, 1892-04-11

be purchased for $25. If you don't
care to see the games, buy q season
ticket anyhow and thus contribute your
mite to tine maintenance Of the club.
When the people support club there is
no reason to fear that the management
won't get the best players possible.
Monmouth Races Booked.
Monmouth Park track is being put in
better condition than it ever has been.
The meeting this year will begin July
4th and continue on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, to include August
25th.
The full list Of stakes to be run will be
about in the following order:
July Independence, Fourth Of July
handicap, Ocean stakes.
July 3 Hackensack, Long Branch
handicaps.
July u Hopeful, Monmouth Oaks.
July 9-July, Lorillard and Shrews-
bury handicaps.
July 12- Atlantic, Monmouth cup.
July 14-Lassie, Stockton stakes.
July 16-Tyro, Midsummer handicap.
July 19-Colleen, Barnegate stakes.
July 21-Eliza beth, Harvest handicap.
July Saplings, Stevens and Passaic
stakes.
July 26- Optional, Raritan and Nave
sink handicaps.
July 28 Hollywood handicap, Newark
stakes.
July -seabright, Eatontown.
August q Red Bank, Palisade.
August Camden, Trenton and Free
hold stakes.
August 6Amboy and Cape May
August 9-Junior Champion and
Champion.
August Il - Orange, Comparative
stakes.
August 18-August, West End and
Railway handicap.
August Criterion, Omnibus.
August Is e. Select and Delaware
handicap.
August Produce stake and Choice.
August 23-P1ivate sWeepstake and
Monmouth handicap.
August 25-C Carteret and Jersey handi-
caps.
Sporting Gossip.
The minstrel performace and concert
to be given BY the Tacoma Athletic club
will probably be postponed from May
9th to give the members more time in
which to get ready.
News from Butte City, Mont, is to the
effect that the estimate Of Mr.. Marcus
Daly's losses OF colts at the Bitter Root
Stock farm this season will aggregate
100000 Five-sixths Of the colts foaled
have died Immediately after birth, and
the best veterinary surgeons are unable
to arrive at the cause, but consider it to
be epidemic.
Thursday, August 25th has been
named as the day on which the Hartford
| $4,000 purse for foals OF 1889 will be
trotted for at Charter Oak Park.
Helen EngLehardt, the expert lady
fencer, has just married wealthy New
| Yorker.
The San Francisco Chronic7e says.
"Alex Greggains, who has returned from
| New Orleans, is disgusted with the way
Fitzsimmons treated him in regard to
money matters. He says he is anxious
CO meet any man of his weight, and if he
does not get an eastern engagement he
will endeavor to secure match with
McCann, should the latter win against
Turner. Since Turner's last match,
Greggains has offered to 60 against the
4 Stocktonian, but the colored man refuse a
/ fh 'f- sAn~T 49, ~
to meet him"
4 Lannon and George Godfrey have been
matched to fight tor $4,000 purse on
May l6 before the Coney Island Athletic
club. The winner will get $4,000.
A bill has been introduced in the
Massachusetts legislature to prevent
ringing"
Jack Burke, the Irish lad, has chal-
lenged Billy Mccarthy OF Australia and
Jack O'Brien Of England for a finish
fight.
Jim Gibbons is out with another chal-
lenge for his brother, Austin, to fight
any lightweight in the world, Jack Nc
Auliffe preferred.
Frisco yachtsmen are tuning up" for
the opening of their season Of pleasure,
which will take place in about month
The Corinthians open the season on
the 23d inst, the Pacifcs on May 9TH
and the San Franciscos on May 18th.
The first cruise will be by the Corinth-
ians on the 9th and Both Of this month.
On May 9th all the yachts will 60 to
Vallejo.
rhe Alameda county wheelmen Of
Oakland, CAL, held a iye-mile road race
yesterday.
A meeting Of the committees OF the
Bay City wheelnen and the Capital City
wheelmen will he held at Sacramento
on April 18th to begin preparations for
the league meet OF July 4th.
An international tug-of-war contest
will take place at San Francisco on April
23d. Ten teams have been entered, rep
resenting America, Ireland, Denmark,
England, Scotland, Canada and Slavaria.
Henry Peterson, the champion oars
man Of this coast, has received letter
from Alexander Mclean Of New West
minister that a skif race on the Fraser
river could be arranged to take place in
May or June if Peterson would give
Mclean the inside course. John Muir
head, Peterson's backer, sent an answer
to Mclean that the concession would be
granted if a stake Of $1,000 were put up.
Peterson will not row for less than that
sum. Peterson also sent word thai if
Mclean desired to row on Shawnigan
lake he would give the British Colum-
bian fifty yards start IN q three-mile
course.
4 Dr. Allan has removed his residence