The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-22
SPORTING GOSSIP.

Hamilton and the Phillics wants TO run
Fogarty n foot race.
And now Ed Sheridan has left Van der
Abe. The 'boss president is indeed I'm
tough luck.
They say Axtel is by a CURLY sire from
q spawned dam. He is "a Sl05,O0O beauty
aud his fee is $1,000.
Porter Ashes racing stable has left
wcstchester track and Is now stabbed Mt
the Brooklyn race track.
The executive committee of the Iowa
Amateur Rowing association has decided
on July 10 and ~ for the date OF the Spirit
Lake regatta.
Capt. j. NJ. Johnston of Macon, Ga,
owns n large plantation on the line of
the Americas, Preston 4 Lumpkin rail-
way, in Southwest Georgia, which he is
stocking with cartridges brought from
Connecticut
81 will slide this season IL il breaks my
neck" is what Pete Browning tells his
friends. 'They say the old war-horse is
played out and all that sort of thing, but
guessing then he knows nothing about
base ball"
All the ilrst-class race tracks employ a
doctor by the year, or rather the season.
They pay a liberal price, from SO "a day
upward, and expect him to report for
duty n half hour before the races begin,
and to remain on hand till all the visitors
have left.
Johnny Reagan and Pete Mccoy, with
their respective hackers, Billy Reid and
Warren Lewis, will meet at the Office of
the Police Gazette, April p, to choose a
referee for their ten-round glove contest,
which occurs May I at the Puritan Athle-
tic club.
Peter Mccoy is now in excellent con-
dition for his fight with Johnny Regain.
Pete has become quite n sprinter. Jack
Dungall, an old professional runner, has
been training him at joe Pendergast's
hotel on Staten Island, and in conse-
quencc Mccoy has done considerable rum
ming.
The New York Star says that Harry
Wright still expects Joe Mulvcy To report
for duty with the Philadelphia league
club. Harry never did a mean act or a
dishonorablc thing in his long and re-
markable basc ball career, and he is loath
To believe hat Mulvey has deserted him.
Harry Is easily the innocent old man of
base ball.
Pitcher Titcomb Of the Torontos is a
thorough brotherhood man and believes
the players will cpnc out on top. He says
IL il all nonsense TO suppose that the
players can not get along under their pro-
posed system OF management. They have
too much at stake to allow disscnsions to
arise n break up their organization.
The Philadelphia Press ma a y of the
Buffalo brotherhood team: "Buifalo will
open the season in rongc condition
than Washington ever did. ! am afraid
that the people are undertaking this team.
II is not the Washington club. Far from
that. IL Is composed Of new men, who,
with five on six tried players. are bound
10 give a good o OF themselves"
December 3 last, Talbot Bros. OF Bour-
bon county, Kentucky, bought in Lexing-
ton. KY, of August Belmont the young
stallion Prince Leopold, imported in
utcro, 10y Doncastcr, dam imp. Princess,
by King Tom, for $3.50. To-day they
brought suit here for the recovery Of the
purchase money with interest from the
date of sale. They claim the horse was
then and il now unsound. The ease will
he called next November.
Al Jerome park last fall Raceland gave
Reporter ~ pounds and beat him so cas-
lily that IL is "a matter Of absolute certainty
Mr.. Belmont's horse could have won with
at least another ten pounds up. In tile
New Rochelle stakes Hanover. himself
beaten by half a length in trying to ron
ccde Scnorita Is pounds, fairly smothercI
Raccland at three pounds. And yet some
people fancy Reporter for the Brooklyn
with III pounds against Hanover at i22
and Senorita at liz.
n gcp1, narh IIttsf Is lar more valuable
la a team than "A brilliant outficldcr. A
manager can not afford Ia carry ''dum-
mics In the infleld, for players inside the
lines must he up To standard. IL is not 81
much difference ia the outileld. No out.
ficlder In called upon To catch "A fly moro
than once "a week hat AN ordinarily good
man can not get. Suppose an outflelder
does DROP one ball IN "A game; IL is only
one chance To lose the game, while hc has
four aud sometimes five chances at tho
bat To hit the ball and possibly win ia.
game. A hnrd-hitting team il always pre-
ferablc To "A brilliant fielding organiza.
ton.
The answcr sen 10 the Earl OF Dun.
raven on April g, by the New York Yacht
club, in reply 60 his lordship's letter ask.
ing IL his original proposition Ia .aiI Ia,
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