The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-28
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

Lexington win have its usual spring
meeting.
Ornament has been backed down to even
| money for the Kentucky Derby.
Bannockbum ran four furlongs in O:49 IA
| at Memphis yesterday, lowering the track
| record half second
Charley Johnson was defeated in a
seyenty-round bout by Jimmy Handler in
| New York last night.
POughkeepsie is to have q gcntlemen's
| driving club, the membership in which viii
be confined to amateur drivers.
Cookers Americus ran second in the
| great Surrey handicap at EPSON yesterday
| There were fourteen starters
Little Maher landed Knight OF the Garter
| second in the opening event at Aqueduct
yesterday. The odds were 20 to l.
Hon J. Donald Cameron has shipped the
| finest coaching stallion on his stock farms
at Donegal to President Diaz, of Mexico
Ere Morris, the American colored boxer,
was defeated by Dido Plumb in ten ROUNDS,
| catchweights, at the National Sporting
Club, London, Monday night
plan is on foot to establish race track
d ear the mouth of the Chnstiana River. in
| Delaware, and to have railway facilities
from Wilmington and steamboat facilities
from Philadelphia.
Charles Watkins, an Illinois farmer.
turned neat trick with Peter McCue, at
Forsyth yesterday. The colt was backed
from 20 to L to 6 to l, and was ridden
by the farmers son.
John c. Minor, bookmaker, was found
dead i'll his room in Chicago on April / D.
IL is supposed his death was caused from
an overdorse OF morphine, which he had
been ia the habit of taking To relieve sciltic
pains.
Aigoi is not in the Kentucky Derby, ana
Meadowthorpe will hardly be a starter 80
that the assumed formidable ones in the
list of probable starters are Ornament, Ty-
phoon II, DR.. Catlett, Puckvidere. Ben
Brown and Goshen.
A proposition has been made to Eddie
Bald and Tom Cooper for race at the
Electric Park, the new Baltimore cycle
track, on July J. The race is to he three
mile heats, best two out Of three, for a
purse of $1,000 and so per cent of the
gate receipts to go to the winner
w. Ii. CteaSDy, or Springfield, Mass, has
invented u device to aid in starting trotting
and pacing races which appears to have
decided merits Ii is intended to assist
the starter in conveying his instructions
to the driver without shouting, and fire.
Guently his words are inaudible at a dis
lance
a story comes from Phoenix, AriZ., that
a gambler, after he got the news Of
the Corbett- FitZsimmons fight, rode twenty
five miles to Gold Field, and made ali
kinds of bets on the Kangaroo The buck
board which brought the news came in
six hours later and announced the result
The miners learned of the trick, but the
gambler got off clear and clean
The news of Joe Goddard having struck
it rich at johannesburg has reached Aus
tralia, and many of the most competent of
the Australian boxers are packing up and
leaving for South Africa. Herb Nickel
Pat O'Tnole, Jack McGowan, Peter Felix,
the Australian heavyweight champion, and
many others have engaged passage to that
land of gold. Goddard cleared ST 5, 900 out
OF his three fights at johannesburg He
wants a match with Fitzsimmons or Cor
bett, AID is willing TO put up $4,000 If his
own IN oney.