The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-19
SPORTING GOSSIP.

Brooklyn handicap, with Gorge a close
second. With 40 pounds up Gorge Is
thought by some to have n cinch on the
race II she starts.
The Clifton track il said to have netted
S3O0.O00 profit this season. Winter racing
seems to pay. Suppression at the hands
Of the New Jersey Legislature is the only
thing the Clifton managers fear.
Riley, Corrigan's derby candidate, is not
so far advanced as R~obcspierre, but is
taking plenty of work. The Memphis
| Appeal, just To hand, says Riley has
work,d n mile and an eighth In 2:U.
The Intercollegiate Cricket League i'm
cludes Harvard, Pennsylvania and Haver-
ford. The schedule for the championship
season has been arranged. Columbia
College expresses the desire to join the
League and will no doubt dc so.
Jimmy Larkin, the indicated 122-
pound fighter of Jersey City, writes to the
Puritan club that he would be glad to
get on q match with Billy Murphy, the
Australian. The club will give a purse of
II, 100 for q contest between them.
There are twenty-five candidates for the
Princeton lacrosse team, all OF whom are
I'm training. The vacancies caused by the
graduation OF a number OF the best play
ers OF last year are said to be adequately
filed by newly developed material.
The Guttcnburg meeting will end on
| saturday. IL has been the most success
| full known To the Hudson County Jockey
| club. The management Is very well
| pleased with the way the public apprc-
ciated the racing that was offered.
Jake Gaudaur, the professional oars
man, who defeated AL Hamm in every
one Of a series Of races in Florida, now
challenges any man in the world to row
for from $1,000 to 5000 "a side. He says
he has been taking good care of himself
and is constantly IN training.
lack Barnett of Washington, who
aspircs to he "A hacker of pugilists, has
posted 500 in behalf Of Billy Mcmillan Of
| Washington n challenged Paddy Duly
to a finish fight for 500 a side. Here is q
beautiful sample or "Me and me backer,'
or else Barnett has been dead to the world
for four months. Everyone knows that
Duffy has beer on "A sick-bcd for that
time.
At the California Athletic club the night
| of the McAulifre-Carroll fight the door
keeper seized IL tickets and seven coupons
presented by persons other than members.
The Il members whose tickets were pre-
scented were fined SO each by the club. The
| rightful owners OF the seven coupons were
| allowed to escape the fine, as il could not
he proved tina the holders had not picked
them up on the sidewalk after the mem
bcrs had thrown them away.
This is what the st. Louis Giobe- Demo
c,uf says Of Arson and the Chicago pro-
fcssional leans: "'The 1--WE Chicago.
| clubs-Comisky's brotherhood wheel
horses and Anson's league'colts'- are both
stopping Mt the Lindcll. There is no i'll
feeling among them. The brotherhood
team as n body have the best of feeling
for Anson. because, as they put IL, the
old man has not done them any dirt
by trying To bride players to leave the
brotherhood"
The California Athletic club has
matched George La Blanche, the MIA.
rinc," and John l.. Hergct, better known
TO the sporting world as "loung Mitch.
ell" for "A purse Of Sl,OOO. Of which the
loser will receive 500. The contest will
occur juno "a. "Young MITCHELL who
was aching for a go with Dempsey since
the latter has bee on the coast, was
thinking seriously Of going to England foI
a LIGHT with "T'oir" Wall or Bill Goode
Eastern sports who have seen "founp
Mitchell" spar are Of the opinion that La
Blanche will have a hart:fight.
George Dixon's hackers arr out with an
offer To Cal Mccarthy to fight the colorcd
bantam six TO ten rounds, or as many
more as the authorities will permit, the
winner To take 15 per q of the receipts
They would prefer a finish fight, but AS
sert that Mccarthy is afraid tn meet DixoI
in a finish fight. McCarthy's proposition
is TO spar for Dixon's benefit in Boston
aud To- have Dixon spar for his benefit IL
New York. The effect Of the Dixon
Mccarthy fight, although II was n draw
seems To have been to pretty much with
draw Mccarthy from circulation.
Apretty good authority makes the state
ment that there was quite u lively time II
the mayors office M Pittsburg Monda.
morning. II is alleged that Manage
Hanlon and President Mctallin had an In
tcrview the particulars Of which would b'