The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-12
SPORTING GOSSIP.

John GARRISON will probably be laid up
for q month. In the meantime Getzein,
Nichols and Tabcr will have a chance to
show what they can do for Boston In the
pitching line.
Here is q great record: Bassett played
four games with the New York National
league club i'm which he was TX times AT
hat and made IL hits; average '22. IN
fielding he had ~ chances and accepted
"A; average, 93.
John Tcemer says that he will not re-
tire from %aquatics until he contests Tor
| the worlds championship. He will look
| after his hotel in McKcesport. but will be
| absent long enough To measure blades
with the champion.
General Miles was the first man in the
country to employ pigeons Tor govern
mcnt services, and the best use oil them
was on the Pacific coast, with the head.
quarters at Pacidio. The birds did good
service, the only drawback being their de-
struction by birds Of prey.
An International regatta will be held in
Duluth, Mimi, from July II to ~ inclu-
sive. Twenty thousand dollars in cash
prizes and $500 in cups and trophies will
he offered. Ii will be called the World
International Regatta. Edward Hanlan
and George Hosmcr will he among the
contestants.
Robert Nelson Hill, who styles himself
the champion of Queen Victoria, and who
lives at Newark, y. j., has sent n chal-
lcngc To John l.. Sullivan TO meet in the
fistic arena. Hill is "A nephew of Tom
Sayres, the famous fighter, and claims To
be willing To meet Sackson, Sullivan or
any other sluggcr.
wizard" Schacfcr and Coast Champion
Mc(lcary have deposited 81 900 each as a
forfeit on n billiard match, which will he
played on the nights of May ~, 10 and 81,
at Metropolitan Hall, at San Francisco.
They will play 1000 points each night and
Sclacfcr will allow McClcary a single
discount. The match will he for s2,Uo a
side.
baseball in England just yet. London
Sportsman thus reports a nine inning
game in which the Occidcntals defeated
Essex County 10y % To ~: Essex took
the first three games by 81, 30 and
Al respectively. O~ccidentals then scored
the next five mt 30, 5-l, 81, SO and
81, and Essex tho last by IL"
Los Angeles, Of Lucky Baldwin's string,
will make her debut in the great Brooklyn
handicap. N the track is muddy Los An
gelcs should De- pretty close tn invincible
with Pike Barnes in the saddle. This will
he the fourth season for the great mare.
In 1885, she won six races n 20 in
lSSs twelve races and Sa,OOO, ana IN ms?
eight races and Sli,UOO.
A good, hard hitter is far more valuable
To "a team than u brilliant outfielder. A
manager cannot afford to carry dunn
mics" in the infield, for players inside the
lines must he up to the standard. IL Is
not so much difference in the outfleld.
No outiicldcr is called upon to catch n fly
in the outiield more than once a week
that an ordinary good man cannot get.
A San Francisco paper says that ON the
Watson ranch, near Fairview. they have
a colt that Is the posscssor OF five legs.
In breaking the colt the extra leg is found
to he an advantage rather than "a hind
rance. When trotting an ordinary gait
the colt uses only four legs, but when
urged by the driver lac will drop the nth
and get there with all five.
The stiff prices obtained AT the Tcnnes-
see sales are indicative of a higher de-
mand for thoroughbred stock than ever
before. Over $4,000 for two stations at
public auction, such as was realized for
I~rouuois and Lake Blackburn. is unpre-
cedentcd. The brood mares sold well,
while the yearlings sold for more money
than Belle Meade's youngsters ever
brought before.
The great sale of the Rancho del Paso
yearlings, bred by Mr.. J. b.. Haggin i'm
California;, will be held by MIR. VIM.
Easton in New York City, Monday, June
~. The Rancho del Paso sale is n of
the events of the yea in New York. The
yearlings are finely grown, n are by
| such stations as Sir Modred, Darebin.
Warwick. Hyder Ali, John Happy, etc.
The broodmares are nearly all dams of
winners.
The match between Young Mitchell
Peter T.. Hergetl and George La Blanche,
''thc Marine" who defeated Dempsey.
will take place in the California Athletic
Club on June IL. and the club will give a
purse of 5000. the winner Ia receive ST.
800 and the loser $500. Each has posted
spsn d. I'll. =. $40. $50. a. An. tl.t 1n .a.Il go. NJ.
in the ring. The battle will be for the
middlc-weight championship Of h world,
and both men will have Ia weigh 1l
pounds.
The following horses have been shipped
10y Ben ELAN of Piccadilly, London. and
the Warren stud farm. EPSON, with a
stud groom and jockey, Ia A. Whitehousc
horse, 10y Altyre; Queen Bee, by King
Tom: elemental. by Vcnison; Little
Vixen, ; years. mare. by Foxhall; Matte
a Stray, by Blair Athol; luna, - years,
mare, 10y Blair Athol; Martinique, by
Macaroni: Taxation, u years, MARI. 10y
Richelicu. and one hackney stallion.
The appended list shows the prices al
which some Of the very greatest perform
crs were sold before their greatness was
suspected: aud =. = .Os4, $50; Director.
2:l7. 500; King Almoni, 2:2iL, 500:
Epaulct, 2:ia, $3.50: Tucker. 2:l9E. S23S;
list, 500: john W, 2:sss., s7s: Flora,
Temple. 2:i9t., Si:D; Maiolica. 2.l5. 500:
Princeton, 2:2S, S2i5; Guy, 2:Dl,, 300;
Patron. 2:i7.wa sold for $50. The list
might he Increase Ia great length.
Frank Stevenson is anxious Ia bring
about another meeting between his pro-
tcgc Jake Kilrain and Corbctt. Steven.
son is willing To back Kilrain In n ten
round contest ar a finish fight for from
Si,OD Ia 5000 a side, the tight 10 take