Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
Sporting Notes.

SMoTHERs, the colored sprinter from Browns
willie, is good runner and no mistake.
one of the Guttcnburg bookmakers did quite
lively business the football match at 3 to G
Yale. IA to ) Princeton.
SINCE Kessler defeated George La Blanche Joe
Ellingsworth has been making arrangements to
80 10 Butte City to fight hessie-.
SOME of the men who go into the Judges, stand
remind one of the toad trying to swell himself to
the size of an OK. says Eastern writer.
TWO or three local sporting men called at this
scaaefer defeats Slosser in the billiard match to-
morrow evening,
EVANSVILLE, Ind, has raised S53 900 and ex-
poets to increase the sum to $50 OOO with which to
secure grounds and build mile track. A meeting
Will be given next year.
GoMIsKEY says that Ryan will play center
nine, while he, with o'Nelll. King aud jack
Loyle, will play in st. Louis.
HENRY THOMAS, in lengthy letter to this
paper; argues thas the Eureka Football Club
team on Thursday, although the former was
beaten.
JIMMY CARROLL writes that Bob Fitzsimmons is
training for his fight with Dempsey, and is al
ready at weight. A large part of his training
consists of making horseshoes, at which WORK
Carroll says the Australian is an expert.
A AEEPoRT from Seattle says that Billy Smith the
Australian middle-weight who met defeat at the
hands Of Jimmy Carroll, OF Brooklyn, is smatched
81, 100 before the Seattle Athletic Club on De-
cember 1O.
A REMARKABLE horse race took place recently
at Windsor, New South Wales between two local
horses owned by Messrs. Clemens and Smith. The
horses ian five successive dead heats, though the
Jockeys were changed twice. In the sixth run-off
MIR. Clemens horse won.
THE interest of chess enthusiasts is now centred
the great contest that is to in a few DAYS
between the champion of the world, William
Steinitz, OF New York, and Isidor Gunsberg, of
London. The contest will occur at the rooms Of
the Manhattan Chess Club, in West Twenty
seventh street.
MUCH unfavorable comment is heard regarding
Jere Dunn's action in stopping the S,nith-G od,
claimed that Smith no weaker in the
twenty-third than in a number of neevious
rounds, and that bis chances of victory were far
from gone.
YOUNG MITCHELL. Of California, says that since
the injunction on the California Club has been re-
moved he proposes to stay at home and do his
fighting: He did propose to To England to
meet Pritchard. Mitchell saws he'll fight Hessler
but As La Blanche has been defeated. he doesn't
care to meet him.
4 RECENT arrival from En- gland says that Frank
Murphy, the game little English feather-weight,
Is in perfect trim just now, and would make short
work OF any OF MS old American opponents III he
could meet them now. Frank is meditating n
other visit TO America. He should make splendid
match for Mike Gushing.
jim GIBBONS, who is backing his brother Austin
in the proposed match with Billy Myer, told
Howie Hodgkins. in Paterson. N. j. &, Monday.
that when the articles reached him with Myers
signature he would sign to fight at 15s give or take
two pounds, within three onths, for g. 900 side
and the best available purse.
RED WILKES has put II in the 2:3O list during
1850, as follows: Molly Malloy, -pacer 2:2o; Allie
Lydia Wilkes. PAGER, 2:97A: kadiJa, 2:2sx; Red
Hawk, 2:2S1A: Chestnut Wilkes. 2:29 Memento
Wilkes. 2:29; Bellevicw Wilkes. 2:294: Passenger,
2:5O. This makes Sc for Red Wilkes, and still
leaves him in the lead of all sons of george
Wilkes. Alcantara comes next with 80, and On
ward with 20. -,-..- go.