Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-03-20
SPORTING.

ALBERT HAMM has accepted George
b. Hosmer's challenge to row race for
$500 or upwards side.
The Cleveland wheelmen have organ
ized track association, with o $4,000
capital, and have decided to publish q
twelve page paper for six months, with
IN edition Of 8, coo copies per month. All
this in anticipation of the forthcoming
tournament.
AT the Croydon, England, March
meeting the grand international hur.
die race handicap was won by w. Greg
ory's gelding Chicard by four lengths;
Cannon's formerly Lorillard's) Sachem
second and Lord Howe's Frenzy third.
There were eleven starters.
HARRY VAUGHN, of New York, accepts
the challenge of William Edwards, the
champion heel-and-toe walker of Aus
tralia, now in San Francisco, for six
day walk in New York, and has depos-
tied forfeit of $250-the race to be q
sweepstake, 81, 900 for each man.
HANLAN's match with the Australian
sculler, Laycock, is for $4,000. The
Toronto oarsman will receive 81 $50 for
expenses end one-third of the gate
money. Trickett, Rush and Edwards
are eager to meet the champion, but
their inducements were not as large as
Laycock'e.
Louis X. HULL, last years captain OF
the Yale boat crew, is coaching the men
in an eight-oared barge. Appleton will
be the permanent stroke oar. The
crews stroke this year is slower than
ldst year, and oil the power seems to be
put in the beginning, causing the boat
to jerk forward.
THE Oxford and Cambridge Univer-
sity crews are in active training. Their
total weights are 1888 and 1861 pounds
respectively. Curry, the Oxford stroke,
weighs only 139 pounds, and is the
lightest man in the crew while Moore.
who fills the same position for Cam
bridge, tips the scale at 167.
The Muldoon- Bauer Greco Roman
wrestling match took place in San Fran
cisco on the Sd, for $500 side. Bauer
won the first fall in eighteen minutes:
Muldoon the second in five minutes and
twenty seconds; the third and the match
Muldoon in twelve minutes and.ten sec
onds. Both trained at 1S5 pounds. A
match is being arranged between Whist.
ler and Muldoon for 81 900 side.
BEFORE leaving San Francisco for Sid.
ney, Australia, Hanlan offered to back
James Seeley, California sculler, for
$500, to perform more clever tricks
while in his boat than any other oars
man in the West. Seeley performs such
tricks as rowing shell less than twelve
inches wide while standing on his feet,
then standing on his head. He also
swings Indian clubs and performs many
other tricks requiring great steadiness
of nerve and balance.
The long-looked-for pacing match be-
tween Hawley Coles "Capt. Jack, :"
Houghton's "Lone jack Gerlach's
"Harry Gordon, Boya's "Painter, Gar.
rett's "Panama," and Armstrong's
"Rose Shipman," has been finally
l'arranged to take place on
| June 9Th at the Milwaukee Driving
Park. Each entry is accompanied by
$500 forfeit money, and more than Or
dinary interest is taken in what is con-
ceded to be an interesting contest, as all
he horses have been tested during the
winter IN trials of speed on the |" Ave
nue."
The Mclaughlin -Dufur wrestling
match in Detroit on the Sd, for $500 a
side and the door money, amounting to
nearly So, 500, was won by Mclaughlin,
He took the first fall by the Gift drop, /"
which Dufur declared was new to him,
The second bout found Dufnr aggressive
and Mclaughlin twice swung him off
his feet describing complete circle.