Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-20
Live Sporting Notes.

A meeting is to be held at the Astor
house. New York city. January "a, to or
ganize a National Trap Shooters Assoc!a-
tion.
Cincinnati furnishes more players to mi
nor leagues than any other city. and yet
cannot develop any for her own use in the
league.
Tandems are going to be the fad among
Kansas City wheelmen the coming season.
Lambert and Warren will ride one and sew
eral other pairs are already made up.
Slowly but surely another baseball sea-
son is advancing upon us. Three months
seems long time. but they will soon pass
and then the fans" will be again in &C.
stasy-or despair.
Dan Creedon, of Australia, the coming
opponent of Herman Bernau accompanied
by his brother and trainer, Tom Tracy,
and his partner, Lew Phelan, arrived in
Galveston yesterday morning.
r. A Swigert has sent his two horses,
Michael and Carlsbad, to the stud. Both
are winners of Derby" races. but derbies
don't amount to much In this country.
and pretty poor cattle win them.
Play in the chess match between Mr..
]. Mieses and NJ. Janowski was resumed at
the Cafe de la Cegenie, Paris, Thursday,
when Mieses Won the seventh game. Pres
ent score-Meises 3; Janowski, g. drawn, l.
Billy Poole. of Tacoma. and Gus Brown.
of San Francisco. boxed ten rounds at
purse of $3.50. Brown had the best OF the
fight from the start, and was given the de-
cision.
The proposed wrestling match between
Tom Davis and Bish Kane is creating a
great deal of interest among the local
sports, and If it comes off next Monday,
as scheduled, there will be good crowd to
witness it,
Walton II. Holmes states that extensive
improvements Will be made in the grand
stand at Exposition park before the open
| ing of the baseball season. These improve
ments will do much to strengthen and
beautify the stand.
! The meeting OF the Interstate Baseball
/ League, called for Sunday. January 20. at
| Peoria, has been declared Off by President
| II. Il. Schmidt The meeting will not be
called until applications for admission are
received by the president.
| Manager Manning writes that he Is after
a third baseman who is a regular crack
a-jack and who will be able to ill Niles
shoes, If Manning gets him. and he is as
| good man as old reliable Billy Niles the
Kansas City public will be more than sat
isfied.
Duffy and Mccarthy, of the Boston club,
| have opened a bowling alley right In the
heart of the business district of Boston, and
I are coming money All the otner members
of the Boston team are envious of the fame
of kid" Nichols as bowler, and they are
after his scalp.
The stewards of the National Steeple-
| chase Association held a meeting at the
rooms of the New York Jockey Club
Thursday night. Alr, August Belmont was
elected president; j. G. Follansbee, stew
ard, The dates set for the meeting at Nor
ris park are May L. and II.
Agltator, The Butterflies, Counter Tenor,
Connoisseur, Gotham, Kennel, Keenan,, Ma
giclan. Monaco. Nicolni, sablla, Walter,
the bay colt by ongfellow-Belle Knight,
and the bay colt by Midlothian-Doe, are
the Eastern colts entered In this years 5
Harlem derby. 10 be decided at Chicago.
A match game of football between the
Neosho Falls high school and the Yates
Center high school was played on the lat
ter's grounds Friday and resulted in favor
I of Yates Center by the score OF 10 0.
Yates Center scored in the first half, MAX
ing a touchdown, but failed TO kick goal.
Jack" Slavin, the Australian middle
weight pugilist. offers TO stop George La
Blanche, the Marine" in six rounds
There was a time when La Blanche could
have done the trick on Slayin, and even al
this time II is doubtful il Slavin can stoE
the Marine inside Of the time mentioned
That picturesque character in baseball
Louis Pietro Browning. the Lone Fisher
man" will be seen in the Western League