Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-02
General Sporting Notes.

JIMMY MANNING will manage the Savannah,
Ca, team next season.
AND now there are some suspicious about the
Goddard and Maher battle.
THE University OF Pennsylvania elect their new
football team next Monday evening.
MARTINS FERRY-He was knocked down twice,
once by Mitchell and once by Corbett.
lP K.-As neither man secured tn required
q electoral votes Of the State neither an carried
the State.
PRESIDENT YOUNG says he thinks the Chicago
ball club will get permission to play Sunday games
next season.
CURRY Fol EY, the old-time ball player, is hope
lessly insane, and has been removed TO an asylum
near Boston
BILL BAXTER the feather-weight champion
pugilist of England, has issued a challenge to light
George Dixon.
THOMAS, the captain and halfback of the Exeter
Football team entered the University Of Pennsyi-
vania last Monday.
BILLY MyER started t9 work work. yesterday sG to q a.
McAuliffe will train at BelOit.
LOCAL sporting man Jeff 500 at this office last
evening to pet at evens mat Goddard will defeat
Maher In their battle next week.
THE championship boxing contests Of the New
England Amateur Athletic Association will be held
in Music Hall. Boston. December 20.
CoRNELL's famous halfback, osgood. has en-
tered the University Of Pennsylvania. The q. p. IS
will have q rattling good eleven next year
FRED sTEARNs. of Detroit, b: Perry. Of WASH
inRton and George W. Beals, OF Boston, the
Amateur Athletic Union Committee on baseball.
THE California rumor that W. o. B. Macdon-
ough the millionaire owner of Ormonde. will sell
all his racing colts send the ies to his ranoh and
retire from racing is probably true.
McCLUNe, the famous Yale football player, cap
tain Of last years team, Is out West on pleasure
trip and incidentally looking over the field with the
idea of settling down in business somewhere.
THE English papers cali the present season Baron
Hirsch's. His three cracls-La Fleche, Water
La Fleche landed al8 900, beside losing the Derby
to Sir Hugo by luke.
PuGuIsM is triumphant in court and the eyes Of
the law at Portland. Ore. The Holding OF the
judges is that glove contests legal BILLY Maher
there. were acquitted. The indictments found
against Jack Dempsey and others have been dis
missed. All the clubs in the State intend to boom
the sport.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made in Chicago for
East next summer under the colors Of the Chicago
Athletic Association. The trip, II made, will be
under the direction OF Joseph A. Murphy. himself I
one of the best amateur pitchers In the West and
games will be played with all the prominent coll
leges and Eastern athletic clubs.
''BILLr SLAvIN accompanied by William r.
Roach his backer and Z. L. Murray, the book
maker called the Police Gazette office yesterday
and issued challenge to Alex Greggains to 1ght
at i6s pounds, six weeks from signing articles. be-
fore any club offering the largest purse, and Roach
will back Slavin to the amount Of el, 900 side IL
Greggains wants an outside bet
NOTHING will be done about the election Of q
Yale captain until McClung and Camp return frvm
until nearly January l. Mccormick and Laurie
Bliss win return for post-graduate courses next
year. Both have said most decidedly that they
probable that neither win be induced 70 accept,
and the members Of the team think that the honor
lies betw cen Butterworth and Hlnkey.