Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-28
General Sporting Notes.

MONROE SALISBURY thinks Directum, 2:ll1z,
will lead all the stations next year.
PL1MMER and McGrath tonight. There is
money at this Office to bet to l on Pl1m-
mer.
FoRTY-rwo trotters have won $1,000 and
over on the turf this past season,and OF tnat
number 20 are 4year-olds.
RUPEE, 2:II, and Regal Wilkes, 2I1sz both
sons of Guy Wilkes, will be sold at auction
in New York next month.
ED GEERs and Billy Mcdonald are work
ing about so horses at the Buffalo, NY, COW
cred track, preparing them for next years
campaign.
Bic NIKE SULLIVAN, TIE Reds pitcher, is
studving law in Boston University Law
School. Sullivan has taken the pledge Tor
six months.
THERE is considerable talk of reducing the
weight in cocker spaniel classes, some of the
reformers advocating lighter dog by some
10 or IL pounds.
THE New England Kennel Club intends to
introduce many new and novel ideas in their
April menu and present indications point
toward 900 dog entry.
The baseball season ran too long in Cali
fornia, and there is no great interest IN the
games between Los Angeles and San Jose to
determine the championship.
HIrE PEcKHAM was knocked out in one
round at the Manhattan Athletic Clubs
boxing show. Billy Vernon, the Haver-
The football game between the Crimson
and Black and Bank Clerks teams Monday
was stopped because of the cold. The score
was to in favor Of the B. Cs when the
game was stopped.
ANDY Bowen has resumed training at
Mississippi City. He was disappointed over
the change of date of his meeting with
Fielden, for he expected to fill himself
with nuts and Christmas turkey OFF the
purse.
TIE question of Varsity crew at Column
bia this year is still under consideration, but
the prospects for it are not very bright. The
basement under the presidents house is be-
ing fixed up as gymnasium for the crew to
train in.
Ina letter to a friend in New York, Mr..
James Wylie. the champion checker player
of the world, announces that he will revisit
this country after he completes his Scotch
engagements, and make New York his head
quarters.
THE rowing department of the Staten
Island Athletic Club was more LARGELY pat
roniZed than any other branch of athletics
during the past season. 1t is expected that
Wallace Ross will again be the trainer for
the club next year.
THE Eowner of Sir Bsdlvere, Princess Flor.
ence and other fine st. Bernards is now in
Europe and may import another good one
when he returns. Mr. Reich can show the
strongest rough st. Bernard kennel in the
world to-day. and will make speciality OF
stud dogs.
ROAD racing has received a setback in
Scotland owing to some OF the contestants
in the Pearce cup race being arrested for
furious driving and blocking the highway.
The case could not be proven ana was dis
missed, but wheelmen around that place are
very chary of road racing just now.
HARVARD will have a new launch next sea-
son from which her crews will be coached
Stewart & Binney will make the design
The boilers and machinery OF the old laun ch
will be used in the new one. The new launch
will be about 45 feet on the water line and
will be designed with view to speed.
THE Coney Island Jockey Clue has issued
in book form the list and particulars of its
stake events for 1898. The guaranteed val
ues of the principal stakes are the Subur
han, SIS, 900: the Realization, $35 900; the
| Great Tidal, $4,000; the Volunteer the
Double Event, and tee Sea and Sound, $40, ,0Ot
| each; the Tidal, $500.
| PRESIDENT BURDETT has received partial re
| turns from tile census, just taken, o. the
Connecticut wheelmen. 1t is estimated tha
there are 10, 900 riders in the State, 5000 hav
| ing been counted, with three counties yet tx
| be heard from. In Hartford there are 5000
and out of that number only $40 are members
| of the League. New Haven has 9, 800 riders
| In the entire State only 1857 enjoy tn,
Brotherhood benefits.