Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
Sporting Notes.

HARVARD and Cornell play to-day at Cam
bridge.
THE American crfcketers are going ohave quite
long stay in England.
EAST L1vkRPooL-Those who bet on Ashe WIN
the money by all means.
THE rain is greatly interfering with the practice
of the local football players.
FF DAwsoN's shoot at the Northside Gun
Club grounds will take place to-day.
PHILADELPHIA capitalists want to buy the
franchise OF the Athletic baseball club.
ID. BARR will in future play in the football team
of the Allegheny Athletic Association. He is
good player.
In making up the AlI-America cricket team to
go TO England one or two Pittsburg players should
not be overlooked.
SECRETARY TENER. OF the local P. l.. club, in
tends starting on lengthy hunting trip in the
early part of next month.
e. z. SHANER and Or. Burgoon will start on a
hunting excursion in Westmoreland county Mon
day, and the veteran shot Samuel Shaner, pro-
poses chartering freight train to bring their
captured game home
THE Amateur Athletic Union has decided to
oUen m until s next Friday Three entries we're re
ceived, but only the Manhattan A. c. entered
from New York or vicinity.
THE reason Harvard gets so many candidates
for the eleven is because of the numerous pre-
paratory schools in and around Boston. Football
Is the most popular game with the young men of
the Hub: and the wouid-oe colleglans are very en-
thusiastic over football matters.
ITisannounced on pretty good authority that the
racing at West Side, Chicago, will be brought to q
one hundred ana fourteenth days racing that has
taken place there this season, this being the
largest number of days. racing that has ever taken
nlace on any one track in America Brighton
Beach even not excepted.
DISPATCH from Kansas City SAYS: The shoot
between James r. Elliott; of this city, and James
E. Hagerty. st Louis, began at 2 O'Clock this
afternoon at Elliott's Park. Elliott killed As out
OF so birds. and Hagerty killed AZ. Elliott missed
his twentieth and forty-ninth birds. Hagerty
missed the second, tenth and fortieth birds. The
shoot was tor the american field cup.''
A SPECIAL from Lexington says: The most
valuable shipment of young troters that ever lie #
to Marcus Daily, 'the copper king, - of Anaconda,
Mont There were three 2-year-olds including
the $40 000 Lady Wilton. record 2e5; ten yearlngs
and three weanlings: They are ny Red Wilkes
Robert McGregor. Bell Boy and Billy Wilkes.
This lot of youngsters cost Mr.. DAILY S54, 900.
WILLIAM DAY, the champion cross country
runner of America. while playing football on the
New Jersey Athletic Club grounds at Bergen
Point on saturday. got into a scrimmage and
broke his arm. Days injury will prevent him
from meeting Morton, the champion cross country
runner of England and the holder of the u mile
record in the monster run of the National Cross
Country Association at Morris Park on election
day.
THE prospects of success for the projected Ath-
etc Union mi are 0eigR he @h batnOre nor Asetc
Football Club. and some of the college teams are
already in favor CT entering the proposed union.
The bicycle clubs do not wish to- lose their iden-
tity nor give un their club houses but have given
promise that about 400 men will Join individually
the proposed tracks and grounds. This insures
large membership to start with. Tie site for the
eated c between Maryland avenue and Charles
street and includes whole square. Another gen.
cinbs wiz soon be called and final action taken
In case the union is formed there will be q grand
athletic tournament on the grounds early in the
spring in which some of the crack amateurs of
Chicago. Detroit New York. Brooklyn, Boston,
and other cities will take part