The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-07-25
America Leads the World In Most
Sporting Matters.
SC0TlANDs LONG-DIsTANCE RUNNER
IN THE EAST.
Death Of II Noted Pugilist-Salyator
Walkover-A Novel Vehicle for
Riding in Flume.

Ihe report that August Belmont Is
going TO retire from the turf is premature.
oregon's game law. protecting grouse.
phesants and quail, expired the 18th.
Senator Hearst will soon win race
with Anaconda, that is, IL work is any
criterion.
Jockey Abbas, while riding a race al
Washington Park, July sth, was thrown
and killed.
A. r. Elliott OF Kansas City, has won
the championship trap shooting trophy 4
of Missouri.
Peter Jackson has gained considerably /
in weight since his arrival from Ans
tralia, and is now giant.
John H. Clark defeated James Rre.- 4
nan, the lightweight champion Of \
Oregon, recently, at Denver, Col.
William Young proposes 10 bring 10 4
America the famous Clyde Association /
Football Team, champions OF England /
I Another shattered turf idol like Tenny. I
/ the Suburban fayorite, was Surefoot, the \
/ hottest English Derby favorite on record /
/ Matsada Sorackichi, the Jap. wn
/ the wrestling match with Quinn AT Seat
I tie last week.
4 At Denver, Col, recently, Mike c. /
I Connely, the Ithaca Giant, knocked out
/ Mike Burke, of st. Louis, in one round /
/ The battle lasted | minute 80 seconds
i In rife shooting, the turf tboth in
I racing and tiotting), in pedestrianism
the amateur branch and in pugilism amt
yachting America is ahead of the world
Dixon, the colored bantam. who ~.
Gently defeated Wallace i'm London. re-
fuses TO fight Cal Mccarthy and will
soon return to his home in the East
Salvador had a walkover at Monmouth
Park for the Monmouth Cup. Tenny
and others were entered against him,
but their owners thought il usless TO
run the race.
A checker tournament for 5000 In
prizes was held at Won Minden L
Hesse's, "a Avenue A, corner 2d street.
New York City, OH June 30, July !, 8, \,
9 and II.
John L. Soules, of Suspension Bridge,
\. V, has issued challenge to James
/ Finney the champion swimmer of Eng
land, to swim through the Whirlpool
rapids for 81 900 side.
Jimmy Carroll is prepared to match
an unknown 10 fight any middle weight
IN the world. barring Jack Dempsey. for
a suitable purse and not less than 81 90
a side.
Tenny. as a three -year-old, in 1889 ran
Is races, won 10, finished second -four
times, third twice, and ran nnplaced
twice He won $3S, $50 Salvador ran S
races in 1889, won : and finished third
once. He won 81 $50
The defeat of Oarsman O'Connor in
Australia ends all prospects of the
championship of the world being hrouyh,
hack to America, whence it departed
when William Beach defeated Edward
Hanlan on March "a, 1884.
Pony Moore has always been dis
tinquished for two decades for feastine
Americans on their arrival in England
He never spares expense, time or travel
in order TO make his guests welcome,
and they receive the best the Moore
House, which is now famous Ameri-
can hostelry'' i'm London, can afford.
Russell Pace, catcher and center
fielder of the Santa Rosa Baseball Club
has received an offer from the manage
of the Port Townsend Baseball Club to
play ball for that Club. He .mav az
cept. This will be the second man
taken from the Santa Rosa Club by Port
Townsend.
A prize-fght took place at Buffalo, n
L
. Weir, the Spider" and James Con
nors, instructor of the Buffalo Athletic
! Club. The men fought with skin gloves
: The versatile Spider simply PLAYED
with the professor of pugilism, and in
the third round sent him TO grass for
the last time, winning the match and
money.
,, Paddy Duffy, the worlds 14o-pound
fistic champion, died at his home in
! Boston the 10th. He had been suffering
for years past from a complication of
lung and heart troubles, and was given
up as incurable six months ago. Since
Duffy defeated Tom Meadows in san
Francisco on March 20. 1889, he has been
failing, and many attribute his death to
J the hard blows he received over the
I heart in that battle.
8 The thirteenth annual sale of the
Elmendorf yearlings took place July
$ 9Th in the paddock of the Monmouth
q Park race track. The Elmendorf farm
o headed the list of winning sires for five
i consecutive years, and was first last
$ year. Firenzi, Salvador and Senorits
I were bred at this farm. The highest
i priced animal was a full brother tC
II Firenzi. He brought 4,250 and was
i secured by w. J.. Scott Thrtv-twC
head realized So OPS, an average o
: 1869 54
George Roberts, of Alpine County hai
invented a novel vehicle for riding i'm ;
fiume. He calls it a ego DEVIL prob
- ably because it goes like its mamesake e
- The vehicle is three feet long, the shap,
= ola "V" fiume, and has closed ends
J two wheels on the bottom and an irol
brake with hooks over each side of tn,
Is f1ume and works with the foot. 1t has
g seat and runs at the rate of forty ii V,
le miles an hour in dry flume and fifty
1T five when head of water is turned in
h and by means of the brake can be stoppe,
t: in going three box lengths The weigh
n is only about fourteen pounds.
Peter Cannon, the famous Scotch long
~ distance runner, has arrived in thi
u country and issued challenge to ru
~ any man in America from one to te
9 miles for $50l TO 81 900. Cannon Ina
as located at Natick, Mass. : Professions
q. runners of sterling merit, at one, tw
lg and three to ten miles, are. scarce in thi
9, country, and it is doubtful if the Seotc
as runner will get race unless for gat
ne money. No one is known outside
as Tommy Delaney fast enough to give tn
lie Scotch runner a race, and if the latte
in came over here expt citing to find plent
Ia of foemen worthy of his steel, he reel
oned without his host.