The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-24

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famous old grounds for another season.
The CLANS are beginning to come to
town 20 get ready for The annual spring
opening. Mike Tiernan was the frsl TO
came sailing into Gotham, and he was
closely followed By lacks Tiicomb.
The New Workers here now are Keefe,
Hatfield, Gore, TiicOmb, George, Tier
nan, Wagenhurst, Common, Richardson,
Slaltery and Ewing. Brown will be here
early next week, and so will WEIGH,
Whitney, Murphy aud Foster. They are
all In good condition aud say that they
are going 10 make big showing this
season, and do their level best to keep the
penant In the Empire state.
In the fight 10 keep possession Of the
Polo Grounds for another year the base
ball people have powerful friend in tine
Erening World, which came out today
with a strong appeal for the grounds
The paper prints petition for general
signing, and half an hour after the paper
was Oh the street the petitions began to
come in signed One hundred and fifty
thousand names will be about the num-
b.r received inside Of two weeks. The
Eeeang World has made number at
lights Of late on popular subjects an !
each time II has come out Of the fray vi Il
flying cOlOrs There Is MOI a defeat cred
lied go its fighting record, and there will
not be after this appeal is concluded. The
Etsaihg World Is gFesl paper for The
sports and does the right thing every
time.
New Jersey will be heard from thi.
year tn the matter OF ball. a State league
has been formed, and all the crack clubs
have gone into il, aud intend 60 make a
brilliant record. While New Jersty Is
but little beltcr than country State, and
a most convenient spot In which TO fight
men, birds, and dog-, because of the att
sencc of police who refuse TO be seen,
set 4 has some Of tie best ball
talent in the country, and the clubs, re
organized as they have h-el during the
winter, are bound TO make good records
for themselves and their State.
The BrOO ,lyn players are all az home,
and waiting lor the first game TO be call
Ell. Nisner and Lovelt, the new battery,
are on hand, and working bard TO get
themselves into good condition for the
seasons work, saw them praciicing
The other day, and from what they d d,
and the way in which The bail Wa
TWISTED, IT looks very much as tho z D.
they y ere going 10 bother some OF tine
men who cover the plate this year. TLey
are exceptionally sirohg and easy in their
play FOulz is the most enthusiastic
professional | ever saw. He stood me- +
me while the battery was al work, and J
he watched the white sphere twisting ana
turning through the air, landing finally
IN the catcher hands. he rubbed his Owl
hands and smiled, and said. "Oh, they aie
great, my boy, great We are going 10
get there this year, and don't you mai e
any mistake about il, either We c
here 10 stay and those two people G
the ones who are going 10 keep Us Whe e
we are. I'll back them for winners
against the earth"
Every member Of the club has but one
point in view, and that is to get away
from every club that comes near them,
and if determination and hsrd work will
win for the BrOOklyns. then they may be
set down thus early as sure winners
The regular yatcSng season opens on
Decoration day, aud. promises 10 be a
good one all through. Many Of the clul /.
nave not, as yet, decided upon anything
definite i'm he way Of races, but the
Dauntlrss, of Jersey City, and the
Yonkers, Of New York, have come out
with programmes for May 3O.h. Two new
sloop yatcls' have been ADDED to the
Dauntle.s cub fleet, which, / they car.
nv out the expectations Of their owners,
will be liable 10 show a clean sail 10 some
OF the fancy boats around ais and other
parts Of The country. They will be given
every opportunity Of testing their speed
on the day of the clubs races, and then II
they show that they are what they were
built for-moyers Of the first water-they
will be put into other taces, aud will lie
liable 10 carry of something In the way
OF trophies The craft are twenty-Iour
and twenty six feet long respectively,
and that is all the information that is
given about them.
4 doJ hight in the business part of Il
big city and in the middle OF the day is a
novelty, if anything That is what T. f
light between Dan and Crib was the
other day. The dogs were put into a rii
within six blocks OF the City Hall and
within four of pOlice-slaiiOn, and they
fought until the end without the slighte, I
bit of interference from the police Oh
the sweetly charitable and highly Hu.
name Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty 10 Animals, who are so solicit
tOus for the well being OF poor dogs and
game birds that they forget to look after
the hOrses-the working -hOfses-ihat are
in treated every day IN this city. Both
OF the dogs were tWenty-seyen FOUNDERS
and both were good fighters. There
were only the handlers, six sporting bus.
mess men Who were "Out TO lunch and
a reporter present The night lasted an
hour and ten minutes and Crib won, al
though he was terribly bitten at the iin-
ish. Dan, who was looked upon as the
champion fighter OF Brooklyn, was
whipped clean out OF his skin.
The New York Jockey Club announces
that it has received AGO entries for the
twelve events it proposes giving IN next
August, when the magnificent 81 100000
track at Westchester will be completed
and opened. For the White Plains
for twO.year.olds, the unusually
large number OF 248 entries were re-
ceved, while the Great Eclipse, also for
two-year-olds, at three quarters OF d mile,
has 2l2. The New York Jockey Club
people are making great Splurge this
year, and it will be one OF the greatest
racing associations in the country at the
end Of the season, If success counts for
anything, and il usually does.
A cable dispatch was received at the
Police Ga,stts office to-day saying that
Kilrain had arrived at Liverpool. The
message, which was signed by George
W. Atkinson, ssid that the Baltimorean
was in the best OF health and spirits, and
that big crowd of admirers, with Pony
Moore and Charley Mitchell heading
them, had gone from London TO meet
him.
Matsada Sorakichi, the wrestler, has a
lot of business on hand. Thursday he
signed to wrestle Ernest Roeber, catch
as-catch-can and GrecO-Roman, best
three in FIVE falls, for $3.50 side. The
match is to take place on Monday at
Worcester, Mass Immediately after
making the match with Roeber the Jap
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