Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-23
THE SPORTING WORLD

2oO-yard range shall be done on the,
american plan-namely. standing and
nololng the gun in an off-hand position.
According to Fred Gerlach. chairman
OF the League of American Wheelmen
racing board. Eddie McDuffee's one-mile
record of 1:28 takes the honor. instead
OF Major Taylor's time of 1:22 %. Both
OF these records We're made on the Car
held park track and the men rode with
out wind shields. The one-mile ma,,c
going to McDuffee has aroused well-niph
endless gossip among the followers OF the
cOlOred crack.
Coach Huff of the University of Illinois.
mas left New Haven, Conn.,, after an un-
successful attempt to engage a Yale
coach for Illinois next season. lie of
Iefed the position to George Foster San.
ford, the former Yale and present CO.
lumbia coach, but Sanford decided to re-
main with Columbia. as the remunera-
'tlon is greater. Captain Mcbride and
Billy Bull both refused the position. MIR.
HUFF is now trying to secure ex-Captain
Chamberlain of the Yale team.
There will be a most notable series of
court tennis and racquet matches in This
country during the month of January,
with New York, Tuxedo and Boston. and
possibly Philadelphia, the centers of
operations. The magnificent new club
house at Tuxedo, with it's tennis. racouet,
fVes and squash COURTS, is finished. and
70 make it's opening an event of moment,
Peter Latham, the worlds champion at
court tennis and %racquets. and Mr.. f. Fl.
Miles, the English court tennis cham
plon, nave been invited to visit America.
and play a series Of matches, all exhi-
bitiOn.
The protest which the Paris papers are
making against the Jeffries-Corbett fight
being held in France is funny. They saw
we should keep the brutal shows at home,
The kicking am they have in boxing
over there. we suppose, is considered to
De a mild sort OF an affair. \ man ought
to ~be able to do some damage with his
feet, and the average man would expecr
to see brutality in a fight of the French
kind.
Bumps. the fastest roadster in the.
world, the property of &. X. G.. Billings
OF Chicago. died at Billings Park the
other day of lung fever Billings paid
$S,OOO for him about a year ago and held
him above the purchase price. He has a
wagon record of 2:O3h. and made a quar-
ter on the New York speedway in :as1a.
1t is rumored in baseball circles that
Buck Ewing. who has been managing the
Cincinnati club for several years past.
will be the manager of the New York
team next year. President Brush. in an
effort to help out the president of the
New York club in his present predica-
ment, has recommended Ewing, it is said.
as the one man able to build up a winning
team in thai city.
When w. b. Jennings bid in Belzeebub
at the Spreckles sale he was acting for
w. L.. Powers, a racing accountant Of
New York. A few days before the sale
Mr.. Jennings received a message asking
him to go as high as 81 900 when this colt
was put under the hammer. William
Barrett had his eye on Belzeebub, but
when Jennings entered the ontest he
gave up all hope of securing him. think
ing he was prepared to give 1.50O or
$500. IF I had known that Jennings
could go only to $1,000 would have
taken him. said Mr.. Barrett. "If he is
worth a dollar he is worth 81, 200, and I
would ave bid it. I supposed Jennings
was bidding for Haggin. who has a few
dollars more than I have
1t is intimated that Mr.. Powers. who
bought Hamburg for Marcus Daily. Is
acting for Jack Follansbee, who is en-
larging his stable. Mr.. Follansbee il
now on his way to Mexico.