The sun., 1901-05-02
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDING.
ODDS AND ENDS OF SPORTS

st. Anus Literary baseball team has
organized for the season with John j.
Dougherty Of No. 1906 Lincoln street, as
captain.
Students of the Boys High School
have formed an athletic association and
propose to hold sports in June, in con-
nection with the Wilmington Military
Academy and Friends School.
A mile race track for trotting is to be
constructed at Atlantic City. 1t is backed
by number of prominent horsemen.
The Savannah Jockey Club has ap.
piled in the American Turf Congress for
dates for running meeting to extend
from early in December to March | or l5
The minimum purses will be $3.50.
A. G. Batchelder, chairman of the Ma.
tional Cycling Association, is in Paris
arranging to bring crack foreign cyclers
to this country to compete at the Pam
American Exposition and other placAs.
The Canadian Golf Association has
named September 25, 26, 27 and 2S foi
its annual championship and interna.
tionai match on the Toronto links. The
animal international match with thu
nited States has been dropped.
a dispatch from Constantinople, YET
terday says: The American steam yacht
Nahma, owned by Mrs, Robert Goelet
passed through the Dardanelles today
Westward bound.
Ciadgeons are very plentiful in tile
Little Gunpowder river at Bradshaw, on
ahe Philadelphia branch OF the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. They are being
dipped up in herring nets.
The Anti Pigeon Shooting bin In lht
New York Legislature died an eas,
death. 1t passed the Senate, but it los'
~ the House by 70 votes in favor to 64
against, 76 in favor being necessary.
The new st. Louis Fair Association
started its first spring running race meet
ing yesterday with card Of six races
The track recently passed to the contro
OF Tillis, Adler and Celia, and it will or,
crate under the rules Of the Turf Con
g'eas. The inaugural handicap, hereto
l3re feature of the opening day undel
we former regime, will not be run unit
l'le date originally set, May IL.
The Chicago newspapers have nick
named the National League club eth,
Pretenders." 1t appears to be will
pee nliar delight that the failures OF th'
alleged PLAYERS in the old league are hell
up Tor public dersion. In the meantime
The Chicago fans are breaking down TIN
fences of the American League ground
20 20 anxious are they to see the game
There is little to cause surprise in this
chicago likes good baseball, likes win
hlng teams, and by the policy followet
by manager Hart in hiring 'colts" in
stead OF ball players, the big Wesier,
town has not seen the pennant for i
years.
The height of the lacrosse season vii
pe on Tor the Johns Hopkins Universit
curing the next two weeks, and Captai
'er and the coaches are improving th
pay for the games against Columbi
University next Saturday; Harvard mex
Monday and Swarthmore later. Harvar
scored four goals upon the Crescent Gu
last Saturday.
Chares r. Ellison, a blonde yonn
Chlcagoan, has cleared an independer
fortune by pluDging on the mounts {
Jockey Thomas Burns on the Pacif
Coast tracks. A few years ago he was
Grlerk. His bank roll is now $3.50, or
lie saw early in the game that Burr
was conner" and formed friendshi
with him while the now great jocke
was comparatively unknown.