Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-10

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The County League.
Everything is now going grandly along
with the County League. They have made
a good start for next season, and it is not
| TOO much TO say that the prospects of the
| League were never better than at present.
There will be better class of plsyers in the
League this wear than there has been here
tofore, and this viii tend to make the con-
| test closer and more exciting. The East
End Gyms will have much harder lot of
| opponents 10 face this wear than they had
| last year, and / would not be surprised to
! find Williamsburg making things very
| lively for the hest of them.
OF course, East Liverpool has been de-
| MED admission to the League. Those COM
| posing the organization contend that they
desire TO keep it strictly county affair; in
! deed, that is the only argument that could
| be urged against the admission of the Liver
| pooiiteS. Now, this must be quite new
notion of the County League members, be-
cause it is not long time since there was
| serious talk of having Greensburg and
! Beaver Falls in the League. There was no
| objection then about going outside the
| county, and these clubs did not enter the
! League because of other reasons entirely
| different from desire to keep all the clubs
in Allegheny county. Certainly if East
! Liverpool had been admitted to the League
| there would have been increased interest all
round and the status of the League would
not have been I'M ured in any shape or FORM
A Promising Gun Club.
During the week the local gun experts
have been very busy, and as a result we are
to have one of the best gun clubs in the
State. What is known as the Pittsburg
Gun Club has been in existence for long
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| dropped from public view. A number of
our best shots are now members of it, and
they intend to develop it into something
great. Mr.. G. E. Painter is President and
Mr. e. e. Shaner Secretary of the organiza-
tion. know of nobody who is more active
and more enthusiastic in booming shooting
interests than Mr.. Shaner, so that ne is GER
tain to keep things going merrily along in
the Pittsburg club.
But the members of the club state that
they intend to make a stock company of it
and have the organization run and managed
on principles similar to the famous Hur-
lingham Club. If this is done then local
shooters will have nothing to complain OF,
as there will be enclosed grounds and shoot
ing contests Just as often as two or three
contestants want to have them. We are
sure to have lots of shooting this year, and
we may expect 10 have the best shots in the
country contesting ii Pittsburg. There are
more good shots in the United States to-day
than ever before, and contests of import
ance are consequently more numerous. It
is pleasing TO find that Pittsburgers mean to
keep up in the procession.
The Homewood Races.
Secretary McCracken. of the Homewood
Driving Park, a few davs ago gave an out
line OF what he expects will be the pro-
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and summer. During a conversation he
told me that in all probability the associa-
tion will have three stake races, two small
ones and one of So 900 or $4,000 The idea
is good one, ard it is likely that it will be
carried into effect
1t is proposed that the two small stakes be
for slow horses. This will give owners a
chance TO have their "green" stock tried
without much expense, as the entrance fee
is to be comparatively light. The Secre-
tary is also toleTably confident that the
directors will agree to have $40 900 stake
race. If such a race is to take place it will
do much to advertise the Homewood track
thoroughly throughout the entire country.
1t is pleasure to note that the associa-
tiou is in a good condition, and that the
directors start Off this year under much bet
ter circumstances than last wear. Should
the summer meeting be profitable the asso-
citation will be clear of debt. and that is
very encouraging to everybody concerned.
Toem2r's Latest Challenge.
John Teemcr is again before the world
with challenge TO scull Hanlan o. Gaudaur
or ANYBODY 7e. These challenges appear
with remarkable regularity and without any
result as f3r as race is concerned. don't |
mean 20 insinuate that Teemer is not sim |
cere in his challenges. On the contrary, I |
think he is. But Hanlan, in all his talk, is |
no: sincere. The ex-champion of the world |
knows full well that he cannot defeat |
Teemer The formers sun is rapidly on |
the ware and has been for long time Still |
he is daily declaring himself to the effect
that he'll row anybody. He knows he won't |
do any such thing.
Bit why cannot the leading rowers of the |
world get up a big sweepstake event, and
contest one against the other to see who is
the best rover? There is some talk of hay
ing such an event as that in England this
year. and it is just the thing. Reports from
Australia state that Stansbury is anxious to
row ANYBODY. so that it is really interesting
to find three or four men anxious to row
anybody else, and yet they never get race.
1t is likely enough that Stansbury is the
hest rover in the world to-day, but he ought
to be able to get race or two if he would
leave home for awhile.
About the Pugilists.
There is less prospect now of a battle be-
tween F. p. SlaYin and John L. Sullivan
than there has been for long time. The
Australian has been unable to pI oduce the
"needful, as his backe- declines to put up
q forfeit at present for Slavin to fight in
America next winter. Much can be said in
favor of this objection, as there is much
that is ridiculous in a demand to have
forfeit up for nearly - months. The Sulli-
Jackson defeats Slavin any match that is
made between the latter and Sullivan be
declared off, as John L. does not want to
an argument Of this kind has considerable
custom to sink everything in the interests
ter is the stock-ir-trade of those glovists
who are in the show business Reputation
and noise keep them before the public.
Slavin cannot well find fault with SulIi-
vans demand in view of the fact that
declines to meet Fitzsimmons be-
cause the latter has not enough of 'reputa-
tion."
One of these days Slavin will be looming
up with plenty of money and ready to make
q definite match with Sullivan, and then
else will occur to prevent any
match making. Thus the two men and
their friends are kept well before the world
without doing anything but talk. This
suits the show business exactly, and one
party is just as bad as another The great
object Of all is to catch the public. Lots
Of them have caught on very well, and
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