Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-13
SPORTING.

The staten Island Crlcket Cluo no" HES
an active membership of 500.
Msxey Cobb and Meta Medium will
winter on g farm near Louisville.
Jake Kilrsin, the Boston Pugilist, is
going to San francisco to fight Jack
Burke.
The Earl of Westmoreland has declined
to appoint the Handicapped Of the English
Jocky Club.
John o. DAVIS, heavyweight, who whip
ped John P. Glow in glove fight 9 year
ago, has started q class in sparriDg In
Denver, Col.
Arrangements have been made between
Patsy Mullen and Pat McCue to meet to q
finish at Fond du Lac, Christmas week.
for SlU0 side.
Tommy McMauus, lightweight puglist,
is in Boston. he desires 10 arrange with
any I40 pound pugiist in New England Tor
g contest for purse.
Negotiations are pending for q single
scull race between John Teemsr and JAKE
Gsudaur for 81, 900 q side, to take place the
early part Of next season.
T. Patterson, in receipt of one and q
halt minutes start, is m stched to run Alex
Miller ten miles in skatiDg rink in Phiia'
delphis December l6 for $500 a side.
John hilbert, of Betbnal Green, Lon
don, and George Littlewood, of Shetheld,
Gag, have arranged seventy Eve hour
walk, to occur eitherin London or Shetneid'
about Christmas, for &l0O y side.
Hugh ]. Mccormick, of Portland, \: B.,
cham pion ice skater, announces his willing
meas TO meet any msn in the world IN
race of from three to FIVE miles, TOR S6OO OF
81 900 side, on any kind OF a course'
from thirteen laps to strAighlawsy'
Ithaca, N. Y, has turned out pugllist
who intends to try aud win the champion
ship. He rejcices in the name OF Mike
Couley and IS twenty.six years OF age
His dimensions are as follOWs:--Chest
measurement, 46inches; waist, S6s inches;
forearm, l4S inches; biceps near shoulder,
| l73 inches; s feet in stocking feet; weight,
when not in training, 235 pounds; trained
207 pounds.
Billy Mclean 10 instructor of spsrring
at the University of Pennsylvania Gyns'
stun.
John Mckay, who is Wintering ct Dart
mouth, N. j., writes that he wants to row
another race with Peter Comfy, of Port
land, for $500 q side, over three-mile
course.
Foot ball will be allowed to die out for
the future at the University of PennsylVa-
MIA. The record Of the University team
in the INTERCOLLEGIATE games is three de-
feats and no victories.
PHILADELPHIA oarsmen have all shelved
their boats and are now doing gymnasium
work to keep in condition.
Another six days 90 asyou.please pedes
trian contest is being arranged In New
York.
Kate Brown of England aud Nine To
bias of this country are negotiating Tor
a Blk days pedestrian race.
The bay gelding Gideon has been sold BY
Dexter A. Goff to Morris Bacon of New
London, Ct, for $1,000.
The proposed trip of America amateur
and professional criCketers to Australia
has been postponed for one year.
Foot ball in rings is the latest idea il
winter sports. The game is being intro
duced in New York. Judging from thu
size of some of the Kinks, the balls used
must be of kind that will far better resis
power from the toe than those now in use
or the indoor game will prove very unin
teresting
This most successful jockey on the Ameri
can turf this year in McLsuglin, who VOL
lOl races out of 3Q7 in which he started
Hughes and Evans, who we're very success
ful Jockeys q few years ago, had very BAG
luck this year, but Quantrell outsrippeC
them in that direction, having won but ont
race in AZ in which he started.
The members Of the Chicago Bicycle
Track Association have been assessed t
make good the 81, 500 lost this year.
Philadelphia wheelmen srs disgusteC
with the economical spirit of the City Couu
sils, who cut out OF next years spproptia
tons the item for laying asphalt pavementt
on certain of the streets OF the city.
Grant Bell, the champion bicyeEist o.
the Northwest, walked through window
and fell q distance of twenty.three fee
while asleep at his home on Tuesday. Hit
spine was seriously injured, and he will no
be able to ride any more.
Clarence Whistler, the wrestler, known
as the kansas Cyclone" died in Mel
bourne, Australia. He was born in 1856
and wrestled his frat match in 1878, de-
teating Louis Mari in less than an hour
He next won q match with ease from
Texas Bill" man OF prodigious size and
strength. Andre Christol, the French
wrestler, was the third man he met, and he
succeeded in defeating the French man in
a match which lasted over four hours He
defeated Charlie Murphy In August, 1879
and James Quigley in 1880. In match
with Edward Bibby the contest lasted five
hours and half without q fall. A second
match with Bibby lasted six hours, and
was a draw. he was then matched with
William Muldoon, and the contest, which
took place in New York. lasted six and q
half hours without q tall for either man.