Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18

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try equal to that Just concluded at Lexing-
ton, which forcibly goes to show how prom
lnent and popular the trotter is becoming:
1t is not unlikely that next tall there will
be stake race at Lexington worth $50, 600
or $50, ,000 OF course all events of this kind
will add to the Importance of the trotter.
But as have just remarked, although the
events at Lexington during the week have
been excellent there was still great disap-
pointment at the non-appearance OF Nancy
Hanks in a contest The race be-
tween that famous mare and Aller-
ton had been looked forward to
with the greatest possible interest by all
persons at all interested in trotting The
mare became indisposed and could not race
1t is pity, because I am very much In,
clined to think that she would have lowered
Allerton's colors had she been all right.
As it was the stallion from Independence
had something of an easy thing in match
race against Delmarch. The latter was
beaten in three straight heats, and was not
by any means 'foeman" worthy the steel
of Allerton. According to rumor, Nancy
Hanks was sold for $40, 900, very large
sum for mare. But it is thought by many
that she will beat the record of Maud S, and
if she can do that she is worth every cent of
the big sum named. But it may be safe to
say that she will not beat the record this
year.
About the Cricketers.
Lord Hawke and his cricket team have
about ended their tour of the United States
and they have taught US one thing very en-
phatically, viz, that cricket playing isn't
our forte. With the exception of the first
match at Philadelphia the visitors have
made miserable show of our teams where
ever they have met them. This shows that
cricket playing is not as firmly established
in this country as many people think. L
can never believe that any sport is we'll es-
tablished when the participants of that
sport seldom practice, in fact, do not care
about practicing at all. Well, excepting in
Philadelphia, we'll find very few people
practicing cricket playing in this country,
and when the followers of that sport do not
practice and show an interest in it there is
little or no hope for the success of that
sport. This is Just about how cricket play
ing stands in the United States.
The visit of Lord Hawkes. team may
have done good, but it would have been
much better for the sport had the team came
here in the spring instead of the fall
Whatever enthusiasms may have been
caused by the team will surely Danish at
once as the season for cricket playing is al
most over.
Among the Pugilists.
We have Jack McAuliffe with us this
week, he being engaged to give sparring ex-
hibitions at the Academy of Music. know
of no more interesting and accomplished ex-
ponent of the ''manly art" than McAuliffe
He has an extremely attractive style of box
ing, but the better, or I may say the best
points of McAulife's boxing can only be
seen when he is engaged in a battle. / saw
them when he faced Gibbons, and don't
hesitate to say that he is one of the finest
leaders off have seen. Of course, / stated
my opinions about McAuliffe as fighter
when L had nv say about his contest with
Gibbons, but what 1 want to say now is
that if any man wants to become good
boxer he need only become an adept in Nc
Abilities style. He is worthy of imitation
from feet to head as far as boxing is con-
cerneo. A day or two ago had CONVEX
sation with the famous lightweight. Of
course, he feels much disappointed at not
receiving the. stake money of his contest
with Gibbons, and until he gets that he
does not intend to have anything more to
do with Gibbons. In this he is perfectly
right. But / have an idea that McAuliffe
will not fight very often.
III is d STtdG lOI W Stb W
weight now, and this difficulty will increase
as he gets older. During his talks
with me he seemed to share this
opinion, as he remarked that,
now he was out of it, Jimmy
Carroll was the best lightweight living. In
this McAuliffe may be right, but 1 would
hesitate to say that Carroll is the superior
of the better man between Jem Carney and
Dick Burge True, Carrollis a remarkable
man. and have always argued that he was
in the front rank. Ny readers will re-
member that Just before Carroll and Nc
Auliffe fought said it was an even thing
between them, with McAuliffe for choice.
But Carroll is game man to very con-
siderable extent, and that is what has made
him a prominent fighter more than any
thing else. And let me saw here that Nc
Auliffe battle with Carroll certainly goes
to show that he is a slayer, which fact
knocks on the head all the bosh of Glib
bon about Austin making waiting game
of it'' when he faced McAuliffe. In few
weeks time We shall have Carroll In the
ring again. This time he has to face
Myer, and if all is well 1 don't see why
Carroll should not defeat Myer just as he,
Carroll, defeated Andy Bowen. But the
contest is distance off yet and we'll have
time to talk about it later on.
The Heavy Weights.
Since Maher, the Irish champion, arrived
in this country the heavyweight pugilists
have commenced to talk James J. Corbett
has been heard from, and, as he has made
up HIS mind to desert San Francisco and
locate in New York, he talks from very
high pedestal. He states that he could not
think of condescending to fight the Irish
but he will match Jim DAILY, of
Philadelphia, to fight him. DAILY, by the |
way, is the same DAILY who had the encoun-
ter with Pat Farrell Well, this is the |
man whom Corbett wants to back against |
the maa Billy Madden has brought here to |
meet anybody. Surely, Billy must take |
this as an insult from Corbet. And Gus |
Lambert has also loomed up. He wants to
tackle the lrishman again, and doubtless |
Madden will hear from dozen or two of
second and third rate men who want to |
tackle his imported pugilist. But Billy |
wants to tackle high game, win or lose; bet |
ter lose against prominent man than an |
obscure one. Corbett also reminds the world |
that he is waiting for the arrival OF Charley |
Mitchell or T. 2. Slayin. 1t alway puzzles |
Inc to know why Corbett is so ANXIOUS to
meet Slavin or Mitchell and steadily de- |
clines to settle the old score between himself |
and Jackson. Taking Corbett's perform
ance against Jackson into consideration / |
don't see why he should be SO anxious to |
tackle Slavin or even Mitchell
During this week we have had Pat Killen |
once more brought before our notice This |
time he mas been contesting against rough |
stockyard man at Chicago, named |
Bob Ferguson. The battle was one of the |
brutal kind and only refer to it to point
out the truth of what 1 have always said |
about Killen. In my estimation he has |
always been coward and on MANY occa-