The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-18


the excursion train this morning.
The events at ST. Asaph's continue to at
tract the attention of the followers of the
turf. Nothing more remarkable has been
brought out at the meeting than the
success of 16-year-old Jockey Griffin. He
signed at the commencement of the season
for $4,000 salary, but his success has been
such that for next year he remains with
the same stable at a salary of $4,000
Thursday he won five out of the six races,
and on Friday he had the mount on four
winners out of six.
The bicycle season has closed in the
north as far as record breaking is con-
cerned, and while Sanger. Bliss. TYLER
and the other sprinters will rest for the
winter. the remarkably clever Swede,
John S. Johnson, leaves the saddle only
to put on his racing skates. Tom Eyck
gives IT, out that Johnny will this year
break the record he made when he won
the skating championship of America
from Joe Donoghue. Hagen, the cham
pion Of the world, has been offered an in
ducement to leave Norway for America
and meet Johnson this season, either at
Minneapolis or Montreal.
Foot ball this year has not attracted
the attention of former years, yet the in
ter-collegiate games have been witnessed
by very fair crowds The pig-skln will
be taken from the frozen fields of the
north with the close of the Thanksgiving
day games. with Yale again the undoubted
champion. With the failure of profess
sonal foot ball It is doubtful IL an at
tempt to organize league will be made
next year.
During the week Napoleon Ives again
bested Jake Schaeffer at billiards. At
H-inch balk line Ives is clearly the
30 or toll
shot IL barred.
T. j. Quinn has deposited $500 for a
match for 5000 in behalf of Peter Maher
for a fight with Steve O'Donnell who is
now sparring nightly on the stage with
Champion Corbett. Brady, who is an
nounced as ODonnells manager, tells
Quinn to let Maher first meet Choynski or
Hail, or wait until after the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons mill.
Yesterday. as announced in the Morning
News, Bob Fitzsimmons was confined in a
Syracuse n. Y, prison, charged with hay
ing struck his sparring partner. Con Rior-
dan, with such force that the latter died.
Bob is Frustrated with grief and ordered
that all the physicians I'm the city be sum
moned to Riordan's bedside, but their good
Offices were without avail. The affair was
unfortunate, not only for Fitz, but places
"a damper upon the entire pugilistic world.
Fitz and Riordan were sparring friendly
when Fitz reached his jaw, not fOrcibly,
he thought, but with sufficient power TO
cause congestion Of the brain. Fitzsm-
mons asserts that Hiordan had been drink
ing. This Is undoubtedly true, because
year or so ago, Peter Jackson, with sound
arguments, substanuated by the testl-
mony Of several OF the leading physicians
Of the world demonstrated the impossi-
buity Of seriously injuring man in
| proper condition by blow with your nst.
| however hard ono may strike II rs only
| the cheaper class OF lager beer fighters
who are never IN ~ condition, who are in
| iured in the ring. or men who do not prop
erly understand the art Of preparing them
| selves for tests Of endurance and such
men have no business within the ropes.
~ Smith. who % one time claimed the
championship Of the world by virtue OF his
defeating Joe Goddard, when the latter
was more eligible 10 hdmlttnncs Into "A
| hospital than into the ring, has been
matched 10 hrht Herman Berneau, heavy
weight champion of Texas. but ns yet no
reputable club seems anxious for tho Eight
Several well known base BAH men ~ the
south met nt Atlanta Friday and talked
over plan f9r general ,hHnve snf reno