Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-02-07

Live sporting Notes.
The 81. Louis Associated Cycling Clubs
/ days cycle show to he held In that city
on ;he 7th and sth inst.
champion James ]. Corbett received
| telegram IN St. Paul on Saturday night
| from San Francisco. which stated that his
father was dying Of the grip.
Frank Jenny. the class \ cyclst, will
! ride IN class y events next seas on. He eN-
| poets to give Sanger. Johnson aud the 9TH
er cracks Il run for first honors.
John A. Douglass is training Frank Hart,
the colored pedestrian. for the seventy
hve hour Eo;as.you- please race. Mhieh is
President W. w. Kerr. OF the fl,tsburg
club. has been notified Of his appointment
on the National League committee on rules.
IN place OF President Robinson. OF Cleve-
land. who resigned
A srarring exhibition under the manage
mont of Billy Madden, Tor the benefit of the
q blow from George Lavigne AZ New or
leans. will be given at Bunalo. Feb
ruary To-
Edwards the English racing man, states
that he believes the great success Of the
American bicycle racers Is due In meas
ure TO the superiority Of American train
ers. who are much IN advance of their
European brothers in their methods.
The Syracuse University Athletic Associ-
the demand Of rnion college to have
commission appointed to investigate the
charges Of professionalism prsfGIrrs,d Is,i
intercollegiate Baseball Association last
! Friday
Mike Tlernan's name is affixed to a New
York baseball club contract. and the vet
eran viii resume his place, In right field.
G1GG9y ar negd In be win fnhrpssG ,b no same in
men az the season was finished with. ex-
cept that Bannon will be added.
Eugene Leigh thinks that he has an ex.
brother TO liinrston--King william they
call him. His owner is not in the habit o.
fDpliur himself rpgAr1uu tha ability
eypos,ed that, this colt viii prove nothing
short of a real clnker
A Lexington dispatch says: Henry. of
Navarro is ,wintering in fine shape He has
taken on flesh and is nllingg out and i'm.
and Halma have both furnished to re,
mar,kahle mark degree Last year Halma's chief ,i
| he is developing here. and is likely to be
a good S-year-old.
There is New Yorker who threatens to
English or Welsh .heayyweight to ehai-
llenge Corbett, and ,Fitzsiinmons, TO box for
TO be Worrying over. his failure to arouse
more positive sentiment in the West
to be too timid
Manager Price of the Dickinson College
baseball i, team has arranssd these games
Of renmsylg9nia At PhF5elpht2s with
United States Military Academy, at An
napolis, and with Columbia of Washing
ton, at Carlisle
When Dennis Butler crosses the ocean
again he expects to, take, Joe Butler. the
him. Previous to departing. however, But
Ter will box man of the name of Dick
Fa Fcbrqary S :rSs TSs EaR@r G City s"S boxsr
P9 mote of 9 sp Sns r Rn@r MS
on the occasion of their first meeting.
The boy who can ride winners is more more
fin earns $4,000 season. Taral as much,
and simmS ms but u, little less Felix Carr
ceives $500 from the fastime stable. Cas-
sin. who rides for Tommy Griffin Frank
Leigh, ,Magrane's Jockey; and j, Hill; who
inE,on, viii receive $500 from Byron Nc
lightweight. is only 10 years old.
When Jack Doyle returned to Hol,yyoke
after the Temple Gup, series last fall h. he
Jack had quite a lively winter, sporting
and electioneering. and found it necessary
ago the cashier sent him word that his
account had been overdrawn and requested
hitd himself TO the bank ana said that
was an Impossible state Of affairs, and
oaqee4 his check hook With bdro the 5ipl% tripm
eight of 'em here | haven't used yet"
RoeniG, the able substitute catcher Of
tns ltnnSNINullh nine laSl year II Is
said, has been forbidden to play this year
by the faculty committee on athletics,
under the rule that man who does not
class is ineligible during the succeeding
year. Roenig's case is hardly this, and
seems to be outside of the rule, so It Is
possible the committee may reconsider
and allow him to play; Roenig did not
fail to pass his examination last year,
but, deciding not to return to college in
| the fail, but to 20 to work. did not go mp
| for his examinations at all When fall
came he decided to return and complete
his course. He now stands high in his
| class. and those in charge hope for these
| reasons the nine viii not be deprived OF
| his services.
The Cleveland club lost Pitcher Wilson
| because IL did not file a claim for him, as
| required by the Leagues constitution.
MCAlecr, acting as the agent of the Cleye-
| land club, secured the consent Of the
| Pottsville Club to do business with the
Manager Tebeau hugged the delusion that
| he had landed one of the pitching finds
of the season. No notification was for
warded to MIR. Young, ana Roston stepped
| in, signed Wilson, and, complying with
| tho provisions of the Leagues laws,
questol President Young to promulgate
| his engagement. Manager Tebeau lost
| Jim" stafford in the same way, Ward
| carrying off that player, and being sus-
| tained by the national board of arbitration
on the same grounds on which Boston
at the Spiders expense by signing Pitch;
| Club officials had in view.
|