The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04
TRACK AND STABLE:

An effort is being made to bring Alix,
2,O33s; Directum, 2.O5A, and Fantasy,
2.06 together i'm a race at the Louisville
Cky) fall meeting.
Jockey Garrisons riding days are
over and he has stated that he will
abandon the saddle. He is now travel
ing for a wine house.
Binghamton turfmen are arranging
for local trottng circuit. Great Bend
is interested and will probably improve
its track and be one of the towns in
cluded.
Lamplighter was given gallop at
Memphis between the races the other
day. He seemed to be full of run, but
there is no certainty as yet whether
his legs are good.
The Minnesota legislature has dealt
a body blow to every kind of gambling
on horse races by sending to the COVER
nor a bill forbidding bookmaking and
pool selling. Secretary Frank Shaw,
of the Twin City Jockey club, said
1--WE have spent over 500, 900 in building
great race course at Hamline, but if
Governor Clough signs the bill there
will be no summer running meeting in
Minnesota"
A reporter asked Anson the other day
is this was his farewell season. Anson
stopped for a moment and looked at the
reporter as If his ears had deceived
him. Farewell season. he roared,
why I'll be- playing ball when j am 70.
I started out to play ball as long ago
as Spalding made them" The old man
said Chicago would win the pennant.
"I wouldn't be q base ball manager If
didn't think so. Boston will push us
TO- oil 1,ttt t,,
The jockeys and stable boys who
went to England with Messrs. Croker
and Dwyer's horses furnish fund of
amusement to the English horsemen.
A correspondent says: "Messrs. Dwyer
and Croker's horses have created quite
a favorable impression at Newmarket,
but the horsemanship of their boys
Is not admired, nor yet the easy man
ner Of these young gentlemen in smok-
ing cigarettes as they ride home from
morning exercise. With us the boys
have not only to ride their horses. but
do all the stable work as well, and the
idea of one venturing to smoke on the
back of his charge Is something alto
gether beyond the powers of imagina-
ton"
Pitcher Ed Crane has gone back to
his old love, Toronto. IT was there that
Big Ed gained his reputation as d
tWirler.
What means this eager, anxious
crowd?
What mean these exclamations loud?
Why throng men around the bulletin?
What wondrous news Is coming in?
Why are some faces blanched with
fear?
Why do some hiss and others cheer?
What Is this commotion about?
Has n civil war broken out?
Avoice rises above the dim
Base ball returns are coming I'M"
Fix.
GOSSIP OF THE WUEEJ.MEN:
j. +. Bliss has entered for the Pull
man road race which viii be run on
May 30.
The aldermen of Westport, Kan.
have adopted resolutions prohibiting
women from riding upon the streets In
blooner suits
Fred Titus some time ago issued n
to any one to race an hour
The challenge has been accepted by
Willis Troy on behalf of an "un-
known" The match will be for a tro-
ply worth $500 or $1,000, and will take
place next September. probably at
Manhattan Beach. 1t Is said that the
unknown is Laurence Melntjes, the
South African.
The committee appointed by the As
bury Park Wheelmen to arrange for
the national meeting of the League of
American Whcelmen, to be held at As
bury park In July. ls meeting with
much discouragement In the matter of
raising funds and securing a track
Unless all signs fail, Philadelphia will
have q first-class half-milc asphalt cy-
Gle track before the season OF 1896 Ia
half over. The directors of the Phlla-
delphla Driving Park association have
for several years talked about build
Ing bicycle track inside the mile trot-
ting track at Point Breeze and now
they have decided to push the work.
The plan IL to build an asphalt track
to cost $4,000. 1t Is to be constructed
inside of the trotting track. oblong In
shape, twenty-five feet wide and half
a mile In circumference.
Justice Dean decides in the case of
A. ]. GeIger against the president, man