Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
Sporting Notes.

"Jeln' GOOde mas accepted Sheriff the
Prussian's challenge to box for $1,000.
Col. j. II. Mclaughlin and Duncan c..
Ross are matched to NRestle mixed styles,
for $1,000 a side and the championship.
Walter c. Camp, athletic supervisor at
Yale College, says Yale has already
arranged games with professional clubs,
and will play with whom it pleases.
Cleveland sporting men are iubilant
over Mervine Thompson, the last pugilistic
sensation, and they boast in and out of
doors that he will knock out Sullivan.
Tom Mccormack, the Pacific Slope
boxer, with Terry Pagan and Dave Con-
don, went on a hurrah at Chinatown, and
his companions knocked him out, winning
his watch and chain and 81, 200 in gold.
Duncan c. Ross has deposited a hun
dred dollars forfeit in the Ohio National
Bank at Cleveland to match Mervine
Thompson against Sheriff, the Prussian,
or Paddy Ryan, to box with gloves, to a
finish.
The second annual exhibition of the
National Horse Show Association Of
America will be held at Madison Square
Garden, May 27-31, and entries will close
May 1. The prize list amounts TO nearly
$4,000.
Prof. VIM. Miller won the match with
NJ. Victor, whom he undertook to throw
five times within an hour at the Theatre
Royal, Sydney, Australia, by throwing
Victor five time in succession in about
forty minutes.
Joe Denning, the heavy weight pugilist
of Brooklyn, who was at one time the
champion amateur, has accepted Charles
MitchelPs challenge to spar him four
rounds. If Mitchell does not get the best
OF him Denning will receive 500.
The chief topic in racing circles
continues to be the result of the Chinn ~
Morgan sale in Kentucky, on the 9th
ult., when some twenty odd head of horses
in training, -year-Olds, and yearlings,
realized the superb average of 1,010.
Daniel O'Leary and Henry Schmehl
have been matched to walk in April next
for purse of $500 and gate receipts. The
race will take place in Chicago, when
O'Leary, in order to win the money, will
have to cover 275 miles before Schmehl
covers $50.
All the stakes, $3.50, in the glove contest
between Jimmy Mitchell and Jack keenan,
have been posted. The fight will be de-
cided within 100 miles Of Philadelphia on
the 10Th. Sheriff has been training Nit
chell, while Joe Gatfney has been looking
after Keenan,.
A letter from Edward Payson Weston
TO the I7l.C, FIetd u,t1 Fdrns, Gays that
he has been offered numerous engage
ments, but has accepted none. He may
return to New York, but will never be-
come a competitor in another six-day
race. He will simply give exhibitions
and lecture.
On March 10 Sullivan and the combina-
ton left for Los Angeles. He will then
go to Arizona. New Mexico, and work
through to Montana, where Pete Mccoy
has arranged for hard glove fight with
Mcdonald, the champion Of Montana, on
the 18th of April. Sullivan and his COM
binatiOn have cleared about SIS, 200 since
their arrival on the Coast.
HAL H. Stoddard, the noted pugilist,
who recently fought draw with Capt.
Jas. G. DAILY, authorizes the statement that
he is ready, willing and eager to find a
pugilist who can ''stop' him in four three
minute rounds. StOddard is anxious to
box the Cleveland wonder, Mervine
Thompson, Joe Pendergast or any of the
middle or heavy weights.
AL. Hamm has left the Halifax Rowing
Association, which recently accepted, on
behalf of Hamm, John Teemer's challenge
to row a fve-mile race. Hamm now says
that any engagements made by the Hall
fax organization must be considered Off
He is willing to row Teemer or any other
sculler a three-mile race with turn for
9OuU OF upward. James heendD, OF %
Kneeland street, Boston, Mass, is Hamm's
hacker.
1t is reported that Jay-Eye-See and
Phallas will leave the bleak Wisconsin
winds behind them the latter part of this
month, and take their early spring work
at the Louisville, KY, Fair Grounds,
where Bronze and Lillian are already
quartered. If these great sons of Dicta-
tor take on their form of last season, Mr..
Case will have a merry and profitable
time fit fitting about the country from
spring until fall.
The rumOred retirement of George L.
LOrillard from the turf in consequence of
i'll health is denied by that gentleman. In
a telegram from st. Augustine, Fla,
where he is now staying, he says: 81
have no intention of Withdrawing from
the turf. Have offered Westbrook for
sale without race horses" Mr.. Lorillard
has owned and raced some of the best
horses on the American turf, such as
Duke of Magenta, Tom Ochiltree, Grena-
da, Sensation, Ferida, Danger, Harold,
Monitor, Lou Lanler, Louisette, Reveller,
and many of the most notable turf events
have been won by the orange and blue of
the Westbrook stables. No man in
America would be more missed than
Mr.. George L. Lorillard His place and
stables at Isip, Long Island, are valued
at 100000.