The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-29
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

Senator Henry l.. Martin, of Yer
sailles, Ky. has sold to w. Hops
Landeman. of Lexington, KY, the
| three-year-old bay colt, Frank Thomp-
son. by Linden, dam by Nirbena; price
81, 500.
The Eastern and Western Leagues
have decided that no player engaged
by them shall receive more than $500
a month They expect that this will
put stop Ia players who in order TO
get more salary play one league
against the other.
A great four cornered skating race
has been arranged between the fastest
amateur skaters in the country. This
race is to be skated at the Clermont
Rink in Brooklyn, on February 4. Those
who will race are Bellefeuille, lie Roy
See, Mcdonald and Hornfeck.
capt Powell and Trainer Connors, of
the Cornell athletic team, have select
ed the following four as the team to
be sent TO the meet of the Boston Ath-
letic Association, to be held on Febru-
AIRY 6: II. +. Clark. so: T. Il. Kennedy
G.; II. l.. Taylor '9S, and T. i. Thomp-
son, O. In the meet the Cornell team
will compete with the relay team from
Columbia University.
According TO a bulletin of President
| Young. Of the National League, the
minor leagues which have qualified I'M
| der the national agreement are the
| Western. Atlantic and Eastern, in
| Class A; the Interstate. in class b;
| tke New York State. i'm class G; and
the International Association. in class
| ID. The Western Association has been
granted the privilege of qualifying in
| class Is.
Counsellor BIZ BrIen. who is
known on every race track in America
| for the last twenty years, has sold out
| his stable TO w. II. Laird. and is going
| To the Klondike with W II. Devalle.
who returned from the Yukon country
this winter with a snug sum and has
| been playing the races here. Brien
trained for Lucky" Baldwin when
| Rey FL Santa Anita won the American
| Derby. and last season trained the
| horses Of II. j. johnson, at Chicago.
! The second and final match race be-
tween Charles Fitzpatrick. of America
| and George Tincler OF Ireland. will
take place today at Ashton-Under-
| Lynne. England. The race viii be
three-quarters of a mile and. as in the
previous event. for a stake of $3.50 Kill
patrick won the first race, half-mile.
\ in 1:51 215. Tincler was unable to hold
| the terrific pace set by the amateur
| record holder in the last quarter. The
| Irishman is expected to make a much
! better showing in the longer distance,
which is his forte.
p. T Powers. president of the East
ern Baseball League, and Ban" John
son, president Of the Western League
| will act jointly at the, meeting of the
| National League next month as IL COM
| mittee TO protest against the amend
1 u-h NJ ha No
| vember meeting by the national board
| and laid over for further considera-
| ton. Presidents Powers and Johnson
will ask the National League to pass
! some rule so that ii will be impossible
| for a major league club to draft a man
| from one OF the minor leagues for the
| purpose Of turning him over to another
| minor league club without first giving
| the club from which he was drafted an
| opportunity to take him back The
| minor leagues claim that this abuse
| has been growing greatly on the part
| of the National League.
DIR. Paul Neuman, the champion
swimmer Of America and Europe, is
now in his third year in the dental de-
partment of the University of Pennsyl-
vania His first champion race was at
Berlin in 1892, where he won the one
mile championship of Europe. The
time on that event, however is not as
fast as what he is now making. On
the I'd of August 1885, he won the mile
championship Of America, the time
| being Is minutes 50 seconds. On the
18th of April. 1896. he entered the
Olympic games at Athens, Greece. and
won the championship race of 500 me-
tiers in % minutes and - seconds. After
this contest he received a decoration
| and medal from the King of Greece.
There were 100 competitors in the
Olympic contest, among them being
Williams. the fastest swimmer of Bos-
ton. On the 2Sth of April, 1897, he won
the five-mile race at Chicago in two
| hours 5S1H minutes, thus establishing
| a worlds record. The previous rec
ord was 3 hours, SO minutes, 51a sec
onds, which was held by B. Mowbray,
of Sydney, Australia. Neuman holds
| the championship of the Chicago Ath-
letic Association by swimming 100
yards in one minute. He also Won the
American championship at Lincoln
Park, Chicago, July 3, 1897.