Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-27
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

THE Reilly and Miller wrestling match has
been postponed for week.
MAHER is still favorite in the betting on
next Wednesdays big battle.
IT is remarkable how many great fighters
there are until they get into a ring to do
business.
PRESIDENT HART, OF Chicago, wants the
ball season to be opened there in May. No
flies on Jim.
HARRY STEVENS, the local score card hero,
and Charley Farrell, the third baseman, are
personal friends.
EGGLEsToN, the New York pool player, is
showing up in great form in his practice
games with De Oro, the Cuban crack.
JOHN J. BELL, the roller skater, is now in
the city and states that he is willing to skate
McClelland OF anybody else for stake.
PRESIDENT TEMPLE and other officials of
the local club state that they will act fairly
with Mack. He will be signed for about 81, 600
THERE is a member of the Boston team
who is so struck on becoming a Gould or q
Vanderbilt that he borrowed an overcoat to
face the east winds in Boston for few days
last March.
IVES defeated Thatcher in practice game
last night by the score of 400 to ITO. His high
run was $50 and his average 331&, good
enough to win any game. Ives practices
every night
THE-s125 900 that Senator Stanford received
125 equal portions to be given to that num-
Der OF destitute bows to educate them at his
new university.
1T is said in New Orleans that Bob Fitz-
simmons and Jimmy Carroll bet all they had
ON Cal Mccarthy to beat Tommy Callaghan,
although Carroll was in the latter's corner.
The Irishman's damaged hand Influenced
them.
FITzsIMMoNs evidently proposes to have a
cast iron stomach when he meets Maher.
One feature Of his traing is lying on the
lifting the body, ,unaided by the hands, with
a lO0-pound weight strapped to his chest.
THE following players are coaching college
teams: Tim Keefe, Harvard; Dave Foutz,
Princeton; Gruber, Yale; Irwin, University of
lor, Cornell. Either Manager Mutrie or
Dahlen will coach the Union College team.
THOMAS CoYNE, one of the Oldest members
of the Manhattan Cricket Club, died at his
residence, Manhattan Cottage, Coney Island
road, on Wednesday. He was one of the
Highway Commissioners in the town of
Flatbush, and one of the most respected men
in that town.
BEN MULFoRD says: Somebody has discov-
cred that Fred Woodcock is fine bass
singer Well, If he lands among the Smoked
Italians with his gripsack full of curves and
other.foolers the cranks won't care whether
he can sing as good as Nicolini or as bad as
Dave O'Brien.
CLIFF CARROLL showed great ingrat1tude in
deserving Anson for Won der Abe and now
he is meeting his reward Won der Abe has
cast him off and Cliff will have to hustle for
an engagement in a minor league. Anson
dug up Carroll and put him on earth for
his second seance in 1890, when he was dead
to the world as. Jack Leary.-Ne,0 York
Press.
A DISPATCH from Charleston says: Since
the organization of a six-city Southern
League the seacoast cities that are not Gin
it" have taken steps to organize a second
Southern League, in which following cities
are to be embraced: Charleston, Columbia
and Greenville, s. c.; Wilmington and Ashe-
vile, n. c.; Nashville, Chattanooga and
Knoxville, Tenn.