Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-19
MACAL'S NEW YORK LETTER
Latest Gossip Anent the Knights of the
Squared Circle.
AUSTRALIAN MURPHYs EXPERIENCE
Joe McAulifTc's Ambition - The
Brooklyn Handicap and
the Yachting Sea-
son, Etc.

New YoRK, May 16. Especial Correspond
ence TO THE BEE. Sporting matters have
been dull the past week. nothing of much inn
portance happening in the puglistic line.
Billy Myer has sent a dispatch to Frank Ste
venson of the Puritan athletic club, stating
that he would like to meet either Jack Nc
Auiffe or Charley Norton in a twelve-round
go before the club for suitable purse the
men to weigh 1856 pounds. 1t is reasonably
certain that McAuliffe will not accept, as
Jack at present is interested in horse races,
and as long as he has money he will not
bother his head about fighting. He has been
quite successful on the turf so far, and If his
luck holds out until the end of the season 1T
is dollars to doughnuts he will never enter
the prize ring again. AS he remarked one
day; ~ amt in the business for glory. I
obtained that long ago. / only fight when
necessary, and as long as 1 can live
comfortably without fighting will do so, as
i am not stuck on the business
Jack has provided comfortable home for
his mother and sister, and he will never want
while he has men like Phil Dwyer and Dick
Roche behind him.
The Occidental Athletic club of San Fran
cisco has offered purse of $1,000 for Austin
Gibbons and Mike Gushing. The battle will
hardly take place in the west, as Mike said
some time ago that he did not care to go to
California to fight. He says that purse of
81 900 or 81 800 can be raised in the east for
them, and they can settle their dispute with
out making such q long journey. Gushing,
like McAuliffe, is interested in the turf bust
ness, but the lghtweights will hear from
Mike in the fall.
Australian Murphy left New York for
FRISCO today. He took along with him the
Police Gazette belt emblamatic of the
featherwcight championship of the world |
had quite talk with Murphy over his past
history. He told me when lie left Australia
he had but 81 in his pocket, and he still car
ries the coin to this day. He was engaged on
the steamer as general utility man and worked
his passage over to America. He had quite
hard time of it on the boat, varying his labors
from waiting on the table and cleaning out
the store-room to scrubbing up the deck. He
was an apt worker, however, and the chief
steward took quite fancy to him. When the
ship landed the steward gave him $40 and
told him that any time he needed dollar to
go to him. Everybody knows how he de-
feated Grffen, Murphy and Weir, and the
little man that landed on our shores six
months ago pennilesS now returns home
with at least $4,000 to his credit. Speaking
of the belt, this is the first time an Austral-
ian ever took home an American belt Muir
ply will return in the fall and endeavor to
show some of the little 'uns that he is the
real champion.
Nothing new has occurred in the prospec-
1--WE Joe NcAullffe-Jake k1lraln match. hll-
rains sentence does not expire until next
month and nothing will be done until Jake
comes north. In the meantime Billy Madden
is hustling trying to arrange a fight with his
protege and some of the big fellows in the
east He has made offers to Jee Lannon,
George Godfrey or anybody of his weight.
The Puritan athletic club has offered $1,000
purse for McAuliffe and Kilrain, but Madden
says he will not fight for less than 5000
BY the time this is read the Brooklyn
handicap will have been run and won. Allof
the candidates showed up well in their trials,
especially Sir Dixon, Fides, Bulge, Los An
gees and Come-toTaw. The race on paper
is an open one, but think that the race will
go to the Dwyers with Come-to-Taw and
tides next in order.
The yachting season has opened and the
bay is resplendent with the white-winged fly
ers | paid visit to the Larchmont yacht
clubs grounds at Larchmont manor lastweell
and was struck by the beauty OF the place.
The club is without doubt the foremost of any
in this country, not excepting the New York
yacht club, which is but yacht club in name
without any grounds or anchorage for the
vessels. The Larchmont club is fitted up
with every contrivance necessary to yacht
and it's members are the best in New York,
many of the New York yacht clubs members
being enrolled MACAL