Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
Sporting Notes.

SpOrtluS INotcss
CoRBETT refuses to fight Joe McAuliffe.
sUBscRIBER-A cannot take a run Of four holes.
CLEARwATER and kuntzsch are two splendid
pool players.
NYEDHAM and Ryan will fight before the Twin
City Club, st. Paul February IL.
z. RILEY-The man you mention has no record,
except in defeating Charley Mccoy.
IT is stated that John Ward will visit Europe
before the championship season ends.
"PITTsBURG in hard luckr is how the baseball
writer's of other cities speak of US now.
SOME people really imagine that pittsburg
Tebeau.
THERE is scheme on foot for the Columbus
club to exchange Pitcher Chamberlain for Pete
Browning.
JACK CARKEEK has not had his knee danger
ously Injured, as reported. He says that he Is
in first-class condition at present.
THERE is a probability of the Bowen1Sibbons ;,s
fight being declared off. because Of diherence
relative to when the men shall weigh In,
year brought a total of 81. 6O4 76I. Thoroughbreds
sold in the same way realized e. 60, oso.
"kIp" HOGAN, feather-weisht licked big
rush at Hogan in saloon, and the kid. >, was
fixed for him: throwing couple Of billiard balls
him with billiard cue.
SAM TRoTT. manager OF the new American As
sociation Clubat W Washington. says that he is ne
gotiating with PLAYERS and hopes to have strong
team. He says that he has no Intention of paying
big laries. He was dlckering with players who
says he thought otherwise when they mentioned
the salary required.
HoRSEsHoEs of compressed paper have been in
man army. The shoe is made of sheets of parch-
ment paper cemented with preparation OF
turpemtine, Spanish white lac and boiled linseed
mented and consolidated by hydraulic press.
When dry the shoe is rasped to fit each horse.
..BosToN. brooklyn and Chicago will come
on Nay York kP lar OciIn ne Y
said Manager Mutrie. ''rhat is the reason our
team should be fortified at every point against an
accident. Enough extra players should be en-
New York, and | see that 1--WE Of them have
ann not taking MIi rG nova %oit un
C. W. WILLIAMS seems determined to make In.
dependence. Iowa, the Lexington of the West for
offers anyone who will buy 50 acres of land in the
vicinity of Independence s. 500 IN cash. The con-
that the purchaser shall become q resident. and
shall stock his place with not less than S. 900
worth ofhigh-bred mares. -
CAPTAIN S. $. BROWN, of Pittsburg. who re-
tired from the turf at the closeof the racing
son last year. has come back again. 1t will be
remembered that the Captain disposed of his
tanning only Senorita. This good mare the
3s:year-old May Win and I6 o-ycar-olds, now at
Morris Park. compose the Captains string for
1891. Six of the youngsters are by Troubadour.
THE Brooklyn tP. L. club owes keefe and
Becannon over 500. The latter thought they had
tickets for the Yale-Princeton football game. the
proceeds being 1895. which amount was never
called for by the Brooklyn Oimlted) until few
davs ago. Then kcefe and Becannon refused to
hand out on'y the amount in excess of their bill.
but later Reefe learned that threequarters of the
money belonged to Yale and Princeton. He
therefore paid that amount over and held the ball
ance.
DIS PATCH from Galveston saws: The final ar
rangements were rompleted to-day for the glove
fight between John A. Sullivan, the welter-wcight
champion of the Pacific Slope, and Tom Mona
CHAN. the lightweight champion of this state.
The men will fight in the Galveston Athletic Club
on February G. Tor purse of $500. 1t is expected
that Jack Dempsey, who Is here, will be referee
Monaghan has never met witt defeat. and his
trainer, Morgan, is confident he will defeat the
Frisco champion. Prot. BerRan is training Sui
Ivan. After this fight the Athletic club will
devote more attention to amateur contests.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: ''My corre-
spondence is very voluminous at present re-
marked President oung. of the National League
this afternoon, ''and suppose this condition of
affairs will exist until after the meeting of the
National Board of Control, which VIII be held at
Chicago on February 13. At that meeting Pres
and Treasurer, l have been assured, will be con-
ferred upon me. At the meeting to be held In
New York on February there will doubtless be
great MANY changes IN the personnel of the base
ball teams for the of 1884, Take the case of
the Bostons, for instance, with o men on the re-
served list. Under the existing agreement only
u of these men can be retained and great deal
of care must necessarily De exercised In making
selections for the men who are TO constitute the
Boston League team for this season. What is true
League organizations, possibly with the excep-
ton of Brooklyn and Cincinnati. Both of these
organizations will be apt to retain the men re-
served from last season."