Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

be necessary for the young man. and it is
likely that Anson knows this better than any,
body else. After all, many of the players who
rounded the globe will suffer for their labors
this summer.
'Twas Very Well Managed.
John N. Ward has signed with the New
York club, and, therefore, he has not been
sold like slave" for $4,000. 1t may not be
wrong to say that New York is the gamer in
more ways than one. Combined with Wards
excellent abilities as ball player the club will
receive all the benefit of one of the best adyer-
tisements it has hadt for long time.
Whether or not the entire transac-
tions to effect the deal of Wards pro-
posed or alleged sale were designed know
not but do know that the efforts real or un-
real have brought Ward and the New York
club more before the country during the
winter than all other things put together
Everything has really been SO quietly and
pleasantly settled at the eleventh hour that one
cannot wen avoid the conviction that q nice
York magnates and John NJ. Ward. If there
has been any reality in the proceedings at all,
Ward has proven himself the boss of Presi-
emphaticaiiy:! Ward viii play in washington ei
or nowhere" Ward came home and, despite
the decree of the President of the
worlds champions, said: Il won't play
at Washington and mean to play
at New York" Mr.. Wards reply has evidently
settled it, and it may be that now he has the
destinies of the New York Baseball Club in his
hand. At any time, always providing the pro-
ceedings have been real. John B. Day, like Mi
caWber, has been hoored.
The Runners Make Start.
The running season, has fairly commenced
and the prospects are exceedingly encouraging.
During the week three spring meetings have
commenced, viz: Memphis, Lexington and
Washington. At each the attendance has been
excellent, the racing good and the entries
large. These are all features which augur
success, indeed, the big entries is only another
proof of how rapidly the stock of American
thoroughbred horses is increasing. We may
with great amount of certainty prepare our
selves to hear of many big surprises on the turf
this year. Tne list of youngsters is greater
than ever and there are some good ones among
them The breeding of thoroughbreds
has become SO extensive in Amer
keep trace of the many dark ones that are
scattered throughout the country. 1t would
certainly be one of the greatest turf events of
modern times if We could lay hands on
nomenal Donovan that the Britishers are Just
now in ecstacies over. That they have great
horse no one will doubt, and that he is speedier
than his sire, Galopin, a Derby winner, is Just
as true. But 1t is possible that in Galen, Sal
vator or Proctor Knott we may have an equal
of Donovan. The difficulty, however, would
seem to be in bringing the champions together.
do not for moment expect that the Duke of
Portland would bring his flyer here, and it
seems just as likely that the American owners
will not risk their champions across the At
lantic this year. There will always, to some
extent, be dispute about the relative merits
of English and American race horses, because
the latter are tested by time and the former are
mostly tested by comparison with other horses
in carrying weight, However. if all accounts
are true Donovan is a wonder. and ought to
canter in for the Two Thousand Guineas and
the Derby. Speaking of the horses victory in
the Prince of Wales Stakes, worth $50 000 the
London Referee says:
Donovan is said to be a nervous horse. He
quite amused me after the race. Before. he ap-
peared very lighthearted and lightheeled.
Directly afterward while Fred Barrett was
weighing in. he was so light of heel and heart
that the Duke of Portland, who kept the weigh
ing room door, and made ring for his pet the
while, had sinecure. Later on, being walked
around without clothing for some half hour in
the paddock, he showed a grand thirst for
knowledge. In the most good tempered but
eager way he took stock of everyone in his
neighborhood, and was never satisfied that he
knew enough. His nervousness or greenness
or whatever you call it. was turned to good ac-
count, for on such excuse Donovan was sent to
the post with St Patrick, stable mate, for
companion, while the rest of the field were
being paraded Thereby his jockey was able to
jump into the last berth on the riders near or
the spectators right hand, which alone gives
one chance of making straight from start to
finish. Horses on the other side must negotiate
curve. That was not nice piece of business,
thought. Donovan did not turn a hair, had
always the race won. and you ceuld hardly
handicap him with any of the Others"
Local Sporting Prospects.
The outlook for busy sporting season in
and about Pittsburg is not of the brightest
Aside from one or two other branches of sport