Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-02

provisions and some other small arti-
cles. This week he will start on the
longest row ever attempted by any
man, his destination being the worlds
fair at Chicago. The actual rowing
distance will be between / 800 and 1900
miles, and he will row every inch of
the way if it is possible thing. He
expects to complete the journey in from
six to ten weeks.
Jimmy Reilly of the Granite Athletic
club is anxious to match his newly
acquired seventy FOUNDER agiIst any lad
Of that weight in the world. AS soon
Reilly receives a response to this chal-
lenge he will post 500 to make Il
match.
Lon Myers, the champion amateur
| runuer of the world in his day, and
Zach Cooper, the well-known high
| jumper, have formed Il copartnership
for bOok-making.
| The steam yachts Halcyon and Rest
l
| ca-u.
| ~. III. l.; milton, a crack Australian
lcyrliSt. is i'll Chicago, and declares the
leash pIIZo system in his country to bt
Il success.
San Francisco is again in possession
of James ]. Corbett or Jim is in posses
sion of San Francisco, just us YOU
=, Will have it,
Just 29,+37 persons witnessed tn,
games played in Brooklyn, Chicago an,
,CinC;nnati Sunday, divided rs follows
Chicago, 11.7O0; Cincinnati, 9,O95
Brooklyn, S,642.
Pike Barnes, the well-knwon jockey
it is said, will be in the field this sum
MGR as buyer OF yearlings, it bein
his intention, now that he has grow
too heavy to ride, to turn trainer.
Fred r. Pratt, of Chicago, will lcav
for England Tuesday to confer wit
representatives of the Cambridge an
Oxford crews relative to their ben
represented in the Chicago navy regatt
ut Lake Geneva in August. HarVaf
and Yale have Signitied Il willingness
to take part, provided the two crac
; English crews will compete The nav
, is confident the two crews can be il
duced to enter, us the correspondent
with them has been of 4 very satisfa,
tory nature.
Sidney Thomas, IN English runner
has broken the mile and Il half recor
held so long by w. G. George. Thom'
ran the mile in + minutes 81 second
and the mile and Il half in 6 minute
: So 80 seconds, four seconds better tina
1 the previous record.
Dick Burge, the English lightweight
has accepted the challenge of Tom Wi
Jams to fight for $500 or $1,000
. side at LILO pounds. 1t took Burs
; nearly two weeks to make up his min
/. to tackle the Australian. Articles wi
'ibe signed rs soon as the manager {
J.; the National Sporting Club names tn
lamOunt of the purse.
J. The prince of Wales cutter Brital
:. nil won the yacht race in the Tham
/ regatta recently, defeating the Val
$ yrc. Lord Dunravcn's new yacl
S which is to race for the American en-
5 The VaIky1ie was outsailed at all poin'
c 1t was the greatest event Of its XII
g that has ever taken place in EnSlaI
g and was witnessed by thousands
6 people.
;. Tom O'Rouke may take George DiXI
S to England this summer and mate
" him against Morgan Crowther, chal
piOn feather-Weight of Great Brltl;l
DiXon'S manager has cabled challen
9 to Crowther, and in case he is aSsur
q good purse and a side bet of $50
= ORourke and Dixon will all immed
q tely.
n Adyices from England show that t
o. cycle racing men are riding remal
II ably fast this spring. The new boa
- track at Herne Hill is found to be We
p fast, and the racing men are all
&c training for record trials. In the tN
o. mile London county and Cycling CT
10 handicap run on May II, M. 3. Fowl
rode the distance from scratch in
minutes, 1915 seconds, which is
markably fast and close to record tin
l. he covered his first mile in minutes
is seconds, Sanger will no doubt ii
VI worthy competitor in Fowler,
sides there are Harris and Schofie
is The Milwaukee boy will have q hard
IL task in defeating the Englishman tn
III he did in winning from the Germ
II cracks at Brussels.
II The management Of the new COlu
lS bian Athletic club has signed Joe G.
IS dard, the Barrier Giant" and Wi
IN Kennedy, New Orleans hea7
IS weight, to fight ten pounds as curt;
ad raiser to the Woods-Costello fight
10 the night of June 10. AS Goddard a
a Kennedy are both fighters Of the hui
cane order the contest will no dol
be a finish one. Kennedy is mes
10 and weighs about 230 pounds in G
&C. dition. The contest will be for
no 81. 900 purse The club has also sigr
Bobby Burns, the bantam who defeat
Cal Mccarthy, and Billy Napier
in ~ OF that yaiD