Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-04
SPORTING NOTES.

He will train for the meet in Chicago
in October.
The Brooklyns will probably sign
Pitchers Nicol and Clarke, of the Erie
Club of the Eastern League, this week.
They want these two men to assist them
in downing the Giants in the special
series for the metropolitan champion
ship.
The Cleveland Clubs directors have
changed their minds about retaining
three catchers for next year. They
think thinner and O'Connor strong
enough to begin next season with, con-
sequentlv they released Gunson.
The two well known trick bicycle rid
ers, n. e. Kaufman and w. IL. Barber,
have signed articles of agreement for
contest on the ordinary bicycle for the
championship of America. The money
has been posted and the meet will take
place at Washington Rink, Rochester,
n. Y, October g. The scoring will be
by points.
Oshkosh cyclers have decided to
build new race track at that place
next spring. They intend to raise the
necessary funds by holding a series of
dances and entertainments during the
winter. The initiation fee of the Osh-
kosh Bicycle Club has been reduced to
81 and the dues to 20 cents q month
Cahill, DOnnelly and Simon, of the
Troy Club of the Eastern League, have
already had several offers made them to
play in the big league next year.
Manager Schmelz, of next seasons
Washington team, has already begun to
secure players for 1894. His first selec-
ton was Dugate, Of the New England
League.
The officials Of the Springfield Base
Ball Club were 50 we'll pleased with the
way in which Tom Burns handled the
team that they have already signed him
for next year
The n. G.. A has a number of offers
from county fairs to race its men against
trotting ana pacing horses, but as the
fair managers insist on their right to
sell pools upon such events the ASSO
citation has declined the offers made.
Dick Buckley, of the st. Louis team,
has gone to his home in Chicago, and
will catch no more games this year on
account Of his lame arm.
Jimmy Canavan is wanted to manage
the Worcester polo team this winter.
Jimmy is one Ofthe sensible boys who
do not take on fat in the winter. He
played an excellent game at second base
for the Milwaukee team in the Ameri-
can Association.
Jack McAuliffe has agreed to meet
'EMysterious" Billy Smith at 13S pounds
for from $1,000 to $4,000 a side before
the Coney Island Club. It is probable
that articles will be signed in few
days.
Irwin, the Californian, is playing a
superb short field for Chicago, and that
teams infeld is now all right, needing
only time to get it working together
smoothly.
Capt Trenchard, of the Princeton
foot ball team, has already outlined his
policy for the coming season. 1t con-
sist5 in getting an early selection for the
team, and in concentrating all efforts
on fifteen men from the outset. Last
year the eleven was not picked with
any degree of certainty until the first
week in November. In the attempt to
give every man fair shake" thirty or
more candidates were tried over in
various combinations and re-arrange-
ments until the championship days
were actually on. This one fact, more
than any other, accounts for Princeton s
unlOokedfor defeat by University of
Pennsylvania, early in November, and
for the tremendous brace the eleven
took during the next two weeks
of steady playing together. Hall and
Wheeler, the old guards, will be back
thanking Ballick, the last years center
push. 1t is safe to predict that these
three men will form PrincetOn's center
at the close Of the season unless some
unforeseen misadventure occurs. Tren-
chard will play his old position of right
end and McCauley will likely play left
end. He was first substitute for the
position last season. Lea, Davis and
Fiscus are the most promising candi-
dates for the tackle points. Phil King,
! the matchless half back, returns to
| Princeton for post graduate course in
history and politics. He will assuredly
| Trenchard and the three center men
the hopes Of the Prin cetonians lie.
| The team will play their first game Oc-
! tOber Z.
Michael J. Doyle, of Newark, has
posted $500 and issued a challenge offer
ing to match Johnny Van Hest, the
Wisconsin feather-weight, who recently
defeated Hugh Napier in the Olympic
Club, to fight Morgan CroWther or
George Johnson, of England, for e200
a side and the largest purse offered by
the Olympic or Coney Island Athletic
Clubs.
1t is the opinion of conservative
sporting men that COrbett and Mitchell
/ Will ngnt al New orleans II they HgnI
at all. The New York authorities, it is
claimed, will never allow the battle to
| take place at Coney Island.
"Mysterious' Billy Smith is hot after
Jack McAulitfe for fight at 1873 pounds
and, if present indications are not mis-
leading, a match between the two will,
in all probability, be made. Smith says
that he can get down to l3S pounds and
still be strong. Smith and McAuliffe
met at Coney Island on Monday night
and had long talk. McAuliffe is said
to have told Smith that he would fight
him and agreed to the weight. The
Coney Island Club, it is said, will offer
So 600 for the match if it is arranged.
1t is said that George Dixon received
$4,000 for whipping Solly Smith at Co
ney Island Monday night He had an
agreement with the management to re-
ceive 30 per cent. of the receipts in case
he won.
The result of the recent bicycle meet
ing at Springfield is causing much COM
ment among the professional riders.
They say that if the n. c. A. riders had
| cd or no