Evening star., 1902-02-24

one pounds the heavier, will meet Marvin
Hart in Hot Springs in April. Weinig is
beginning to look like the middle-weight
champion.
The owners OF Devaras, Sidney Pointer
and Looking Glass, three fast horses Of
Canada, have arranged a match race for
honors and a purse of $500 for March II
at Brockville. All have taken part in ice
this winter, with about equal honors.
A worlds record at billiards was made
at Chicago Friday night at three-cushion
billiards, when H. J. Avery, an amateur,
ran out fifty-point game in fifty-one in
nings. The previous record, both profess
sional and amateur, was held by the late
Wayman c. McCreary Of st. Louis who
more than ten years ago in a match con-
test ran fifty points In fifty-three innings.
The British-American cable chess match
will probably be played this year without
Pillsbury and Marshall to help this end OF
it, They are playing in the big tournament
at Monte Carlo. and the Englishmen refuse
to postpone the match until April, when
these American chess masters will be at
liberty to take part. The cable match is
set for March IA and Is.
George H. Ketcham is driving Cresceus.
2.O2A, on the snow at Toledo. The city
authorities have Set apart a stretch of one
mile on Franklin avenue for a winter
speedway, with policemen on guard to pre-
vent accidents. Five thousand people cheer
ed the champion trotter when his owner let
him step over this speeding ground. 1t is
The secretary of the Atlantic Association
of the Amateur Athletic Union announces
that the basket ball teams of the German
Y. NJ. c. A. of Buffalo. N. Y, and Allie
gheny College of Meadville, Pa, by COM
peting in an unsanctiOned game at Mead
vile, Pa. on February 13. have disquali-
fled themselves from competing at any
sports given under the sanction of the Am
ateur Athletic Union.
Scott Locke, who represented the Con-
cord On. H.) Driving Club at last weeks
congress of the National Trotting Associa-
tion will, it is said, officiate as presiding
judge at Boston and perhaps all other meet
ings in the grand circuit this year. MIR.
Locke has been the city marshal of Con-
cord for fourteen years. He has acted as
presiding judge at many important trot-
ting meetings of late years. notably those
at Boston and Dover.
Charles River Park cycle track at Boston
will probably be torn up and the ground
cut up into building lots. The MaSsachu-
setts Athletic Association holds the Boston
and Cambridge franchises in the National
Cycling Association but all who have
made overtures to rent the Charles River
track this year have had their offers turned
down without reason. The Boston fran
chise is one of the best in the country. and
the board of control says may not be held
without some work being done at an early
date.
One of the most valuable foals ever drop
ned in the United States was foaled at
James r. keene's Castleton stud, near
Lexington, KY. Saturday night, when i'm
ported Ben-My-Cree. dam Of The Oaks WIN
ner of 1901 Cap and Bells. threw a bay
illy by Kingston. The filly is. therefore.
sister to Cap and Bells. Ben-My-Cree is
the only dam Of an Oaks winner In Amer
lea. At Oakwood stud the famous brood
mare Recess foaled bay fil1y by imported
Woolstorpe the first Of his get ever drop
ped in America.