The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-15
A Fight Against Garfield Park.

Special the Indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO, April 14-If the Garfield Park
managers succeed in running off the elab-
crate programme arranged for the coming
summer and fall it will be only after sew
eral legal victories have been won. Mayor
Washburne, the West.slde aldermen and
the west park commissioners have all
taken up the cudgels against the track.
The Mayor to-day notified the chief of
police that license will be issued to the
West.side track for thirty days Of racing.
and no more. The West-side aldermen
have announced their opposition to the
track on account of the strenuous obiec-
tions their constituents make to the male
and female patrons. The strongest oppOsi-
tiOn of all will be encountered in the park
commissioners, who have determined the
law prohibiting racing within four hundred
feet of boulevards under their control shall
be observed If they are compelled to call
ont the militia. The race men Will prob.
ably pursue their tactics of last year and
rely on injunctions to prevent interference
with the races.
sturgis Fair Association Stakes.
STURGIs, Mich. April 14.-Of the four
stakes offered by the Sturgis Fair Associ a.
ton. the entries for which closed April l,
the National Futurity stallion and colt
stake worth Sill, Jill had 167 nominations;
the five-hundred-d dollar yearling stake,
tifty-two: the $1,000 two year-Old. three
minute stake. sixty. and the 81 900 three
year-old, 2:35 stake, thirty nominations.
The colt stake is to be trotted at the grand
summer meeting Aug. j to O. and the Futu-
rity to be trotted in August, 1855. The man.
agement of this association has reason to
be proud because of the fact that theirs is
the only association In the North having
all their stakes full. A number of horses
are now quartered on tho track, and by
May over one hundred will be in training
over the famous kits-shaped track.
General Sporting News.
All the National League baseball games
scheduled to be played yesterday were pre-
vented by rain.
At Rapid City. S. d.. Wednesday night.
Gus Drager. the Baggage-smasher." and
Mehan. ,.'the Cowboy" started in for q
finish fight. Mehan got oil he wanted in
the second round.
LAWYER. u Cincinnati bruiser, and Nc
Elroy. an Alabama sport. fought for twenty
minutes near Chattanooga. Tenn, Wednes-
day night. Lawler was knocked out In
the fourth round.
Robert Bonner, owner of Sunol (20SAl.
the queen of the trottlng turf. says that
his great mare would, in all probability,
he shipped to the kite track at Meadvilie,
Pa. in a week or so.
The Olympic Club. of New Orleans,
which has already offered $500 for the
Sullivan-Corb fight on Sept. Z. now pro-
poses to give $4,000 for FitzsmnOns and
Hall and $1,000 for Myer and McAuliffe.
the three fights to take place in one week.
The plan was suggested by some of the
leading railroads of the country.
Jack MoAuliffe is reported to be dying of
dufck consumption at Hot Springs, Ark.
The dispatch says both lungs are gone"
and that the celebrated lightweight has
fought his last tight" A friend says:
Jack is almost q g0ner. | would not be
surprised any time TO hear of his DEATH"
The foregoing story was denied last night
by McAulitte's mother. who said her son
was i'll good health.