The herald., 1896-03-16

Erie county fair will be held at Hamburg
September 2l to 20.
c. W. Williams, the hustling manager of
the Galesburg association, has arranged a
circuit which includes Peoria, July l to 4;
Joliet, July to 10, and Galesburg, H., July
Ia to II. The races will be all mile heats
and the entrance fee will be 10 per cent,
but where there are more than ten entries
the surplus will be added to the purse.
Kid Mccoy knocked out Tommy Ryan
in fifteen rounds Monday night. Ryan,
who was great favorte in the betting,
was OH the defensive after the first round.
he was game to the last. Tim Hurst acted
as referee.
Guesses have been registered by base
ball scribes as to who will lead the New
Yorks in batting this season: George
Davis received eight votes and Mike TIER
nan two. The fortunate gCessers Will re-
celve new hats from President Freedman.
Senator l.. j. Rose must congratulate
himself that he had the sense to sell when
his stock was on the top wave. S.amboui,
at $4,000; Alcazar, :20%, at S2S,o0O;
Voodoo, at S25 ,OO0; Baron Rose, $SOOO'
Del Sur, $4,000, and Old Sultan at Slo,-
900, are few he let go, besides Reverie,
for which Mr.. Bonner bid $4,000, the ini-
tial bid few years back. Mr.. Rose said
once he believed it to be good policy to sell
when people wanted to buy.
Santa Anita has been scratched from all
his English handicaps, except the Chester
cup. Americus and Sir Excess are the on
ly entries kept in the Jubilee stakes.
"George Dixon," says one of his friends,
first appeared in Boston about fifteen
years ago. He was then young boy
anxious to earn money for his support
His first work was with Elmer Ch!ckering,
the photographer, and he received about
one-third the money for years work that
Chickering afterward paid him for sin
gle sitting. Dixon was a faithful boy and
had no idea of adopting pugilism as per-
manent means of livelihood. He was pas
sonately fond of boxing, and spent all his
money and his spare time on the pastime.
AS a boy he appeared in the Parnell Ath-
letic club and the old Crib club, and he
was content to accept very few dollars
for his services. Tom O'Rourke came
along and when he saw Dixon's future he
promptly gathered him in. O'Rourke has
never regretted that days work, for Dixon
has earned more money than any other
pugilist of his size and years in the world"
One year ago last November when the
Augusta Victoria steamed up the hudson
river and into her dock at Hohoken. hun
dreds of thousands of enthusiastic natives
of America waited for Arthur A. thinner
man to walk down the gang plank and
stand once more on the soil of the country
whose racing honor he had so proudly and
ably upheld in Europe Now, alas all is
changed. Last week good old "Grnder"
reached the United States after a long tour
of more or less triumph around the world,
and so little is thought of the arrival by the
public in general that scarcely a handful of
Californians did him honor. His fair
weather friends had deserted him, but
those who knew him best, and necessarily
loved him most. stand staunch and true in
the belief that ''Zim'' will yet prove that he
is still the champion of them all.
Solly Smith, who has repeatedly an
hat h,a b,aI F,r
$4,000 to fight George Dixon, and would
lose no time i'll challenging him, will be
given an opportunity, for Tom O'Rourke,
when he learned about Smiths announce
ment posted $500 to match Dixon
against Smith for 5000 side and the
Ii Smith Is really as anxious to meet Dixon
as he claims he is, he should lose no time
in covering O'Rourke's money and arrange
the match.
Dan Stuart will attempt to bring off a
fight between Corbett and Fitzsimmons,
and to this end wired Julian and Brady.
Stuart named November as the time and
guarantees battle-ground and purse of
$4,000. Brady replied: November is
too late; make the date earlier. We refer
to fight in America if possible" Julian
says: "Corbett must fight Slevin and
against him. Let him provo that he is a
fighter and then we will give him a
chance" Both kilograms bear New
York date.
Secretary Bassett of the League of Amer
ican Wheelmen issued his periodical state.
rnent of the divisions membership last
week. which is as follows: New York 1O4,
total 1O,5S7; Massachusetts 27, total
6064; Pennsylvania AZ. total 4595; Illi-
nois 116; total 1859; Missouri II, total
1887; North California At, total 1O1S;
New Jersey %, total 2645; Ohio Z, total
1857; Maryland ~, total 772. Gains
from all divisions 406. Grand total of the
league, 4O,5OS. Illinois, it will be seen, is
again drawing away from Missouri. Sew
eral months ago the local i. A. w. officers
had pulled Missouri's membership to with
in nine of that claimed by Illinois.