The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-08
World OF SPORT.
Latest Gossip Among Turfmen and Ringnen
and I'm the Athletic Clubs.

Ed. Corrigan's string is wintering at the
Bascomb race track, near Mobile, Ala. Cor
rigan SAYS he is wintering in the South merely
as an experiment 20 see how his horses VIII
get on in the mild climate. Nearly all are
suffering with distemper. Riley will be sub
jected 10 special preparation and sent North
early for the handicap race. With anything
like a fair weight COrrigan believes that the
crack son of LOngfellOw has a great chance.
Ex-Congressman Scott has purchased the
brood mare Belle Of Nelson. foaed 1875 by
Hunter Lexington dam Julia MOttingly. The
dam of the renowned Tenny, Belle OF May
wood. was by Hunters Lexington. She IS
also owned by colonel Scott.
The championship trophy which Spaldlng
Brothers are having made for the Amateur
Athletic Union, to be presented to the De-
trOit Club for winning the amateur baseball
championship last year Is to be one Of those
emblems Of honor with a string attached 10 II.
No matter how many times 1t Is won by "A club
il still remains 10 be competed for each year
from now 10 dOOmsday.
The annual fencing competitions for the
Amateur Athletic Union championship Of the
United States viii be held Saturday, March
7th. at the Central Turn Nerein Hall, Sixty
seventh street. near Third avenue. The
events given will be rs follows Foil. dueling
swords. and sabre Gold. silver and bronze
medals will be awarded to 1le first. second and
third in each event Entries close Saturday,
February 2Sth.
Probably the most interesting question TO
turfmen Just at present IS whether or no
pool bill will be passed in New Jersey. II isa
matter of serious moment 20 the racing assO-
cations They have thousands Of dollars IN
vested III their properties, and the defeat OF
pool bill will depreciate their value 10 an I'M
calculated extent That pool bill will be in
trOduced into the Legislature seems pretty GER
tain from all that has been learned.
Jim Gibbons says that Bob FitZsimmOnsa and
Jimmy Carroll own New Orleans and are
working the town for all it is worth. They
are getting upa spa1ing entertainment, which
will doubtless net them thousands Of dollars,
as the people down there fairly worship them.
Fitzsimmons is tall, stOop-shouldered,
gawky. knock-kneed, inOfensve looking fell
low, with little narrow baby tace-the last
man ANYBODY would ever suspect Of being %
fighter. Carroll, on the other hand, Is simply
ont of sight with his so suit Of clothes. silk
hat. patent leather shoes and a cane with a
cold head on it bigger than his INST
In the Brooklyn handicap Kingston and
Tennv have received top weights. rs pounds
each followed by Tournament with l2j, Race
land l22 and Riley and Burlington l2O each.
None of these appear to have been harshly
treated in view OF their best form, and the re-
mainder Of the weights appear On the whole
10 be very evenly adjusted. Secretary Nc
Intvre has done his work well. but nine ont
of zen horsemen will think that in allOttlng
but lOs pounds TO Eon he has let the Dywers'
son of Eous in at a rediculously light weight
This horse gave weight 10 Prince Royal Seno-
rita. Raceland. Come-tO-Iaw. Strdeaway and
other GOOD ones during the past season. still,