The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-06
THE WORLD OF SPORT.
PLENTY or AMUSEMENT FOR THE
FANCY MEN.
COOKING MAINS. PIGEON SHOOT
mo, BASEBALL, Ere

Especial Correspondence to tie Times.l

p ne events were all Dig ana interesting
and a man who has any inclination at all
for sporting, has no cause 10 complain
OF a lack Of chances TO see ANYTHING be
may desire. from a game Of lawn tennis.
{ in warm, brightly lighted room. to q
hard, long, glove fight on the grass early
in the morning The weather is 80 mild
such a thing is possible. lie could have
his pick
The great event OF the week. AID one
which has set all the sports talking. was
the cooking main between New York
and Connecticut, and the best feathers
in the States were brought forward The
fancy men who backed the birds were
fancy mon. and the birds were fancy
birds They were dynamiiers and Darby
kellevs, and they were fighters every
one OF them There was great deal of
hard green money at siake-also "A con
siderable quantity of pride Connecticut
has long been bOasting Of her superior
game birds, and New Jersey and New
York have had pains in their anxiety to
take some of the Nutmeg States money,
and kill some of their birds Finally
this main was arranged for 5000 a battle
and 81 800 on the main, nine battles
to decide the fight II was the greatest
main fought in this part of the country
for a long time The birds on both sides
were the very best of their kind 20 be
found anywhere. and they had been
/ trained down 10 fine point Of muscle
and endurance. The pit was laid in one
of the preitiest towns on Long Island ;
/ i'm fact it was the very town from which
/ the birds that whipped New York ciiy's
/ fowl last week and took all of the city
coin. came from. There were q number
of wellknown New York and Connect
cut. financial men in the seais-men who
are familiar figures in the swell churches
i'm the cities and towns where they
live. Did they bet or did they simply
90 10 the main 10 see what cock fight
was like? They went there TO bet their
sand, and they never said a word either
way. They were the hardest kind of
hard sports. ! sat just below man who
may be- seen any day in the street ma
nipulating the various stock movements,
and who ON Sundays drives out 10 church
behind a handsome pair of steppers, at
tended by a gOrgeously atiircd foOtman
and cOachman he is estimated 20 be
worth anywhere from S200O0OO TO 49,
600 O00 and he is generally looked upon
as one of the most prominent men in
this great and glorious city lie put
5000 on the first battle. and kept mp that
pace ON each event winding up with a
) 900 plunge on the result of the main. /
OF course he put his stuff on New York, .
and made a big winning New York F.
won six of the nine battles. and as the .
Long Island sports thought the Con- /
necticut birds were better than our stock. F
the New York sports had all The re- T
venge they wanted for the bad attack of +
impecuniOsity that struck them after the .
main with Long Island last week, and .
dined richly and wined we'll There .
were a number of young blOOds present T
who made heart-rendeTing attempts 10
appear bold, bad men, and hardened
sports. They gave it out before the
feathers began to fly that they knew All
about such things, and were going 10
make things hum in the betting line
just how much they knew about the APP
pearance of good game bird was shown
by the sad and detected manner in which
they put their best foot forward on the
way home-nearly fifteen miles away
II was a sad sight TO see them pounding
the yellow road in the wake of the Con-
necticut men who had put out their
money not wisely but too well
PIGEON SHOOTING MATCH
The few exclusives who saw the pig
con shooting of the Westminster Ken
mel Club at Babylon, the other day, wit ,
messed sport that was anything but sport
in the sense that men who love good .
speak of IT, The Westminster J
Club is, according 10 all accounts, very ,
exclusive and only about -eyenty-hve peo-
pie were present when the manning of 9
fie birds took place The best shot in the {
club is at best but an smatcur none of
hem can be classed among the good anna ,
eurs of the country. who can Kill pig y
ION when they draw on one. OF the five /
hundred birds shot at | do not suppose a
hat more than fifty were killed at the c
rap, but the crate men were kept busy
the neCks OF the wounded ID s
vas "a scene that would make anybody who {
lad ever seen good shooting feel that 9
when men who take pleasure in such 1
port get before the traps and bang away II
It and wound birds, it was pretty near "
ime to call time on the whole business. y
have seen boys in the country districts n
# New jersey break forty out Of fifty
lay birds. and then kick ike two-year-
lids because they had not done forty.
i've; and ! have seen them kin !.
en-, fifteen, and twenty live birds "
traight, and everyone of the =,
,igeons that they shot at was !.
eady for picking before the echoes of y
he report had died away in the hills a
nd before the powder smoke had faded :.
nto thin air And these boys shot with j.
luskets and muzzle leaders, while the 3
i'd edged sports who shot in English y
ravellng caps and gaudily striped u
LAYERS with the club monogram EN-
roidered ON the collar, did their butcher
lg OF the innocents with breech-loaders
bat cost them hundreds. They are
ports
BASEBALL.
The baseball tourists are touring with -
wing colors, and everywhere they 90 \,
ley are made welcome and treated like VI
rinces. Banquets in their honor, Gu ~
olistic speeches, and enthusiastic cheers !.
ave been theirs ever since they left this l
)untry The teams will leave Australia a,'
n Monday, going 10 Ceylon, Calcutta, II
ombay; then possibly they will stop at al
lexandria, Cairo, and CONSTANT r.,
oplc As lard ont at present, N
ie Continental tour will take GO
Naples, Rome, Florence, Vienna, 70
erlin Brussels, Paris, London, elias ~
Nv, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, and Liver y
DOL They expect to reach New York az
,out the middle of April and then ex- "a
bition games will be played in Boston, y
Baltimore, Washington. III
Id this city. \ letter from one OF the -
Tvs to friend here says they are all doing ar
icly, and have not had an accident of Di
" sort II speaks of Cranes wonder pc
pitching in glowing terms, and pre- p'
cts that he will be the best leather
.irler in the box next year
There are great preparations being pc
ade for the union games on the 18Th, 81
I'd a great many OF the old-time record pa
lashers will compete with the new DO
God. Many Of the prizes offered are u,
,tches, and every day some ancient WI
lateur who pounded the tan bark away We
ls,l he a al I ~