Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-01-04
SPORTING.

Jan. 5-Robert Waltnour (Ga.) wins inter-
national .6-day cycle race in Boston; 1909
miles, laps.
11-Frank Brill (Chicago) wins national
bowling contest.
Mar. lS-Frank Sherman ID. c. wins world
pool championship at Boston.
2S-Antonio Rodgers breaks worlds steer
tying record, roping and tying animals
In las near Phoenix, Ariz.
Apr. 2-Fast Northwestern mail train
makes 9-mile squirt in 6 min.
2S-Burton Downing breaks worlds R-mile
amateur bicycle record in :59 fiat
29-His Eminence captures 9th Kentucky
Derby at Louisville; 2:07%.
Jun. 4-Cornell wins intercollegiate athletic
tournament at Buffalo exposition; Chica-
a. go university md.
22-Robert Waddell wins Am. Derby in
Chicago.
Jul. 1s.Trotting stallion Cresceus breaks
worlds record, making 2 successive heats
in 2;06S and 2:05 in Detroit.
2O-Charles C. Fitzmorris, of Chicago, COM
pletes round-the-world tour in GO das 13
hrs, 29 min. and AZ sec.
26-Cresceus again breaks record at Cleve-
land; m. in 2:02A.
2S-Will Stinson breaks worlds paced BIZ
cycle record on clap track m. in 1:24 is.
Aug. l-Cresceus lowers his record by " sec.
14-Invader wins deciding yacht race in
Canada cup series at Chicago.
lI-Anaconda breaks worlds pacing record
at Brighton Beach, N. T.; m. in 2:Ol%c
29-Little Boy broke worlds record for
wagon PAGERS with amateur drivers, in
Chicago; m. in 2:O3 9-5.
Sep. 6-Martha Wagenfuhrer goes through
whirlpool rapids of Niagara falls in bar
rel.
2S-Columbia defeats Shamrock H.. Am.
League baseball season closes with clubs
in following position: Chicago Boston,
Detroit Philadelphia, Baltimore, WASH
ington, Cleveland and Milwaukee, ...
Gelding Little Boy again breaks worlds
wagon record, pacing m. in 2;O2 in New
Oct. 2-Columbia wins 2nd race In cup se-
ries over triangular course by 3 min. S5
4-Columbla defeats Shamrock II. in decld-
Ing race for Americas cup, winning mere
ly- on time allowance. John Flanagan
IN. ~ throws hammer 40 #. IS in. and
the discus 119 it. rs in, both worlds rec
ords.
6--Nat. League baseball ends with clubs in
following order: Pittsburg, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, st. Louis, Boston, Chicago,
New York and Cincinnati.
2O-M. Santos-Dumont circles Eiffel tower
in Paris in airship winning Deutsch prize
of $4,000.
25-Little Boy again lowers wagon record
at Memphis; m. in 2:011a.
B-Prince Alert sets new pacing record for
.geldings at Memphis; m. in 2:O0A.
Nov. S-Heatherbloom breaks high-jump-
ing record for horses at Chicago horse
show; it. AZ in.
12-Dan Tew, linotype machine operator in
Des Molnes, Ia, breaks worlds record,
oOfoft CllSt nun BdAGllg III NE
15-Jim Jeffries KNOCKS out Gus Rubin in
9Th round.
16-Henrl Fournier makes m. in 81 4-5 sec.
in auto races near New York.
23-Harvard defeats Yale football game at
Cambridge, Mass; q to 0.
28-Thanksgiving university football
matches as follows Wis. So, Chi. 0; Mich.
SO, Ia. 0; Cornell a. Pa s; MINI. 16. Ill.
0,..Wm. H RothBell ("Young Corbett')
knocks out Terry McGovern at Hartford,
Conn.,. becoming feather-weight cham
pion; rounds.
Dec. b-E. c. Shaffer breaks worlds 5O0-yd.
swimming record; 7:24:05.
10-Jacob Schaeffer wins world d's champions
ship In billiard tourney at New York
D-Seo. Gardner knocks out Kid Carter In
Sth round of fight at San Francisco.