The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-03

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VI quo color Alnclo1tpe trianglJ N te;
: i'd on the throe sides are Rhdae Isiknd
D,visio In gold letters and In the c6ntcr
O the triangle the regular league badge.
Horss Talk.
TX Governor Morgan q. Bulkelcy, Gen
eraf Harrison, A. J welch and other
Hartford horsemen have decided to hold a
meeting on tho old Charter Oak track in
the interval between Boston and New
York f Nf Mt
Hcir-at-law Is tho horse ON which the
Hamllns and their trainer, Ed Goers, have
been banking for candidate for the free
for all pacing class next summer. Some
shrewd observers Of Encing Affairs are In.
clined to think that the con of Masnbino
King Is not coming up 70 expcctations In
his preliminary work down In Alabama.
In some parts of the west horses are now
becoming scarce because they have been
disposed Of at an astonishing rate. Eleo.
tricity has about run Its length an dis.
placer Of horses and the bicycle is covering
Its own field pretty thoroughly. What the
horseless wagon will do In the future Is a
problem, but until highways are material
ly improved IL cannot come into general
use
The number Of Austrian mares that
have either foaled colts to American born
trotting stations or have yet to drop their
foals similarly bred is four times as large
as at this season last spring. From the
preparations being made by Austrian
breeders this season 1t looks as though the
1898 crop would be more than twice as
large rs that Of 1897 and consequently
more than eight times as large as that of
1895. 1t will not be long before the Ameri-
can bred racing trotter will have but little
to race for In Austria
General Sporting M es
The Sou.nern bicycle circuit opened at
Memphis yesterday. .t-,,f
The Yale baseball team will play their
first game of the season today. meeting
Johns Hopkins at the Yale field.
From developments which have come
to light. the indications point to the Yale
field as the scene of the Yale Harvard
football game next fall. I -3i
a Boston syndicate has offered purse
OF $4,000 for a limited contest between
Corbetr and Fitzsimmons, to be held In
New York.
1ne London Daily Mail prints a dis
patch from Cape Town saying 1t is re-
ported there that Delagoa bay has been
leased TO Great Britain for 30 years al
an annual rental Of $500. 900, and that the
Transvaal government was not aware OF
the arrangemert until completed.
An immense crowd witnessed the an
Lual field and track games between the
Oxford and Cambridge teams yester-
day al the Queens club grounds. London.
The Duke and Duchess of York were
present, and a numerous sprinkling OF
the nobility. Hundreds of ladies' ap-
peared in spring toilettes. and the scene
Was very gay. .-.-tsr ..r
1t is almost settled that the race be-
tween Ras Rogers Of Worcester Mass
and Champion Gaudaur Will be rowed
at Orila, Ont. The Worcester man re-
fuses to increase the stakes higher than
$500 a side, and Jake refuses to go away
from Orilla for that amount Orilliane
will give a purse Of 500 to the winner,
provided the race 10 rowcd on May "a.
Chief Consul Fred Patee of the Illinois
division, L. A. W., has demanded Of
PRESIDENT Potter that George X. Bar
rett, who got out the political circular
intended to pledge the wheelmen's vote
to Carter Harrison for mayor Of Chicago,
be suspend ID from the league. Men,
bers Of the lint L. A. w. and A. c. COM
mittee sustain Consul Patee in his re-
quest. "a