The Anaconda standard., 1890-05-30

any man alive aud last, but not least, can
punch.
The funny part Of the present baseball
misfortunes is that all the officials OF the
respective clubs say that they have moth
ing TO complain about. Surely human
meekness is getting to high standard,
but some people might call II Hypocrisy.
Umpire Ferguson says that the inten.
tionai miss Of fly ball for the purpose OF
making double play is all right, "but
would suggest the imposition OF penalty
to complete such play; that Is, make i
comp'ilsory to touch the base runner with
the ball."
a craze nowadays that he expects o new
primer will soon he issued, in which the
questions for school children, instead OF
being "Who discovered American" will
read "Who won the Brooklyn" "Can
you name the favoritc for the Suburban 2"
A case of triple birth in the history Of
the equine family occurred at Marshall,
Missouri, on wednesday. A fine brood
mare belonging to William Barnes of that
city dropped three colts. They are small.
but all are alive and doing nicely, being
perfectly formed and as lively as crickets.
Billy Dacey says that Washington peo-
pie look with distr,st on the Myer-Hopper
match at Alexandria. They. consider i
strange that Myer should be able to knock
Hopper clean out one night, and the next
day he so i'll that he had to have his match
with Andy Bowen OF New Orleans post
poned.
During a baseball game at Scranton
the other day, Everett Phillips was acci-
dentally struck in the face with bat,
completely hattening his nose. The
doctor pulled the member back into posi-
ton, placing tin cornucopia over IL to
keep Il in form, and Everett is now known
among his fellows as "The man with
tin nose"
The trotting horse trainers opened the
eyes of the thoroughbred experts at
Gravesend OH the first day of the Brook
lyn Jockey club meeting when KNAPP Nc
Carthy sent his first Brooklyn pupil to the
front and won the Expectation stake for
MIR. Withers and Johnny Campbell raked
first money i'm the Brooklyn handicap
with Castaway ii.
John NJ. Ward, the short stop and man
ager of the Brooklyn Players league, has
invested So, 600 In the purchase OF home
stead and large tract Of land on Cypress
avenue, north of Fulton street and extend
ing to Railroad avenue, in the Twenty
Sixth ward of Brooklyn. While Mr.. Ward
does not expect to live Oh the place, he
has an idea OF using il for social and ath.
letic purposes.
eyes closed" So said Patsy Cardiff in
his dressing-room after the Cardin-God-
frey fight In Providence. "Couldn't you
keep on with one eye" asked Hippy |
Homer. "No," said Cardiff. "Well,
Charley Cowd could" was Homer's reply. |
who recently defeated Jack Williams in a
corking fight i'm Providence. has but one
eye. He is not handicapped, however. by |
any weakness OF heart.
A number of gentlemen were joking |
good. faithful old Bob, the venerable stud
groom ut Belle Meade, the other day. one
OF them remarked To him: "iou came |
the other day." "Not bit NV it, not a bit |
NV it," replied Bob. "You see, men Gen.
jackson had dat thing fixed. DE gree |
ment was dat de gen'r'l would bid till the |
horse went ter $4,000 an den he was ter |
stop short off an wus gwyne ter lope
right in and buy him."
Austin Gibbons wants know why Mike |
Gushing doesn't accept the 81 800 purse |
offered by the Occidental club OF San |
Francisco for q go between them. Glib |
bons says: ~ accept and will give Cusli.
ing chance to retrieve his lost laurels."
II seems pretty clear to eastern sporting
men that neither Gushing nor Gibbons are |
entitled to any l26-pound championship,
as both men are in fact light-weights.
There is no discount on Austin Gibbons
as fighter. but he looks nearer a 14O-
pound man than a 126-pound one.
Jack Dempsey arrived at Seattle on
May 16, in company with Paddy German
crcnce to the challenge Of All Mitchell of
England TO fight him before the Califor.
mia Athletic club. Dempsey said: "Tof
Wall is the English middle-weight fighter
l want to meet. II he will not fight,
want to meet any other flrst-class man
weighing 154 pounds i'm England for any
amount from 5000 to $4,000, and will
flip a penny To see on which side of the
Atlantic we meet"
The following dispatch that appeared
in the Cincinnati Enquirer last Friday,
which will bc news To Denvers sports
"Boston, May 2l.-George La Blanche, the
Marine who Is matched to fight young
ing for Chicago,in which city he will meet
Lem McGreggor, the st. doe Kid, on Sat
ur,lay. He will go to Denver and on May
81 he will meet Arlie McCoy.a local heavy
weight. Mike Lucie. of Troy, who ac-
companies the Marine, will, at Denver,
meet Terry Owens, n prominent amattier,
the chief 6f the fire department.
According to the Cheshire England, o.
scrrer, "No fewer than 6O,O0O passengers
arrive at the Chester general railway sta
ton on the Cup day, which is stated to he
by far the largest number ever recorded
on an similar occasion. They were con-
vcycd in 81 special and 222s ordinary trains.
The Cheshire Lines Railway company
brought 1000 passengers into the city,
up the total To 1000 passengers
on both systems, and II requires very little
stretch OF the imagination To compute
that double that number, or close upon
10000 people, were In attendance AT the
races on the Cup day."
There never was time when good
jockeys were SO scarce as they appear at
present. OF the score or more riders who
figure as stars not one of them gives sat
isfaction TO owners. To the public il il
evident that races are lost time and time
again because Of the inability of the pilots
OF the horses To keep their mounts
not To speak of riding them out