Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-05
Sporting Notes.

| THE New York team defeated the Princeton COL
| lege nine by to yesterday.
| THE Brooklyns defeated the Jaspers Yesterday
by the modest score OF l6 TO l.
| ADoNIs, 2:llH, has been turned out. He was
blistered for splint, but has never shown a lame
| step.
| he will at once be matched against ''higher
| game
THE indications are that Staley and Calvin
| the South.
| THE treatment OF Mark Baldwin in St. Louis is
the grossest outrage that has ever disgraced base
| ball history.
sENoRITA is reported to be in good form, and
| SO far has shown no symptoms of harm from her
| winter sickness.
IT is said that Elmer Foster is dissatisfied with
| his place on The Chicago team and wants to get
| away. Foster would At the Cincinnati team
nicely.
PAT FARRELL. his trainer Ed smith. and
host of Pittsburgers will leave for PhiIade phia
| to-day. where Farrell is to fight Jim DAILY to-
| morrow evening.
| DENNY and Buckley reported for duty yester-
day. Both saw they are in good trim. Buckley
has been toning himself aown by practicing at
| handbal in Chicago.
AS soon Won der Abe gets through with Mark
Baldwin II certainly will become the duty Of the
| local club to aid Baldwin in giving Won der Abe
| every inch of the lash of the law.
| THE chief result of the recent Lonsdaie-shrews-
bury driving match, in which Lord Lonsdale had
| walk-or rather drive-over, has been to boom
Eord Lonssae on t6e rst 5 useS H
they have received the choicest kind of advertise
ment in consequence
| The Duke of Portland won the Brockesby
Stakes, the first 2-year-old event of the year in
England. with Katharine H., he did in 1883 and
1889 with Donovan and Semolina. katharine IL,
| who is by st. Simon. out Of Muirninn was bred
by her owner, and her dam, bred in Belgium by
| H. CrombeZ. was purchased tor 500 bv the Duke
| of Portland at the DOncaster sales in 1856.
| PRESIDENT BORN and Ralph Lazarus have little
| TO encourage them by their two years. expert
| ence in the American Association. They have
sunk more than So, 600 i'll players and have moth
| ing 10 show for It. Under the most discouraging
| circumstances they have battIed along. and when
| they were finally i'll a position to 20 ahead and
| cover some OF the money thrown 10 the bad in the
| last two seasons, the League pirates rush in and
| steal a number of their most valuable players,
| leaving the club almost wreck. The pluck and
energy displayed by the Columbus officials is de-
| serving of n better rewar6.-Columbus paper.
| REPRESENTATIVES of the various amateur base
ball clubs OF the District of Columbia met at the
Columbia Athletic Club House this evening for
the purpose of organizing an amateur baseball
| league. Six clubs responded through their dele
| gates as follows: Columbia Athletics, Columbia
| University, Duponts, Potomac Athletics, wash
| inzton Light Infantry. and Young Mems Chris
| tian Association. 1t was decided that the
| association should be composed of six clubs, and
| that each club should play two games with the
| other five clubs during the season for champion
| ship emblem. Twenty-Five dollars initiation lee
| for each club was agreed upon, as well as
| proposition that the admission to all games
1 should be Is cents.