Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-31
SnOrting Notes.

THE Bowdoin College rush line this year is very
| heavy.
KALEs, go. has been elected captain OF the Bos-
ton tech. eleven.
THE college tennis tournament OF Amherst was
won by c. A. Magill, 81.
THE men will begin rowing for the Yale Univer-
sity crew next Wednesday.
SATURDAYS local football match will start
promptly at $3.50 in the afternoon.
HUTCHINSON. of the Harvard crew and football
team. has entered the University of Pennsyl-
yania.
THE $50 placed in the hands OF the sportng editor
of THE DISPATCH. to wager on Democratic Con-
gress. is still uncovered.
THE North End Football Club, of Preston.
England, will probably make tour of America in
1892 playing football and baseball
THE University of PENNSYLVANIA freshmen, who
are candidates for their class crew. have COM
menced practicing at their rowing weights.
LA BLANCHE took benefit in Seattle on satur-
day night and left for the East. He is expected
be on hand when the Dempsey-Fitzsimmons bat
tic comes off.
THk fight between Ted Pritchard and Billy Nc
Pritchard viii fight any man in the world of his
weight for s, 600.
JACK HAYES writes this paper to the effect that
to put purse, at this Office on Monday evening
next at O'Clock.
THE Denny brothers. the well-knowu trap
They speak well of hunting prospects out there.
They will take part in to-day's shooting at Bru-
not's Island.
ONE of the best wing shots in the United States
IS young Fred Hoey son of Mr.. John Hoey. He
made the won nderful score at Tuxedo Park of II
dairy and 80 yards rise winning two massive silver
cups.
AT meeting of the Board Of Governors OF the
Berkeley Athletic Club, held Saturday evening,
October is, it was unanimously voted that the tug
of be dropped from the list of sports of the
+ s W ke n
after May l, 1891.
JACK DEMPSEY will do his training in Portland.
the warm weather Of New Orleans will be detri-
mental to him. He will proceed to the scene of
in better health and If he loses it will not be on
account Of poor condition
The citizens Of Hartford are endeavoring to
have the Yale-Harvard race rowed on the Con-
necticut river, a few miles above that city. The
river has breadth OF about an eighth cf mile
There is an unexpended Government appropria-
tion OF sS COO which it Is thought can Dc applied
the railroad will run spur track along the bank.
In reference 10 the special to the Tribune from
ing for the sale of the Chicago Brotherhood club
to President spaIding of the League: President
had been no direct offer buy sell by either OF
the local clubs. but that the plan had been sug-
Ger of the PlaYers' League club asserted that the
club could probably Be bought if the right price
was paid.-Chtcd0o Tribune.
JOE RILEY, who was Slavin's backer in Austria
liza, says that Slsvin is fighter but loses his tenn
per TOO easily. Asked what would be the outcome
Of fight between Slavin and jackson. Riley said:
''Peter would whip him. He is far the best boxer
and is a good general, and he knows Slavin like a
hook. Frank told me once himself that he never
intended to go against Peter II he could help 1t.
In Australia we regard jackson as the most scien-
tifc fighter in the world.n
THE Yale Athletic Association has inaugurated
a series of hare and hounds runs, for the purpose
of keeping the long-distance runners in training
and to further develop new material for these
events. TIE runs will be held twice a week, and
experienced runners will be present whose duty
1t will be to regulate the pace and distance, The
runs will be kept up until after Thanksgiving,
when the season will be ended by a cross-country
championship race over an eight-mile course. for
q cup especially designed for tie event.