The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-04
SPORTING GOSSIP.

A wcll-known local ''sport" offers 90
wager 30 against SOD that Carroll will
defeat McAuhffc.
The fair ground. NJ Lonisyille,k N.Y., have
TO tho Jocky club.
Gorge, with no pounds, in the BROOKLYN
handicap, may bc n favoritc when the
spring books open.
Jack King. the heavyweight .puailist Of
Missouri, D. after u match with George
Godfrey, the coiorcd pug of Boston.
Jack wannoP and Josh Casnett have
signed articles for u finish light Tor ElOO
q side, To take place within 10 weeks.
Protection. winner OF last years Junior
Champion stakes, Is whitening NJ the In
tonia track. He is well thought of for the
kentucky Derby.
Jack Bolan of Cincinnati says he will
fight Bezenah at Ia pounds, tn weigh ono
hour before the fight. Bezcnah can not
get down tn that weight and he strong.
Jake kilrain has written ~ letter deny
ing that he has retired from the ring. He
says that hc il going To Hot Spring To
make some money. not to .boi, out. He
sick is nonsense.
slack" Kcnney, the clever Harlem
featherwei9ht, says he can get hacking tn
the amount of 5000 and propose to clial-
lenge any man in the world at lis pounds.
Cal McCarty, George Dixon or ''Nuic''
Wallace the English champion, preferred.
Billy Weeks, the driver of trotters, WHO
thought hc could make IA go of his bust
ness i'm France, but who sOon found tina
on the other side of the water ~trotters are
driven by grooms who will work for n pitt
lance, Is now in England, having gone to
pay a visit to John Splan. The circus
with which Splan has been connected
since the trotting season closed will soon
start on u return tn this country, which
fac will enable Splan tn be i'm the field
with "a stable of trottcrs when the cam
pai9n opens.
Mike Daily of Bangor, Me-, one of the
clevercst and gancst of lightweight fight
ers i'm the country. is out with an an
weight champion Of the world, and says
that hc is ready To meet Jack McAuliffc,
Billy Myer, or Jimmy Carroll for any
him he says, against Myer for as much
as the Streator lad can raisc.-ErchaaJe.
NJ ~ shc PaJ;r ,r Ws,rs Office. nniy caE cover
that and get the match.
Jimmy Larkin. the undcfcated 122-
pound Jerseyman, wrote a letter yester-
day to the California Athletic club, asking
il to hang up IA purse for a fight between
himself and Billy Murphy, the Australian,
says the New York San. He also wrote to
I Murphy, asking him for u match. and Of
fering To bet any amount. up to 5000 on
the outsidc. provided the Athletic club
/ 1t did not he offered tn make a match for
any amount mp tn 5000 n side, to fight
with skin gloves. II Murphy says he will
q tarkin will make a deposit ut once
to bind N match.
Dominick Mccarthy left New York for
Boston yesterday. says tn" New York
| World. Before he went tc was asked II
he would meet Jim Corbett. who beat X Ill
rain. ''Long before the Corbctt-kilrain
bout" said Dominick, "it was
tina Corbett and 1 should have "a go. For
some reason that l can't explain IA match
WAS never made. although 1 was always
ready. At this time | have engagements
in Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo,, Cincin.
matt, Chicago, and other cities, hut / shall
find my way to California within three
months mont 2 and ,nsTs , ex Wit !" hsa, some I;a%
You can bet l will il any inducement is
held out by any San Francisco club, and
from what ] have heard | believe there
will be-"