Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-08

| S. c. D.-Jack Dempsey was born in 1852
PETER DALEY: Dempsey won. 1t was a
| contest for points.
A FIGHT may be arranged between Jack
Fallon and Godfrey.
PAT FARRELL is now hot after Jack Fallon
| for fight to nnish.
MANAGER WRIGHT and the Phillies will 20
| to Florida next week.
IT is stated that the Chicago Players Club
will pay Martin Duke, of the Minneapolis team,
asalary of $4,600 oh, my!
PRESIDENT BRUSH has ordered seas on
tickets to be printed at once This indicates
that the Hoosiers are going to stay.
THE Cleveland National League Club di-
rectnrs claim to have subscribers for 1000 sea-
son tickets, being double the number of last
year.
Young says that the Worcester club has per-
feet right to go back into the Atlantic Asso-
citation.
HEREAFTER the Pimlico track at Baltimore
will be exclusively trotting track. 1t is now
IN the hands of thoroughgoing trotting-horse
men, and they intend to make it a success.
IAN Athlete writes to this paper asking why
Priddy and McClelland cannot run their race
in the Central Rink some evening SO that all
working people can have a chance to see it.
RoDY PATTERSON expects to make a fine
showing this year with the 5-year-old mare
Duchess Russell, 2:22 he being satisfied of her
ability to put in three heats in 2:20 better be-
fore the season is over.
Joe ACTON, wrestling instructor of the Cali
fornia Athletic Club has been promised a
match by the club within three months. The
name of his opponent is unknown at present.
The club is TRYING to get up wrestling as well
as sparring boom.
DANIEL ]. HERTY is one of the entries for
the race to be given by Harry Davis, in Pitts
burg, Pa, in April, and he states that he will
compete against any man in the world in said
race for special stake of 81, 900 side. A
number of other good men have sent in their
names for the same event, we learn, and the
manager announces that he will not allow any
one to start who may have competed in any
other race within five weeks before it starts.
-NelD York Clipper.
1T may be that Frank McHugh, the Cincin-
natl featherweight and Jack Carey, the Jersey
City man, will come together in finish fight to
decide who shall go against the winner of the
McCarthy-Dixon go for the championship of
the world. One of Carey's representatives
called upon John Kelly, of Sixth avenue. yes
terday and offered to make a match for $3.50 a
side and purse. McHugh is in Cincinnati,
but Kelly has full power to talk for him.-NetO
York Sun.
The Columbus club has no claim on the
services of NJ. s. Leblanc, the heavy-hitting
first baseman of the Buffalo club. by reason of
the personal agreement made by that player
conditional upon his release from Buffalo.
According to the National agreement a club
has no right to negotiate with player as long
as he is under contract or reserve with another
club. without the consent of the club SO hold
ing him. Therefore the agreement made is
void. and will not be recognized by the Board
of Arbitration should the matter be placed be-
lore 1t. Both Lehane and the Columbus club
are to be censured for making such an agree
ment in defiance of the rules.
AS THE result of a pleasant but spirited con-
versation. a trotting match has been arranged
which will excite considerable interest among
Chicago horsemen. The parties to it are II. L.
White and Charley Stiles. 1t is not for q big
stake, the chief object being to determine
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White names his colt Scotsman, by Milo, dam
Alfaretta, and Stiles his colt Fleetwood, by
Electioneer, dam by Nutwood. The match is
mile heats three in five, for $3.50 a side, to be
trotted at Washington Park track, August 10.
1880. the week of the Northwestern Breeders
meeting, Stiles giving White $40 out of the
stakes for agreeing to have the race come off at
Washington Park. Billy Boyle was chosen
stakeholder.