Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-04
Sporting Notes.

IT has come ont in a London law court that
Ernest Benzon, the Jubilee plunger," did not
even write the book entitled "How l Lost
925O,O0O in Two Years" which is simply mar
rative of his own folly, but he took great pride
in being credited with its authorship. The
gentleman who really wrote the book testified
in substance that Jubilee" was too lazy even
to tell the story of his idiotic career.
ADvICEs from Melbourne state that James
Stansbury will row William 0'Connor, the
holder of the Police Gazette challenge cup, on
neutral water, for f5OO a side and the cham.
pionship of the world. If there is champion
at the present time it is certainly William
O'Connor, but my view would rather be that
there is none, and will not be until O'Connor
and Stansbury meet, or, at least, should it be
impossible to bring them together, until Han
Ian and he have tried conclusions. But, who
ever the championship may belong to, there is
one man who is clearly not entitled to 1t, and
that is Peter Kemp.-NetO York Sun.
JIM DAILY, the big middle weight pugilist of
Philadelphia, says: II am prepared to fight any
man in the country, no matter how big he is
The reason allowed Fogarty to insult me was
simply as matter of self-preservation. My
tight with Patsy Cardiff, arranged by the Audu-
bon Athletic Club OF New Orleans. is off. 1 ac-
cepted that clubs offer for Frank Herald to
take Cardiff's place, but Herald has not been
heard from. have written to the Audubon
club that will fight either Joe Lannon, Jack
Ashton, Godfrey, the colored pugllist, or Jack
Fogarty. If Fogarty wants to make a match
with me here's his chance. Both of us can get
far play IN New Orleans, and beside we can get
81, 500 purse. If Fogarty whips me he can
have it all. If Fogarty is as good ring fighter
as he is a street scrapper he will accept this
challenge"
In recent conversation upon his experience
in sporting matters while in England Tom
Eek, the bicyclist, had the following to say oD
football as a means of recreation among the
English: "If there is any sport out of which a
barrel of money could be made in the O ueenis
domain, it is football. Every town has its foot
ball grounds and exciting matches are as regu-
lar as in baseball in this country. The game
draws surprisingly well and have been sur
and S 900 people in match in towns of Is 900 and
20OQU inhabitants. II someone could make up
a team OF the leading American players and
take them to England next season. he would
reap large fortune in very short time by
proper management The English football
grounds are beyond question the best in the
world
THE following regarding the method of train
ing race horses is from an English paper: "To
Matthew Dawson belongs the entire credit,
believe, of substituting the present system of
training for the old plan Of long, slow work and
frequent sweats. have heard it said that the
idea was formed from very simple and lowly
origin indeed-no other than the butchers cart
No doubt, like everyone else in the world, Mr..
Dawson was repeatedly struck by the superior
ity of butchers horses in those DAYS II am
speaking of some 80 years ago). 1t was plainly
apparent that they could always go faster and
stay better, too. than other peoples and it took
Mr.. Dawson but little time to arrive at the con-
clusion that ii was brought about by no other
means than by sending them along as fast as
they could go over the short distances inter-
yening between their places of call. This then
led him TO adopt the same plan with the race
horses. and with the result, think may say.
Of vast improvement in every respect Of our
race horses in general"