LAND AND WATER SPORTS.
A BRILLIANT SEASON IN THE
DIAMOND.

n bhlLhlANI SEASON In HE
DIAMOND.
A Tax on English Huntsmen-westOn's
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the Prominent
Races-The Aquatic Lord of the Sea-
sOn-The Race on the Schuylkill.
The coming season will undoubtedly
be the most interesting in base ball cir
cles that the admirers of the game have
ever known.
There win be six leading professional
base ball associations in the field, five of
which will work III harmony, and will
probably do their utmost to crowd the
sixth out of the arena. The best players
of the country are engaged and in Drac-
tice, and the season Is expected to open
early and stay late.
The Oxford Cambridge eight-oared race
on the Thames river, London, Eng, will
take place April 5.
The spring meeting of the National
Jockey Club will be held at the Ivy City
Track, Washington, May 10, IA, Is, and
IS.
COlumbia's challenge to Harvard Col
lege to row a four-mile straight-away
elght-oared shell race, with cOXswain,
will be accepted.
The tenth congress of the National
Trotting Association will be held at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York city, on
wednesday, 18th inst.
Mr.. Pierce L. Jarvis, representing
BARLEY Campbell's White Slave Com
pany, is in the city arranging for its APP
pearance here on the Sth and 9th instants.
Toronto curriers' rightfully claim the
ohn nil chin Of IN q m Otb
their annual bOnspiel, Jan. %, East
against West, III Kinks entered, and 80
actually competed.
The next race for the Childs cup will be
rowed between Princeton, Pennsylvania
and Cornell, June %, on the SchuylkilI at
Philadelphia, Cornell University COM
peting in the place Of Columbia, with
drawn.
On January Is, at the Pembroke Place
Rink, Liverpool, England, where he had ar
ranged to stop a week, Edward Payson
Weston completed his 2,500th mile-the
first half Of the gigantic task he has set
himself.
A Mrs. Ludlow is reported to have
walked from Los Angeles, Cal, to Tomb
stone A. t., in 81 days, on wager of
$4,000. The story was probably started in
California, where pedestrianism is just
now suffering a relapse.
The license business seems to have
taken root all over the world. In England
a movement has been set on foot to re-
quire men who hunt to take out license.
The argument used is that license would
make the hunting fields more select.
The preparations for the Rowell- Fitz-
gerald race at Madison Square Garden the
week commencing Monday, Feb. Is, are
going forward, and the indications are
that the starting field will be composed of
the best material, A number of men are
in training for it.
The Maryland Jockey Club has five
stakes open to close March 1. They are
| the RancOcas Handicap, the Vernal
Sweepstakes, the PeytOna Handicap, the
Baltimore Cup and the Clabaugh Memo
rial Stakes. The spring meeting will take
place May 30, 81, % and %, and these
events Will be run at it.
Skating ability seems to be hereditary.
Twenty years ago Tim DonOhue, of New
burg, n. Y. was the acknowledged cham
piOn of America. Last week his two
sons, 8 years and u years, competed in
! the boys race at Washington park,
| Brooklyn, and the elder won second prize,
! beaten only by a lad three years his senior
Miss Madden closed her engagement
| in Savannah last night, before fair Satur.
/ day night audience. In "A Puritan
/ Maid" she is afforded a better OppOrtu.
! nifty for the display of her natural talent
| than in 'FrOu-Frou." The play is with
| out question the best in which she has
! ever appeared, and as "Nadge," the
merry, piquant maiden whom the acct
dent of birth placed in the heart of puri.
tanical New England family, she displays
| a wonderful ability. At the matinee per.
| formance "Frou- FrOu" was repeated from
Friday night, instead of GA Professional
Beauty"
From recent English exchanges we
! learn that old Joe Spencer, the first man
to challenge Edward Payson Weston after
his arrival in England, and who walked
1926 miles in twenty-nine days in the
Royal CremOrne Gardens, and also "A
miles laps at the Agricultural Hall in
thirteen hours and half will now take
| 1000 to 100 that he will walk more miles
than Weston contemplates of his 5,00(
miles in the same time, to be walked at the
following places: London, 1900; Biz
mingham, 1000; Manchester, 1.000 Lei
cester, 500; Northampton, 500; Brighton
! 500.
The attractions at the theatre during
| the present month are unQuestiOnably
the strongest of the season. The book
| ing for the rest of the month
| beginning with this week, il
|
in ''Friend and Foe" Sth and 9th; Bart
ley Campbell's ''White Slave" 18th Fanny
Davenport in Fedora" 14th; "Lights
! o. London" one week, beginning 18th
Baker and Farrow in ga Government
! House" and ''Chris and Lena" 25th anC
! 26th. With these we'll known attractions
/ Savannah theatre gOers should give Man
ager johnson an ovation.
The McKeespOrt sculler appears to bt
the aquatic huckleberry of 1884, as all the
challenges of the new year have been di
rected in that quarter. First p. FL. Con
ley threw down the gauntlet to the pro
tege of Eph Morris, and now it is Alder
Hamm. of Halifax, COnleY's old partner
in double SOULS, who seeks a match will
the Pennsylvania OaTsman. Conley, az
repeatedly stated, is no longer under the
guidance of the Halifax Rowing Associa
ton, but from a challenge which was re
ceived as an Enclosure to private lettel
from the Secretary Of the H. r. A, i
would seen that Hamm is still controlled
by that organization.