Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-17
SPORTING,
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

Matssda Sorakichi and Evan LAWS Will
wrestle on January % at Chicago.
Jack Dempsey has had offers Tor a match
from LIE Blanche, Pete Mccoy and JACK
Fogarty lately, but he does not seem anz-
ious 10 meet any Of them.
The Harvard College Committee has
been successful in having the college faculty
withdraw its opposition 10 the inter cole
giate football game.
Gafuey has been appointed as umpire
in the League.
Manager Schmeltz gays that Briody will
not play With the ST. Louis League Club
this year.
According to Al S~palding's SIX CLUB
schedule for the League, the Philadelphia
would have to travel over ten thousand
miles.
Indianapolis is likely to be the new
Western representative ip the League, as
it is almost certain tina. there will be eight
clubs this year.
Jack Fogarty will FIJI centre-held sor the
Philadelphia Club next season. he writes
that he expects to do good batting aud
base running.
Lucas, of the st. Louis League Club,
was last waek served with the papers IN q
suit for 1000 brought by the Cleveland
/ Baseball Club. The suit is the outcome OF
an agreement with the Cleveland Club to
pay them 81. so for resigning their place
in the League.
Neil Matterson. the Australian oarsman,
Is only % years old, stands . feet IL inches
in height and weighs ITO pounds.
A. Z. Smith, Of Islip, L. l., is building a
67-foot schooner yacht for W. \. Valette,
of the Quaker City Yacht Cluo. Ihe di'
m%eusious will be 20 feet beam, 9 feet
draught and there will De five tons Of lead
in the keel,
A new shell ordered By John TeemeE
will be 3l!lfeet long, 6 inches deep amid,
ships, lO4 inches deep at the bow and q
inches deep aft. |; will weigh 70 pounds.
A Dill prepared BY the New York Yacht
Club WAS introduced in The House at Wash
lngton by Mr.. Belmont, of New York,
The object OF the bill is to free the owners
of yachts from excessive and unnecessary
port charges, TO ensble yachts to use steam
launches without employing q licensed en-.
gineer, and to enable owners and m.sterf
Of yachts to assume the pos.',c- OF the
captain of the vessel.
Tommy Dunbar is reported to have &C
ceptei a position as trainer at Fashion
Farm.
The Nashville Blood Horse Association
has elected Captain James Franklin q:
president.
Baron Finot, the great patron Of steeple
chasing, won over 800, 900 in stakes alone
!, last year.
!, Mr.. Frederick Vanderbilt now has his
fathers horses, Early Rose, Aldinc, aud a
pair Of colts.
The price paid by J. B. Huggin, the
California horse man, for Sir Modred, Is
said by the Melbourne papers to have been
1900 guineas.
Tbs Washington Park CLUB. OF Chicago
will give no autumn meeting, but vii
make Chicago the summer headquarters
for racing in the West.
At William L. SCOTS immense farm a
Cape Charles, We, there will be clever
" oyesr.olds by Rsyon door in training
under the care Of Byron McClel!and.
Elizur Smith, OF Lee, Mass has paid
$4,000 to l. J. Rose, Of San Gabriel, Cal,
for the b. 8. Sultan. 2.2f.
Among the stock which Colonel T. G.
Stoner, Of the Hsmbletonian Stock Farm.
Ky, will offer for sale on February 9, pre-.
p~aratory tc making q change Of location,
will be the stallion Strathmore, the sire Of
seventeen = 30 performers.
X. D. Moore, Of Elmira, held o lottery
in Elmira for the bay geldiug Big Fellow.
The man who won the horse refused to
take him, and Moore was arrested for spirit,
ing the animal away, and will probably De
also prosecuted for violation Of the LOTTERY
law.