Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-14
Odds and Ends.

| O'Donnell have parted company.
The Chicago club will play In Kansas City
| on Harry Wright day
| Rusie wants 500 fine RENTED before he
will sign with New York for the coming
| season.
| Dick Burge. the English welter-weight
says ne VIII retire from the ring after
| meeting Kid LaVigne.
Inc Boston club is after another pitcher
Manager Selee says he will give as much
| as Slo,ooo for certain man in view.
There is some talk of running a new
| street through the polo grounds and in thai
| case the home of the New York Giants will
| be cut in half.
| In future book being made on the Oak
| ley Derby at Cincinnati Ben Brush M. y
Dwyer's crack three-year-old colt, is the
| faVorite at odds of to /.
Pa DAILY has deposited forfeit with
me me London Sporting Life to box Jack
Fitzpatrick or any 12O-pound man in Eng
| land for f1OO a side.
Al HEREFORD may take Joe Cans to Eng
Land II he succeeds in whipping Spike
! Sullivan, whom he is to meet at Boston
next week. Cans is training at Baltimore
| for the coming mill.
J. J. Mahoney of Atlantic City. the re-
puted champion ball puncher of New Jer-
sey, has covered the forfeit to bind a match
With Harry Davis to be decided at Atlantic
City on March 3.
Dispatches from Gaiesburg say that c. w.
Williams Is not satisfied with the entries
for the fall stakes at the Galesburg meet
ing. The opinion is given that he will not
start a meeting up with such showing
and that he will not reopen the stake
events Should such action be taken it will
not cause any great surprise.
In the final events in the contest for the
amateur figure skating championship of the
National Skating Association. held at New
YORK, Herbert S. Evans, the wonderful Bos-
emblem, beating George D. Phillips Of the
New York Athletic Club and holder OF the
title by seven points. The number of points
made by Evans was 116, while Phillips was
credited with 100 points.
Speaking of the outlook, Manager Hanlon
says: When the gong rings on April 16 at
Union Park, and the Baltimore team trots
out. with Mcmahon in the box, Robbie
back or the bat, Doyle on first Reitz on
second, Jennings at short, McGraw at third,
Kelley at left, Brodie in center and Keller
at right, it VIII be the strongest base ball
team that ever trod a diamond, and 1 am
not forgetting the strong boys now passed
off the field. That team will beat them all,
and the pennant will come this way again
unless something unforeseen happens"
fidol, the famous pacing stallion, died at
Fidol was nine years of age, and had a rec
ord of 2.OlA. He was owned by Rivenburg
q Son of Cedar Falls, and was valued at
$1,000.
1t was generally understood that at the
meeting of the New York Yacht Club last
night the Dunraven-D Defender case would be
nnally settled. Action, however, was again
deferred for two weeks
Sammy Samuels, who covered third base
Tor the st. Louis club last season, has sign
ed contract to play an infeld position for
the Springfield. Mass, club this season.
Yale Murphy, who played short stop
for the New Yorks recently, has signed to
play with Ted Sullivan's New Haven team
IN the Atlantic Association. He will get
through with his medical studies the first
OF next month, and will then report for
caDtaiO q
The base ball cage at Princeton was open-
ed Wednesday for the first time this sea-
son, and presented very lively appear
ance. About thirty-five members of the
freshman class responded to cant, Brad
!ey's call for freshman candidates for the
varsity base ball team. The most of these
are booked for post 4 ~ in the outfield
Capt. Quinby of the Yale base ball nine
has issued the annual call for his candi-
oates to begin practice. They will report
for duty tonight at the Yale gymnasium.
when the candidates for the freshman team
will begin work.