The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-14
General snnrtinr Notes.


Sullivan offers to fight Smith for 10000 a
Frank Murphy received $50 and Billy Muir.
ply 1913 for their recent fight before the Cali
fornia athletic club.
Jem Smith and Jack Wannop are matched to
fight with small gloves Sept. 80, the former
wagering ESQ 70 Wannop's 500.
Frank p Slavn has arrived in London and
intends 70 challenge any man in the world for
5000 and the Police Gazette belt.
Joe McAuliffe has gone into training for his
match with Pat killen, 10 occur at the Golden
Gate athletic club San Francisco, Sept. IL. He
has been taking exercises daily with Jim
Corbett.
Henry Peterson has returned to San Fran
cisco from Salt Lake City, where he engaged
in several matches. lie wants TO row any one
in America for s, 600 side, Hanlon or eau
daur preferred.
Richard X. Fox is trying 10 induce II. Searle,
the Australian champion oarsman, to enter a
regatta in this country. Fox may offer $4,000
for a single scull race for the championship OF
the world, with $1,000 to the first.
The accident to Mignon at Saratoga has Gre
ated Juror among the race-goers who are
superstitiously inclined. She was No. Is on
the card, fact that attracted much attention,
and they are shaking their heads over it yet.
Mccarthy, the Australian middle-weight
now in Frisco, is only five feet six inches in
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country will be with "Reddy' Gallagher of
Cleveland at the California athletic club.
Axtell, 2:1424, the great three-year-old.
stands fifteen and one-half hands high, aud
measures the same over rump as at the with.
ers. The day he trotted in 2:15l5 he weighed
1850 pounds, and was regarded fifty pounds
too high in flesh. His shoes weigh five ounces
forward and three ounces behind.
An English correspondent discussing the
duke of Portland's luck, says: HE has not
been on the turf ten years, and yet almost
every classic race has fallen to his lot He
has won the Derby twice, and bids fair 10 win
it next year, as hear that SemoIina is by no
means the best of his tWO-yesr-olds and that
st. Serf Is the best he has"
! Dexter trotted a mile over the Buffalo track
! twenty-five years ago In 2:l7l{. The great
| gelding was nine years old at that time and
| his performance excited the whole trotting
/ world. Rarus trotted in 2:l3I on the same
! track eleven years ago. At the meeting when
/ Dexter reduced the worlds record $4,000 was
| hung up in the different races.
! Jimmy Carroll, the lightweight instructor of
/ the California 4. C., has written a letter to the
! London Sporting LIE in reply TO certain dis
paraging remarks made by Jem Carney and
! Sam Blakelock, since their return, home on
/ "fair play in America" He shows himself to
! be quite an able advocate. and concludes with
/ and offer TO thrash both Carney and Blakelock
/ in the same ring
Hardy NJ. Banks, jr., the popular cOllegian
and member of the Manhattan athletic club.
J states that he is through with running for an
| indefinite period, on account of business. He
/ was always persevering trainer, aud has some
! high-class records. He has done 10 3-5 for 100
yards, % 10 for 229 yards and 81 Is for 40
! yards. He won the amateur championship at
/ the quarter-mile run in 1857.
ALI Kennedy, Billy Myers hacker SAYS that
the lightweight champion must either fight
! Myers or give up the belt and championship.
! Although Myers does not care for the belt and
as yet has not demanded it. he is entitled to il
| by all the rules of prize fighting. When Kill
! rain challenged Sullivan Richard X. Fox gave
! the belt TO him, and that, too, when John l.
was laid up with broken arm. Yet, when
Myers went right to McAulifie's home and put
| up his forfeit money for match, McAuliie.
| without any excuse at all, refused TO make
/ match. Why didn't Fox give the belt to Myers?
The demon of discord has has been mighty
! busy for the past month. The ties between
! owners and jockeys have been swapping at a
| great rate. First came the break between the
/ Dryers and their heshless little Englishman;
then Willie Palmer drew 81, 800 that he had in
! bank and struck out from under Papa Days
/ sheltering wing; next came the long-expected
! break between the only Jimmy and the specu-
| lative Chicago stable; and a little bird
whispers that all is over between Marley Der.
! gan and Capt. Brown. Truly the aforesaid
/ demon must feel quite proud of his months
| work.-SDOTfsnadn.
Peter Cannon, at Montrose, Eng, recently
gave J. Ferguson 200 yards start A. Hunter
/ 800 and A. Dellor 40 in four-mile handicap
race. The track was carefully staked OF, and
measured $50 yards so that. in order TO accom-
I plish the distance, twenty-one laps and ITO
| yards had to be trsversed. Every man I'm
ished, but Cannon managed 10 get to the front,
and won in 1870 which is only one-hfth of a
second longer than w. G. Georges record at
Stamford bridge, London, made about six
years ago, and four seconds longer than the
best held by Jack White. Cannon is consid-
cred the best professional runner in England
to-day, and judging by the time he made in his
recent race, the opinions concering his running
must be right.