Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-02
Sporting Notes.

THE Props are quite good team of kickers.
THE home football team had considerable hard
luck Yesterday.
L. NJ. R.-Any steamship agent will answer
your question. as that is his particular business.
The owner of mare bred to Axtell, 2:12 last
spring, has been offered 81, 900 for the produce,
providing that it is stallion.
ROBERT STEEL will sell some 200 head Of choicely
bred trotting stock at lis Cedar Park Farm, near
Philadelphia, in February next
SEVERAL of the Columbia College students in
terested in tennis are endeavoring to organize an
indoor club for practice during the winter.
J. W. RiCnCREEK and his mare Ruby have been
retnstated by the authorities at tile Chicago
Westside Park. So also has Jockey H. Lewis.
ZACH COOPER, the Manhattan Athletic Club
broad jumner. is developing into a sprfnter of
ability Billiards and bowling are likewise favor
ite games with him.
JOHN CROKER has Lady Agnes in training. Lon
Meyers turned over the flly to Honest John after
her four mile runaway Sheepshead Bay In Sep
tember, and hopes are entertained that she will
race again.
LUTHER CAREY, the famous sprinter of tn
Manhattan Athletic Club ana Princeton College,
is of medium height and in training weighs l35
any length OF time without getting weak.
JIMMY KENNARD, the St. Paul Kid, said last
night that he was ready to fight any man in the
my Kelly, George Dixon, or Cal Mccarthy John
Kelly. the oId-tlme umpire, is his backer.
A. H. GREEN, the Harvard sprinter, is MEM
thing Of an alround athlete. being clever at gym
nasium work well track athletics. Football
Is also among the list of his accomplishments.
BILL HAwLEY. of the Magic City CLUB of Oma-
ha, writes that the club will offer purse for a
night between Jack Davis, the estern pugilist
ana any good man IN the country. Arthur Il.
Lumey has named Mike Brennan or Jack Ashton,
WRITTEN BROTHERS, the Illinois turin en-, have
certainly had marked success with Woodcraft
and their quintet of Rs Rival, Ruth, Rock,
Renounce and Rumpus. They have lost the last
two out OF selling races but they have a few
KS left yet.
who have several noted Scotch-Engl glish football
players in their ranks, have arranged y club
match under association rules for election day
afternoon at the Y. n. G. A. athletic grounds,
Manhattan Crossing. Messes. A. 5. Durrant and
John Duncan will captain the teams.
CHANGING name without proper notification
is considered serious matter out West as
Trainer Walter Payne, of the mare Laura ID, at
Nashville, may find out TO his cost. He ran the
given a chance to explain the circum stance as to
why he omitted the usual procedure in such cases.
OLLIE BEARD, Bug Holiday and Lefty Marr
The checks they received the other day in paw
ment OF their last months salaries, which were
drawn on Chicago bank, came bach from the
Windy City unpaid, the answer being that there
were mo funds The players were very much
put out by this turn Of affairs. Cincinnati En-
quirer
THE 2-year-old flly Lady Mary by Hmyar, out
of Queechy. died at Atlanta, Ca, on October g.
unknown person. She was a prospective ~ winner IHe
of a race in which she was to start that day.
cester, N. j., and was owned by W. k. RamseV,
of Philadelphia, who had refused an offer OF g. 100
for her.
THE pool tourney now in progress at Mt. yer
non, In Wender's pool parlor, IS attracting con-
siderable interest among the crack pool players
the other night and had close and exciting
game These were W. Fallon and +. j.. Stubbing.
the best players in Mt Vernon are entered In the
tournament
AS it is understood that the rejection of the
Standard Athletic Club by the Amateur Athletic
organization. which has fire club house corner
of India street and Manhattan avenue. Brooklyn.
active members, will again apply at the next
meeting of the A. A: U. Board of Managers for
associate mem bership in the national appellate
athletic body.
j. II. TAYLOR, Smithville. Wayne county, o..
writes the HOrSsmdn that he has driven Kilbuck
Tom. the sire of Leopard Rose, the final heat in a
race half mile track in 2:34, and that he
could have paced HIM in 2:3n had it been neces-
KilbHck Tom, was by horse called Graves Nav
duke instead OF by ''Dan Rce's satrick horse,'' as
often reported.
1T is reported that Michael Dwyer is nowprac-
tically sole owner of the Elizabeth race track,
having traded his brother Phil all his BROOKLYN
Jockey Club stock in the Elizabeth track. Both
are good paying properties: and the deal if it has
been made. IS in line with the policy in pursuance
OF which their joint stable is to be sold \ Novem ber
4 and their racing operations conducted sepa-
rately In the future.
THE Chicago Horse Exchange has been incorpo--
atcd ana IL the Ideas OF the men who are backing
the project carried out 1t will become as
famous Tattersall's. in London. A site has
been bought. and the building will accom- IN oda te
L. QUO vehicles and 800 horses. One of the features
of the place Will be the track. 1t will be IS feet
wide and will have 300-foot stretch on each side
the turns at each end covering $50 feet making its
length something over one-sixteenth of a mile,
The track will be made OF burned clay, manufact-
ured under new process. The area inside of the
ring will be covered with this substance. 1t is
purposed to hold a combination horse sale four
Times u year and an auction twice a week The
Exchange will be a market for all kinds of stand
ard and thoroughbred horses. 1t is the intention
to open the Exchange with large exhibition of
the best horses in the country.