The sun., 1901-04-18
ODDS AND ENDS OF SPORTS.

George Prentiss, who played baseball
with the Waterbury, Conn. team last
year, has signed with Oakland, Cal.
State League team. The season will
run into January.
Tommy Feltz, of Brooklyn and
Sammy Smith of Philadelphia were
yesterday matched to meet in a twenty
round contest before the Delaware Ath-
letic Club in Wilmington, on May TO-
The men are to weigh in at 115 pounds
mud will box for fifty per cent. of the
gross receipts
II is reported that Pitcher 'Vic"
Willis will receive salary of sS,6OO this
season for jumping his contract and re-
turning 10 the Boston On. L..) club.
The Philadelphia and Brooklyn will
open the National League season in
Philadelphia today.
Many fishermen are now after catfish
and large numbers have been taken in
the ''sloughs'' and quiet places along the
Brandywine.
| Large numbers of rock bass are being
taken along the Brandywine mt the pres
ent time hut the fishermen are placing
them back in the stream. the season not
heing open until May 80 the same day
upon which it is first lawful to catch
black bass.
Snipe are still quite plentiful in the
marshes and many have been killed
there being more of them to he found
than in former seasons.
4 dispatch from Geneva says: The
Swiss rifle team. which won the first
prize at the international meeting at
Paris last year. will 90 to the United
States next September to shoot at Sea
Girt
The Chicago Horse Show Association
has broken Il record for such enterprises
and will declare dividend of % per
cent. today on n capital stock of $25.-
900. This is the first official indication
Iof the financial success of the exhibition
in the Coliseum during the winter
The committee which is working to
have the Olympian games of 1904 held III
Chicago has decided to call for popular
subscriptions this week. The list will
he open for sums ms low as % cents and
;hc subscription certificates will be in.
'erchangeahc for tickets or stock
Committees will be appointed in all the
puhlic schools To provide Il children,
FUND.
The National Rifle Association oi
america has received assurances Of tho
presence Of at least three foreign riff,
rcamS. representing Ulster Ireland
Switzerland ana Canada at the Inter
lational flc-Shooting Tournament
Tuesday Secretary Tones received &
lettcr from the Argentine Rcpubli,
promising to try to send representatives
A letter received in Montreal from
fhr Oxford Cambridge track team. whicl
IS coming over to compete with Harvard
md Yale in September, asks if meet
ing can also bc arranged with McGil
md Toronto Universities. The Canadian
universities cannot make much Of /;
showing, hut are willing. as the Eng
iishmen want help in training for tn,
meeting with the American universities
Nearly all Of the secretaries of til,
golf clubs tributary TO Chicago hav,
receiver il circular letter from j. J
Dempsey. secretary Of The Toledo Col
Club. asking the local organizations ait
IN forming rival body to the United
'NlHltS Nibll -NSSb'lHllbIl. i ne HtllNI
is based on the refusal of the Unite,
States Association to admit Toledo he
cause its club does not own or contro
it's course. but plays over public links.
Manager +. Jackson, of the Corncl
navy. has secured new quarters for th,
Cornell crews at Poughlicepsie this year
The lthacanS will he stationed at Th
Oaks. on the west side of the river jus
below the bridge. instead of mt Krum'
! Elbow, three and onc-half miles above
The training table at which the varsit,
oarsmcm and the four substitutes vii
take one meal daily was established j.
t'onch Courtney Tuesday night
/ David Barrie Sir Thomas I.ipton'
representative i'll America, arrived i
Boston from New York to get Il tcnde
for Shamrock II. MIR. Barrie says Ii
already has II boat professionally engage
III New York. but h. is here trying I
2 find II better one.