Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
SPORTING NOTES.

| Friday, making the distance IN
7:15a, against 7:31 made by Waller at
indianapolis July 5, 1892. Rhodes, of
Chicago, who started with a forty-tive
yard handicap, officiated as pacemaker
and led Johnson at q rattling rate until
the last quarter, when the Minneapolis
boy let himself out and finished far in
advance of the field. The track was
very fast. Johnson also won the ten
mile team race in $3.50 is. The sum
mary follows:
Mile, 2:35 Class-W. B. Rhodes, Chicago, first;
II. r. Steenson, New Jersey, second; b, B. Bird,
st. Paul third. Time-3:00.
Half-mle Open-H. p. Davidson, Minneapolis,
first; W. A. Rhodes, second; B. B. Bird, third.
Three Mile Handicap. S. Johnson, scratch,
Bird, $50 yards, third. Time-7:l5M.
Ten Mile Team Race, Minneapolis IS. st. Paul
y. S. Johnson, Minneapolis, first; Collie Bell,
third. Time-2S:29 Is.
Ernest Osmond. an English cycler,
broke the worlds two-mile record
Fridayron the Herne Hill track He
made the distance in 4:24 2-5, the previ-
Gus record being 4:49 As.
There were two Knockout fights at
the Coney Island Club Friday evening.
Steve O'Donnell, the newly arrived
Australian heavyweight, put quietus
on John Cattenach, of Providence, in
four rounds. The fighting was terrific
while it lasted and Cattenach was a
badly used up man. The contest was
Tom Sullivan, of New York, put Pat Ca
hill, of New Jersey, to sleep in three
rounds. The men were only second
raters and the Coney Island Club will
no doubt lose many of their patrons by
furnishing such sport.
Harry NJ. JeWett, the champion anna
teur sprinter, with a record Of 9 40 sec
onds, has made up his mind to retire
from the track, and the Detroit Ath-
letic Club will have to rely on someone
else to win the medals at Cleveland and
Chicago. Jewett says the time has
come when he must decide between
pleasure and business; the latter wins.
Frank Ives made a run of 5l7 in a
practice game at English Billiards at
| Chicago. He is in fine shape for his
match with Roberts in September and
expects to win easily.
Harry Schofeld, the crack English
cyclist, has sailed from southampton
on the steamship New York. He has
applied fer a license in the National
| Cycling Association and expects to
participate in the meeting to be held at
| New York in September. Harry
Wheeler will then be put on his mettle
as Schofeld has better record than
| Wheeler for short distances.
Jack Dempsey and Dick Burge, the
English welter- weight, will probably
meet in the arena of the Columbian
Athletic Club in the proposed contest
| for the worlds championship.
| OXbOrrOW, the man who it is claimed
is the fastest professional rider in En-
| frlo nd Of n tn
take part in n. c.. A. races.
The Sporting Life in speaking Of the
! Boston team says: GA club must do
more than outbat and outfeld the Bos-
! tons to defeat them; they must outpOint
them. No team on the diamond to-day
| takes advantage of opportunities as do
the champions. Hits are not always
needed to score runs on. Putany one of
the six leading men at the bat, another
on third and another on first, and nine
| times out of ten the man on third will
score on his mates bluff to steal second
And yet no other team tries the same
trick with any success"
\. j. Watson, the n. c. Z. champion,
in a recent interview on the various
racing men he had met, said: "Well,
[ think Sanger is the fastest racing man
we have ever seen in England; that
Sanger would beat Zimmerman at a
quarter, but is not invincibie at a mile
or greater distance. He's a very good
sort, though, and was no end Of a favor
tie at Herne HILL"
Kaukauna has a Chinese bicycle rider
named Wah Sin. He is said to be fast
short-distance rider and can give any of
the Wheelmen Whereabouts a hard run.
There is a deal on to exchange Brodie,
of the St. Louis, for Virtue, of Cleve-
| -, IL Il g Il,
"Buck" Ewing at first, with BrQdie in
right, using Tebeau as a general utility
man as long as Mr.. MCGarr continues to
cover third base IN his present good
style.
Capt Donovan, of Pittsburg, after
playing forty nine consecutive games
without an error in right field, tripped
up last week and made a wild throw, al
| lowing a man to go to second base.
Donovan's record will certainly stand
as the best this season. 1t is a record
to be proud Of when it is considered
that the captain goes for all kinds Of
grounders and fly balls. He is no rec
ord player, and at one time was very
weak on ground balls
The Columbian Regatta opened at
Lake Geneva on the 10Th under favor
able circumstances. The events of
the day were exclusively in the Junior
club class They moved rapidly, eight
races taking place in little less than
three hours. Promptly at 2:30 the
junior double international was started.
In this race were three contestants, the
Minnesotas, Catlins and Dubuques. The
start was excellent, and all the crews
seemed in good training. They stayed
together until near the finish, when the
Minnesotas drew out ahead, turned the
buoy first and led the way to the finish,
closely followed by the Catlins, who
earned good second.
The second event, the junior single
international, was close and exciting.
For this race there were eleven entries,
but only three showed up. These were
f. w. Smith, Of the Kansas Citys; Sam
Dale, of the Ontarios, and James Ber-
ry, Of the Argonauts, New Jersey. The
Chicago men were greatly interested in
Dale on account Of his form and en-
thusiasm. The three got off in good
style, but it was evident from the first
that the race was between Dale and
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