The evening times., 1895-10-30
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

The fifteen-round exhibition at the OlyIn
pic Athletic Club at Toledo last night bs
tween Frank Garrard, of Chicago, and Billy
Steffers, OF Cleveland, came to an ABRUPT
conclusion in the fourth round, when the
! Cleveland man was knocked completed,
out. Steffers forced the fighting in The
first and second, and landed frequently
on Garrards face. Garrard held well
within himself, and when, in the third.
he found he had his man going he aimed
in his blows with sledge-hammer force.
Sterfers was clearly outclassed.
Although Moten, the Georgetown man,
stands ready to back Hite Pcckham aga inst
| Pat Raedy, and has so stood for several
| days, nothing has been heard from the gen
| tleuan from the East End.
A few days ago Pat called at this office
and asked that the statement be made for
! him that he would fight any man in the
District and agree to put him out in
| twenty rounds. Peckham offers him a
| better thing. He win make the fight to
| 4 finish and will agree to weigh in at the
| ringside at 142 pounds, Raedy To be al
| lowed to weigh 154. This certainly seems
to be fair proposition on Perkham's
part, and If Pat really wants to fight
he should not be backward about coming
forward.
A running meeting will begin al Billings
Park, near Memphis, Tenn, on Novem-
Der 8.
Sam Austen. OF New York sporting
paper, who has frequently been spoken of
as the probable referee OF the Corbett and
Fitzsimmons fight. left New York quietly
on Monday night for Hot Springs Ii is
possible that Austen's movements ma Y prove
to be significant within the next day or two
Philadelphia will likely have an Eastern
League team, and if 1t does some of the
Phillies' crack reserve list will help COM
plete the club. In other words. the Phila-
delphia management will control the smaller
team, which will likely he named after the
famous old Athletics. Philadelphia can
easily support two teams, as has been
proved before.
1t is said in baseball circles that the
Boston Club is trying 10 trade Third Base
man Collins for outfielier Holmes md anoth-
er player. Holmes is TO take the place of
Mccarthy, who, it is said, will he displaced
by Boston. Collins has sai,. he would not
play In Boston, preferring Louisville to
any other city. 1t is not known whether
the deal will go through or not, but such
a proposition is said to have been made by |
Manager Sclee.
An eighteen days racing meeting will |
be held at Pimlico this fall. beginning |
about the second week in November. |
satisfactory forfeit was posted yesterday
in the hands of the president of the
Pimlico Driving Club. The forfeit bound
an agreement between the Pimico Driv-
ing Club and the Saratoga Jockey Club,
giving the latter virtual control of Pin-
lico course for eighteen days racing The
Saratoga Club is in the highest standing
and, with Morris Park, Sheepshead Bay
and Gravesend. it constitutes virtually
the Jockey club"
This new sub-lease of the Pimlico grounds
it is said, will be the means OF elevating
running events on the track to the high
they were years ago, when the
late ex-Gov. Oden Bowie was the con-
trolling genius OF the running tracks in
that part of the country. The success OF
Pimlico course was largely due to him In
The early stages of its career.