The evening times., 1897-01-25
Sports and Sporting

oh paper Arthur Irwin's Toronto team
iooks almost as strong as any combination
IN The Eastern League.
The famous Dude Esterbrnok married a
nch widow, and is now in the dry goods
business at New Brighton, n Y.
Jack DAILY ana Leslie Pearce are TO he
Tie bigcard at the opening Of new boxing
clab in Philadelphia on February l5
The Tennessee derby, to he run al Mem
phis, has been set for the last day of the
spring meeting instead Of the first, as 1t
has heretofore been, and the Montgomery
handicap takes the place Of the derby on
the opening day of the meeting.
The acceplanoes for three OF the clO, 600
races TO be run in England do not suggest
any great triumphs for American bred ani-
mals. Inneither the Prince OF Wales stakes,
60 be run at Newmarket, July l, nor the
Jockey Club stakes, 10 be ran at Newmarket
September 80, does tile name OF an Amen
can-bred animal appear.
A cablegram from London announces that
August Belmont has withdrwn al Of his
horses entered on English courses for the
season OF l S97. This, Of course. includes
the declaration of Don de orc and OCtagOn
from the Derby and Doncaster st. Leger.
This undoubtedly means that Mr. Belmont
feels his charges have no snow to win the
various events in which they are entered
The stakes for the spring meeting of the
Kentucky Association at Lexington viii
close on February 1, and S50Ols added to
event Following is a list Of tie stakes:
Phoenix Hotel. FOR ali ages, one mile and a
four and a Ealf furlongs; Melbourne stud
Stakes, for two -yeaI-olds, five furiuRgS;
Louis and Gus Strauss. selling stake, FOR
three year-olds and upward, one mile.
Henry Baker. the Chicago heavy weight.
WHO on saturday night at the NOhpareil
Club was stopped in less than one round
by Joe Butler was much dissatisfied with
the result of the contest, and fur the pur-
pose OF getting satisfaction remained in
Philadelphia until thiS morning. la the ia
terval he tBulerand Jack Mcdonald got
together and arranged another meeting,
which viii occur ia t9iS city during FebrU-
airy. During the conference Baker remarked
incidentally that !e considers Butler easy
game; cinch, in fact. at which Joe be-
came warm, ana assured Henry that when
they don the mitts again he VIII give baker
cause TO repent the unkind aliusion.
Ii is generally conceded that ia the Sub
urban Requital viii carry top weight Re
qiutdl never met Handspring art year, ana
Hastings he beat tadly ia the Res lization.
But Hastings was aiding, so that race is Of
no value. one can only judge Of Z, quital's
otlIcc races. 1t is probable that from 1870
pounds TO "a pounds VIII include K'quitdl,
Clifford, Handspring, and Hastings, as
named. From ! "a pounds 20 120 pounds
Buck Massie. Halua. Ben Brush ana Brlmar
may be weighted. Then there is a long list
of moderate class horses, including Ben
Eder, Sir Walter, Counter Tenor, Peep o
Day, The Winner, Lake SHORE, Howard
Mann, First Mate, and others. who VIII he
hard to handicap.
The weights for the big spring handicaps
the BROOKLYN and Suburban VIII he an
nounced within a few days, and amateur
handiCappers have been buSily figuring on
the proba bic result of Mr. ToSburch'S work.
There are many who have So much faitbin
their own estimates that should Mr Vos-
burch give any certain horse the worst
OF it Cfrum the amateurs standpoint they
viii figure that horse the best thing II the
race. There have been numerous inquiries
announced up To date. II is very likely
that some enterprisinG "buoEie" VIII
take a chance and offer odds, Just to
while away the long hours between now
ana resumption Of racing.
1t is likely that Joe Goddard and Peter
Maher viii fight return match ciJacr in
this country or in England. fGli Madden
called at the Illustrated News office Fri |
day and said he had just received "a letter 1
from Goddard who is now training 30 meet |
Mick Dooey on February at Johannes |
burg, South Africa. He authorizes Madden |
to arrange match with Mahcr, AMI he |
viii fight The winner Of the Corbctt-Fitz- |
simmons battle for S5,00u oc hiS own |
money as side bet. Maher when inform /
ed OF Goddard's challenge, said. " ] am ready /
to meet him, either here or in England. on |
any fair terms. l want 10 wipe out that |
old score, and think | am a much better |
man now than when | met Goddard at
Coney Island