Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-04
General Sporting Notes.

THE League pennant belongs to Boston
jim HART's wailings are extremely affecting.
THERE is a telegram at this Office for Frank
Shugart, the ball player.
THE Haysville ball team defeated the Coraopolis
team yesterday by l6 to 49,
FOOT race between George Smith and Steve
F. rrell would be a great one.
THE local glove contest that was to have taken
place yesterday was postponed.
PROBABLY all the foolish talk about ''conspir-
cies, - etc, to down Anson will now cease.
ALEX MCDONALD and Chris Shaw have signed
articles to clinker boat race at Erie Sep
tember &c.
NATIONAL LEAGUE players of merit will do well
to pay little attention to those who want them to
join the Association,
NATHAN jerks: As both sides have stated their
cases we cannot reopen our columns for another
discussion of the matter.
THE local League team and the East End Gyms
will play two games this week. one at Liberty Park
and the other at Exposition Park.
Nomatter what the large small enemies of the
League may 1t will still retain lis position
great baseball organization of the world.
PoST ODDS-No OF one the persons YOU mention
is gambler in anv way. as they work for salaries
the same as a clerk in the Stock Excange.
1T is stated that the team that have been playing
ball at East Liverpool under the name of the
Tarentums not the Tarcntums, but picked
nine.
1T is to say that if the bankrupt Association
teams begin to delude League players by big offers
the League will remain quiet and let them 20.
There is no 2. L. now.
NOT often does horse reduce his record at the
age of 10, especially when that record is down in
the teens but that is what the veteran j. B. Rich
ardson 2:16A, did recently.
WAGNER, of the Philadelphia Association club,
woSer Se Se tn u e
local captain refused. He will be wise to keep his
mind unchanged.
FRANK r. SLAv1N is credited with having
punched four burly ruflans at Lambeth recently.
Three of the fellows went to the assistance of a
fourth. who was punehed by the pugilist for beat
the proceedings.
MILLER SIBLEY of Franklin. have not leased
the kite,shapcd track at Meadyille as recently re-
ported through the daily press dispatches. The
track is still managed by Henry Shafer, and the
meeting advertised to take p zee there October :,
is under the control of MT. Shafer.
BYRON MCCLELLANp's famous 3-year-old fry
SaIlie ;nIcGaelland Is broken down completely:
iii snrinS when She viii be bred either to Sensa
ton or Longfellow. Should she train up to a race
next spring ne may start ner but he says the
Z. W. ECK, manager of the big six DAYS, bicyce
race which is to begin at Madison Square Garden
October IS rejected the entriss les of three speedy
not more than Is wheelmen shall start and there
sTs aSf @ s Re best e menu in e i T m
land, Scotland, France and this country.
PIERRE LoRIILARD says he will not sell a horse
out of his lot until the last day at Morris Park,
ones. He intends to keep some of the big Cali
fOEna as he tninfs thfy wiz
six or eight good racehorses, and begin the cam
paign OF 1891 with horses that are fl: TO go in any
company.
AN effort was made by the New York manage
ment YESTERDAY to sign Rusie for next season
''Oh, no. ) he said II don't want to sign now;
He was told that he could go home ana not stay
until the 10Th inst. if he would sign a contract.
.tIll stay right here, ~ he answered, until the
season closes. 1 am not ready to sign yet" Amos
mas long head. Evidently he is not satisfied with
the present foreign management
PREsDESr BYRNE, yesterday gave Jack,
O'l}rien his release. OBren went to his en- nIoyer
and said thai as he was not playing he would like
take his salary without working for it, President
that he would pay him his salary to the end of the
season. To this D Brien objected. Would that ali
the maghates were like Byrne and players like
O'Briens - 90
FxGIJsH ssportsmen delighted at tho an
nounceInent in London that A. +. Walcott of
New York has nominated five Amercan-hred
colts for the St. Leger of 1888. One is bv Rayon
dor who won the st. Leger in 1872 and who vas
sent to the United States in 1851 One is nv loIns
and one by Longfelow. The keencst interest is
takcn there in these entries in the past the sur
cess Of American horses in British classic races
has convinced English sportsmen that an American
entry means business: that an American owner is
not likely to enter colt unless he has some stron1
reason for It,