Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-15
Sporting Notes.

that AL johnson was one of the men who threw
the z. L. down. Alas! what a change.
TIE fight between Jimmy kennard and Billy
Murray is being extensively disussed in sporting
circles. The winner will challenge Tommy Kelly.
No further steps have been taken in the pro-
posed match between Austin Gibbons and Jack
in few weeks.
MIKE KELLY will probably play in Chicago
next season. He has already received a little
cash from Mr.. Spalding, who arranged the trans
fer with the triumvirs.
ALL thai was left Of the Maryland Jockey Club
was sold by auction at Baltimore on Tuesday q
The ground WAS originally bought for s5, 900. The
clubhouse cost $40, 600, the appointments about
S. OUO, and the stables about s., 900. The whole
went for s5, 200 to Charles G. Pitts.
THE Western people are going to be an impor-
tant factor at the winter tracks this year. over
now stabbed at Guttenhurg, and more are ex-
pected. jack Chinn and George Morgan will
Fnown ETU fUrfn'en from the Vest Hostof them
have brought on their own jockeys.
A. ". HARRISON, Rockpoint. has sold to F. Nj.
Prirsteer' dam Dolly, by Hambletonian io~breSa eS
to Kimberly, son OF Bay Tom: also, the chestnut
mare Matte Lambert by Daniel Lambert,bred
Lanark, son OF Egb bert, and a weanling chestnut
colt by Rockford, dam kittie Hull.
If Captain Sam Brown had been wise he would
have sold senorita when he disposed of the other
members of his stable to the highest bidder. Not
selling her, retirement would have been wiser than
to have seen her beaten as of late Trainer Rogers
said yesterday that unless the weather looked up
he would send Senorita, Defaulter and Michael
home this week.-NeU York Telegram.
DEFAULTER has again appeared on the track in
the colors of Captain 5. B. Brown. Nj. COrbetL
the bookmaker, bought the horse at the Captain s
recent sale, but gave him mn when the Captain
Informed him that his daughter yerv fond OF
Defaulter and wanted to buy him back. The
Pittsburger was willing to pay whatever price
MIR. Corbett would name but the latter refused to
make l cent profit by the trade.
WALTER DE BAUM is going to Paris in d few
weeks 10 establish an American bar in that Ray
a prosperous bookmaker, ana they concluded
some time ago to dispose of their cafe West
Twenty-sixth street. Many offers were made for
1t. but George Gore. the left Nelder of the New
has taken possession of the place. Gore is good
business man =nd his friends believe that he has
secured a bonanza.
JAMES G. KENNEDY, in explaining the demor
aliZation of the Players League. says: ''It Ii
only just, however, to say that the sudden col.
tributed to John Ward the founder of the
Brotherhood. If his ideas had been carried out
the chances are that the Players League would
be in a prosperous condition to-day. But the
financial men stepped in and their ignorance o.
baseball, coupled with their desire for notoriety
has caused the ruin.f'
THERE is well founded report that several
gentlemen, among whom are mentioned JohT
Hunter, James Galway and Mess-s. Bowie anc
Campbell, are about leasing jerome Park for
run on alternate days with Monmouth Park dur
ing July and August and to offer good money fol
the very best horses. A revival Of hurdle anC
steeplechasng is also one of the plans of the pro
why such racing enterprise should not be sue
| cessful.