The Evening critic., 1885-05-02
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
The Jockey club Meeting The
Threatened Baseball War.

hB 1OtheI AAuD lNefNNnk Ahb
Threatened Baseball War.
As the time for tho spring meeting of the
National Jockey Club approaches, the In
terest increases. The horses are arriving
almost daily at tho track, and already tho
knowing ones arc taking morning trips to
Ivy City to size up the horses at their OK
orcise. The easiest way of getting out is by
rail- The GAO, 1880 and $3.50 trains ON the
d. & o. stop at Ivy City; returning, you
can come in at 1890 or 1890.
The seventeen horses yet remaining in
the national handicap ought to make a
cracking good race. There are four or five
horses it will be hard to pick from, Decoy
Duck Hatef, Colonel Sprague and Flower
of Meath and even at that, the winner Is
about as likely to prove one of the out
siders
Tho first stake race is on Tuesday, tho
first day, and is tho Analostan Stakes for
3-year olds. This race ought to lie between
Tecumseh, barefoot and Radha. Though
Doswell's Thomasia may prove dangerous.
He has fashion of springing flyer on us
each season. Tecumseh Is quite low In the
Withers books; Princess Bau also ran some
good races last year.
The Willard's Hotel Stakes on Wednes-
day will be a hard ono to pick the winner
for, but IL is just as likely to fall to Burch
as not. There are 80 nominations for this
race. Joe Mcmahon has frankie b. Swift
and Joe Mitchell, any one of whom might
pull in tho prize. The Southern horse
Princess ought to be in good condition.
The Youthful Stakes, the same day, for
two-year-olds, will very likely fall to Scott,
who has four entries. Burch, boswell,
Bowie, Walden and others also have young
steTs in.
The Army aud Navy stakes, for three
year.olds, on Thursday, will be one of the
most interesting races Of tho meeting
Floria, Telio Doe and Tecumseh meet for
the first time for the season. 1t will DO
great race, but for the distance Telie Doe, If
right ought to catch the Judges eye first
Those who rembember how handily she
landed Unrest ut tho fall meeting will Keep
their eye ON her.
The Diplomatic Stake race for all ages is
to be run on Friday, the last day. About
the same horses meet in this as in the
National Handicap, and much interest will
attach to it on that account.
The last stake race is the Brentwood, an
other for the youngsters. Last season some
of the best two-year-olds of the year made
their first appearance in the Brentwood and
Youthful stakes.
Hatef, Queen Esther and John Sullivan
have been running well at Memphis.
1t is possible that Ed Corrigan may have
surprise party in store for the Ken
tuckians when the Kentucky Derby is run.
Irish Pat is in great form, and Corrigan has
backed him heavily at long odds.
Mr.. Il. j. Slater Of the Baltimore Turf
Exchange is Offering much larger odds on
the Suburban than the New York people,
and the man who can pick tho winner can
make fortune at the following odds;
Drake Carter, 40 to 1 ; Barnes 20 to 1 I; st.
Saviour, is to 1 Aranza, 20 to l. Duplex,
40 to Giroae, 30 to l Jim Renwick, 70
| to / Jack of Hearts, 90 to Il Royal Arch,
Rataplan, Himalaya, Thackery, Pontiac
and Elizabeth, 40 to ! each; Decoy Duck,
Knight of Ellerslie, War Eagle and Strick-
land, 30 to l; Monogram, Is to l. East
Lynne, Mittie b., Blue Bell, Kinsman,
Richard L. and Mission Belle, rs to each !;
Lopgview, Valley Forge, Jim Carlisle, Lutte
string, Vinton, Comanche, Endymion and
Joe Mitchell 100 to / each Tony Foster,
Choctaw and Thunderbolt, 200 to 1 each !;
| Colonel Morris and Neophyte, 300 to L.
The meeting will be the largest ever held
in this part of the country. Some of the
late arrivals are Pettingill's stable, incud-
| ing Duke Montalban, twice the winner of
the Washington Cup; Queen Esther,
the fast sprnter, and Agincourt; Walter
| Cluey's stable, including Leroy, Emerson
and Desree VIM. French's stable, includ-
ing Valley Forge, Windsail Red Fox and
Mart Booram; Whitaker & Barry's
Lady Dean; Governor Bowie's string
of fourteen, including Cassatt, full
brother to the famous Crickmore, and
Bessie, Lord Lorne and Consolation, q
brother to Compensation John Campbell's
stable, including John Sullivan and two
others; B. ]. Johnson's stables, with
Hatef, Olivette and two others; w.
| G. McCurdy's stable, with Captain War
rem and three others; Mason & Son, with
Eva Kay and four others; w. b. Scanlon
with Edith Brown and one other.
BASEBALL.
The game yesterday between the Ma
tionals and the Wilmingtons, while one
sided, was still quite interesting on account