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An athletic contest which recently at
tracted great attention in England, and
which VIII interest athletes in this coun-
try; was four-mle run between Bacon
and Grassland. two of the best amateur
distance runners in Great Britain. The
race was run at Manchester, and was
won by Bacon.
Grassland received orders to make the
pace as he best could. and he did in fine
style, as he fairly stretched the miller
s the t nay 1t was only in the last
Grassland no time for lingering, and he
STROBE at his speediest for loo yards,
carrying on full SAIL eventually reached
the worsted good dozen yards In front
OF 90 MS game opponent in the fair time of
A peculiar thing about the race was
that 1t was an exact duplicate of the
famous Garter-Conneff race in Dublin
fraction OF second, and is outside the
English record by several seconds, but
considerably better than the best Ameri-
much superior the English runners are
to the Americans.
Al OBrien. the Philadelphia light
weight; who fought six-round draw
treatment he received. OBrien says he
| was not told to weigh in at 1873 pounds,
and consequently, weighed al pounds
when placed on the, scales. Burge then
| said that he would not fight unless
O'Brien agreed to knock Burge out, or
else the decision was to be draw and
| OBrien consented to those terms. but
when fighting found 1t impossible to put
| his man to sleep. despite the fact that
| he hurt both hands from landing on
Burgess jaw.
At the London County Grounds. Herne
Hill, recently, A: V. Linton attempted
to beat his own 100 miles cycling record
Of hours % minutes 80 l-5 seconds.
| Although he beat some intermediate
worlds records, he retired at ninety-five
utes outside schedule time, He went
at a good pace for the first half Of the
journey, and at tifty-five miles he was
o % Minutes rsso ls 81 Seconds against hours
| 20 minutes 2S 4-5 seconds. At fifty-seven
| miles Linton was over a minute inside
record, but at fifty-eight he dropped be-
hind.
Entries are coming in rapidly for the
Pastme Athletic Clubs amateur boxing
tournament at Maennerchor Han Dec D.
| Louis Il. Pelton. champion middle
weight wrestler of the Southern States.
will be rendered Il benefit a; Clarendon
Hall this evening.
The boxing and wrestling committee
Of the Metropolitan Association has not
yet found hall for the annual cham-
pionships to be held next month. Cen
trail Turn Hail WAS first selected, but u
was found that the proprietor didn't
have the right kind of license. IL De
hooves the Association to hustle II IL
would make the show success, Tor the
date Is drawing near, and there may not
be time to get u respectable entry hst'
George Slcsson Is practising every
| evening for tho three-cornered billlard
tournament in this city next month. the
Student" is doing some excellent work,
and the fine billiards displayed by Ives
and Schaefer in their recent match has
not affected him II particle. lie Is too
much OF IL veteran for that.
At the Twenty second Regiment indoor
games last night Puffer and Gust lowered
the three legged race recor' by tnree-
nfths Of a second. Their time was - 80
The distance was l7a IL yards
The cix-day bicycle race to be held
! at Madison Square Garden next month
Will have an International nnVor SeN'
erul French. German and Italian profes'
SIGNALS are coming over to compete
There will be In all about twenty-five en-
tries.
: The brighton Athletic club, 81 Brook
iyn, will give an amateur boxing SHOW