Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-24
sPORTIG SPRAY.
Notes Concerning Cycling, Base Ball,
SculIins ana the Turf.

SculIinS ana the Turf.
Bust, the fancy rider of the Wanderers
Of lororto has joiEcd the professional
rsrbs.
There was q very exciting game of base
ball on the old fsir grounds yesterday after.
noon a number of typos taking part.
The Detroit Bicycle Club will start next
Saturday on a weeks trip through Canada,
including Buffalo and the l.. A. W. meet
The June catalogue OF the Pope Manu-.
featuring Company, just issued, is model
ofits kind, being finely printed and profuse'
ly illustrated.
The prizes to be awarded at the interstate
meeting, Youngstown, O., commencing to-
day, include $500 in amount beside $50
for the best drilled corps OF eight.
Only per cent. of wheelmen are racing
men, consequently 80 per cent. are road
riding wheelmen, who ride wholly for exer-
else, pleasure or business.
Mitchelrs challenge to fight any man in
the world has been accepted BY Capt. James
c. DAILY.
The State meeting OF the Ohio division,
L. A W., will be held at Springfield, July
20 and 81, and will be the largest tourna-
ment of the season in the State. The
prizes amount to over 5000 in value, and
the programme includes seven races on the
first day and six on the second.
The 50-mile road run Of the Ramblers
Bicycle Club of Buffalo, June IL, from
Buffalo to Corfee, was won by Frank
White, Rome 3h. sim. los; Gideon
Haynes of Boston, second. The first prize
was $50 and the second $40 gold medals.
Mr.. P. j. Casey, the manager Of the
Long Branch District Telegraph and Mes
senger Company, whose messengers are
using bicycles in delivering messages, says
that the delivery service has been greatly
improved by the use of the machines.
The ex.captain of the Eureka Bicycle
Club Melbourne, Australia, writing to a
friend in this county, says that in 1888 he
rode over 5000 miles: in 1884, 5,767, and
up to April Is, 1885, over 1900 miles.
The event Of this week in Boston circles
will be the 50-mile race from the Boscobel
House, Lynn, next Saturday. Great inter.
est has been manifested iu this event by
cyclists, and hot and exciting struggle is
lcok, for.
The backer of John Teemer in his
matches with Hanlan is Mr. Richard Walk,
Of McKeesport, WI gave his representative
Mr. Fullwood, certified check for 81 900
to make the matches which were agreed
upon at Buffalo.
Beating men think Hanlsn has made .
mistake in making so many races with Teem-
er ard that on the wholeth affair will not be
success from any point OF view. Two
races at the three and fve-mile distances for
$500 side would have been the proper
csper. AS TO the comparative merits OF the
men, there is, as usual, upon such questions,
much divided opinion; but, undoubtedly,
Teemar has the call with Bostons boating
men.
Teemer at the close of his interview with
Hanlan at Buffalo left for home at once.
His urgency was caused by the fact that he
has promised the profession to give the
grsndest rowing regatta of the season at
Pittsburg, aud wanted to at once use what
little spare time he had previous to prepsr-
ing for his races with Hanlsn in getting the
machinery for It.
Speaking of the merits OF Gaudsur and
Teemer as scullers J. A. Mckay, who was
among the contestants in the New Orleans
regatta, says Gaudaur is the fastest sculler
Of tie two. and can lead Teemer for o mile
or more, but that Teemer is the greatest
man for stern chase he ever saw, and
eventually rows his competitors down, no
matter how fast they may be. HE is q
great all around slugser,' said Mckay.
"Wtat / mean by that is. he rows a good
pace at the start and does not seem to tire
as many scullers do. He keeps going all
tie time, and that is what tells in the long
run"
Ball bearings are being introduced in the
wheels of racing sulkies. The horsemen
have not as yet taken to them very kindly,
owing to the cost. Another Improvement
is that of q Boston maker, who in building
the sulky, throws the arched axle back out
of harm of kicking horses. The ball bear.
iugs are acknowledged to permit Of greater
speed.
The well known mare Dolly Warden,
which died q week ago at Mystic Park. is
buried near the music stand at Mystic close
to the fast stallion Young Rolf, who fell
dead on the Mystic track year ago.
Among the horses of note barred in the
field inside the fence are the following:
J. G. Blaine, record 2:27, owned By Mr..
David Neyins, died of rupture; Dick Moore,
record 2:22l, owned by George A. Aver,
died of lung fever three years ago; Kitty
Jones, 5 years old, by Woodburn Pilot,
of Woodburn Pilot, died of rupture Of q
blood vessel OF the heart. This mare had
no record, but gave great promise.