The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-05
OUR SPORTING LETTER.
SPORTING EVENTS DIMMED ~ THE
CENTENNIAL.
WCARTHY And NURPHY 70
CONF TOGETHER
GAMES BETWEEN THE NEW XORKS
AND WAsHINGTONS
4 high Compliment To the Richmond
Blues-1 hey ~ ere the Observed OF All
the Observers Game Hight on
Long Island

Long Island.
Especial Correspondence Of the TrNEsl
NEW YORK, May 3 Il may just "a.
well tell YOU in HE beginning that thi.
is intended 90 be sporting letter and
nothing else. am going t0 start out
with sports. but Just where ! will stop u
mystery The probability is that
viii put on the gloves with The shades OF
+ the Centennial celebration and tell you
just how the Richmond boys acted and
marched and what New York and the
rest of the world sand about them while
they were here.
I'm the first place, there has been no
disposition at all 10 take any interest in
sports or sporting matter since last
week. for everything that the sports, as
well as the rest of the people have
thought of. has been the Centennial ihe
balll and The parades. And permit me
10 digress long enough TO say that The
bail was the worst kind of disgrace
Imaginable.
Ii was intended 90 have the whole Of
fair very exclusive and very nice, but the
elegant society gentlemen who managed
10. did their work in So satisfactory man
ncr that after tickets had been given up
at Tie door they found their way 90 the
sidewalk and were sold again for mere
song. WHY a man who is very prom
nent in "a certain sporting circle bought
ticket for 81 and went 90 the ball ] sa"
him ON The street yesterday, and thc
j. D. q 90 l.l In
messed al the swell affair would, If pct
INFO cold type and allowed 10 90 into
amy paper ON the face of the globe, no
matter how remote, create sensation of
,he biggest kind lie saw men and
women from all the walks of liie-eyen
thO sidewahs-and not "a few of them
were in the warm embrace of Ills Royal
lliisriiv. SiXdoilaIsaboule.
WIN" bee remarked land he looked
di-rusted), III them people bad been aa
iuil and acted as lhey did al The side Of
any ringin the country they would have
been run of ihe turf so quick that they
wouldn't have "a chance to throw up the
sponge. Ii Vas "a dead bad time, and III
not go TO the next Centennial. see If ]
do. and l don't think that be will, but
o. hear his description of the President 8
reception and the opening quadullc.
ID was picturesque and just like man
who has spent The greater part OF ms lie
beside the ropes lie started in by say
ing that Benny came into the ring in
good shape, with his head way up, and
as game as a clipped bril- The crowd
broke for him. and he pat up his dukes
for keeps and began 90 spar for an open
ing. aud he looked like winner one
after the other, he sent all the pretty
people 10 their corners. and after o. e
hundredth round he began 10 get grOggy
and took "a hreather. But the dance +,
That was funny. say; you've seen two
fakirs doing bad scrap, haven't You =
Well. that was il all over First one
would come up 20 the scratch, and then,
when the other people would slide up 90
give EN- a Whirl, they would mosey over
10 their corners and spar for wind. II
was great all The way. and 10 made me
think of "a game bird with loose gall
he knows hes away oil, but he doesn' {
want TO sneak, for fear he'll get il in the
neck
begged pardon for depressing, and /
have depressed Now 10 sport, and If j
switch on again, YOU will know that /
ann simply following my sporting in
suncts-When YOU get into q night where
YOU know that you are gone, get away
from your man and spar for wind.
The only sporting matters that have
attracted attention have been baseball
and the news that Cal Mccarthy and
johnny Murphy the accomplished gen
tleman who holds down the chair OF
pugilism in Harvard, were 10 come to-
eether again as soon as Murphy's arm
was strong enough to use. Murphy and
Mccarthy have both been anxious TO
come together after their recent fight, in
which Murphy broke his arm. Now
Murphy has put up $500 forfeit with
Captain Cooke, of Boston, TO fight for
$500 and an added purse.
The gaines between New York and
Washington attracted lot OF out-oi-
town people 10 Staten Island on Monday
and Tuesday, and those who missed see
ing the parade saw the W ashingtOns
played out of sight The visitors had "a
Young man i'm the box who glOries in the
name of Keefe. All lilies are not white,
no more are all keeies pitchers. Our
Tim has a great deal of speed a. well as
a great deal of command over the ball
that he throws at the man with a bat IN
bis hands The keefe from Washington
had the speed, but he did not have that
control of the bail which wins the game
lie started out all right, and his inten-
lions were of the best, but he had, TO use
an old and h0mely saying, bit
oil more than he could chew and
when the fifth inning was about
half over he went all to pieces. The
Giants picked him up and knocked him
all over the field. Finally he got so bad
that seven men went TO base on balls,
and then Captain Morrill, went into tue
box and threw good ball. Crane
pitched for New York, and lac pitched
long enough and good enough until the
New Yorks were so far ahead that there
was no possibility Of their being caught,
and then Crane spread on salyc and put
the ball where the visitors could not
help hitting il, even if they had had
their eyes shut. Still the Washingtons
were beaten, and the score was 10 10 3.
A cable has been received from Lon
don. saving that kilrain ana Mitchell
will leave for New York on May 18th,
and will arrive about the 25th. He will be
given a grand reception, If what Rich
ard X Fox. of the Police Ga-ette says,
has any weight, and a great many think
il has. Steamers will 20 down the bay