Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-12
Sporting Notes.

COLONEL McALPIN is a very genial and shrewd
gentleman.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are apparently TAX
ing their defeat very much to heart.
THE Smith Godfrey fight has been postponed for
two weeks. Godfrey has returned to Boston.
CONSOLIDATION is by ali means the safest way
out of the mire that baseball magnates have gotten
into.
THAT there are conflicting opinions among the
Players League mem bers can easily be found out
by talking to 4 few OF them separately.
THE Harvard footballers have done more scor-
ing this year than either Princeton or Yale-an
average of Sc points TO game.
c. A. PRINCE. of the z; l., club. win not be at
the meeting here. He is interested in an i'm
portant law case going on in Boston.
OLD Parole, who is leading the yearlings at
Rancocas in their gallops. recently got bad
kick from youngster, which fractured the vet
eran's jaw.
TOMMY QUINN, the excellent local catcher,
would like to know as soon as possible whether
to remain here.
COLONEL MCALPIN made a vigorous speech to
the L. l.. delegates last evening when he rendered
his resignation. He referred to many defects of
the Players League.
FOOTBALL has been firmly established in Ber-
lin and The SUNDAY afternoon Kicks ,nt on the Ten,
existence in the German capital.
BILL KENNEY,, the champion amateur feather
weight Of america Is member Of the The New Jersey
tanning his laurcls won year ago.
BROTHERS WELDON and johnson, of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer and Commercial Gazette re-
spectvely, represented their papers at Yesterdays
r. l.. meeting. They left Tor New York last
evening.
HARRY TAYLOR. of the Louisville club, enters
the law class of Cornell University, from which
Institution he is a graduate. Pitcher GoodaII, Of
the Louisvilles, Will spend the winter studying
medicine.
1T was stated yesterday that A. g. spalding
club. of the amount named, S25. coo was in cash
and SIS, 600 in stock in the Chicago N. l.. club.
The offer was good one.
COLONEL McALPIy says that he has presided
over political organizations OF more than ,0OO
members and is at the head of regiment of 500
men, and has had less anxiety over these than
over the Players League.
CRICKET will be the Eastern tracks next
year. She will make few of the free-for-all
pacing interesting when she meets Hal
Pointer, Rov Wilkes. b B. and possibly Johnston,
the king Of the pacing brigade.
lumba College football team, is himself one of the
best rnshers In college: He does not play this
weighs l65 pounds and is in his Junior year.
ISAAC MURPHY, the noted colored Jockey, has
returned to his home At Lexington, but is still too
III 70 ea'e ms room ms sSan nna sk a ne VIII III
gets well his close friends say he will not likely at
tempt to ride again.
bling from Jack dempsey and who is now training
Bob Fitzsimmons for his fight with the Nonpareil,
Wrtes 70 NE irienas m ~ T na 6 M NE INA. @ Ime
whip Dempsey handily.
CAPTAIN A. II. BoGARDUs has challenged Dr.
w f. Carver TO shoot at from l. coo to s. OOO inanI-
mate targets. thrown in the air one at time, not
less than ~ yards distance The stakes men,
toned are from 500 TO $50, place not more than
$50 miles from PIttsburg.
PRESIDENT MCALPIN has been warm advocate
of the Players League from the very first That
he should now be ignored by the clubs of that
body is a mark of ingratitude. Without Colonel
McAlpin during the past season the Players
League would have resemb bled q ship without
rudder.-NeD York World.
UNTIL his match with Wylie is disposed Off. 2.
Reed, of Chicago, the checker champion OF
America, declines to take any action the chal-
lenge from Z. +. Barker to a match for $500 side
Reed won the title by defeating Barker. Wylie is
expected to play in Chicago on his return journey
from Australia and Scotland.
JACK McAULIFFE is once more a full-hedged
bookmaker, this time at Elizabeth race track.
Fortune has smiled upon him in his present ven
ture. and he has already accumulated q good
sized roll OF bank notes. He will sail for Europe
in two weeks with Phil Dwyer, the wealthy turf
man, leaving his bookmaking business in the
hands Of his partner.