The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-14

Second only to baseball in American sports is
horse-racing, and Of this the great racing organ
izations and State fair associations will give US
our full share during the coming season Com
vile the spring season will commence in earnest.
The circuit really begins at Mobile, Ala, April
13. and goes from there to New Orleans April
"a, but it is not until the bell taps at Nashville
will score for start At Memphis, at the pres
emit tine, the great stables of Corrigan, Green
B. Morris, Gray & Co. and othew are
training for the coming events. Last
years favorites upon the running track will, with
a few exceptions, appear again this year as can
| and Miss Woodford will in all probability come
together again during the coming season in a
mile and quarter race for big money, So 600 or
perhaps $4,000 side. It now looks as though
this meeting would take place at st. Louis. and
should it do so the eyes OF the racing world will
for the time being. be turned toward the named
city. Modesty. the Queen of the Western turf
and the great favorite at Washington Park last
| season, is largely entered at the coming meet
ings, and, it is said, Is in prime condition. Pearl
Jennings is not spoken so well of, while Lizzie
Dwyer is avowedy lame, but may come through
in proper form. Favor and Bersan, OF the Nor
ris stables said to be fine as silk. and ready
for anything while Joe Cotton, OF the Williams
| stables, the winner of last years Kentucky
Derby, is being spoken Of highly by all horse
men as dangerous in whatever events he may
enter this year. OF course the great Kentucky
Derby, which takes place at Louisville during
the spring meeting there. May IA to 20 is at
tracing attention everywhere. Already the
| greatest flyers of the prescribed age in this
country, West, South and California, are en-
tered and the event will doubtless prove the
grandest racing carnival of theyear. The favor
ties in the betting for this great event thus far
are: Mr.. Cassdy's Longlight, Messrs. Chinn q
| Morgan's Ten Thousand, and Mr.. Green Morris s
Con Cregan, the books having been closed on all
three. Down East every preparation Is being
made for the opening of the season there, and
| race tracks are being put in condition, and
horses trained for the coming racing events.
The cracks attracting the most attention there
| are the Ave which the Dryer Bros. paid $lO,0OO
for at the recent Loriilard sale, viz: Pontiac,
Dew Drop, Pontiac, Winfred, and Daruna, a
| half-sister of Dew Drop. All are in frst-class
condition. and it is said that Dew Drop, the great
| $29, 900 fly will have all of the three-year-ol
stakes at her mercy if she continues in her pres
| emit good shape. The Palo Alto and Santa Anita
stables of the Pacific slope district are expected
| to show up particularly strong this year Bald
wins acquisition of Isaac Murphy, who will ride
| the Santa Anita cracks this year, and who is un-
| questionably the greatest of all American jock
eys, has made that great stable more formidable
| than ever before After the close Of the season
| at Memphis the cracks will go to Lexington,
Louisville, Latonia, St Louis and Chicago.
which great meeting, extending from June rs to
| Aug. IA. will, with $685. 600 in added meeting,
practically close the running meetings in the
| West In the meantime, of course, the meetings
| at Rockaway Beach. Brighton Beach. Jerome
| Park, Sheepshead Bay. Monmouth Park, and
| Saratoga will be under full blast.
| The trotting season will be opened at Phila-
delphia. May to 7, by the meeting at the Gen
tlemans Driving Park, and soon after the differ
emit trotting circuits in all sections will have
opened up for the season Like the base ball
| season, the racing season this year promises to
| be one of unprecedented brilliancy
Affairs n the a0uatic world also nromiS0 much
| for this year. The great race between John
| Teemer and Jake Gaudaur, for the single soul.
| championship and stakes of 81, 900 side will
| take place in st. Louis june l; and Hanlon,
/; Ross, Gaudaur, Lee. Teemer, and all of the
great professionals are expected to meet in
| grand contest at Oak Point, N Y. on Decora-
| tion Day.
Beach, the Australian champion who won the
worlds singlescull championship from Hanlon
! last summer, on the Parametta course near Sgd
| ney, will reach England this month, and will
stand ready to defend, upon the Thames course,
| his claim to the worlds championship. 1t is
| quite probable that Teemer, Gaudaur, Ross and
Hanlon will cross the Atlantic to measure blades
| with MIR. Beach.
| The English yacht Galatea will reach New
| York some time in August to try. during she fol-
| lowing month, to wrest the Queens cup from
the New York Yacht Club, in possession of
which it has been since the great victory Of the
| America over the English yachts in 1855. The at
| tempts of the Genesta the crack English cutter
| to win the cup last summer against the Puritan,
| will be remembered by all lovers of aquatic
| sports. This year the Puritan may again be the
| bearer of the American colors in the race, al
though the new sloop Atlantic, now building at
| Boston, it is said, will prove her right in the
trial races to bear the American pennant in this
| great event
Football, la crosse, lawn tennis, sprinting and
| general athletics are already commencing to en-
| joy boom. which. it is said, will be greater
| than in any season heretofore known. In Chi
cago, during the past winter. there have been a
| greater number of athletic events with the glove
| and in wrestling than we have enjoyed in any
season past The great wrestling matches at ST.
Louis, between Evan Lewis, the Wisconsin lum-
herman, and Matsada Sorikichi, the Jap, were
the most notable events OF the year in wrestling,
and were Witnessed byover five thousand people.
The great success OF Lewis is remarkable, and
there are those in athletic circles who do not
hesitate to pronounce him the John Sullivan of
| his time in his line of athletics.
| In matters of the glove, the memorable bat
| ties of tho year have not been confined to Chi
cago, but have extended from coast to coast Of
| this broad country, and no past year has wit
messed the growth in popularity and fame of so
many young knights of the glove Jack Burke
Jack Dempsey, Tommy Warren, Frank Glover,
| and so many more have risen like wonders in
their calling, and never before have such skill
and science been attained in the cultivation Of
the manly art. On May 3, next Jack Burke,
whom look upon to-day as the cleverest man of
| his weight in the world, will meet Frank Glover,
the Illinois champion heavy weight, at Battery
D, in this city. The battle promises to be a
| memorable one in the history of the ring. It is
understood that soon after, Jack Dempsey. the
famous middle-weight whose recent battle with
George LaBlanche was telegraphed to almost
every prominent newspaper in the world, will
meet Charley Mitchell. the champion middle
weight, also In this city. Con-
incubation for PleurO-Pneum0nia.
ST. Louis. April 13.-The Rural World will
publish tomorrow letter from DR.. Paul Pa
quin, State Veterinarian of Missouri who is