Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
General Sporting Notes.

COLUMBIA COLLEGE will have no crew this year.
HAMILTON is now the only Philadelphia player
unsigned.
THE Pittsburg Gun Club will have shoot at Ex.
position Park this afternoon.
c. D. HowARD's entries will hereafter be re-
fused. His horses, Powwow and Comanche, have
been running inconsistently since the meeting CON-
menced.
RUMoR has it that Jack Chapman has purchased
a controlling interest in the Buffalo club and will
leave Louisville to personally manage the Bison
City team.
THE Occidental Club of New Orleans has signed a
contract guaranteeing to arrange match ior Ar
thur Upham, who was defeated by Bob FitZsini-
mons in New Orleans some time ago. Mike Lucie
will probably be selected to go up against him.
JACK MCAgLIFFE and Jimmy Nelson. who were
davs ago. were discharged. The officers said that
the exhibition lon came in as part OF play, and that
neither Of the men was hurt, as they wore very
thick gloves.
NOTHING has yet been heard from Goddard in re-
ply to the offer of s. 900 purse by the California
Club for match with Joe McAulitfe If the latter
does not get match soon he will come East in
hopes of finding some of the big men willing give
him chance.
THE Princeton and Yale teams will play in New
game arranged for the purpose OF giving gradu-
ates Of the two colleges chance to see the teams
play, and incidentally with view to gate receipts
1t win not count In the championship series unless
the teams are tied.
STEVE BRoDIE. the bridge jumper, is contemplat-
ing Jump from the new bridge Just built by the
Southern Pacific Railroad over the Pecos river in
Western Texas. The bridge is SS7 feet above the
waters surface and the water is 30 feet in depth at
that point. A parachute leaper also proposes to
jump off the bridge.
TEAM shoot for $3.50 side between Chicago and
Milwaukee cracks will be shot in the Cream City
Thursday. The Chicago team will probably consist
OF X. q. Heikes H. A. Atwater, W. 2. Mussey,
Ed. Bingham and George Hofmann Each man will
try and kill 81 birds. Sweepstake shooting held
at Watson IS Park yesterday.
JIMMIE WHELAN. the boxer, writes from Tacoma
that it was all fiction about Sullivan taking the
pledge. Temperance Orator Murphy exhorted the
big sugger to pin the blue ribbon to his lapel but
sullivan demurTed he said it would be a useless
bluff I'm take drink once in a while long rs
l live - said he. so you might well save the
ribbon.-San Francisco Chronicle.
THE BosJons have been ordered to report in Bos-
ton March q. On the following day they will
leave for Charlottesville. Va, to remain until
April1. Three games have been arranged with the
University of Virginia team. game will be ar
ranged with the New Yorks or some local team at
Richmond for April 2. Then the team will go TO
New Haven and play the Yale College team April
and z.
THE Baltimore clubs salary list foots up $40 $50.
On the basis that the grand stand receipts will pay
all other expenses, and that the team will receive
much from other clubs as 1t gives them 10, 900
people must attend the games in that city during
the season in order that the manage ement of the
Baltimore club may come out even. This means
an average attendance OF about =, 600 each game.-
hsIp York