The Washington times., 1902-02-16

Sullivan "go,'' at lis pounds, ripgside
Hughey McGovern, Terry's brother who
is matched to box in Chicago. may make
a match with Ching Fong the Chinese
boxer, of Cincinnati.
George H. Ketcham has notified Sec
rotary Murray Howe, of the Memphis
Trotting Association, that Cresceus will
make his final effort in 1902 to break into
the two-minute mark over the track of
that association. The Memphis meeting
will commence October q and will con
tinue nine days, ending with the sport
( on October 80.
Ho Vow, Chinese Consul General at San
Francisco. is making material additions to
his stable of trottersf now at the Ven
/ dome Stock Farm, near San Jose. His
latest purchase is Much Better. 2:0I,
PAGER, which he bought from James W.
Rea, Of San Jose. Ho Vow is at present
negotiating for the purchase OF McKin-
ney, for which he has offered s23. 500, and
Iran Alto, Rea's champion stallion, for
which he is willing to pay sl2.500. 1t is
his plan to make other additions to his
stable this spring. and breed and train
harness. horses.
The present Trenton grand jury is in
vestigating the case Of the managers of the
Trenton Athletic Club, who are accused OF
| having conducted prize fights in the club
house. The sporting fraternity here is
confident that no indictments will be
found, and are looking forward to the
resumption of boxing contests. If any
attempt is made to continue the bouts,
the Ministerial Union has decided to ap
peal to the Governor for enforcement of
the law, and if this Dies not prove eff
fective TO take political stand against
the persons now in Office who have the
authority to stop such contests.
1t is announced that the famous Two
Minute Stock Farm, the home of Star
Pointer 1:59A, the champion PAGER. near
Cleveland, will soon be abandoned as
home of the harness horse. Some time
ago W. J. White presented the place to
his son, who has decided to abandon the
raising OF blooded horses. Only few
| horses are now at the place, most OF the
youngsters having been sold at the Fasig-
Upton sale in New York last week. There
/ only remain Star Pointer, three Star
Pointer colts and Guy Wilkes young
ster. The seven head will soon be shipped
to Kentucky, where it is considered Star
/ Pointers earning capacity in the stud Will
| be greater.
The stewards of the New Orleans Rae
| ing Association are being kept busy deal
| ing out punishment to jockeys, trainers
/ owners, and others connected with vari-
/ Gus offences. There is hardly day pass
es that some crooked work is not I'M
/ earthed. and more offenders have been
punished since the opening of the meet
| ing than at any other track in the coun-
| try during the entire past season. If it
! continues there will be no one left to
ride but stable boys, and not enough
owners on the eligible list to make up a
| decent one-day's card.
At the turf congress session at New
York a new rule was adopted which in
| creases the fine for the suppression of
| correct time from 500 TO $500. 1t will 60
hard on some local horsemen II this rule
! is lived up to and they do as they have
/ done so often in the past. Some very
| Migrant violations of this rule were al
| lowed to 20 unnoticed last year, but this
| season there viii be some money spent
| If II occurs. There is no reason why
I horses should not he given the mark they
make, even If il does put them in a faster
class. and If the owner or trainer does
not want to accept the record he should
| not enter his horse Judges and timers
| VIII need to be careful the coming sea-
son.
for some unknown reason England is
Just now suffering from a lack of first
class pugilists, and the promoters and fol-
lowers OF the fstic game are relying upon
American pugs TO furnish them good
! bouts. Philadelphia Jack OBrien today
holds the English middle and heavyweight
championships, and aside from the little
Fellows, who are infinitely inferior to the
Yankee boys. there are but few men to
conquer on the other side. DR.. Ordway.
the representative OF the National Sport
ing Cub, of London states that there is
plenty OF gold and glory for American
hshters on the other side, and it would
not be surprising to see some Of our sec
ond- men flock to the land across the
pond and gather in some of the English
soVereigns.
Malcolm Forbes, the millionaire breed
er ana sportsman. has determined on
again trying Peter the Great. 2:0iA.
among The stars OF his class in this years
campaign, and young Henry liter, quite
the most successful OF all the boy"
trainers, Will prepare him at Readville
The great horse won his Futurity as
ihroe-year- old. and was successful in
1899 in his class on the Eastern circuit.
lowering his record five seconds that sea-
son. Mr.. Fo, hes presumably paid 500
900 for him as n three year0ld, and Sc
cured an altogether high class horse. one
bound to take a sensational record and
prove a sire of early performers, mated,
as he has been. with the very best of the
Forbes farm brood mares. including that
great old turf queea- Nancy Hanks, 2:04.
When last tried Peter the Great met
injury picking up a nail In his early sea-
son at Readville, which, OF course,
stopped him In his work nearly all that
season. His owner allowed him plenty of
time to recover, aud today he Is believed
to be absolutely sound and ready for the
ordeal,