Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12

makes him the fastest of the get of Governor
| Sprague.
TOMMY BURNS is now captaining the Brook
| lyn League team.
THERE Is a letter in this Office for w.
Hough, the sprinter
FRED TARAL, the jockey, will Join the
| Labold stable at Saratoga.
| RANK errors are running the Pittsburg p. l..
team toward the rear end of the race.
THE yearling flly Quiver, by St. Simon, was
sold in England on June 80 for 5,5U0
P.L. LoRENrz has resigned as umpire in the
| New York and Pennsylvania League.
CoRcoRAN may play good ball once in awhile,
but when he lets in five runs in game it's time
to quit.
TIERNAN has made 2l hits in 13 games and
has only missed making hit In three out of the
last IL games.
IF the local P. L. team wants to continue
drawing crowds they must get few more ball
players on their team.
MIKE LUCIE and Joe El1ingsworth have been
matched to fight for purse of 81, 600 in August
before the Seattle Athletic Club.
G. WA1BAUM has sold to James Shield, for
81, SOC, the 4year-old chestnut colt Sorrento, by
Joe Hooker, out of Rosa b, by Norfolk.
ALLERroN trotted on the new mile track at
Independence, Ia, on July 4 to beat his record
2lsA His time was 2:16A. Time by quarters,
l:33 1:06, l:4l.
QUITE number of trotters at the tracks in
the vicinity of Boston are suffering from DIS
ease of the mouth, termed by veterinarians
epizootic aphtha.
ROCHESTER has purchased the release of
Catcher Grimm, of Toronto, and has suspended
Marr Phillips for disability. Rochester will
doubtless get Doran, of New Haven.
In the wrestling match Thursday yht be-
tween Matsada Sorakichi, 1.-THE Jap" cL tmpion
heavy weight, and W. H. Quinn, champion
heavy weight of the Pacific coast, the Jap was
the winner.
THE Boston (P. L. team on the end Of the
recent Western trip refused to ride home from
Pittsburg on the same train with Director
Hart, of their club. owing to some KICKS made
by him on financial matters.
ADvfcEs from London state that George
Dixon, the colored bantam champion, has re-
fused to fight Cal MCCARTHY for tho purse the
until November. He will shortly return to
America.
THE chess players throughout the country
are agitatlng for grand tournament TO bo
held at Chicago In connection with tho Worlds
Fair. The arrangement of tho meeting will he
placed IN the hands Of the United states Chess
Association,
THE aggregate attendance NJ the first series
OF games ~ the East this week waAI PiayerE
League, D700i National League, iO,bGD New
YORK was the only city In which the Players
a,eagne clubs had tho most people. Here tho
THE refusal OF PAotta, the American anna.
teur souller, 20 take advantage OF his oppo'
nentA upset In the Henley regatta, IN much
praised IN London rowing circles. An address
VIII be presented 20 Paotta and probably tes.
tmonlal will be subscribed.
THERE will be an attempt Of record. breaking
NJ the berkeley Oval on Saturday Of next week,
W, w. Wendell will try 10 broak tho ono mile
and W. Is. Rich the three and fye mile record
on the bicycle. A, A, Jordan Of the New York
Athletic CluD will try 10 beat tho l20yard hur'
die record.
ON the steamer that sailed from San Fran.
cisco for Australia on June 2S there was shipped
0 full brother 70 Yolo Maid, 2il216. pacing, he
having been bought by Mr.. Foster, of Sydney.
The purchase was conditional on tho horse be-
ing able 70 show two miles In i've minutes or
better, and as tho feat was accomplished In 4;6l
the sale was contaminated.
WENDELL GOODWIN. President of the
brooklyn Players League Club, denies that
Eastern Park has been sold for q race track,
but says that the Brooklyn club propose them
selves TO build half-mile running track there.
This VIII not be expensive, as the grand stand
was apparently built SO as not to interfere with
track II IL should prove desirable to build ono.
GLAssoocK. in the ten games previous to
yesterday, made only four hits in Al times at
bat, an average of 097. He has, however, made
five sacrifices in tn ese games, His fielding in
the same games has been superb. Thirty put
outs and 26 assists without an error s his record
Captain Jack has not made an error for IL
games, and only four In IL games. His fielding
average in Is games was 800.
THE local N. L. team is still in the old rut
and can't be expected to win untilit Is strength
ened. The cry that 1t Is a want Of pitchers is
getting old. Baker Is as good man as there Is
in the League If he had team behind him.
There is lack of team work and poor base
points. A good field captain could make the
club win at least once In awhile.