Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-19
Miscellaneous Sporting Notes.

THE Coney Island Athletic Club has signed Joe
Choynski to meet George Godfrey, OF Boston, for
purse of S. zoo Monday, October 81.
GEORGE DIXON has offered his services to Jack
skely at the latter's benefit in Brooklyn. Dixon
will accept Johnny Griffin's challenge.
BELLE OF HAYWOOD, the dam of Tenny and
other crack race horses. will be sold in October.
together with the other Algeria stud brood mares.
RILEY MEDIUM broke the worlds pacing record
pacing three heats the first in 2:i7&, second In
213 and third in I'll 3-5. The stallion is owned by
K. c. Campbell, of OTTAWA, Kan.
THE chestnut stallion Geneva has now q race
record of2:l44. He is by Leland-Bessie Forrest,
BY Edwin Forrest; second dam, Diana. by Pilot,
Jr. Leland is by Hamb etonian. 10, dam by Amerl-
can Star; second dam by Abdallah.
FOREMAN. the champion English setter OF
AmmeriGa, died at his owners kennel In Central
prizes during his L. years of life than any other dog
for 81, 500.
CAL MCCARTHY. the ex-featherweght cham
pion Of jersey CITY is training faithfully under the
eye of Billy Kenny for his len-round go with
Sim Collins, at the Manhattan Athletic Club
September q. Mccarthy feels certain of his ability
to whip Collins.
ST. SIMON has long lead in the list of winning
q seS for this III as Up to s he
other stations had reached five figures, Wis: Wis
DOM ElS 100; Bend Or, Gl9, 64S; ormonde, Ell. 42,
and Saraband, GI0. $40.
THESE are Zimmerman's American records:
Quarter mile or dying; one-haIf mile s., 5oI 45;
cord, 2:7); two miles. f;3 25: three miles, 7l5 5;
four miles, 9:4l; five miles. I2:002-5
JOHNNY GRIFFIN, of Baintree. Mass. is matched
to fight Jimmy Lynch on the Goth inst. They
to weigh in at 122 pounds at exactly O'Clock
the evening of September 26 There will be an
other bout on the same evening between ''Boh''
Cunningham and ''Sam'' Kelly. Il will be the
preliminary bout and will be limited to ten rounds.
JIMMIE CARROLL, who once managed Bob FitZ-
simmons, goes oil record with the declaration that
If jim Hall ever meets the Kangaroo he will be
whipped. Carroll says: Il have managed Fitz-
what he Is He has great shifting ability, but isn't
game and three or t0ur stiff dives in the stomach
will make him quit
THE Yale football kickers who have been prac-
ticing at Newport have shown marked improve
ment. On the whole 1t may be said that the pre-
liminary practice taken there has been great sue
cess in SO far as the marked improvement shown
is concerned. and would seem to establish the prec-
edent for a continuation and consequent develop
ment of the idea by other teams.-Bilfdlo CONNER
cidl.
WINSTON the welI-known football trainer has
season. He has been successful three times with
these boys, by winning the championship in '66,
49, '9l. Winston says the team that beats WILL
Jams this year will get the pennant and the boys
the Iield. Winston will take charge of the team
the first Monday of the term
ANDY WEIGH known, as "Clingstone'' Andy
one of the booSmakers at the trottng meetings, is
young man who has picked up some $780, 90 in
the past II years around the trotting courses Orig
inaly protege of Pat Sheedy, at Hartford. Conn.,,
Welch made his first good haul Clingstone at
Rochester. Afterward he became the owner of q
stallion called Atlantic, and by the victories ofhs
horse gained competence. Living close to Father
Bill DAILY, in Hartford, Welch knows a thing or
two when DAILY turns any thing loose, - and also
has turf interests himself.