The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
News of Interest Among Sporting Men of
the West.

News of Interest Among Sporting Men of
the West.
In case Philip Myers decides to enter
the diamond this season he has q stand
ing offer to pitch at Galveston.
A new bowling alley is going to be
placed in the Athletic club, of full regu-
lation measurement AZ inches wide by
68 feet long.
Dick Cooley is liable to hold down
second base for the ST. Louis Browns all
summer as steady job. The St. Louis
base ballists like the Topeka boy.
The Holton Driving Park association
has issued its annual prospectus, an
nouncing $10,500 worth of stakes for
1895, distributed among seventeen races,
of which nine are trotting and eight are
pacing The S:18 class trot and the 2:17
pace, with the free for -alls, are the fast
est events.
Some of the talented young chess
players about the Topeka Y. M. C. A
have organized a chess club Henry
Huling, the boy who has met and van
pushed many of the venerable chess
players of the ST. Ananias club, is the
president
The richest man in Topeka and the
pastor of the biggest church of its de-
nomination in Kansas, bowled several
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The banker won.
The state university base ball team has
decided to accept the challenge by Man
ager Manning of the Kansas City base
ball team, for two games.
A new set of dumb bells has been pur
chased for the Topeka athletic clubs.
The exhibition at the Grand tonight
| by the gymnasts of the Young Mems
Christian association will be the first of
its kind Topeka people have had an op-
portunity of witnessing for several years
the first, in fact, since the late Frank
Gates left the gymnasium. The young
men have worked hard and claim TO have
a number of tricks that are worth going
to see. F. c. Gugel will manage the
event. Only 900 tickets are to be issued,
and the advance sale has been large.
A Peoria dispatch announces that w.
| T. Irwin, better known as Tramp
Irwin, defeated Captain Bogardus in a
shooting match at a score of As to Al. The
dispatch states that Bogardus was not
satisfied with the match and challenged
Irwin to another match. TRAMP" Irwin
is we'll known in Topeka as a brother-in-
law of T. B. Sweet. His wife still lives in
North Topeka. He was formerly en-
ployed by the Kansas Loan and Trust
/ company, and for some time travelled for
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proprietor of "blue-rock" factory at
| Peoria.
Two Kansas City young men who think
| they can slug "Cocky" Delougherty and
Oscar Gardner have signed articles OF
agreem ant to fight March 31st at some
place within convenient railroad distance
of Kansas City. This probably means
Wyandotte county.
half interest in the promising colt
Adam, owned by [. s. Crum of Oswego,
was sold to parties in Sedalia, Mo-, last
week for $1,000 This colt was sired by
Aladdin. and though only two years Of
age, has shown remarkable evidence OF
speed. He will be developed for all there
is in him.
A "boxing match" which may be some
thing more is looked for Wednesday,
March 80, at Galena. Kas., between P. j.
Purtell and "Swede" Johnson. Purtell
has fully recovered from his illness anG
is down to 185 pounds and confident OF
winning. johnson will have some thirty
pounds the best of the weight, but Pur
tells friends figure that his clevernesl
and hard hitting will even up the weight
handicap. There will be delegation o.
Kansas City, Topeka and Leavenwortt
sportsmen leave for Galena Wednesday
morning.
! Caldwell VIII Be Starter.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, March Isl. F
Caldwell will be starter for the spring