The evening world., 1894-05-03
BETTING ON THE HANDICAP.
Every Horse in the Brooklyn Has
Been Well Played.
Plenty OF Youngsters Anxious to
Have a Crack at Critic.

1DtDhIIl htI IdNt ptth SUI ~
the amount OF money bet on the Brook
Ign Handicap. Henry Stedeker says
more wagers AID larger ones have been
recorded on the big race this year thai
I'm any two years since Dry Monopole's
time. The stoppage OF Winter racing In
this neighborhood and the closing of
gambling houses are the principal rea-
sons for the unusual speculative inter-
ct in the race. Nearly every horse In
the race has been literally backed, and
the bookm kers have had a better op-
portunity Of rounding OUT their sheets
than ever before. In previous years
Winter books have Jared badly. Not
one out OF five made money. Phil DAILY
took a shy at Winter booking In the
Elkwood Suburban. Had Terra Gotta
won. Daly'T bank account would have
been crimred so badly that he couldn't
get II smoothed out yet.
He managed to just about make ex-
penses. and Elkwood was the only horse
that could win him out. owners and
their friends were the ones who for
merly did, most Of the betting in the
Winter books. Comparatively. few
not going to start. This year the feld
promises to be larger than ever be-
fore. the training has been more pub
lie than usual, and the newspapers have
Handicap candidates. All this, added
to a Winter Of rest, has Whetted the
of whom are not happy unless they
have a bet down.
clifford should be at the Gravesend
track tomorrow. Willie Martin, who
will ride the great son of Bramble in
the Brooklyn. will stay In the West
until the end of the Lexington meeting.
From the West comes the story. that
2 NOR nNNn xustl hn xrn nra an
than was bet o n Blue Wing, who went
to the post %favorite in 1887. Carlsbad.
io ,Tambien and oxford are not likely
ing and 70 Tambien's decisive defeat by
Clifford have been too much for their
owners. with clifford out of the way:
the owners of Yo Tambien and Carlsbad
will have much palmer sailing in the
West.
John l.. Sullivan, it Is announced. will
scottish-Americans in Jersey City next
Saturday night. John is appearing in
The Man from Boston IN Jersey City
Scots called to invite him to the fights,
he said he would go Immediately after
. the show was over, and would act as
referee.
The Harlem Coffee Cooler is favor
5 lite in the betting in the six-round bout
with Jim Butler. Pat Cahilrs famous
!, , at 1,va ahe T @es1 sid to h Ss f ! st ciub 2str spseiai
tourney at the Grand Central Palace
, Saturday night. Another OF the six
ound bouts which Is attracting much
Falvey, of Providence, and Jack Green,
Of Amsterdam. Falvey has the distinc.
4 ''GR Ga , asf9st1ns P 9MsG Hhtfsler' the
Billy Thompson, Jim Halls manager
t says he will give 1000 to any one who
c will succeed In arranging a match be-
tween Fitzsimmons and Hall.
A despatch from Boston says that
e Barney Hubbard, who at one time as
y PRED to the feather. weight champion
ship. defeated Dan McGivern, a well.
!, known local pugilist. in four rounds las
8 bard had not performed in public fol
< about three years, since his battle witt
Johnny ,oh my G i5n f Any when o, b he k jss t the BE- Bro %iI
again go for the top-nothers. The bat
tie last night was a merry one while
v 1t lasted, but Hubbard 'utclassed III:
i opponent, and at the end of the fourth
round Referee Bill DAILY gave the aware
to Hubbard.
If There are enough challenges from
he feather-weights flying around to keel
n an ordinary person busy recording them
a Lavigne wants to fight Critic or Dixon
Eddie Loeber expresses the same desire
dltt1 tpl u iS az iNlNh
his Philadelphia performance II he get
"a another crack at O'Rourke's pet. an
I Dixon appears to want TO nave a =
in emulation of Corbett, Is to endeavo
to best three men at Madison Sduar
st Garden next Saturday week. He wi
re Jerry Barnett. This will serve as
re 'ppe-opener" for Critic, who Is to NEE
lie Dixon in Boston on the 18th. They hav
secured "A license for a twenty-round &
there on that date, but the wisdom o
lie holding, the fight at the Hub Is 9ues
$. toned by Boston sports: They think
win hurt the game there If it does no
kill 1t entirely. This may be so. but
to does not stand to reason that the au
h. Griffo contest after they winked at tn
r. Creedon-Moore meeting.
y, The Liberty Wheelmen. of Queen
xt County, at hteir last regular meetin
p soms ro : T meaal to- tho he m nsnfa " makin
the largest number of l0O-mile. run
centuries) during, the season Of lss
s sanrs G or Isss. i! The be result r1aaf has n been s,S, the
since the resolution went into efec
\. there are already six Of the memb ba
d, and Fred Rettberg LETT Gebhard
s. Hotel s1 Middle m NlllaiSs; a fer e PSte G,c,GS
las nv ~
ce and returned at 6 o'clock in II
evening. having in the eleven and
ne half hours covered the following numbt
OF miles: Hulst. los; Weiss, l0t: Nalei
no tine. l04: Rettberg, 1902: Adee, lOl. Ora
-" felman made the same run last Thur
. day. covering i06 miles in twelve hour
DO Hulst has made the largest mileage tn,
en- far. and as his wheel Is of a very o.
d: pattern and decidedly heavy-a "hearse
on as the boys call it-his performances.
OF certainly a creditable one, as is ais
is that OF young Rettberg, whose wheel.
also a very heavy one. The contest II
h, the century medal is expected to be
ng hot one. and the winner will u~ndoubted
Tx Rave to make thirty or more l0O-mi
cd runs in order to gain the prize. The In
tial ride last Sunday proved hard wor
as there was a strong wind blowing a
ng day and the riders were very glad
get within sight OF home again, At the
last meeting the l.. w. of O.. c. .electt
Adam Geyer color-bearer for the ensuir
term.
The Columbias. of Brooklyn, wou
I" like to play all uniformed teams averal
ing from The ages OF eighteen
tWenty-one years on Sundays. the Gral
If