The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-18
SPORTING NOTES.
Winnings Of Runners and TrOtterS
for the Past Year.
MCcAFFREY TO TURN ACTOR.

DoMINlCk MCCAFFREY TO TURN ACTOR.
Base Rail- News.-Pugilistic Notes and
Items of Interest
August Belmont has crack two-year-
old for the Futurity stakes.
Alcryon heads the list Of winning trot-
ters with $2l 800 to his credit.
sunol, record 10 I-2, Robert Bonner's
purchase, will go East in Charles Mar
WINS string.
Charles A. Hartman will start on his
3,o00-mile walk to San Frimeiseo and re-
turn on April 10.
It is announced that Washington will
succeed Providence in the Atlantic Base
ball Association.
The ten big winning runners of 1889
earned $392, ,23S, against $7l ,92O for the
ten leading trotters.
The manager of the New York Play
er's League Club, is Clarence l.. Earring
ton, of Holyoke, Mass
John Morrill,, the well known baseball
player, will manage an independent
baseball team at Boston, Mass.
The Yale University and Atlanta, of
New York, eight-oared crews, will prob
ably measure strokes this year.
Entries TO the Detroit Mechanics and
Manufacturers $1,000 stake for 2:24
class horses will close on April 10.
The prosperous Dwyer Bros have won
in fourteen years 81 ,24n, ,O65, of which
amount they won $l6s, III last season.
Mr.. d. ID. Withers has engaged as
jockey j. Reagan, formerly known as j.
Caldwell, the adopted son of Starter
Caldwell.
St Paul, Mimi, is spending So, 900
on club house for their trotting track
and 500. 900 in purses are TO be hung up
in July.
The constables at Byfield, Mass,
stopped cooking main between Boston
and Havethill game fowls on March l6,
and arrested twenty sports.
Secretary Brunnell, -ssof the Players
Baseball League, has made an appeal to
the New York State Intercollegiate Assoc
citation for recognition and games.
The Philadelphia Park Commissioners
have granted the Nesper Boat Club per
mission to hold its annual regatta on the
lower Sehuylkill course on June %.
Dominick McCafFrey, the well-known
pugilist, will turn actor, and he is to
study elocution and he may make a hit.
It is said that more Australian horses
will shortly visit England TO compete in
the big events, one of which being the
Victoria Derby winner, Dreadnought, by
Observation-Disclosures
The Workingmen's Club, of Philadel-
pfia, billiard team has come off success
ful in the tournament just ended, having
defeated their opponents-the Rox-
borough team-by 324 points.
Billy Jorsian. the master of ceremonies
of the Calif1rnia Athletic Club, is still as
popular in San Francisco as he was ten
wears ago The California Club direc-
tors believe Jordan TO be hustler.
George Mulholland, the welteT-weight
pugilist, who fought many important
battles on the Pacific Slope during the
past two years, has been sent to Jail for
i've months for vagrancy in Frisco.
On March 2I the Riverside Gun CIut
held its monthly live bird shoot at Red
Bank, \ j. Fred Beals and l.. b. Camp
bell each won events, and Beals and A
Z. Ackerman divided first money in the
third event.
At st. Augustine, Fla, on March 81
Anson's Chicago team did up Byrne''
/ Brooklyn Bridegrooms by score of tC
T. Inks and Coughlin, both of the Chi
/ the Brooklyn pitchers are in shape fol
work.
Ike Weir, the Belfast Spider, held /
boxing show at Springfield, Mass, OF
March Is. The feature OF the affair wa,
glove contest between Ike Weir anC
Bob Green, which pleased the larg,
crowd. Weir was followed from th'
Polo Rink by a treme6dous.crowd
4 At the annual meeting of the stock
/ holders of the Brooklyn Jockey Club
held recently, Messrs. Philip. Dwyer
John McCarty, James ShevIin, Nj. Il
i Dwyer, Richard Hyde, l.. G. Behman
John Delmar, A. G. Washington and w
L. Scott were elected directors for thu
current year.
VIM. 0'Connor arrived at Honolulu
Sandwich Islands, on Feb. l5, and wa
given great reception. At the reques
of King Kalakaua he gave a rowing ex
hibition, which SO pleased the peopl
that the American champion was pre-
sented with purse of 500. He is il
the best of health.
At Philadelphia, on March 20, tn
South End Wheelmen tug-of-war team
consisting OF W. Dickson (anchor), X
McCurdy, 5. Young and o. McCurdy
, beat the Century team by Ia inches a
the entertainment given by the Centur
J Wheelmen. There was also some goo
boxing and wrestling.
l.. Gibson and w. Harrison, of tn
/ S ,1ortsman's Gun Club, shot a match o
March 21, at Keystone targets agains
! William Morris Pack and W. w. Abbot
of the North End Club, on the ground
of the former, at Fernwood, Pa. tn
match was at 80 singles and 25 pair
Gibson and Harrison won by score I
155 to l49.
Theodore Winters, of Sacrament,
Cal, lost recently the yearling colt,
Joe Hooker, dam Marian, dam of En-
peror of Norfolk, Duchess of Norfolk, tt
, Gar, FL Rio Rey, etc. He was the fir
foal Marian had produced by any sil
but Norfolk, and the colt, although b
Joe Hooker was a very fine one and
: great promise.
The celebrated Australian race hors
Chicago has arrived in England. Il
made the voyage nicely, is in good healt