The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31
General Sporting Notes.

car and joining their friends, who follow
or precede them on wheels.
General Sporting Notes.
President Freedman has purchased Buck
Ewing's fifteen shares Of stock in the New
York club.
Raven, blk, m, 2:l1A. was sold to Sam
uel Noble, of Pittsburg, Thursday for $3,025
at Pittsburg.
Harry Harry 3 Brant. of PortIand, Ind; was
Greenvlle, o., at decatur, Ind.
Jockey Robert =. Shealy, who was ruled
off at Hawthorne track two years ago for
pulling horse has been reinstated.
The Bostons already playing some
markable fielding games in the South. One
or two errors a game seems to be the limit.
The Michigan baseball league is com
posed of the following towns: Kalamazoo.
Owoson, Adrian, Monroe, Battle Creek and
Lansing.
The Seaside Athletic Club will offer a
purse and allow expenses for Harry Nick
less, of England. to come over and fight
Joe Walcott in May.
Zimmerman has accepted Houbens chal-
Paris. He will go in training about the mid
die of April and sail month later for
Europe.
The polo grounds are in good shape for
ball playing considering the recent unfavor-
able weather, and Superintendent Bell says
they will be ready for the players when the
team arrives next week.
Uncle Arson made three home runs in one
game at Galveston the other day, and the
harsh Chicago critics promptly said that
the feat was accomplished in each instance
three strikes and a lost ball.
Meadows, fiye-year,old gelding by the
Toano and Geraldine, from Isl to 5s at
Alexander's Island, Washington, D. c., last
Thursday.
1t is among the probabilities that the L.
A. w. will institute legal proceedings
against the owners of one of the toll pixies
in this State to test the right rig of the n to
tolls from bicycle riders.
In order to encourage long distance riding
has offered medals to all members who ride
$500 miles or more this season, and special
medal will be awarded to the one VINO
makes the largest mileage.
set-to with the st. Joe KID Thursday,
but Paddy Norton took his place and held
and George Fitzgerald spared cleverly, and
Ed Shepard and the Louisiana Rosebud
sugged each otner for four rounds.
The Western baseball club does not pro-
pose to have the Briarbooke Hunt Club
the only anglicized affair in town: The
westerns have changed their name to THE
Herancourts'' and will play the Indianapo-
lis League team April 3. w. c. Sheets is
che manager.
son will turn professional and sail for Eu-
rope in a few days. He is now on the fence,
SO to SPEAK The pest st 70 ao o6a ha
made proposition to Stearns; but his going
does not depend upon the acceptance of his
offer for he has an option from the manu-
facturers of the Boston Humber, which he
can fall back upon.
The sporting men of the East have de-
cided to give John l.. Sullivan a rousing
benefit in the near future, and strenuous
efforts are being made to have Corbett and
Maher the Irish champion, wind up in a
four-round bout on their merits. Maher
has accepted, and says: II would only be
too glad to meet Corbett for four or six
rounds strictly on our merits" Corbett is
vet to be heard from.
The Coroner of the District of Columbia
held an inquest Wednesday over George d.
Bahen, of Georgetown University football
team. who died from injuries received in
the Thanksgiving day game with the Co
lumbia Athletic Club. The jury's verdict
was that Bahen came to his death from
the responsibility. The testimony was that
the playing was most brutal
A. B. Spreckels has backed his horse Cal
ert in each of the Chicago Derbys and filed
both books. Mr.. Fleischmann has bet 500
i'm each Derby on his horse T0bin and filed
the books on him. Other important bets
taken are s.. 600 against $500 on LissaE and
$3.50 against $50 on Handsome in the Haw-
th0rne Derby, and 800 bets at 100 to / ON
Monaco the Potsdam in each
The twelve clubs in the National League
have signed total CT % players, as fol-
lows: New York, sixteen: Brooklyn. TWEEN
ty: Boston, twenty. Baltimore. seventeen;
Philadelphia, twenty; Washington, nine
teen Ptttsburg, nineteen: Cleveland, fifteen:
Chicago. eighfeens Cincinnati twenty: Sf'
I0IiH, eightt en-: Louisville. twenty~oFe or
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