Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
General Sporting Notes.

An Eastern cycle thief was given i've
years in the penitentiary for bicycle theft.
BILLY EDWARDS and AL Smith think Slavin
will defeat Sullivan if they ever meet in the
ring.
"THE W1zARD'' has consented to a post
ponement of the Shaefer-Slosson billiard
match.
CULBERr's hacker will be at this office this
evening to match the former to run Dash
bach on even terms.
DICK MOORE, the Southern welter-weight,
is in Omaha. anxtously V awaiting the consum-
or Harry Mccoy.
Orro Els. GIRARp-The bets relative TO
Slavin knocking kilrain out were declared
off. but the people who bet that Slavin would
win won their bets.
Two hundred and five miles were made by
IA relays of blcyclists, two men each in 1920
through mud and rain from Hamilton to
Kingston in Canada last Thursday.
REFEREES judges, scorers and other track
officials were so-called amateurs in the
Square garden. This is the first time on
record.
DENNY BUTLER, Prof Mike Donovan's
assistant. is desirous of arranging a l0-round
contest with any 145.popnd man in America.
He would be glad to have Tommy Ryan, of
Chicago, accept his challenge.
SPARROW" ROBERTSON has an idea. He
wants to form a national league of profess
sional athletes to boom professional track
and field athletics All prizes would be hard
cash and the meetings would be held on a
business basis.
THE Harvard GUN Club has challenged the
Yale Gun Club to a match, to be Shot on
next Saturday morning on the grounds of
the Springfield Gun Club, the team to con-
sist of five men. each to shoot at 30 blue rock
targets rising at five unknown angles.
WILLIAM WISE will fight Ready Mason il
the latter will go against him It 115 pounds
Wise says he never gave anyone authority
to back him against Mason. He will, how
ever, meet Mason at THE DISPATCH on Satur-
day night at Z O'Clock to make arrange
mentS.
ALTHOUGH Jack Slavin knocked out Frank
Fabor, of Philadelphia, in the first round of
their four-round contest. he did not make
good impression as n scientific boxer At
lost, but showed himself to be good two
handed, close-quarter fighter
Bob F1TzsIMMoNs is training carefully for
his wrestling match with Joe Acton, which
Francisco November 2S. The general opin-
ion is that FitZsimmonS is getting out of his
business when he goes on the mat, and that
Acton will have an easy thing in defeating
him.
THE town Council of Olneyville, R. l.. re-
Gently passed an ordinance prohibiting
"atheltics," /" "iound fights" etc. The action
was aimed at the Olneyville Athletic Club,
before wn1cn organization COnnelly and
Sullivan are to box tonight. The managers
of the club say that the contest will take
place.
JACK sLAvIN has written a long letter to
his brother Frank, in which he advises him
to leave Mitchell and "Pony" Moore severely
alone il he means to receive pleasant re-
ception upon his arrival in this country He
has told his brother of the feeling against
Mitchell, and implores him to find another
manager and hacker.
L. ,D,o,.-
Athletic Club bave decided to back Jim Cor
bett against Peter Naher for S5,OOO Mike
Donovan hns the money in his possession
and will post it when the articles of agree
ment for the contest are drawn mn and
signed by both parties. If Slavin and Nit
chell arrive in this country during Corbett's
absence on the road Donovan has been au-
thoriZed to arrange match with Mitchell
JOHN L. SULLIVAN met Paddy RYAN in San
Francisco the other day and the ex-cham-
pion looked rather down on his luck John
asked: '.How,s business, Paddy?" The
as he slipped a couple of yellow portraits of
the American eagle into Paddy's fst: "Get
ND benefit, old boy, and if it will do
you any good III wind ir mp in four rounds
for you.' Paddy is trying to arrange it.
LoUIsIANA's Supreme Court has lust de-
cided that pin pool is not gambling game.
Associate Justice Watkins embraced this
paragraph in his decision: "That the play-
ers did engage occasionally in betting on the
On the contrary. it is exclusivelya game of
skill and does not contain any element of
chance" Tom Quaid, the roomkeeper in
dicted for gambling, was accordingly dis
missed.
ARTICLES of agreement were signed at the
Police Gazette office yesterday for a fight be-
tween "Chappie" Moran, of England, and Ed
die Avery, Of Brooklyn. to fight at los pounds
for $500 side and purse of $780, Dave
Thompson, OF Brooklyn. is backing Avery.
and William Wilson, of Brooklyn, is backing
Moran. Ed Sanford, of the National Club OF
Brooklyn. offers the purse. The battle is to
be fought within fifty miles of New York on
Deceunber4.
A SPECIAL cable dispatch received at the
Police Gazette office yesterday from London
says: lied Pritchard called at the Sporfino
Life office to-day and accepted offer OF the
Bolingbroke Club to put up a purse of e. 900
for him to fight Bob Fitzsimmons, the Amer
ican champion. Pritchard agrees to fight
the American champion for 81, 600 side. be.
sides the purse, and II Fitzsinmons accepts,
he desires the latter to put up u deposit with
X. X. Fox, and notify him. SO that the match
can be ratified.
B. & b.