Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
SportiuR Notes.


THAT wasn't bad wind up at Exposition Park
yesterday
OUR own N. L. record breakers returned home
yesterday.
RAIN prevented the Chicago and Cincinnati N.
l.. games yesterday.
JHE Brldgevil1es defeated the Southside team
yesterday by 10 to i.
THE Greenv1lle ball team defeated the Times
nine yesterday by Il to 9.
JOHN DAVIS, the old horse which ran at Glou-
cester last Tuesday, began racing in 1873.
THE J. Visners claim the championship of clubs
whose members are not more than IA yearsold
j. c. WILLIAMS of the Philadelphia m. A.,
has been reinstated by the Amateur Athletic
KEEFE and Becannon have brought suit against
the Buffalo club to recover $3.50 for baseball sup
plies.
ROBERT BONNER has already driven Alfred
%7le 2?a to top wagon over the Fleetwood track in
ARROW. who was knocked down to bid of s725
at the j. a. shultz sale. was at one time valued at
CHARLEY MCCARTHY. the Philadelphia light
weight has returned from England without hav-
Ing had fight.
L. E. C.-slavin and jackson have never fought
against each other. We have answered this Ques-
tion a dozen times.
ANsoN neither denies nor admits that he has
signed W lliamson. of Comiskey's team. to play
with his club next year.
THE local football club is making efforts to play
matches here against the Lehigh and. Pennsyl-
vania University teams.
IT is rumored that the local P. L: club has Sc
cured Cook, of the Louisvilles, and Martin Decke,
of the Minneapolis team.
THE Eighteenth ward football CLUB would like
TO hear from all the local clubs regarding match.
Address Charles White, Stanton avenue, city.
JONATHAN MARTIN desires to match his dog;
take pound for sl00 side. Answer through The
DISPATCH will receive attention.
PROCTOR KNOTT, who has been in DR.. shep-
herds hands since the Suburban, has been turned
over to the ScoEgan Brothers. and the probabili-
ties that he will be great horse next season.
Altoona on Monday and Tuesday next, return
home on october II and disband on October is.
Games will probably be played with the Riverton
and A. 9. s. N. teams.
E. c. CARTER, now official handicapper of the
American Athletic Union, is the ex-champion
to the United States he won championship honors
In England. his native country.
THE chief Australian racing event. the Mel
s had ony Is out az S
entries. This is an eloquent tribute to the skill
and impartiality OF the Handicapped.
THE local and Brooklyn P. L. clubs will play the
following series of exhibition games: October 6,
Wheeling: October T. Beaver: October g. Exposi-
Der 9, Greensburg; october 10 and II, at Altoona.
THE genial Mike Mcconnell of baseball fame
will hereafter direct his attention to the running
turf instead of the green diamond. as Of yore.
He will not purchase any animals with records,
but will raise his own flyers; Mr. Mcconnell owns
at present two valuable hllies royalty bred from
thoroughbred Kentucky stock.
>sw1PEs, the newsboy, has gotten on a match at
last. Jack Darcy the Baltimore spider, colored,
has agreed to meet the bloodthirsty SWipes for
to furnish the purse and the battle ground. The
men will fight with skin-tight gloves in less than
ten days.
JOHN OWEN. of the Detroit Athletic Club, who
is credited by Westerners with covering 100 yards
in 9% seconds. is of medium height and build.
latterly he has not approached his 9& seconds,
althoug gh he covers the ground in marvelously
swift fashion. He will compete at the champion
1T is whispered that Salvador has become SO thin
to be unit for bruising race and that is given
haitian Handicap. MIR. Mackey. manager of the
Rancho del Paso breeding establishment, intends
to take h1m TO aea Sa early .f or no. SO
son of Prince Charlie and Salina-
JIMMY McLAUGHLIN's return to the saddle was
mainly induced by the fact that, quite to his
prise, he found that his average weight was run
ming much less than last season. Then 1t required
Ge s h I
is pounds at any time. This led him to conclude
quire him to reduce below 100 pounds.
THE Acme Baseball Club do hereby challenge
the Oakland o gT on ball clubs
bers 1890, for twenty-five (25l dollars or fifty (5el
dollars per 1de e to be a Of
ton Psrk A. AeshsTy e Ht Tss manager a Of the
October 6 at 1870 O'Clock P. NJ, to leave forfeit.
1T is said that the management of the Syracuse
club has telegraphed to the different clubs in the
country Offering any all of its players for SALE
The directors declare that they willing to con-
tinue q ball club in the International League or a
similar organization, but will not remain in the
American Association. There are several good
men in the Syracuse club, but none equal to Childs
who is a heavy hitter and one of the best felders
in the club.
AT a recent sale of thoroughbred yearIings at
Doncaster, England flly by Hermit sold for
SO 0OO, flY by Scottish Chief brought si9 400 a
colt by Rosicrucian Gil, 600. colt by Macgregor
si2 OO6. The prices realized for the youngsters
averaged from S. 600 upward. Fifty yearIings
disposed of in one ring sold for $3.50 Bus, and in
another string of 90, $685. 775 realized for the
lot, which was the largest sum ever realized on
one day at any previous Doncaster sale.
wELL-KNowN American sporting man (John
Mackeyl who is esteemed an authority. has lately
been to England to look at our sires, SAYS an En-
has come to the conclusion that Barcaldfne and
st. simon the pick OF the lot, an idea which
seems to be in a great measure confirmed by the
result of the yearling sales. His final verdict is
rather puzzling, for he says of Barcaldine s'He's
the best looking one OF them all. - and of st, ST.
mon. '.He's tie best l ever saw IN my Iife.',
These two utterances do not quite fit: for If Bar
caldine is the best Of them all where does st. ST.
mon come in; and II ST. Simon is the best he ever
saw in his life, where would he place Barcaldinep
However, they are both good, and that is great
thing.