The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
GENERAL SPORTING GOSSIP.

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out Ed Brady OF New York in four rounds
at Bridgeport, Conn. Saturday.
The ifteen-thousand-dolar brood mare
Alma Mater, dam of Alcantara and Alcy-
one, Is in foal TO Stamboul t2:ll.)
"Parson" Davies, Nose Gunst and other
good judges OF fighters in California say
that Jim Hall can whip Bob Fitzsimmons
easily.
G. II. Nelson OF Watervile, Me, has
booked Daisy Rolfe. full sister to Nelson
(2:l0O, to be bred to Prince Regent
(2:l54.)
Doble, Splan, McHenry and Bair are the
only men that have ridden mile below
2:10 in a sulky. The first three made their
trips behind PAGERS.
Rumble & White of Danbury, Ct. have
sold the stallion Wikesdale q :39), by AL
cantara, dam Thorndike Maid, to a Mr..
Lowell of California for $4,000.
w. T. Withers, Lexington, has sold to
I. b. Taylor, Sandusky, o., the stallion,
Champion Medium, record 2:294, by
Happy Medium, dam by Almont.
The Illinois-lowa league championship
season opens April 80 with Rockford at
Cedar Rapids, Aurora at Davenport, Of
tawa at Ottumwa, and Joliet at Quincy.
The sporting men of Norfolk, Va, offer
to match Billy Young, the champion light
weight pugilist of Virginia, against any
l2S-pound pugilist in America for $1,000
aside.
The most prominent jockeys are ar
ranging a scale of prices. II is to be $50
for q winning mount in a stake race, SIS
for purse contests and $40 for losing
mount
G. +. Dunbar says that the great PAGER
Johnson q :06lJ is being driven six miles a
day this spring. As soon as the Buffalo
track is in fit shape Johnson will be put
in training.-Bufalo Courier
A cooking main will take place in about
three weeks between South St. Louis and
Illinois birds. The main will take place
| in South st. Louis pit. 1t will be for $50
battle, with wager OF $500 on the gen.
| eral result.
The Associated cycling club of Chicago
| is beginning to make preparations for a
grand time for wheelmen at tho worlds
fair. The plans are as yet only in the
rough, but it is pretty certain that a fine
program will be arranged for all visiting
wheelmen.
Gus Zimmerman, the champion rife
shot of the world, made the phenomenal
score of 243 points from a possible total OF
250. This is without doubt the highest
| total ever made at a twenty-five ring tar
| get, and it will be some time before the
record is even equaled.
John A. Goldsmith and w. II. Crawford
have made a match for 5000 side.
| Crawford names two-year-old and a
| three-year-old by Wilton to trot az Lex
| ington, in the fall of 1892. against a two
year-old and three-year-old by Sable
Wilkes. Both parties have agreed TO let
| in the get of other stations on the same
| terms.
The entries to the Kentucky trotting
horse breeders guaranteed Futurity stake
| have all been received and number 093.
| the largest number of entries ever made
| in any stake, trotting or running, in the
history OF the world. IL is also the largest
guaranteed stake ever offered. The win
ner will receive much more than the sum
| guaranteed.
The Boston association outfield is the
best base-running, batting, fielding and
run getting outfield in the country. Last
season the trio made 1872 runs, an average
of IA; $50 hits, an average of 176; l07
sacrifice hits, an average OF IS, and stole
| 100 bases, an average of GO. Richardson
had more assists than any lett fielder
Brown was second among center fielders
and Duffy third among right fielders.-
Boston Herald.
Purchases OF land for large game pre-
serve in southeast Missouri have been
made by Kansas City men. About $4,000
acres have already been secured. This ID
an area OF about twenty-eight square
miles. The land is to a great extent
swamp land. Some OF this was purchased
at 10 cents an acre. 1t is said that it viii
furnish the finest duck and geese hunting
in the world. There are also turkeys
wolves and foxes, and it Is believed some
deer. bears and opossums abound.
The following list Of states Including
the dominion of Canada) will be OF in
terest to horsemen, in that it shows the
number OF towns in each state at which
trotting meetings are held. Illinois. 1t viii
be seen, takes the lead: Nebraska hai
22, California has 23; Illinois, Go Indiana
81; Iowa. 90; Kansas. %: Kentucky, 22
Maine, "a; Massachusetts,, 80; Michigan
46 Minnesota, 81; Missouri. IS; New
jersey, IL; New York, 6l Pennsylvania
42i Tennessee, Is; Vermont, IL; Wiscon
sin, 40 Alabama, A. Arkansas, Wyomin,
and Arizona. each; Colorado, 8 Connec
ticut, 10; North Dakota, 2; South Dakota
O.; Delaware. 3; Dominion of Canada, 81
Georgia, 2; Idaho, l Louisiana, 2; Mary
land, z; Montana. 8; New Hampshire,
New Mexico. /; Oregon, 2; Rhode Island
2; South Carolina, /; Texas, s.; Utah, 1
Virginia, !; Washington. 3; Washington