Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-17
General Sporting Notes.

ANsos is confident of his team winning the pen
nant.
THE Alliance team defeated the Niles team Sat-
urday by l9 TO 2.
To-DAY's game at Exposition Park ought to be
| an interesting one.
THE J. Visners beat the Frankstown Echoes by S
to 3 saturday. Cunningham pitched great game
for the winners. -
and Bryce will be the battery and Smith and Cope
land Tor GreensburR.
READER-There are tennis courts in connection
with the Allegheny Athletic Association. Apply
to .. d. Thompson. Fourth avenue.
THE Our BOYS are you'd in their praise of the
treatment received 1t the hands of the Johnstown
management wheB on their visit to that city.
THE hacker Of Grant White viii meet David
Sheehan at this office this evening relative to the
securing of track for the White and Sheehsn
race. =
MT;E CUSHING who is lending hand each day to
getyJack McAuliffe in condition for his fight with
Aastin Gibbons, is anxious for go himself with
ANY one at 126 pounds.
I JUST why ID. d. Withers. the sage of BrookdaIe
II is insinuated that sziness is the reason but the
proverbial enterprise in most racing matters of the
Admiral Rous of the American turf hardly sus-
| tains the allegation.
THE bookmakers nowadays plug Father Bill
Daiy's horses since his trainer, Wheeler left him
a plaintive tone: .'Dolph the stables gone to the
| dogs since You left; I'm trainin' 'n Jimmy's
| tra1nin' N Bills trainin'.''
| NAV not he cleared for several days. Plot and
| counter plot are the order of the day. The Asso-
caton is aiming at two things-frst. 10 strengthen
itself and second, to destroy the Western Associa-
| tion, and thus to hurt the League.
| SIR MATTHEW. the Junior Champion winner. is
| a racy-looking brown colt by Sir Modred out of
Embroidery. He has a good middle piece and
wonderful shoulders. but is trihe light quartered
His action is perfection, and he effectively
sduelchei the general opinion that he is faint
hearted by standing terrific drive for furlong in
the race Barnes rode with great vim and got every
ounce out of his mount.
JOHN DAILY. the trotting horse trainer, has some
good ones in his charge. OF his four five Young
vear-old Porcelain, dam Ilka, by Smugger 215 2-5.
The youngster is entered at Poughkeepsie in the
Colt stakes TO be trotted at the end of fhis month";
The 6-vear-Old black mare Dark Secret, by Early
Bird, i'm Daly's stable looks like making a strong
bid for the $50 list she is trOtting miles in her
work close to that mark. Another good green one
is the brown mare Rosewood. She showed mile
yesterday in 2:3I, half In l:14.
BUCK EWING may coach from the bench
Mctiunnigle may play solos his tin thistle
and Tom LOTUS may deliver orders and dance a
Jig I'm a moment of excitement. and vet they are as
angels beside that individual who appears peri
odically in the grand stand, and in loud, parrot
like voice shouts words of encouragement (p) to the
home players, taunts the umpire on his decisions,
and after disgusting to unutterable degree those
around him. attempts. after the game TO instruct
the reporters what TO write, and in what language
to .'roast'' the umpire.-BOStoR Herald.