The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-18
porpousRl OF SPORTING EVENTS.


The cyclists of Reading are talking
of getting up big race meeting there.
NJ. F. Dirnberger, the crack Buffalo cy-
clist, has assumed the management OF the
Sterling team.
The colored racing jackets made great
hit. They are the prettiest feature yet iu-
troduced on bicycle track in this coun'
try.
1t Is reported that Tim Hurst will prob
ably manage the bantam-weight cham
pion, Billy Plimmer, at the close OF the
base ball season.
II is now asserted that the Chicago cycls
show will be held IN January, from tho
seventhto the twelfth, despite all reports
to the contrary.
AT Hammonton, N. J., on Wednesday,
Charles Lodge, Of the Ryerton Athleti;
association. lowered the track half-mlle
record from 1.l6A to l,l3%
Its reported thaV Zimmerman has SEM
home for well known American mako OF
wheel to try abroad. This would indi'
cate break in the Raleigh arrangements.
1t seems decidedly odd to see woman
holding the ribbons on the race track, We.
Mrs, Crosby handles her fast mare, Emma
u with skill not eXcelled by any mascu--
line driver.
Ernest Roeber, the champion Grseco.
Roman wrestler, ia now In Hamburg,
where he has challenged all foreign cham.
plons for $500 a side, and the Police
Gazette championship belt,
Jimmy Carroll. boing elated over his
drawn contest with Andy Bowen, has is
sued challenge to fight the winner or the
McAuliife aud Griffo contest in the Sea.
side Athletic club for purse.
While cbutestiug In pigeon shooting
match 10 the Catawissa valley yesterday
Roger Dixons gun exploded aul tore Of
two of his fingers His hand is 30 badly
lacerated that it may have TO DO ampu.
tated.
Authorities on the horse predict that
within i've years the animal will be so dt-
veloped and perfected that the almost it,
credible time Of II mile in 200 will he
reached When Maud went the circle II
2 10 people opened their eyes and ConB.u.
cred that no horse ever could knock down
that record. Then came Jay Eye 500 to
take good slice off the time, and finally
Nancy Hanks with record Of 2.O4 "Sure.
ly the world do move"
Advices from Ogden, Utah. state that
Zealand some years ago to fight John l..
Sullivan, recently got in a dispute in l.
barroom and was attacked by three men
Slade knocked one Of them out, and threw
another heavily, dislocAtiug his shoulder,
but the third would haye wiped SGde of
the earth, for ho pulled Colts revolver
and was about to shoot when the bartender
and n bystander grabbed the man and
seized the gun. Slade then fou Sht him up
and down aud was badly beaten, being
tired out.
New York city has secured the ilrst ma.
tional exhibition of bicycle and cycle suu-
dries. 1t viii be under the auspices of the
new trade organization, at the Madison
Square garden, commencing Jan. 10 and
continuing until Jan. &c, 1895. The great
| success Of the national cycle show given a:
the Madison Square garden last winter
| and the numerous requests Of the leadiug
manufacturers throughout the couutry
that the coming show should be given ii
| New York materially Influenced the tx
| ecuti'e committee IN making this de is.
ion, aud will undoubtedly meet the hearty
| approval Of the entire trade.