The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-28
SPORTS Of
THE WORLD
Shamrock II Out
sailed New
Boat.
YACHTING

The Boston boat Independence has
been barred from the trial races to Sc
lect a cup defender and from all other
events over which the New York Yacht
club will have jurisdiction. Lawson says
that his boat WIN be raced in spite OF
the club.
Dengner watson has decided to remod-
81 portions Of the hull OF the Sham
rock II.
Sir Thomas Upton is chagrined at the
recent showing of the Shamrock II. He
thinks that something has gone wrong
with her and has ordered her put In dry
dock for examination.
The Shamrock / outsailed Sir Thomas
Lipton's new boat by five minutes and
five seconds over a triangular course of
about twenty miles.
Captain Nat Herreshoff, designer of the
cup defender Constitution, believes his
latest boat is the greatest yacht racer
the world ever saw.
The Marquis of Ormonde has been
elected commodore of the Royal Yacht
Squadron in succession to King Edward.
CYCLING.
Major Taylor the colored American cy-
clist and Jacquelin, the French crack
rider, have arranged for three races to
take place Monday, May 9th.
Jacquelin, the French cyclist, defeated
Major" Taylor, the colored American
rider, in a race for the worlds cham
pionship held in Paris.
Lace Downing broke the worlds mo-
tor paced record for a mile at San Jose.
Time 1885 3-5.
Burton Downing lowered the world s
! five-mile motor-paced record to SPA 2-5
Newkirk and Hone broke the three
! mile worlds record for motorcycles at
San Jose. Time 4:37 1-5.
The Garden City wheelmen won the
fourth annual bicycle relay race for the
Leavitt and Bell trophy over 10O-mile
! course. The course record was lowered
| by minutes "a seconds. The time was
4 hours, AZ minutes and 30 seconds.
COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Stanford has secured Dad" Moultor
as track coach and trainer.
Yale defeated Harvard in a series o.
tarck events by a score of 81 to AZ.
| The Pennsylvania eight-oared crew
that is to represent the university in the
Henley regatta defeated the first Navy
crew by thirteen feet, or exactly one sec.
ond, over a two-mile course.
o. c. QUITS of L ale lowered the inter.
collegiate bicycling record for the quar-,
ter mile, riding the distance in 0:30 2-5.
| Yale won the intercollegiate bicycle
s points and Columbia 4 points.
| Pennsylvania defeated Columbia Uni
versity in a track meet, IS points to So.
Halstead Linsey of Harvard won the
intercollegiate golf championship by de-
feating Charles Hitchcock of Yale.
THE TURF.
In England the Alexandra handicap Of
900 sovereigns was won by Richard
Croker's Harrow with Lester Reff in tn,
saddle.
Thomas w Lawson of Boston has
/ bought Draughtsman and Ronkonkoma
the steer'echasers.
The Letonia Derby was won by Her.
nandeo.
r. Il. Wilson'S The Parader won the
classic Withers stakes at Morris Park.
BOXING.
| The Southern Athletic Club of Louis
vile announces the matching OF Dave
Sullivan and Terry McGovern for the
| featherweight championship.
An attempt to bring off an exhibition
bout between Root and Carter in Osh
kosh, Wis, was abandoned owing to the
action of the Governor.
The wife of Tommy Cox asks for q
divorce. The marriage took place in
San Francisco eight weeks ago, and the
wife says that Cox struck her soon aft
erwards Mrs. Cox is not yet sixteer
years old.
Jim Jeffries says that he is through
with acting and is going to get back
into the fighting game as quickly as pos
sible.
| The Childs- Martin colored champion
ship fight has been declared off on &C
count of the interference of the Govern
or of Michigan.
MISCELLANEOUS.
In a baseball game In Cuba the ma
tives beat the Americans by the score o.
| lilo \ Cuban lowered the American
flag to half-mast and the rural guard.
charged the crowd with drawn ma
| chetes.
Moulton 4. Needham treasurer of tn,
. Washington Baseball Club, is dead.
John Tucker, the well-known horse
man, is dead of apopleXy.