Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-09
Sporting Notes.

THE Louisville Club has now the Association
championship won
The home and Brooklyn p. l.. teams will play at
Greensburg to-day.
EXHIBITION games are failures in Pittsburg at
this time of year.
THE local n. l.. team will play the Oaklands to-
day at Recreation Park
SUNDAY was the first man signed under the new
National League contract
THE Oakland team and the N. L. nine will play
at Recreation Park to-day.
GLAssCoCK leads the National League in bat
ting with an average of 1888.
1T is stated that Sam Wise is to play second base
in the local p. L. team next season.
JOHN WARD is very much incensed over Snyder's
treatment of Gus Weyhing at Buffalo.
WILL GUMBERT and La Rogue signed with the
local \. l.. club yesterday for next year.
CAPTAIN BROWN will not sell his stable at Nor
ris Park but later on at one of the Jersey tracks,
THE Philadelphia Players Club had three dates
with the Cincinnati team and relinquished them.
The local lawn tennis patrons are already max
ing arrangements for some big events next
spring.
ONCE more it is rumored that Beckley and
Staley are to play in the local n. l.. club next
season.
MANAGER HANLoN is trying to secure Robert
Leadley manager of the local z. l.. team for
next year.
DIREcToRs o'NE1I and Brown. of the local N
L. club, went to New York last evening to attend
the \. l.. meeting there to-day.
''kID'' GLEASON says there is not word of
truth in the report that he had signed Players
League contract for next season.
THE Boston League Club has offered Pat Tebeau,
of the Cleveland Brotherhood team, a salary of
s., 900 to play in the Hub next season.
MR.. TODD was at this Office last evening to make
a match with MIR. Foden according to challenge,
but Mr.. Foden did nos appear. Mr.. Todd's chal-
lenge still holds good.
THE Ohio Legislature has repealed the law regu-
lating fishing with the rod and line and there is
no longer close 1t is said that the restric
tion Increased illegal fishing during the open
son.
FIELDER WOLF, of the Louisville club, denies
that he is going to play in Pittsburg next season,
He SAYS: al have played ball in Louisville all nv
life and prefer TO end my baseball career in that
city,
IN the races at Terre Haute this week the great
pesri For the ZIG trottng class Ripple Aiiertop
Mary Marshall Pixley, Henrietta, Dick Smith and
Houri are entered.
Rogers yesterday and suggested series of games
between the Philadelphia Players and League
teams. MIR. Rogers said that such series was
out of the question.
MILLER, who is well-known for his coaching
abilities will have great rival next season in the
person of Brady, the catcher of the Oakland team,
who is widely known among the amateurs by his
clamorous voice on the coacher's line.
RADBoURNE pitched in 26 winning games for
ones. one King. Of Chicago. won 80 out Of IS games
in which he pitched: Baldwin won 81 out of Sc;
Is out of 81, and Weyhing 30 out of As.
NANCY HANKS and Alabaster are to meet in
mach race for 81 600 side at Cincinnati October
but the latter's was made over The kite-shaped
track at Independence Ia, while Nancy Hanks
made hers over the regulation track at Lexington,
probably the better.
THE American Association has been invited to
Rational League 'oficais, Which will he held at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. New York. on Thursday
next. ..It will not be a regular meeting. " said
situation - This will be the first League con-
ference since last March.
THE Buena Ventura Stock Farm Company,
which was organized at Clarksviile, Tenn, in the
spring of 1889. has decided to out of the stock
raising business. At the head of the stud is the
SIS. GOO stallion Russia. by Nutwood, dam Reina
Victoria, by Rysdyk's Hambletonan. This horse
and 30 head of choicely bred brood mares will be
thrown on the market and sold in Chicago on
November3
JACK BURKE says: ''SeeIng that Parson Davies
announces that Jack Dempsey will meet me, am
still anxious to battle with him for the best
obtainable and 81 600 a side, if Dempsey is not
in position to back himself will box him for a
weight in the world can be accommodated on
the same terms; An early answer from Parson
Davies or Jack Dempsey will oblige.''
NELSON and Falo Alto, champion trotting stall
lions have been challenged to trot for big money
by Dubois Brothers. of Denver, Col, on behalf
600 or more; The race 10 be trotted at Overland
Park Club; Denver before Novem-
i've. Should MIR. Marvin or Mr.. Nelson decline
to accept. the proposition is open for the accept
world. Twenty-Five hundred dollars has been
deposited by the Dubois Brothers in the National
Bank of Commerce, Of Denver, deposit to bind
the offer.
THE following quotation from English news
paper would seem to explain George w. Rowdon's
phenomenal high jumpof feet 5A inches, made
some particulars OF g. W. Rowdon's Haytor
Camp high jump Of over feet SIS inches, done the
first week In August. The ex-amate1r high-jump
champion. who now seems to demand a money
payment for his exhibitions the different local
SPORTS appears always to Jump at height from
q small spring block raised seven inches from the
ground at the broad end. Thus seven inches must
be taken Of all his jumps plus the spring from the
board.n