The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-01-06
General.

General.
The membership Of the New York
Driving Club is now 3O1. The annual
dues amount to $500
Dan aOreedon has gone to New Or
leans with Benny Falk, and will work
for the 'bookmaker at the race track.
Oscar Ames has a yearling by Joe
Patchen which has shown quarter in
351-2 seconds on the rot.
It begins to look as if Critic and
'Kid" Lavigne would have to 60 East
to get a chance to box each other.
The banking and brokerage house OF
the T. g. Ward company at 81 and 81
Broadway, New York, was closed by
the sheriff on an attachment
Parscn Thomas Uzzeu distributed
5000 jack rabbits among poor people
who applied for them at Denver.
These animals were shot in the annual
hunt at Lamar, Col.
Bob Fitzsimmons has bought another
lion, raging $1,000 cash for it. BOb's
live electric light wire at Cleveland a
year ago.
Benjamin Jordon, the English feath-
er-weight who defeated Tommy White
has challenged Dixon, Solly Smith and
Pedlar Palmer to box at 12O pounds in
April for $1,000 side.
e. w. White & Co. and Frank W.
White, manager of the White Catering
company, proprietor Of restaurants on
Fourth and Fifth streets, Cincinnati,
assigned to A. W. Goldsmith. Total
assets $4,000 total liabilities. $1,000.
During the last eight years twenty
seven Yale men, twenty-three Primo.
ton, twenty-five Harvard. fifteen Uni.
versity of Pennsylvania aud one Cor
nell man have been chosen on the All.
American college football elevens.
Joe Patchen, 2:O11-4 (race record
POLLY, has paced sixty-six heats in
2:1O OF better. He has taken part in
forty-seven races, of which he won
tWcnty-three; contested 1876 heats.
winning nienty
1t is reported that Chicago parties
will soon establish a monograph fact
DRY in .Muskegon, Mich, capitalized at
100000. Philip D. Armour is credited
with being one of the principal invest
OTS.
Princeton athletes have been forbid
preventative of any athletic club Har-
ward was the first to pass this rule, and
the other big universities are likely to
follow the good example set.
The owners of all the large and
prosperous mines in Cripple CreeE
made a handsome Christmas present
to their employees by allowing full time
! for an idle day. The gift in the aggre.
gate amounts to about $4,000, divided
among several thousand miners.
At New York William Gottzyzer and
Mrs. John Rice, dropped dead at mid,
night while trimming Christmas trees
for their respective children. The 6
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Field gof Keyport, N. j., pulled light.
ed tree-over on Himself the same nighd
and was burned to death.
Ben Jordon, the English feather.
weight boxer who recently defeated
tional Sporting Club, is coming tc
America. He has authorized Sa1
Tommy White, of Chicago at the Nat.
Austin to make a match for him with
George Dixon, Solly Smith or Franz
Erne, to take place in America some
time in February. Jordon will leave
England up ON receitp Of Information
that he is matched.
In the ring building of the breeding
barn on DR.. w. Seward Webb's exten:
sive farm at Shelburne, VT, was hello
saturday night Christmas celebration
unique in character and on a scale
never before known in Vermont. The
guests included all the employers OF
Shelburne farm with their families, the
adults in Trinity parish, and othe,
friends in the village, making about
$50 in all.
Says friend of the wonderful little
Welsh rider: michael never drinks
anything but tea and ale. He is q
great tea drinker, but seldom touches
water; and he never smokes never has
smoked in fact "A cigar or cigarette
He uses no vegetables, as they tend
soned foods-chicken, game, pies and
pastry. He regards coffee drinking as
also being bad" . .-
They have queer ways Of running
college football at the University OF
Michigan. Honey Stuart, the speedy
halfback and the best man in the uni.
versity team, suddenly left Ann Arbor,
and on investigation it was found thai
Stuart had never been bona tide
student at the university. The FACT
developed that while he had attended
classes, signed the usual pledge in re-
gard to professionalism and waa
to all appearances a regularly enrolled
student, he had never registered OF
paid his university fees.
John S. Barnes, formerly of Minnea,
polls, now Of Birmingham, Eng, has
abandoned the prospect Of opening q
boxing club at Paris as the project Of
police has refused to give him a Ii
cenSe.