The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-11
SPORTING NOTES.
Billy Mccarthy and Jlmm, carrol TO
Meet this Month.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL POINTS.
John l.. Indulges In Shooting Match
and Wins.

htih WINS.
( James smith, the champion checker
/ player oi England, died Of paralysis III
I spennymoor, Eng, Feb. "a.
&c. c. sullivan. has been appointed
manager OF the Freshman crew of ilar-
ward College.
r. g. Peek defeated r. A. Powers In
I four rounds With gloves, for u purse of
/ 500, a. Tetryvlle, Conn, ON March !.
The battle lasted IA minutes
4 James ] Corbett was reinstated to the
+ position of boxing instructor Of the Ulym-
pie lub hy petition which was signed
\ b,' two-thirds Of the members.
drawn all its prizes and stopped eighty
( two race meetings. because the Austrian
+ government imposed tax on bets.
4 Billy Mccarthy, Of Australia, and Jin-
my Carroll, oi Brooklyn, have signed
articles 10 contend for purse Of ~ 800
in the California Athletic club this
month.
Charley Turner, the famous colored
middle weight, Ut Stockton. Cal, and
Denny kellehcr are to fight in the tiolden
+ Gate Athletic Club, San Francisco. on
+ April IS.
+ All Gower defeated Fred sullivan in a
contest with gloves at London, England,
ON Feb. y. Fourteen rounds were
+ fought Ia 55 minutes. Both men are
feather weights.
Tie billiard match. 10000 points up,
+ for 500, between J Roberts, Jr., and
4 . 4. 4. a 40
champion allowed stanley 1000 points,
and won by ~ points.
Tommy Burns, the American athlete,
who recently dropped in a parachute
from kuncorn Bridge, on the Mersey, is
coming to America with Harry Mon
tague, Jenl Maee's old manager
The Bin Gooie that was heaten by
Tom Gardner in Is rounds, for ElO1, in
England on Feb. ~, was not Bill sioode
who was recently beaten by Toff Wall
but the feather-weight of BatteIsea. Eng.
Frank T. Slavin, the champion OF
1 Australia. after spending his honeymoon
at Monte Carlo with his bride and gen
tlemanly manager, John Lewis, is again
m harness and ready TO meet all eomers.
Danny Needham broke his right hand
+ in the fifth round when he fought Patsy
kerrigan at the California Athletic Club.
! This is one reason why the battle lasted
q hours 40 minutes, the longest on record.
i The Directors OF the California Ath-
/ letic Club divided the Kerrigan and
Needham purse and gave them s475
each. from which was deducted the
amount advanced for training expenses
The pool tournament at Syracuse. n.
Y, ended OF March 10, and DE Gro won
+ the first prize, "A diamond emblem aud
Sl25. Powers won second money, 500 !;
+ Clearwater third, SIS; Manning fourth,
$50 and Timing fifth, $40.
Charley Turner. the colored middle
weight champion of the Pacific Slope
and Billy Mccarthy, Of Australia, are To
battle according to "Police Gazette
rules, in the Golden Gate Club on April
Ii. The winner will receive. $1,000, and
the loser $500.
Jem Moulton. the Black Pearl, de-
feated Jem Doyle in four rounds. with
two-ounce gloves, at quiet spot on the
Darby road Philadelphia, on March 9
After Moulton defeated Doyle, Conny
Canary, well-known pugiIist, was
pitted against him, and Moulton Knocked
Canary out IN four rounds.
James Dustin, the famous driver of
trotters, who dreve Emma b.. half-sister
to Maud s.. record 2:22, and still the
property of Richard X. Fox, proprietor
Of the Police Gazette and owner of Sir
Mohawk and Nellie Sontag, has been en-
gagged 10 assist Charley Marvin to handle
the trotting division at the Palo Alto
Stock Farm.
At Cambridge, Mass, on March IL, at
the Harvard Athletic Association games
+. II. Winthrop distinguished himself by
defeating w. II. Shay, in the heavy
weight boxing competition in the second
round. Winthrop also won the middle
weight sparring i'm about two minutes by
clean knock-down and had to be car
ried from the ring.
John l.. Sullivan, the champion pugi-
list, engaged in pigeon shooting match
with James Cusick of No. Is Broadway,
y. Y, at West Side Park, Staten Island,
on March 10. Each shot at 20 birds.
Both men killed out of the 10, and on
the run off John killed his first birds,
while Cusick missed .. Score Sulli-
van, killed Il; Cusick, 10.
In the single scull regatta held in San
francisco, March II, Jake Gaudaur, OF
II. Louis, won both the and the I-mile
contests. In the Smile race he beat
George III. Hosmer, of Boston, Albert
II. Hamm, of Halifax, and James Ten
Evck, of! Worcester, Mass. Time, 20
minutes % seconds. In the single-scull
race Gaudaur won in 6 minutes IL sec
onds.
Jake Kilrain and his combination ap-
peared at Hot Springs, Ark, on March
T. Over 1000 persons paid from 81 to
81 admission to catch glimpse of the
ex-champion. Mike Cleary had been
billed to box with Kilrain, but Cleary
off, and those who expected to see Kill
rain display his fighting abilities were
disappointed.
American pugilists now springing up,
are of an improving kind, and of better
quantity and quality than the average OF
the English pugilists, and they are stars
in their profession, and will not compete
for paltry purses in England, when they
can do better in this country without
running the risk of a voyage, and then
taking the chances of not receiving fair
play, or of losing battle by the decision
of a prejudiced or partial referee.
Edward F. Gates, of Indianapolis, "a
member of Yale College, at New Haven
on March undertook to cover I6 miles
/ on foot inside of 3 hours. Three stu
dents had previously covered the dis
/ tance in 3 hours 40 minutes. Gates had
4 to run over rough. muddy and frozen