Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-14
General Sporting No;es.

THE National League still exists; don't for
get that.
| MANAGER POWERS is very sanguine regard
ing the quality of team he will have next
year. He has gone to confer with Mr. Day
PETER MAHER. the Irish champion, was
given fiattering reception in Rochester
few nights ago. He has been offered engage
| ments in nearly all of the large cities. Mad
den has certainly made him great drawing
card.
PATSY KERRIGAN, the pugilist, objects to
an article recently printed to the effect that
he left Montreal to avoid meeting PuglliSt
Hawkins. Patsy says he never has been in
Montreal, and that he has no intention of
going there.
Mr. HENRY PHIPPs, JR. Yesterday evening
authorized Manager Fred Goodwin to offer
a $25 prize for a l00-yard swimming handi-
| cap. open to amateurs of Allegheny county
who have never won 4 prize. The race will
take place within a month at the Nata-
forum.
BILLY DACEY has n hacker who will bet
$4,000 that Dacey can defeat Austin Gibbons.
If Gibbons cannot make satisfactory az
| rangements with the National Club, of
London. in regard to match with Dick
Burge Dacy will challenge the Paterson
boy, he says.
DAL. HAWKINS. champion bantam weight
pugilist of the Pacific coast, knocked ont
Billy Doaegan. also of San Francisco, in
eight rounds wednesday night at the Occi-
dental Club. The fight was clever one,
ana tnc knC ch-Out DlOW was clean left
handler on the point of the chin.
MIKE CLEARY was always n great fayorite
among New York sporting men The best
proof of his popularity is the fact that more
than 800 tickets for his benefit have been
sold in two days. Cleary's friends will
doubtless show him in a substantial manner
that they sympathiZe with him in his mis-
fortune. His pugilistic career is over, for a
boxer with only one foot would have a hard
job holding his own these days.
JoHN WHITMAN, better known as "Aiax.-
and Charles +. Perry met at the Police G0zctte
office yesterday and arranged n match to
iitt heavy weights, barrels, etc, with their
teeth The conditions are the best in nine
feats, for 800 4 side and the Richard Il Fox
trophy, which Whitman now holds Perry
comes from the West, and has lifted, it is
claimed. over 500 pounds with his teeth by
the assistance of a chain attached to a
mouthpiece. Whitman holds the record for
teeth lifting having raised 400 pounds by
the aid of rope with n mouthpad attached
to it.
THERE has been considerable argument in
the Stevens School to whether the team
that now represents them is the strongest
that it is possible for the school to put in the
field. team was picked from those
players not on the first team, and the two
teams played yesterday afternoon at
o'clock The game, while the regular team
won by score of L to 0, showed shat the
picked team would develop into q much
stronger one, the loss of the game being due
to the absence of team work. as was to be
played together before.
a DELEGATION from the Brooklyn Cribb
Club, composed of Dave Thompson, Ed. c.
sanford, and Tom Francis, accompanied
Eddie Avery, the l0o-pound boxer, to the
Illustrated Ne1us office yesterday afternoon in
the hope of making a match between Avery
and Alf Levy, the English bantam. The
Brooklvnites offered a purse of $500 and a
bet of $780, but Levy would not agree to the
purse lie would make the bet, he said, but
he wanted more of u purse. Then he offered
to fight Avery with two-ounce gloves for
the stake alone, ten men q side to be pres
ent Avery was willing, except so far as the
gloves were concerned. He wanted skin
gloves for such contest, and a hitch oc-
CURED. 1t was pointed out to the English
man that he could make $500 more by ac-
cepting the purse, but he couldn't or
wouldn't see it. Avery finally said he
would give Levy until Thursday TO find out
what lie would do, and the party left the
Office with Il suspicion that Levy was not
over anxious to fight in any way.