Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-02-02
General Sporting Notes.

Peter Jackson and Peter Maher are
said to be matched to box six rounds al
Saenger Hall, Philadelphia, on February
18th.
There is possibility of a match being
arranged within the next few days be
tween Jim Franey, the Cincinnati light
weight, and ''kid" Lavigne.
IL the weather continues open, work
Will be begun at once on the building oil
The Coney Island Jockey Clubs new club
house at the SheepShead Bay race course.
Since L, Ii. Ten Eyck will row at the
Henley regatta again this year, he will
be unable to take part in the National
Regatta, since both events occur in the
month of July.
Manager Watkins, of the Pittsburg
Club, has ordered the teams uniforms for
next season. but has not given out the
that the Pirates will wear green stock
ingS.
Parson Davies has written to friends
that he has about completed plans TO run
a large athletic club just outside OF New
Orleans, and that he will make bids for
big fights, with no limit to the number oil
rounds.
George Slosson, champion billiard play
er of the world, is hard at work practlc-
ing for the championship match WIN
Jacob Schaefer, which is to be Idayed IN
the Madison Square Garden Concert Hail
D.
points, 1s-inch balll, for $500 side and
the cham pionship trophy.
'.ParSon' Davies has wired $1,000 Tor
felt TO Al Smith on behalf OF Joe Choyn-
ski, who is anxious to meet KID Mccoy
In the rOpcd arena.
Cornell will go ahead with the a arrpnge- pnge
mantS for the races with Harvard, Penn
sylvania and Columbia without further
reference to Yale. -,
Fred Titus, who is now travelling with
his wife, who is member of the ." Belle
of New York; Company, says 1T is proba-
bic he will spend the coming season Id
England.
Peter Maher will try to get on match
with kid" Mccoy: II am looking Tor
easy things, and this is the easiest that
has ever come my way. 1t Is like picking
up S500O,' says Peter.
Henry Martin was badly kickG1 at the
post, but is improving rapidly in re-
cent Ingleside race.
Rumor has it that Ed. A. Upton will
manage two weeks meeting at overland
Park, Denver, in June.
Eagle Flanagan, 2.12 IA, and the PAGER
King Egbert,, 2.O9 81. viii be IN 0co''
Out in California Charlie Quinn is re-
ported to be loser to the extent OF Sl2,oO0
within the past three weeks.
The Ottawa Trotting Club has joined the
National Trotting Association and Will en-
gage professional starter
The Queen City Jockey Club, at New
port. Ky, has decided not to open any
stakes for the spring meeting.
Fred Littlefield has resigned his posi-
ton as regular jockey in the stable OF
Messrs. A. III. d ID. Fl. Norris
Dan Honig has received an o1er ot
$500 for that well-bred, sterling race
horse Magnet, but holds out for $4,000.
Will Wallace, the young Kentucky
horseman, is backing his entries with con
siderable success at New Orleans.
Adam Beck, the Canadian horse owner,
has purchased from Virginia Bra4iSy
the much-used 2-year-old Judge Wardell
Judge John J. Carter, associate Judge at
the Oakland, Cal. track, is to officlate ne H
season as judge on the Canadian CIR
cult.
j. NJ Murphy, owner Of Buck Massie,
has been offered $4,000 for a yearilng by
imp. Top Gallant, dam Kitty Duh' oy
Virgil.
Charles Marvin has arrived at Ashland
Farm with the Prospect Hill Park trot-
ters and will soon begin the wedding out
process.
Sol Gilbert, one of the old-time horse.
men of Norristown, formerly owner OF
Raw Thornwood, is seriously ill with pneu
monia.
w. B. Fasig's promising young horse
Var Whoop, by Simmocolon, 2.13 "a,
lam Keokee, go IL, by Ambassador,
A geiding, by Stamboul, 2.07 IL, out OF
Moscova, 2. % IL, by Belmont, owned IN
California, is tipped as coming sens",
ionsl trotter.