Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-28
Sporting Notes.

THERE may be racing at Hot Springs during the
coming winter.
THERE will be trotting meetinaat Wilkesbarre
on october TO o.
KNAP MCCARTHY will continue with the run
ners for another season.
THE Toronto (O.) team :feated the southside
team yesterday by II 10 6.
WHILE Hamilton leads the League batters, he
has made only one home run this season.
PITCHER BARTsoN has been given an uncon-
ditional release by the Chicago Players League
club.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN now speaks disdainfuIly of
not ION the level.''
1T is said that Darby o,Brien, of the Brooklyn
League Club, has as good as signed to play in
Cincinnati next year.
PROJECT has been started in Tennessee to
erect a monument over the grave of the king Of
pacing sires, Tom Hal.
IT is sure thing now that the Brooklyns. Bos-
tons and Louisviles will carry off the pennants OF
their respective organizations.
NEW YORK Is experiencing a furore in chess,
that game being verg popular. number OF
chess clubs are being organized there.
be loyal to the management of their club next
SON. in spite of rumors to the contrary.
ALL the games in the two leagues were PLAYED
the $3.50 guarantee anything to do with it?
ONLY one ticket was sold on Servitor, winner
of the fifth race at Brooklyn on Wednesday Of
last week, and it paid $3.50 SO. or nearly 40 to1.
ball team arrived in the city Yesterday. He is
still confident Of the ultimate success Of the Ma
tional League.
Mr.. WE'LL. the checker player, will meet Gam
ateur Checker Player'' at this office on Tuesday
evening at O'Clock to arrange match for either
love or money
Iished recently of the tennis cracks, the pictures
Of Campbell, the champion, and Huntington, his
partner in the doubles, are tnterchanged.
1T is admitted by the European chess masters
that Captain Mackenzie would have won the first
rrize at the Manchester tournament If his health
had not broken down during the final rounds.
land much longer All johnson IS team would soon
be ahead d Of pttsbGrg The playing Of the yos. %.
been very interesting.
MILLER, Garrison and White who have been
playing with the Cuban Giants returned home
yesterday. They have colored nine whomsshey
would like to pit against any team for series of
games. The local N. L. team is preferred.
FRED JANSEN has addressed a circular to the
several athletic clubs asking their opinion on the
organizing a league. SO far nearly every club has
indorsed the scheme and Jansen will so report to
the A. A. U.
day. He said: .'rhe Players League has secured
the best material in the Brooklyn National League
it out and Cincinnati also the National League
cannot last long,"
VoN DER AHE is getting even with some of his
contrsets met wc1 Shorty, Fuller. the famous little
shortstop was fined 500 yesterday and laid off
for the remainder of the season. He is charged
with drinking glass of beer. but the real reason
is tnat he signed with Comiskey for next season.
Gerhardt has been laid of In order to save salary.
SAYS Anson: 'Tf SIS, 0cO has been offered tor the
Cincinnati club, that's pretty good price. I'D
take 1t If were In Stern's place, the way baseball
National League club by no means confers a
monopoly of the games there. There is nothing
to preyent the National League from putting an
other club there ami that will take out about all
the few there are in the business.'' Ewing in
sists that the Cincinnati deal will go through to
certainty.
LIEUTENANT ROCAP, in q letter to a friend,
saws: 81 expect to compete in n special class
this year at the boxing cham piOnships, have
grown too heavy for the feather-weight class
since recovered from my illness.'' The ex-
feather-welght champion is quietly confident that
he will be victorious, but his clubmates in the
Athletic Club of the Schuylklll Navy are not so
sanpuine, as the increase in the array of promis-
ing boxing talent has been more marked within
the mast few years than in any other branch of
sport.
DISPATCH from Columbus saws: John MILL
gan the big catcher of the Philadelphia Plavers'
league team. stopped off here to-day try to in
duce Elton Chamberlain to jump to the Brother
as Cham berlain signed q two years. contract with
the columbus mana cement when his release was
purchased from st. Louis last June. MilIigan is
Enthusiastic concerning the prospects of the
Rrothe rhood. and says that the Cincinnati Ma
tionaI League team has been purchased, all
norts to the contrary, Notwithstanding. Manager
FraZier OF the Syracuse Stars who are playing q
series here has about concluded the sale Of second
baseman Childs to the Cleveland National League
thar,