Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-06
SPORTING.

Feb 4-John s. johnson lowered amateur 5.
mile skating record OF America at Minneapolis
10 l6:20 40
Mar. ;-Austin Gibbons defeated Mike DAILY
In fight at New Orleans for purse OF $4,000
Mar. s-Bob Fiizsimmons defeated Jim Hall
at New Orleans, winning purse OF 1900
Apr 21-National baseball league opened It's
session
May 5-Reay bicycle race from Boston TO
Chicago took liz hours.
May l0-Lookout won Kentucky derby at
Louisville In 2:3sh
June S--Frank Ives, OF America, won inter
national billiard match In London
June 20-Cornelrs freshman crew defeated
Columbia at New London, Conn, making 2
miles in l0:uS
June 24-Boundless captured American Der
by in Chicago; time, 2:36
June 27-Berry won cowboy race to Chicago,
begun at Chadron, Neb., making the 0A0 miles
in l3 days l5 hours 81 minutes.
July Harvard won college baseball cham
ionship
July l5-Columbian l0o.yard sprint for Amer.
lean championship won by Morris, OF California,
in Goshen, Ind, in g3-5 seconds gain l-5 Sec
ond on worlds record
July 22-Frank Waller, of Indiana, broke 25-
mile bicycle record, making run in hour 0
minutes 10 seconds, at Detroit ,,,. .ods ,as,es,
Anr a-Ai ps"r,. ~ r, Iisias roae ias'es'
Aug lsL serr 5 @ Meinties Of South Africa. won
| 62.mile international championship at bicycle
| tournament In Chicago time hours 10 minutes
| sep IA. A. LlIll1UtFutH, Woriu Dlcyult
JOB 3D. ' 0 " 80 ~ -
Sep Ill s Meinues. of South Africa at
| Springfield, Mass, lowered o.mile bicycle
| record to II ;09 35,
Sep l3-ln bicycle race at Springfield, Mass,
Sanger beat Zimmerman, lowering competitive
| mile TO 2il is
Sep i4-Alix trotted mile at Chicago in
| zoo. AT lie Mars la, Free Coinage lowered
| ihree.yearold pacing record TO .:lla
| sen 14-At Chicago. Frank Ives defeated
| John Roberts, English champion. In ma tch game
Of billiards score Ives, 0OOD; Roberts, 5000
Sep 2o-George Dixon, worlds feather weight
| champion, defeated Solly Smith, OF California,
at Coney Island, N. Y.
| Sep 2s-H C. Tyler made new world 8 bicycle
record at Springfield, Mass, going miles,
| with standing start, in i;lb 30
| Sep. S-League baseball season ended, Bos-
ton winning the pennant
| Oct John Roberts, English champion de-
| feated Frank Ives in billiard match at New
| York by l. $50 points, himself making 1000
| Oct l3-New York sloop Viglant defeated
for third and last time English sloop valkyrie
| in 3O-Inile race for Americas cup; time, hr.
| 81 min. 81 sec, First race run Oct I; time, 3hr.
3. min, ~ sec, ami second race on Oct 0; time,
hr. 70 min.
Oct is-At Nashville, Tenn, Direetum
trotted heat In free-tor-all in .05k, breaking
all previous race records
Oct lp--At Nashville, Tenn, May Marshall
made new record for pacing mares, mile in
?:0si4.
Oct at-Lena HIN made new two-year.old
pacing record at Dallas, Tex, making mile In
2.l3i<
Nov. i-Greenlander at Terre Hsute lowered
| stallion trotting record for miles TO 4:S2
| Nov S-John ), johnson broke worlds BIZ
cycle record at Independence, Ia, going mile
in IS 3-5 flying start
Nov 25-Sale beat Harvard 10 o in annual
football game at Springfield, Mass. Jake
Shaefer beat Frank Ives in 40OGpoint i+inch
balkline billiard game at Chicago, score, 4,OVl
to 39tA