Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-01-05

Jan. 1-Orlando Stevens, of Ottumwa, Ia,
makes new record in competition mile BIZ
cycle race at Los Angeles, Cal; 1:59 1-3....
Kid Mccoy defeats Peter Maher in 8
rounds at Coney Island, N, Y.
9-Terry. McGovern wins feathervelght
championship from Geo. Dixon iISrounds
in New York.
Feb. S-Corcoran makes new worlds rum
ming record at South Bend, Ind; 10 yds.
Mar. 29-Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe spe-
cial runs from Los Angeles, Cal, to CHI
cage, q, 265 miles) in 81 hrs, Sc min.
Apr. l9-National and American league
teams open baseball season.
May 3-Fred Gilbert kills 50 pigeons straight
at 81 yds. at Springfield, H., ney world $
record-Lieut. Gibson wins Kentucky
Derby at Louisville; 2:O6b.
l1-,Jeffries defeats Corbett in chap1pion-
ship fight at Coney Island, N. Y, In q
rounds.
23-Sydney Lucas wins American Derby
at Chicago 2:l0A.
3O-Pennsylyania university wins Ntercol-
leegiate boat race at Poughkeepsie, N. y;
Wisconsin I'd.
Jul. 2-Von Zeppelins airship travels 25
miles against headwind under perfect
control of crew, at Berlin.
9-Peter Nissen, of Chicago, pilots boat
through Niagara river rapids and whirl-
14-American athletes win out OF 10 events
in finals for worlds amateur champion
ships at Paris.
17-Voter breaks worlds record on circu-
lar course at Brighton Beach; 1:SS.
20-Miss Bessie Anthony, of Evanston, ILL.,,
wins woman golf championship of west
..,W, X. Vanderbilt makes l60 m. in au-
tomoble In hrs, 81 min
23-Mrs, Jane Lindsay rides bicycle 500 m.
in dy race in New York.
3l-J. c. Myers swims from Alton, tll,, TO
st. Louis (27 M in hrs....John Nelson
defeats Michael in Pom. bicycle race;
Aug. G-N. E. Backenstoss reaches Seattle
from New York on bicycle; 81 das.
7-Cigar-shaped train breaks all records
between Philadelphia and Baltimore,
making 81 m an hour
l4-DeutsChldnd makes record transatlantic
eastward run; das., Il hrs, 45 min.
24-Fitzsimmons knocks out Sharkey in
fight at Coney Island N. y in rounds.
3l-EXpiration of Horton law ends prize
fighting. in New York .".Cyclist Turville
rides mile at Salt Lake City In l:32.
Sep. 4-Jacques Faure crosses English
channel in balloon.
| 7-Denver wins Western Baseball league
pennant.
pennant. e.. Automobile In Chicago makes
mile In :06, and 10 m. in 1902.
| 25-Abbot trots mile in 2:O3A at Terre
oct, Maxwell W. Long New York; runs
440 yds. in 47 sec.
| Sat BroCkton, Mass, Harry Elkes breaks
every tricycle. record from 2 M to the hour,
making 30 m, 0i5 yds.
| 6-Cresceus makes new stallion trotting
record at Cleveland 24
| 11-French aerOnaut travels from Paris 10
| Kew, Russia Q904 m.) in &c hrs.
! l4-Natonal league baseball season ends
with Brooklyn leading.
! 15-Marguerite Cast IN. " cycles 2,OOc
miles in 222 hrs, 5la M, breaking outdoor
| ong-distanCe records,
| l7-LIptons challenge for Americas cup
! accepted by New York Yacht club, races
| to be sailed Aug 20, % and 4....JOhn Mel
son cycles 10 M in 27:O4 1-5 in Chicago
| 24-Yale wins football championship by de-
feating Harvard Is to at New Haven. -.
! Dec l2-OXford wins English football
championship from Cambridge.
| hilary Elkes and Floyd Mcfarland win
6-da. international bicycle race at New
York by wheels length; 2,62S m.