Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
General Sporting Notes.

PIERRE LoRILLARDs trainer, John Huggins,
is still in the South figuring for Bashford,
Chief Justice, and Bermuda.
LONG JOHN REILLY, Charles Reilly and Ed.
Crane will probably be members of the local
club next season-M Y. World
THE latest thing in Gutenberg racing is q
patrol judge at the head of the stretch to
keep track of "strong arm" riding.
JOCKEY PIKE BARNES has added Spring
away, b. c., 2, by Springbok-Queen Maud,
good colt and winner, to his stable.
JOE MCAULIFFE is in San Francisco. He
will begin training in a few days for his D.
preaching battle with Patsy Cardiff.
IT will by all means be better for all con-
cerned ii the dispute about the Smith
Farrell race can be settled outside of court.
FoorBALL.-As the protest was sustained
regardless Of all rules and fair play, those
who bet on the Pittsburg team win the
money.
AMONG the weanlings at Belle Meade is a
brother to Huron who promises more highly
than Ed. Corrigan' 's'great colt. He is to be
soldat the spring sale.
SEVERAL days ago it was stated in this
paper that Manager McGunnigle had
secured an Eastern pitcher. Terms were
made with Woodcock last week.
WITHIN abouz two weeks every Associa-
tion organ in the country has had every
prominent League player signed with one
or more of the Associa tion clubs.
CHARLIE HoYT. of the Madison Square Thea.
ter, had talk with Capt Anson yesterday
afternoon. If the war is ended MIR. Hoyt will
write a baseball comedy ana Anson will be
the star
THE doctors who have been attending Mike
Cleary, the pugilist whose foot was crushed
by a street car = few weeks ago, amputated
the foot yesterday, it having been found i'm
possible to save 1t.
"THERE is one good thing about Symmes,
Princeton's center rushern saw the Uniyer.
sity of Pennsylvania boys, "he always waits
until his opponents are in their positions
before he puts the ball in play"
THE New Castle football players have re-
quested W. Fred Goodwin, to referee their
game with Homestead on Saturday next, but
the president of the Pittsburg club positively
refuses to have anything to do with it.
THE story that Gaffney and McQuaid have
not signed Association and will sign League
contracts ..H is not n true Mc2uaid said yester-
nnd saw Gatfney's contract before 1 signed
mine"
THERE was deep trouble among the Gar
field jockeys yesterday. Gemoets, Balm and
Rove Rows szC were & indeandtely en- & suspended Kuhn
Easley. FitZmorris, Washam and "Monk''
OTerton $40 each.
OWING to a great many engagements that
Blackburne, the chess player, has to fulfill
this season at provincial chess clubs, he can,
not engage in the proposed match against
Gnnsberg. B'ackburne declares his willing
ness to meet Gunsberg in the spring
A WORSE track than that at Garfield Park
cannot be made. The jockeys who finished
behind yesterday were sights" monk"
Overton, on Goodbye IN the third race was
greeted with uproarious applause He was
plastered with mud from forehead to feet
THE Saratoga race track has at last passed
into the hands of the "Big Four'' of Gutten-
burg. the $l5O,00O purchase money having
been paid over on Thursday. new Jockey
club has been formed with Gottfried Wal
baum. President: A G.. Lackman, Secretary
and P. c. Grening, Treasurer.
TIN CALLAGHAN and Billy Kenny will he
gin training tomorrow for the skin-gloye
fight in which they are to figure as pIinci-
pals in few weeks. Joe Early has gilaran.
teed them purse of $3.50, and the stakes will
be 81, coo. Efforts will be made to bring about
a match between the winner and George
Dixon.
SOMEONE has figured out that the produce
of the dam of Goldsmith Maid were a pretty
unlucky lot, as three of them met violent
deaths. The fourth was a mare called Black
Bess, that drew a 400-pound wagon with two
men in it IL miles in an hour, She being after!
ward sold to Chilli. The fifth ran against n
scythe on an apple tree and WAS killed: the
sixth, a flly, WAS kicked to death, and Cold
Smith Maid was the only one that ever had
a chance.