Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-03

VIsNER is considered the best pool player in
baseball ranks.
MANAGER HANLoN has to be married this
week, for certain.
THE three salary lists of the three ball clubs
in Philadelphia will amount to 100000.
PRESIDENT BRUSH emphatically denies that
there is any deal at all going on for the transfer
OF Indianapolis players to New York.
JOHN NJ. WARD says there is no truth in the
statements that the new club in Brooklyn will
pay extraordinary salaries to its players.
EDWARD BRANDT, of Brilliant, O.. writes
this paper stating that he has dog:that he will
back to draw Harry Harts coon out of barrel
IN IA years Dwyer Bros. have won sl,246,O65
Last year their winnings were Sl687l1 and
Longstreet headed the list with S38, S09 and
Kingston with So 957 is second. Alcyron heads
the list of trotters with S2l, 500.
THE Columbus Club will nail Dave Orr and
Mark Baldwin on some sort of legal process
every time they set foot in the State of Ohio
next summer, while President Brush will do
the same thing with any OF his jumpers who
may straggle into Indiana or pass through that
State.
AN excellent half-mile track is in course
of construction at Cadiz, O., and will be pro-
vided with over 100 box-stalls and all modern
conveniences. The Harrison County Fair
Association will hold its annual fair at
Cadiz on September l6 to I9, when purses for
speed will be offered varying from 500 to $500.
DEACON JIM WHITE is the latest aspirant
for literary honors. He is busily engaged upon
work entitled The Slave of Slave; or, Why
Me and Jack Want to Sell Our Buffalo Play
ers" The volume will contain an annex from
the pen of Jack Rowe, under the head of "Why
Me and Jim Didn't Bat Better for Pittshurg
Last Season."-BnQuireT.
THE English derby for 1890 has received a very
f1attering acceptance for the first time in which
it is to be decided under the new conditions.
The original entry was 235 So of which paid the
minor forfeit of fI0 on the first Tuesday in jan
uary, 1889. This left in l72 of which number
upward of 60 have finally accepted the re-
mainder having paid ELS forfeit.
ADVANCE, Australia! The Melbourne Cup
of 1890 will have $50 900 added money-the great
est amount of money ever added to stake in
the history of racing As is well known the
Melbourne Gun is the greatest racing event of
Australia. and is run at the Melbourne spring
meeting which begins the first week of Novem-
been run ever since 1861. A few years ago the
added money was 81 800. In 1883 it was $l5,00O
in 1889 1t was SIS 900.
Mr. W. l. SCOTT has numerous string. and
we hear that his youngsters, by old Wanderer,
have shown quite rs high, if not higher, than
the Rayon dOrs. One of the best we hear, is a
flly by Wanderer, dam Santa Lucia an i'm
ported mare who is the dam of Aurelia. His
best colt, they say, is a bay. by Rayon dor dam
Nalleria, which is, we hear, a very grand colt.
He has another Rayon dor, out of All Hands
around, of which report speaks highly, and a
Wanderer flly, out of Clemency, which is very
clever. Also Rayon 'Or-Presto illy, of which
report speaks as likely one.-Spirit of Times.
LOOK out for Proctor Knott in his 4-year-oId
FORM" is the war-cry coming from Louisville.
but if it does not mean any more than last
years clarion notes the dog is barking up the
wrong tree. The prowess of Spokane in his
two derbies and the Clark stake shattered the
public faith in the blaze-faced gelding, which is
in all probability the best that has been seen
since Freeland's day. Still, If he shows to ad-
vantage in the spring handicaps, there are thou
sands only too anxious to support the first
futurity winner and greatest son of Luke
Blackburn. Can he win the suburban, Is a
question that should start the dreaming
prophets in every yState.-Rorsenldn.