Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-03

-ANsoN says he is pleased with his new find,
| Nicols.
THE new East End billiard hall will open to-
morrow evening.
THE sentiment in Louisville is said TO be almost
unanimous in favor of making terms with the
League.
PRESIDENT HART thinks both Chicago and Bos-
ton viii beat the Giants out in the race for the
League pennant.
1t is brick house to brick that the late Omaha
players now with Washington and Columbus will
not be blacklisted.- Washington Post.
IT dosen-t take Captain Comiskey more than a
week TO tumble to a bali player. He has already
turned Jim Duryea adrift in the cold, cold world.
PITCHER STEIN, who was released by Anson
while the club was in Cleveland. has not yet Sc
cured another engagement Several Western Asso-
citation clubs are after him.
JOHN BURDoCK is over 20 years of age and has
given it out that after bali PLAYER has passed the
four line mark it is useless to try TO stay in COM
pany with the young bloods.
THE J. c. Keliys defeated ::,c J. c. Couuellys by
20 10 Saturday. The winners want 10 play the
Rennetts, the RuEnettes or the Ho !aeSteads. Ad-
dress j. c. Kelly, 2l0l Penn avenue.
THE Olympic Club of New Orleans has cabled to
I Ted Prltchard Offering MIN chance al purse Of
place about Mardi Gras time next spring.
THE contract between Ruddy Bros and Jockey
William Moore has been Cancelled. The employers,
IL is saId have not vet notified the boy but he can
learn the news from this mornings papers.
owNET GEoGHAN used to put the bend of horse
shoe in Of his boxing gloves and slug greenies
with it. dispatch from WaIla walla. Wn., shows
how one of 0wney' IS imitators came to grief there
1t saws: Billy Pool of St. Paul. and Jack Bane an
unknown, fought II rounds in a 24-foot ring, Just
At the @ end 81 the eleventh round te Sht Wss
awarded to Pool the referee having discovered that
glove.
PUGILIsM is certainly getting questionable in
Minneapolis. The time-honored divinity that
hedged the profession in seems to have been
knocked higher than Gilroy's Kite, and farther
than killenS curves on cold day All Of the craft
I'm f1nalf tool ATuhf tn oil
several days ago, and now Judge Elliot has added
his contribution to the cause by sending away the
local demi-god the Back Pearl, ~ for brief sea-
son of rest and retirement at the workhouse. The
decentralization in the camp is further attested by
manager. At this rate the city can soon pass itself
of as the scene of Sol Smith Russell's new play,
Peaceful Valley. "-PioHecT Press.
IF the report of the California Illustrated World is
correct, Alexander 6 tgains' victory over Billy
Mccarthy before the Pacific Athletic Club In San
Francisco barren one. Mccarthy went into
The ring with his right arm bandaged, the fracture
ii received in Honolulu not being fully repaired.
round not only by hitting his man six inches below
the belt buthy smashing his man from behind as
Garthy insted as rounds: and even then he was NOT
knocked ont, but was disqualified by the referee
because he had refractured hiS lame arm by La
Blanche pivot blow two rounds earlier. Mr.. Greg
gains viii have to do better than this to be consid-
cred anything better than poor second-rater.
MANY of the league clubs carrying more men
to-day thnn they will carry through the season.
The season is half over and many Of the mysteries
have been solved Much dead wood has already
bee- dumped. aud more viii go as the season goes
Young men being picked up 10 take q
places of OLD men who are not up in form. Many
kids were tried in both National and Plavers'
leagues last season, and the managers have ac-
quired fondness for Young men who do not make
the pay roll appear heavy on the debtor side. In
case the League and Association reconclled
through the winter salaries sure 10 tumble. If
the war is kept up salaries for star PLAYERS are
10 go higher through competition for their
services. Time will show, and the players will
watch the outcome of the preliminary fencing
going on with considerable interest.-Er-
change.