The times., 1897-12-05
SPORTING GOSSIP.

JeIIe DUNN COHteuiptatcS EolIS 10
land with Sunny slope.
Miss Maudc Pitcher, who has ridden eight
centuries is the woman century champion
OF Maryland.
Chicago is promised a big bicycle meet
In January, in which Michael, Stocks, the
English holder OF the worlds records
DousaDg, Huret, starbuck, johnson and
McDuffie are expected to ride.
Lord William Beresford, who bought Mr..
August Belmont's ftye-year-old chestnut
horse Keer an for 81. 900 a fe W da Us a go, has
sold the horse for 81 900. A well-kao IN
sporting authority in New York asserts that
keenan, is TO be ent to Calcutta in order to
compete for the yiceroy's Cup, and If he
wins that trophy, by the terms Of the sale.
Lord William Beresford viii receive $4,000
in addition to the $4,000 already paid him
for the racer.
The California Jockey Club will shortly
announce the richest two-year-old stake
ever offered by club west or New York.
1t viii be modelled after the Futurity, and
enough viii be added to make che !ace
worth 100000. 1t is expected that such an
event will attract entries from all over the
United States. California alone should be
EODt AOt tOt w HftufI tic
event viii be run in the spring or fall is
yet to be decided.
Thecontinuation of the PimIico race meet
ing after December 1 under the sanction of
theJockey Club, has not bee n sanctioned by
the Turf Congress. Secretary Hopper said
yesterday; The rules of our body state
definitely that any persons or horses IN
gagged in meeting in the North after De-
cember l remove themselves from un,Ier
Turf Congress jurisdiction, and yirtu lily
become outlaws. AS TO further action In G.
gard TO this matter, can say nothing"
L. s. Hatch, of RosedaIe, KY, has closed
arrangements for the holding of a confinu-
ous sixty-day race meet in san Antonio, at
the Jockey Club grounds, beginning Decem-
beT 8. The meet viii begin with 50hOrSes,
which number will be increased after tile
close of the Nashville meet on NOvember
80. There win probably be from $50 10
500 horses 10 winter there. tits intended TO
make this permanent meet, on the sssur-
aIce of the proper encouragement by the
railroads.
According to the London Cyclist Jimmy
Michael, writing to a Cardiff friend, says
that he has fully decided to settle per-
manently in America. More inducements
are offered to q professional in America
than Ia England or France, says Michael.
He is making arrangements TO open a eycle
depot In the neighborhood of New York.
Miss Lille Anderson Miss Lizzie Glow,
Miss May Allen, Miss Dollie Farms worth.
Miss Jennie Brown and many other young
women well known in bicycle racing circles
have entered for the various events TO lie
brought off at Cleveland next week.
President Hart, of the League ball club,
has received letter from Tora Hiraoko.
of Kirschio, near Toxic. Japan, in which
the writer says he has been able to intro
| duce the American national game among
| the members of the Toxic Athletic Asso-
| citation, an organization planned on the
| American system of athletic clubs. The
| members are Japanese of the better class,
| many OF whom speak the English Ian
| guage. The game has made quite a hit
| with them, and Tora Hiraoko asks if Mr..
| Hart can get him some more implements
| OF the game for their use. The writer OF
| the letter was in America last summer,
| and saw his first ball game in Chicago
| as the guest OF Mr.. Hart. He grssped
the idea OF the game readily, and when he
| left for home took with him number OF
| bats and balls, with the idea OF showing
| his friends how baseball is played.
One thing is sure when AnSon goes half
| of the romance Of the game will go with
him, and the Chicago Club will lose hall
| its drawing power, says the Louisville Post
| The old man is card such as the game
| cannot duplicate or hope to replace. He
| is unique and unapproachable. There is
| nothing on the wholecircuit to equal Anson,
the old man who has played ball for
| twenty five years, and keeps ON playing
| People got see him who wouldn' t go to the
| Chicago games any more than they would
| to see st. Louis play. Arlie Latham was
| great card in his day; Sockalexis was
| quite an extraction this season, but for