The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-01-07
SPORTING.

Feb 7-Nilss of Minneapolis, becomes
professional Eating champion and J. X.
McCulloch. OF Winnipeg. amateur. at Mon
Feb 1s-A c., b: & q train from Chicago
to Denver made the LOIS m. In LOGS min.
carson Ms5 r city, Nevl, will, h p corse,s fight ws At
worlds championship and $4,000 in llth
Apr lo-TmIe Anderson Chicago, won g.
da. az hrs) bicycle race In Detroit. max
at A BBen Tale cef.. set aa ii. So i e%s : Il : operator Srs
May 5-R. Z. Beach swan Qndoors) 100
yds In 07 rs at Chicago.
May e-Farmer. Martin Burns defeated
Dan s. Mcleod in wrestling match at
Davenport, Ia. for worlds championship.
May l4-cunard line steamer Lucania
went from New York to Queenstown In s
das, IA hrs. "a min.
May 2o-Lucretia Borgia. 4-yr-old nlly.
made m. in 7:l1, at Oakland, Cal.
Jun 2-C. III. Henderson lowered bicycle
road record for 100 m to $50 80. at Denver.
Jun Eff. C. Van de sande made u m IN
81 80 seconds. on a Chicago bicycle track.
| Jul Walter G. Sanger tcyclistJ won ? ont
"a amoonns m nac mats 5o N race against Aibatrous.
Jul 2-Mcfieynolds and Carruthers fan-
dem bicycle pair lowered worlds records:
10 m, 10 4S, I'm osa5 go; 2-S-m.. III 2-a
Jul 6-wesley Robinson and John Dresher
.Iahaem cyensts, rode from Orange. n. j..
Jul he. III. Ten Eyck tAmerIcan oars-
mani won finals In great diamond scull
Jul Hilary Sidwell tamateur) rode 1 m
In ] 40 3-5. at Cincinnati.
Jul 2O-Lizzie CLAW twoman bicycle cham
pionl rode n m. In / hr. at Toledo. o.
Jul 24-Star Pointer defeated Joe Pachen.
at Chicago. in 3 straight m. heats.
paug Mfedro, carrier pigeon. owned by
Peter Ioilons OF South Bend. Ind, flew Loo
Aug s-John Flanagan threw is-lb ham,
Aug tRalph gregory and Ben Kelley rode
tandem tunpaced) " IN. in 0.55ls. at Scran-
Aug 2s-star Pointer paced 1 m. in l :5sx.
at Readville. Mass....A. l.. Hachenberger
rode 100 m. on bicycle (unpaced) In 6 hrs. rs
min, at Denver.
Aug So-Walters. on a London track. rode
100 m. In 3:5 .53 S-5.
Sep e-Geo. w. Clark dived into Chicago
river from height OF les IT.
Sep ls-Michael rode Is m. at Boston. In
Sep 23-western league and western as
indianapolis and Cedar Rapids clubs hold
SEP. III. w. Stocks broke all worlds rec
ords from : to % m going latter distance In
Chatham, Ont. and Chas. Roberts. OF To.
Sep "a. Il. walters lowered every roo
Org from - % . m going "a m. In :os 10 l-4
closed with the clubs standing in the fol-
lowing positions: Boston. .7O5: Baltimore,
SOC; New York, ;es4: Cincinnati. $40. Cleve-
land. .527; washington. .462: Brooklyn, .4s2:
Pittsburgh. ass. Chicago. AZ. Philadelphia.
All; Louisville. 400. St Louis. .22l.
Oct 7-Michael rode I m. In Philadelphia.
In 80. Six thoroughbred horses in reIav
yds. In 1852.
Oct s-John r. Gentry and Robert J. IN
team paced / m. at Glen Falls. N. y, in EOS.
Oct n-Baltimore club won Temple cup
in baseball contest with Boston. securing
Oct 27-Dan Mcleod won world.s wres,-
ling championship from Farmer Burns.
Oct 2s-Eddie Medium rode 2 m. In 3:24. at
Nov l2-Chas. NJ. Murphy rode / m. in
:Oo As, at New York. Michael rode Is m.
in 81 :07 rs. at Chicago.
Nov 13-university OF Wisconsin in foot
ball game defeated u. of Chicago, In Chi
score, % to 3.
Nov 25-fn football games in Chicago
day University OF Chicago
". OF Michigan, Chicago Athletic
association defeated New Jersey associa-
ton. and the u. OF Wisconsin defeated
Cll.) team. In philadelphia
". OF Pennsylvania defeated Cornell.
Nov 2e-union Pacific IA mail made 5ls
In $50 min, from Cheyenne to Omaha.
Dec 4-Slosson won 6-das. billiard match
IN New York. defeating Ives in last game by
. Dec ia-,c. N. Miller. Of Chicago. won 6
&c. Il. Buckley became champion quail
eater Of world. having eaten 2 a day for 20
das.
i. Dec I7-."Kid' Mccoy whipped Dan Cree
lon In night for worlds. middie-weight
Dec as-waiter 9. sanger made Y m. at
Milwaukee IN I min, nat
Dec T-Frank McDanieis Jumped CO
skates q n. 7 In. at Minneapolis.