Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-12


 few years later Donovan boxed limit ed number of rounds with Dominick McCafery, a heavyweight, who had fought both Sullivan and Corbett, and many thought that Mike had the best of the encounter.
 Old Barney Aaron, who thirty years ago was a fstic wonder in his class, said to me the other night: If Ed wards and Griffo come together, it's no two to one that Billy won't win. He is a wonderfully well-preserved man. He never was much of thinker, and he has always taken good care of himself. He would have height and reach in his favor with Griffo, and if he ever brings his right across on his jaw he will knock him out as sure as shooting" A match between this pair would won- new style of boxing"
 Whatever faults and failings Mr. Michael F. Dwyer may have, his bit terest opponents cannot deny that he is one of the shrewdest men in the business of horse racing. With him it is far more business than a sport, and he has been called, not inaptly, sthe Jay Gould of the turif." When he went to England last year to survey the rac- ing situation there many sneered at him and predicted that he would come to financial grief if he undertook to cope with the English at their especial game on their own grounds. Unde- tered by these sneers, Mir. Dwyer and his turf partner, Richard Croker, for they really are turf partners, took stable of horses to England, and so far they have not had serious cause to re- gret so doing. I doubt, however, if they will make as much money over there in the long run as they did in this country last season. They made mint off the turf in this vicinity and coined money out of it almost as rapidly as the government did in the marble building on Chustnut street in Phila- delphia which it uses for that purpose.
 By the way, 1 saw the man the other day who did teach the English, to their sorrow, how to make money on the turf. In those days he was called "P1unger" Walton, but he is now known as MT. Theodore F. Walton. The year that MT. James F. Keene's horse Fox hall won the Czarowitch and the Cam bridgeshire, in England, and the Grand Prix, in France, MT. Walton won $500, 1000 on these three events alone.
 The plunger used to pay the best English jockeys large sums of money to win the races they were engaged in. He would promise jockey s 1000 pro- vided he won such and such race. Of course, he got, in advance, the very best of stable information. He had all the leading jockeys of England furnish ing him with news, and the turf mag mates over there, who guard their stable secrets much more carefully than they do their family ones, were aghast. They finally got rid of Walton by ruling him off the turf for ''tampering with jockeys" In this country many men pay jockeys not to win, and if they are not found out and they are not one time in ten, they pose as clever sports men (?). Heaven save the mark!
 Ten years ago such a thing as a pneumatic-tired bicycle was unknown Now it is estimated that there are a million of them in use in the United States. In other words, one person in every sixty of our population "bikes. , The cry is ''still they come," and the demand for wheels is so great that many dealers are weeks behind in their orders In New York and several other eastern cities many people are buying wheels on the installment-allotmen principle, by means of what are known as Bicycle Purchasing Clubs.a
 These clubs are limited in member ship and only responsible people can belong. Each member pays weekly dues and a wheel is allotted each week. Each member who gets wheel has to get new member before receiving his bike. He then ceases to pay dues or to have any further connection with the club. The last of the original members of the club, on receiving his or her wheel, is also furnished with a com plete bil1ing outfit, consisting of lamp, bell, cyclometer, cap, coat, panta- looms or boomers, shoes, sweater, toe clips and foot brake.
 Fifteen members are enough to form club and by paying s3.50 dues each week it can begin allotting by ballet instead of by drawing; the lottery law is not infracted. I suppose it will not be long until every town in the country clubs. J. 5. MCCORMICK.