Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-23

hind the time he tried to beat. After
doing that he took quite walk, travelled
on steamboat, and rode across country
to the Luss Highland games, where he
won second prize in atwo-mile handicap,
being beaten by man who had $50 yards
start of him. He cut this down to thirty
yards at the finish. Cannon is undoubt-
eddy the most phenomenal distance rum
ner of the day, and can surely beat
Lang's two-mile record under favorable
conditions.
Edward Hanlan is again going into
training and intends challenging
either Gaudaur or Teemer. Han.
Ian ia having new shell
built, and he has invented a wrinkle
connected with the rigging of the boat
which he thinks will be great advan-
tage in assisting speed. If it is sue
cess he will have it patented.
Fred Wood, the English champion,
said, after he won the ten mile cham
pionship race at Acton, England, last
month, that he would not appear on the
path again. He had been anxious to
beat all the acknowledged champions
80 that heN could retire with clear
record, and he thinks he can do so now.
In the last ten years he has won about
102 races.
The measurements of H. E. Searle, the
sculling champion, are: Height, feet
101a inches: chest, Az inches; biceps,
13% inches; forearm, II inches thigh,
% inches; calf, 16 inches. He scales
1854 pounds, rows with IL inch height Of
seat, 1874 Inch height of outrigger, and
4 feet 81 inch spread of rowlocks. He
is % years old, and a good.looking
youth Of the fair English type.
The California Club would do pugilism
service if, after revising the glove rules,
it offered So 900 purse for light weight
tournament and gathered Myer, Nc
Auliffe, Carroll and Carney, the four
first-class championship aspirants, and
made them fight it out-with fists. It
will settle strongly disputed point and
relieve the press and the public.
J. W. Anderson, the noted sprinter,
otherwise known as Flynn, and "Bing-
hams Unknown" who beat Bethune in
the greatest of all job races few years
ago in Canada, has accepted the offer Of
Robert Sparks, of Toronto, to run 22O
yards for 81 900. Sparks is thought to be
fast man able to run 250 yards in TWEEN
ty-five seconds, or "evens," as the craft
has it.
Joe Darby, the great English profess
sional jumper with dumbbells, gave an
exhibit at fete near Dudley August
18th. He cleared 1877 feet 7 inches in
ten jumps, beating the old record of 120
feet 8 inches by II feet inches.
He then cleared Al feet l inch
in three standing jumps, and in
four made Sc feet 2 inches. He
afterwards gave an exhibition of fancy
Jumping, and cleared two horses in a
jump off brick standing on end without
knocking the brick down. At feats like
the latter he is clever. and has cleared
from brick standing on end man sit
ting in chair and landed on the other
side on another brick end up without
knocking it down and keeping his bal.
ance. Tondo these feats he uses dumb.
bells weighing eighteen pounds apiece,
Last spring he hurt his knee and had tc
lay off for a considerable period, but now
he is as good as ever. He is a stockily
built man, feet 8 inches tall, and
weighs 165 pounds.
| A discussion has taken place recently
in England and Scotland ia regard tt
how good q man the famous all.round
professional athlete, Donald Dinnie, o.
Scotland, is. Dinnie has been in
Australia for the last half dozen years
George Davidson, an almost equally well
known professional athlete in Scotland
} writes that as he has competed in pro
| fessional sport in Great Britain, Ireland
and America for the last fifteen years, ht
} considers he knows Dinnie as we'll az
anyone. He says Dinnie in his day
was the best all.round athlete in
any country, and that when Dinnie
made his last trip to America
where he did not show to the advantage
which his reputation called for, he waf
over 45 years old. Dinnie's specialties
were weight throwing and jumping, bul
he was also a good Splinter, being con
sidered a 1917 second man for 100 yards
Dinnie, when at his best, weighed 19e
pounds. He stood six feet one.half inch
tall, and his activity was the comment o.
all. He is yet competing in Australia,
although he is 81 or So years old.
| 1t is a singular coincidence that the
best shot putters in this country, both
professional and amateur, hail from
Canada. J. d. MCPHERSON and Charles
@. Currie, the two well. known profes.
SIGNALS, and George R. Gray, the anna.
teur, are instances. These three men
could form team which could not be
equaled by any other three in either this
country or England, and they live within
about 100 miles OF each other around
Toronto. Gray says that he used to put
a cobblestone about the size of q mans
fist as far back as he can re,
member, and that when he was II
years old could beat any man vino had
ever visited Coldwater, where he lives.
1t is matter OF record that in 1886
when he was only 10 years old, he Won
the Canadian Amateur championship at
putting the sixteen pound shot, defeating
@. A. j. Queckberner, who was then Of
the New York Athletic club, and w. J.
NJ. Barry and Owen Harte, both of the
Irish team which was visiting this coun-
try then. Gray weighed at that time 16s
pounds, and it was the biggest surprise
of the day to see him defeat his three
other giant competitors. New York Sun.
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