The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-31
SPORTING.
JANUARY.

V-SAiiCdSo. SdTteF WINS the TuDDer
three-cushion carom billiard game
against Schafer
New York: Ginlm of Pittsburg wins
the 24-hour bicycle race; $50 miles.
Dayton, O.: A new worlds record
for running double high kick estab-
lished by Oliver Archer; feet )
inches.
1o-New York: sharkey defeats Mccoy
in 10 rounds.
13-Baltimore: Cans whips Young
Smyrna in two rounds.
14-Chicago: Schafer wins an 1S-inch
balk line billiard game against SUIT
ton, $50 to rs.
17-New York: Dixon knocks out
Young Pluto in the 10th round.
19-Galveston, Tex: A contest between
Choynski and Hall stopped by the
sheriff.
dertakes to throw twice both Far
mer Burns and Jack Rooney; fails
with Burns.
24-New York: Mysterious Billy Smith
knocks out Edwards in the 18th
round.
26-Boston: Herbert Holm lowers the
American 500-yard swimming rec
ord to S:12 Is; 1,0O0-yard record
lowered to 16:49 by John A. Leavitt.
2S-Montreal: The mile skating record
broken by John S. Johnson; 2:35 %
--Des Moines, Ia: The double-foot
KICK record broken Dy w. j. MOn-
flaw; feet 6h inches.
30-Philadelphia: Sharkey knocks out
Mccormick in two rounds.
31-Richard Blanchard formulates re
vised code Of boxing rules.
FEBRUARY.
3-south Bend, Ind: Hall Adali, the
Turk, defeats Delmar, the French
man, in a wrestling match.
4-Boston: Three swimming records
broken; American amateur 500
yards, by Robert Fuller, 1855 is;
$50 yards, by John A. Leavitt, $40;
$50 yards, by Robert Holm, 2:05 2-5.
Cincinnati: Wolcott whips Ryan
in Ia rounds.
| 6-Chicago Schafer defeats Carter at
three-cushion carom billiards, 100
New York: Gardner defeats solly
Smith in six rounds.
9-Providence, r. l.: T. j. Keenan, of
Pittsburg elected president of The
11-san Francisco: Charles w. Miller
for half mile, unpaced, :59 rs.
13-Youngstown, O.: O'Brien gets The
decision over Gardner in a 20-round
contest
14-Pittsburg: John s. johnson lowers
the indoor skating record for half
mile to 1:17 40; also the two-mile
record to sos.
16--New York: The triple tie in the
amateur billiard tournament, class
A, broken by Martin Mullen of
Cleveland, defeating Wayman G.
McCreary of St. Louis, 400 to 312:
17-Pittsburg: Johnson lowers the
three-mile indoor skating record to
| 9:07; also skates half mile in 115h,
which is better than the record, but
his correct time not officially re-
1s-New York: Quincy A. Shaw of
Boston A. A. wins the amateur rae
quet championship of America
London: Bredin wins the half-mile
running championship against
Thicker; SO 1-5.-San Francisco:
Miller wins the six-day bicycle
| race; 2,19O miles laps.-New York:
Mullen wins the Glass A amateur
| billiard championship.
| 22-New York: The amateur shooting
| championship won by G. S. Meal
| pin.
a7-Rochester N. Y: Gardner wins
against Hopkins in a 10-round bout
MARCH.
| Hot Springs, Ark: Tommy Ryan
knocks out Charlie johnson in the
eighth round.
! 3-San Francisco: Erne whips Haw-
| kins in seven rounds.
| New York: Rubin knocks out God
| dard in four rounds.-Boston: Roe
Der defeats the Terrible Turk in
Graeco-Roman wrestling match
New York: Fred Gerner breaks
the skating high jump record;
feet n inch.
s-Memphis, Tenn: Hall knocks out
Lawley in the 10th round
1o-Ithaca, N. Y: Three university
records broken: High hurdle, 80
yards 1-5 feet: Perkins and Lue-
der each beat the shot-put record.
II lH.,x
Smith awarded the decision over
Lavigne.
| 11-London-N York: The cable chess
match won by Americans, to O.
| 14--Chicago: Carter breaks the world s
record for high average at a three
cushion billiard tournament match;
| new figure, l 1-29; high run, 7.
| 16--Philadelphia: Maher knocks out
Stephenson in the second round.
| 1T-New York: The rope climbing rec
ord broken by Kunath; 25 feet In
| 3-5 seconds.
ries of chess games against jan
owsky. to Q.
| 24-San Francisco: Mccoy wins the de-
cision against Choynski in a 20
round bout.
dubuque, Iowa: Tommy Ryan
given the decision over Dutch Neal
| in the sixth round.
I New York Showalter wins anoth-
er chess series over Janowski.
| s-New York: Wolcott knocks out
| Judge in eight rounds.
| 12-Chicago: De Orc wins the world s
billiard championship over Keogh
/ Memphis, Tenn: Everhardt wins
the decision over Charlie Burns on
a foul.
14-New York: The grand American
shooting handicap won by Tom A
| Marshall of Keithsburg, Ill.--New
York: McFadden whips Cans in q
| rounds.
1.-THE national league baseball season
opens.
22-The first cable chess match between
American and British university
men won by the Britishers, 31s to
2la.
24-Turin, Italy: Banker of Pittsburs
wins the grand bicycle prize.
| 25-New York: Wolcott knocks out
Creedon in one round.-New Ha-
| ven: McCue gets the decision oE er
Needham in 10-round bout.