Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-10-26
SPORTING NOTES.

"Iuckv'' Baldwin has publicly an
nonnced that he will retire from the
turt and has notified Dow Williams, his
trainer. to seek another engagement.
The string of the Santa Anita stables
will be disposed of after the fall
meeting at San Francisco. A few
choice animals will be reserved
for breeding purposes. Baldwin says
he will hereafter be known to the
turf only as a breeder. Horsemen
throughout the country will no doubt
regret the retirement OF the Cantor
Man from the horse world. He has
been one of the foremost OF American
horsemen and has done much to prlng
the sport up to it's present hlgh stand
ard. :.
The hackers of the National Cycling
Association are some $4,000 behind on
the season. Notwithstanding the
meeting will be held again next season
and those interested are hopeful OF ultl-
mate profit.
The champion amateur sculler OF Ire
land is coming to this country next
spring to compete in all the rowing
events here and in Canada. His name is
S. M. Boyd and he is doctor by profess
sion. He finished third in the last
Henley regatta to j. J. *. Ooms, OF Am
sterdam, who was first, and u. Mac
Henry, Frenchman, who was next
Ooms is now in this country and
member of the Passaic Boat Club, of
Newark, and if MacHenry can be pre-
vailed upon to accompany Boyd there
will be a diamond scull race on this
side that will be as good as Henley.
Jacob Schaefer and Frank Ives have
agreed to meet George F. Slosson in
three-cornered fourteen inch balk line
billiard game in New York two weeks
after their Chicago match. According
to the arrangement entered into, slos-
son is to play in Chicago two weeks
after the tournament in New York.
winner to take gate money and sweep
stakes.
Judge r. V. B. Newton has resigned
the presidency of the Coney Island
Athletic Club and severed his connec-
ton with that organization. The rea-
son adduced is that it barred his way IN
politics. His successor has not yet been
selected.
Jimmy Barry, the Chicago bantam
weight, has issued challenge to fight
Jim German for 900 a side, the men
to weigh in at 102 pounds. German re-
Gently defeated Jack Levy at New Or
leans.
The National Sporting Club, of Lon
don, has offered a purse OF $1,000 for
contest between Ted Pritchard and
Dan Creedon.
Jimmy Ryan's days as ball player
he was injured in a railway wreck and
was taken to Chicago hospital. He
was discharged few days since, but
when he started to use his injured leg
the wounds burst open again and there
was some danger of his bleeding to
DEATH He is back in the hospital
again. Ryan has become one of the
veterans of the Chicago team and his
services cannot we'll be spared.
Eugene Sandow has offered James
W. Kennedy $4,000 if the latter will
perform three feats accomplished by
Sandow. Kennedy claims to be the
champion weight-lifter of the world.
Negotiations for the use of Hampden
Park for the Yale-Harvard foot ball
match have been completed and the
The match between Stanton Abbott
and Andy Bowen has been ratified and
the contest will positively take place
November 13 at the Olympic Club, of
New Orleans, for So 900 purse. Abbott
and his trainer, Tommy Dan1orth, are
now on their way to the battle-ground.
It is probable that Alix, the Wiscon-
sin trotting wonder, and Directum, the
king of stations, will meet in a match
race for $1,000 a side at Chicago before
the close of the present month. In case
the match is made Mayor Case, of Ra
cine, will drive Alix. Morris Jones is
anxious to pit his little mare against
Directum and indications at present are
hot 4lo nd Ii
decide the question of supremacy.
Windle's trainer says that Windle
breathes through his nose entirely in
race and rides with his teeth tightly
clenched. He finds the plan works
much better than the almost universal
habit Of using mouth and nose for res
piratory work. After race Windle
INDUCES in several long limitations and
exhalations as a sort of practice, and
before a race takes two or three long
draughts Of air into his lungs.
Mike Dirnberger, the Buffalo cycler,
is confident, with proper pacemaking,
he can 60 mile under minutes.
He made a mile in practice the other
day in 2:O5, and the half in 1.Ol. His
winnings this year amount to about
gold watches, nineteen diamonds, four
shot guns, nine wheels, one top buggy
and two parlor suits. He has won
eighty-one prizes ali told; forty-three
firsts.
Tommy Ryan, the welter-weight
champion, and Harry Jarnison, of
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, have signed articles
for ten-round glove contest. The
fight will take place in about three
weeks. Jamison will weigh in at 165
and Ryan at 142 pounds.
Joseph Donohue, the ex-champion
amateur skater of America, intends to
go into training shortly for the cham
pionships this winter. His ambition is
to defeat John S. Johnson, who lowered
his colors last season. Johnson has
been in strict training all summer on
the bicycle. What he needs now is a
rest before starting to get in condition
for skating. Johnson is confident that
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