The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-03-08
SPORTING NOTES.

SPORTING NOTES.
The National League meeting occur
red in Cleveland, o., Monday. There
were about 20delegates in attendance.
Peter jackson ard Jack t'alIon slug
ged each other so hard in Brooklyn Mon
day night that the police stopped them
in the second round. -..e "-
! AT sale Of thoroughbred trotters at
| New York Monday, 80 head were sold at
an average of $500 each. Ferlotine, by
Kentucky Prince, was sold for So, 500.
Peter Jackson, in an interview in New
York Saturday, said that he thought
that Corbett was clever boxer, but he
was going to try and stop him in four
rounds.
The case OF Jimmy Keenan,. the prize
fighter from Baltimore, who was arrested
for engaging in fight on the United
States farm last week, was dismissed
Monday.
The New York League Baseball Club
has begun suit against Timothy Keefe,
| George Gore and Daniel Richardson to
restrain them from playing with the
Players League Club.
The court tennis match for the cham
pionship Of the world between Thomas
Petit, of America, and Saunders, OF
England, has been arranged to come off
at Dublin. The stakes will not be less
than So, 900 side.
Tommy Kelly, bantam champion OF
the world, defeated Joe CLASSY in rat
thing fight Tuesday night at Parepa hall,
New York. George Dixon. the Boston
colored featherweight, easily knocked
out young Farrell, of Harle n, in two
rounds.
Charles Wilson and Tommy Ward.
featherweights, fought an hour and a
halt in New Orleans Sunday night. The
fight was for $500 purse. and Bounce
gloves we're used. At the end of the 22d
round the referee declared the fight a
draw, and the money was divided.
Frank Lewis and the Black Pearl met
in q fight to a finish in barn outside of
the city limits Tuesday night. Lewis
was knocked out IN the ninth round.
Lewis demo astrated that while he was
clever sparrer, he was no match for the
Pearl, either in standing punishment or
in hard hitting. Lewis got in several
hard raps in the first aud third rounds,
but it did not seem to effect his antago-
mist in the lie asst, who commenced to rush
in the fifth round and knoc ked his man
completely out at the commencement Of
the ninth.
After two hours of waiting in the cold
banks of snow on the north side of
White Bear Lake last Sunday, $500
people Witnessed the fourth and last
race between Axel Paulsen and Hugh J.
Met ormick for the skating champion
ship of the world. The race began at
1915 with the men on opposite sides of
a perfectly square track. Mccormick
won the toss and chose the side which
gave him the wind to his back. Paulsen
got away snort distance ahead of Nc
Cormlck, but it soon became evident
thar he could not hold his own against
the wiry Irishman, who caught hum at
the end Of the third mile and trailed at
his heels for ab~ut eight miles. Nc
Cormick made squirt in the last two
miles and came past the flushing point
nearly half mile ahead. The time was
as follows: One mile. 3:14; 3 miles,
1890; miles, 1928; 10 miles, 37:09.
Saturday evening papers were served
on O. 3. Remey, the stakeholder, gar
nlshing Paulsen's share in the stakes,
but the stakeholder and Paulsen's
hacker made written statement tnat
Paulson did not have cent in the stake
money, and the papers were withdrawn.
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