Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-30
Sporting Notes,

THE football players at McKeesport are organ
izing.
TIP o'NEIL says the Chicago Players team is
PITCHER CALLAHAN has sued the Rochester
club for Fl, 00O back salary.
CAREY intends to try again within two weeks to
run 100 yards In ~ seconds in presence of the A.
A. u. Committee.
class. He won with great ease yesterday. His
owner, Pittsburg Phil, landed good roll on him.
-Neso York Sun.
1HE Manhattan Athletic Club members are de-
claring themselves strongly against the A. a. U.
Committee for rejecting Carey's claim of running
100 yards in 80 seconds
THERE will be a meeting of the American Ath.
letic Association in January, when 1t will be de-
eIded TO apply for membership in the A. A. U.
That Will be very wise STEP
ALL kinds of indefinite rumors are in circula-
tion regarding Mr.. Addison. MIR. Talcott and
otner Z. L. magnates weakening 1t may be
well to pay no attention to these stories
CHICAGO has a new sfnfant phenom,, who is
said to be better than Willie McGill. b. q. DE
Hart is his name, and he won 81 out of so games
season.
THE latest baseball story is to the effect that
Comiskey, the captain manager of the Chicago
Players League team. has not received any of his
salary for the past season, and proposes to bring
suit for it at once.
THE Baltimore Baseball and Exhibition Com
@ Der Horst %iiiism Barne. John heWs W. Maita Il Tan
William Belt and Herman H. Won der Horst The
industry of professional base ball playing'i and
to give exhibitions of the same. The capital stock
isS6 600, divided into 12O shares of $50 each
A DISPATCH from New York SAWS: "a ruinor
current to-day that the New -iork Players'
League had sold its fve-years' lease of the
Brotherhood Park to jay Could for Terminal
facilities for the Manhattan Elevated was denied
tonight by Director Talcott of the Players'
Manhattan Railroad. The railroad COMPANY wants
it badly all the same.
A BASEBALL capitalist saws: 1.-THE talk that
salaries will 90 down with a settlement of the
fight is nonsense. The good player will always
commands a big salary. OF course on the part Of
some players this cry of salary REDUCTION Is ner-
fectly justified. for when a settlement is made
these fellows must seek their level. The time will
have come 10 cease travelling their regulations.
Their places Will be taken by the young stars"
The reported haIf-inile walk of G. ID. Bvrd. in
exhibition at the Olympic Athletic Club
games, San Francisco, CAL, October 28 In min
utes SAY seconds beating the worlds record of 8
minutes 20 seconds, is not generally credited
hereabouts, as the performance, for fair heel
and-toe walking. would indeed be a marvellous
one. Ii is thought that Byrd is q. ID. Bairu at
one time Manhattan Athletic Club walker
Brooklyn Citizen.
Goddard In an eight-round 20 at Melbourne,
Australia. Jackson's showing with Goddard will
form an excellent criterion which TO base an
opinion of his chances with Slavin, Goddard is
considered the strongest man in, AustraIia He
has met nearly all the best men Id the Antipodes
and has never yet been defeated. Slavin offered
Goddard purse TO stand before him for six
rounds. Goddard got the purse at the end Of the
fifth round. Slavin's friends were oil the opinion
that Slavin would have been Knocked out had the
sixth round been fought. Goddard, in build and
have met him claim that he can hit as clean and
heavy as the champion. Goddard, If successful
in his go with jackson, will make a tour Of this
country.