The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-15
SPORTING.

Jan. I5-Fitzsimmous OF Australia. defeated
Jack Dempsey. the champion middlcWeignt OF
America, in thirteen rounds al New Orleans
Jan. 23-The chess contest between Stsinltz
and Geusberg. for the worlds championship,
was decided IN favor OF SteinIuz
Feb. I-Cartwrght won the six-day walking
match at Minneapolis making 524 miles
Mar. 2S-M.s; Zoe Ciavton complete her walk
from San Francisco 10 New York; time 3l3 davs.
Mar. 31-Eenry G. Klink. Jr-. lowered The
worlds hali-mile walking record at Mobile,
Ala time. 2:S1
April I5-N.mphis Derby won by Scoggan
Bros. colt Nsltera
Mays-W. G. Woodford broke the worlds
s!eep-fasting record at san Francisco; time,
lbS hours aud ls minutes without sleep
May l6-Steamshlp Fuerst Bismarck broke
the maiden voyage record; time o Gays II
hours and 10 minutes from South Hampton to
MAY 23-The PAGER. Silver Trail, made mile
in . :IjSi. in philadelphia.
June a-Coiumbia won the eightoared race
| between tn, Columbia, Yale and Harvard col
leEes; time, Gal.
Tuna 2j-Cornell won the eight-Oared three
mile race a. New London. Conn: time. l4:21 !.
June 27-Hs-vard won annual four niie race
with Yale AT New London. Conn: time 81 ;13-
July l4-PuSsy Cat paced mile at Lexington,
Ky, in 2:2Iis, fastest time ever made by two
july in. II. Van Sicken, of Chicago made
p miles in hour. q minutes, II SECONDS on
bicycle at Detroit. Mich
July 25-John McMghone retained worlds
Championship in collar and elbow wrestling
July :0-Hal Pointer paced the three fastAsL
heats in a race on record at Cleveland 2;iOAl,
Aur 8-White Star line steamer Majestic
| broke Atlantic record; time days. IS h urs, s
Aur. I5-Nelson broke worlds stallion record
at Independence, Ia; time 2:ll.
! Aug 2s-Nancy Hanks trOtted three straight
| heat, in 2:l2 2:I3l, and 2:I9 at Independence.
Ia brea king all previous trOt;ing race records
! AuE S-IionGarS. two-yrar-old. colt tlE0tted a
mile in geo At Independents Ia hreaAiag tie
/ Regal Wiltes record o. 2:@lA.
| Sep. 2-P. J. Berlo broke the American
record for half mile at Springfield, Mass :
! time. 1880.
| cycle three-fOurths OF a mile in :+3 p, break
/ ing the worlds record for that distance
| Sep. 5-A.lerton trOtted mile at lndepen
dence. Ia in 2:lJ, breaking the worlds stallion
Sep. l5-Auerton went the two fastest con
! sccutive heats ever made by . stallion at lndc-
| pendence. Ia; time for both, ell =
| Sep. l9-Nelson trOtted q mile IN ~ az a.;
| Grand Rapids Mich AllertOn lowered all
! previous s;a lion records by tTottlnS a hlIe n
| 2:O9l. AT Independence, Ia -,
| al Cambridge City, Ind.
sen. .6-At independence, Ia. Allerton beat
all previous records TO wagon by gong nile
Sep. 29-Speclal train from San Francisco 70
| New York beat al previous records by making
| tha trim in days II hours and - minutes
l.
| closed with Boston in the lead.
| Oct l6-AllertOn won race with Delmarch b
| Lexington. Ky. ...
! Oct sl-Sunol broke the worlds trotting rec
ord at Stockton. Cal. by going mile IN 2;OoAs.
| Oct. e2-Direct defeated Hal Pointer al Nash
vile, Tenn. in three straight heats. ,.h
| Oct 27-George Slosson defeated JACOB
Schsefer in billiard match in New York, by
| score of 80 to 5p2-
| Nov 7~Joe Jefferson lowered worlds three
| mile pacing record at Knoxville, Ia; time,
| 1884. 60, - ...,h,
! Norwood made a mile in New York harbor In
2:I2Il.
| Nov. II-Arion, two-yea--old colt trotted a
| mile at Stockton Cal, IN 2:10A.
! Nov. l2-NatiOnal baseball league awarded
| pennant for 1891 TO Boston.
| Nov l4-Joe Jefferson lowered four mile trol-
ting record at Knoxville, Ia; time, lO:iO
| Nov. Is-Palo Alto lowered stallion trottln8
| record at Stockton Cal. time, 2OSA.
| Nov 26-Two worlds yearling records were
broken at stockton Cal, by Frou Frou trott1ns
mile il 2 I'd, and Fausta Dsitrg mile N s:saA