Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21

PETER JACKSON does not like bare-fst
fighting,
sCHAEFER is also getting up billiard tour
ney to take place in Chicago.
HANLoN is quoted as saying that there is
outside capital In the new club.
FALLoN, the Irish middleweight champion
pugilist, is coming to this country.
FRANK HART, the colored pedestrian, wilb
start in the Cleveland race next week.
THE great question in baseball now is not.
Have you signed him!" but will he stay2"
BILLY EDWARDS says he has whipped Coll
yer i've times, and that ought TO be enough.
THE names of Miller and Beckley are still re-
tanned on the official list OF the new League
players.
FRANK STEVENSON states that KiIraia win
serve out his sentence and then defeat Peter
Jackson.
IT is stated that the Players League refuse
to pay Mike Tiernan the amount of salary he
demands.
expected in the city to-day on the hunt for
young players.
A NUMBER of players are to be taken to En-
gland to play in the National Baseball League
of Great Britain.
THE wrestling match between Reilly and
0Grady may take place in this city in private,
on Saturday evening, the 18th instant
THERE was a lively dog fight at McKees
Southside and Woods Run. The Southside
dog won.
BASEBALL is the only business in the world
where you hear of employees who receive from
LOO to 5000 for the season, or at the rate of
from SO to $40 an hOur.-NetO York Herald
THE old League supporters still cling to the
hope that winters cold blast will prompt many
of the players to declare that they ''are out for
the long stuff" 1t is pity that there is good
reason fer such hope.
SINCE the London police have refused to
give boxing exhibitions protection, wrestling
has been all the go in the English capital Tom
Cannon, Jack Wanpop, Antonio Pierri and
number Of other noted wrestlers are drawing
profitable houses.
A SUBJECT that provoked considerable COM
ment was the demand alleged to have been
made by Ryan, who has signed Chicago
Brotherhood contract. for an increase IN salary.
1t was said Mr.. Ryan would not get raise"
and it may be his name. too, will soon adorn
the ''black list"-NeU York Herald
A DISPATCH from San,Francisco says: Billy
Murphy the Australian feather weight cham
pion, while out duck hunting Sunday, was shot
bY Joe Acton, the famous wrestler. Acton
says it was an accident. but Murphy, who was
not dangerously wounded, tried TO shoot Acton
with his rifle. but was prevented by his friends
ONE Of the most amusing incidents of the
day was the reading of tabulated statement
of the New York clubs business during last
season. The statement shows that the club
made just $50. 800. While the travelling ex-
penses were included in the expenditures. not
a cent was allowed for the clubs share OF the
gate receipts while playing abroad, and in Bos-
ton alone it played before more than 70OO0
people. Players salaries were S50.0O0.-Neto
York World
Mr.. BONNER thinks Axtel and Sunol the two
wonders OF the turf, and believes he can beat
2:l0. He offered Marvin. who is driving her in
California 81 900 If he drove her in 2IO and $500
for every quarter of a second she beat It
Marvin tried it when Mr.. Bonner was at Palo