The evening times., 1898-07-18
SPORTING spLINrERs.


Peter Maher is said to, havs-sconsIudsd- not to
fight Jim Jeffries. Maher's excuse is that he
needs rest
The Grand Circuit races will begin at Detroit
tomorrow. The Merchants, and Msau1ac<anfrs'
stake OF $4,000 will be -p0tisd on tRe spsping
day.
Jack DOYLE is playing pnssy y>Usrks~~s-1er- -.t
the Polo Grounds. He has ALREADY played ip cut
field and infe!d since he rejoined the Giants
Cincinnati Post = 7s-.s
Fitzsimmons il ne defeats Armstrong and o'Don-
nell He will have to find $4,000 stake in oder
to get chance at the Australian,
Harness racing is becoming popular in Hon
olulu. Recently Dr. Durfee. Of California, drove
there the well.kn0wn PAGER W. Wood, a win
ming heat in 2:l7. This is the record for Hawaii
While at Coney Island the other night Nc
Keever started to prevent sHnsc' tesshs .drcn in
sating woman nan and ssf gSGS ,s5asa S2 BIN
diamond stud rSAb3wFs LnruHiirrT---~
"Jem'' Curran, the .ErSl sh> l;sht weight. wi !
meet Jack DAILY. Of Wilmington. at the Lenox
A. c. tonight Both have trained long and hard
for the contest. DAILY is favorite in the pst-
ting. 100 to 20. ~ - r-'-
Joe walcott, by mistaking cannon cracker
for sky rocket, has lost a lot OF easy matches.
Janey who is touted by the Baltimore sports
as a wonder, is hard after Walcott. bu, the lat
ters injured hand has not yet recovered.
II is now claimed that Sloane has not been i'll
at all. but pretended illness, to- get out of rid
ing at Brighton Beach. where he feared that
jealousy Of other jockeys and large feds might
cause IAN accident in which he would be badly
injured. -
Doc Payne made so much money while travel
ing with kid Mccoy that he took a quzrter
interest in book at the Fort Erie races the Other
day. The Doc expected to be a bioated bond
holder after the meeting. The first day 60-to-l
shot went through, and after cashng his tickets
Payne was broke.
Philip King. Of this city. who has coached the
football team of the University of Wisconsin for
the last two years, has again been engaged TO
MI the position King announced his intention
last fall st the close of the season to abandon
football and give his time to business, but an
urgent invitation from Wisconsin caused him 10
accept again.
Harry Smith, 125-pound Italian champion pu-
gilist, Of Pennsylvania. and the lightweight.
Young Smyrna, both Of whom are managed by
R. E. Moseley. Of Chester, Pa, are out with i
lott Eddy Lenny before the Eureka Club or
any other. and Smyrna is piqued because Cans
will not notice his challenge.
Kid Lavigne has been offered 81 800 purse
by the National A. c.. of London. to box johnny
Hughes, one of the best lightweights in England.
The club must be retrenching when it offers such
a small purse for such stars. LayigBe can make
nearly triple that amount in this countr-. and of
course will not accept it. Lavigne will box an
unknown ut Rivcside, r. J., tomorrow.
Ringing horssse in Germany is pistime
that is attended with considerable danger, even
to natives. A lew weeks ago HERMAN morse
dealer started a Russian-bred mare in a race,
and represented that she was bred in Germany.
He was caught, tried. convicted, sentenced to one
year in prison at hard labor, and deprived of his
civil rights for three years after completing his
prison sentence.
The Gov Benton mare Belle c., that was one
of the successful trotters of two seasons
when she got a mark of 2:l2 3-i, is going to be
good this year at the other gait. Last year they
tried to drive her in hopples and she a fail
ure. She now goes without the straps, but re-
quires fourteen-ounce shoes. At Albany she took
a mark of 2:19 IL, and at Dover last week she
was timed separately in 2:15.-Trotter and PAGER.
George Dixon is another boxer who never will
fight again with Charley White for referee. Dixon
says that White gave him one of the rawest deas
he ever had, in his fight with Jordan. -.'If ever
won bout" says Dixon, 81 won from Jord IN,
lieve that o'Rourke and got it in the neck.
There are things about that match which make
me suspicious. II looks like the deal we got
when boxed Solly Smith at San Francisco
Tom Sharkey will meet Joe Goddard at the
Lenox A. c. August II. Fitzsimmons declares
he will never meet Sharkey again until the sailor
makes coed the $1,000 he lest by being robbed
of the fight at San Francisco. Sharkey's right
hand, which has bothered him considerably, was
photographed by the x-ray process yesterday. an /
thumb is dslocated and that needle lies be-
tween the metacarpal bones of the second and
third fnee:s.
An ingenious sceheme worked from Paris
on London bookmaker, who does business at
French races. He advertised to lay the odds
current at and to accept all bets offered by
that hour He accepted the Paris postmark as ,hs
only evidence of whether the wager offered
in time, some Of the postal clerks in Paris
hit on the brilliant scheme of postmasking lot
Of envelopes with midday stamps keeping them
until they got the days results and then for
warding their bets in them. 1t took the English-
man some time to catch on. but he did after
losing q thousands pounds or so, and now the
schemers languish in Jail.
A dispatch from Milwaukee says: "Chariie
Cushman, who released f.om the staff OF
National League umpires by President Young.
has returned home, and says that the report
about his having trouble with Young is untrue.
He says that he requested to make an am.
davit against Adrian c. Anson, former manager
Of the New York Club. and Manager Tebezu, Of
Of Cleveland, charging them with violating the
Brush law, which wonld have resulted in their
expulsion from the League. Mr.. Freedman made
the request for the affidavit. This Cushman re-
fsped 20 swear to. and. accordingly. was iet cut.
Anson and Tebeau. il is alleged. used shameful
language on the heid" -a-- .4Aa s.ss-.-
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