Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-03
Small Bits of Sport.

Prepare for a week of wind-jamming.
The McCoy-Sharkey contest will be de-
cided one week from tonight.
The Freeze-Outs want to roll any team
in the Kansas City Bowling League for a
consideration. Twenty-Five dollars is named
as the pile.
Australian" Jimmy Ryan claims he was
not in proper condition for his contest with
Root and wants to meet him in a twenty
round battle before a Louisville club.
1T may have been arranged" said 4
pugilistic sport yesterday. but l am in
clined to think the Barry-Leon bout was
on the square. The reason Barry did not
finish his mar was through lear oil an
other Croot affair"
kilograms received in this city yesterday
throw the true light on the st. Louis base,
ball situation. 1t appears that the National
League has the last guess in the buying
of the club; in other words. that even II
some person does buy the club, it may do
him no good, unless the magnates think 1t
wise to grant him Il franchise.
Six 2-year-old stakes of the California
Jockey Tub close on Monday. January 2.
They are as follows: The Racing stakes.
$1,000. four furlonss: the Waterhousc
| stakes. l,25O. four and a half furlongs; the
General Arthur stakes. $3.50. four ana a
half furlongs:. the Candelari handicap.
81 five furlongs; the Gerhard stakes,
SEQ futurity course.
George Starr expresses the opinion that
Star Pointers successor will be either klat-
awah. searchlight or Anaconda. Star
Pointer. he says. is in a class by himself.
at present. because he can carry his speed
for a further distance than any other Light
harness horse in the world. John R.
Gentry and Joe Patchen are both endowed
with as much speed as Star Pointer. and
can h hold s. it for i Sessn f rooss' and nae s iasr
Pointer Pointer has them tiptoed in the
last 100 yards.
The MARYLAND Sportsman's Exposition
Association announces it will hold its first
annual exhibit at Prospect park. Baltimore.
April II to % inclusive. 1893. This park con-
tains about thirty acres. and is convenient
ly located. about twenty minutes ride on
contains a half-mile track. 1t Is intended
to nave an exhibition of interest to sports
men, besides holding a trap shooting tour
nament. a military rifle shooting contest.
foxhound and greyhound races, and field
trials, the latter in a space adjoining The
park.
Il do not believe the motor pacing will
be practical on small tracks" said a prom
Trent racing man last week in New York.
I'VE all saw the attempt at the Garden
last night. and a few practical Wheelmen
stencil. but that was about all it did. The
stalled on a grade. with all the wheels GO
ing around. amid a great noise. but not
making any Roadway. a small smooth belt
moving on pulleys does not seem to be the
proper mechanism to my mind
The sum of s2l5. 26i would have been won
on Fridays races at Oakland by a boy
named Joe LeVison IL there mad not been
a limit in the pooirooms on the amount a
combination ticket will win. Levison in
duced a friend of his on Friday to invest
with HIM on a s. combination ticket in a
local poolroom. The horses selected and
the track odds were as follows: Opponent.
5 TO l: Aluminium. 30 to /; FL Estro. 80 TO
/: FIRST Call. even: Zomar H., . to 9; Ho-
henlohe, 4 to J.. All these. racers won. The
picking of the six winners was nothing
more than a fiuke. but such 4 case of luck
is, perhaps, without an equal in racetrack
I battipp 7 eyicpn claims IN have made he
combination at Corbett's poolrooms. bur
has no ticket to back up his claim. In
fact. no one is given tickets at the poo.
rooms. and Corbett repudiates the bet,
which calls for nearly a quarter of a mill.
ion dollars. However. there is Il poolroom
rule which places the limit of a 81 combina-
ton at $3.50. consequently Levison could moi
expect more than $500 for his So combina.
ton.