The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-01
New Year Sporting Events.


 The following table of events in the sporting line during 1902 is compiled by The Chicago Record-Herald: Jan. "A. G. Spalding publishes corre- spondence in National League muddle, radical departure from the gum shoe" tactics previously in vogue. Jan. S-Enoch Wishard buys Wyeth from T, F. Stevens at Lexington, Ky, for John A. Drake, paving H0O00. Jan. 10-Harvard declares Cutts, tackle, professional for having given pri- vate boxing lessons for money Jan. 1S-B B. Johnson and A c. Spald- ing confer on baseball matters. Jan 1-Nfnety-nine horses enter for the Derby.
 Jan. 22-F1delia team of New York wins the national bowling championship at Bunalo with a total of 2, 792 pins. Jan. 2s-McClean and Steers of Chicago win two-men team championship at Buffalo with score of 1,Z6. Mayor Bookwalter of Indianapolis is elected President of the American Bowling Congress.
 tional bowling championship at Buff falo with scores of 24, 209 and 226 for his three games.
 Jan. A-Jack Root defeats George Gard ner on foul in the seventh round in an unsatisfactory fight in San Fran cisco.
 Feb, 6-First regiment wins athletic meet with 30 points: Notre Dame, 12; Cen Fab tral k Yi z1t.u,I;; M: C; A. g; Chicago: :.
 for. twenty-round go for the heavy weight championship. Eonic wins Burns handicap, $10.00O stake, on heavy track at Oakland. Feb. 9-Wilson P. Foss defends his title to the billiard championship, defeating Norris, 300 to 464.
 Feb. 2-McGovern defeats Dave Sullivan in the fifteenth round at Louisville. Feb. H-Amateur golf championshfp is aWS r0Rd n Glen Wiauy htt oF O to 14 In the annual meeting of the United States Golf Association in New March 1-Sombrero wins the Caltforn,,. Derby at Oakland. University of Chi cago athletes win the A. A. U. meet at Milwaukee with a score of A points. March 5-M E. Sturges buys Dan Patch C2:O4 10 from Daniel A. Messner, Jr., for $20.000 at Oxford, Ind, March 12-Maroczy of Budapest wins first prize in international chess champion- ship at Monte Carlo. Pillsbury of America is second.
 March 15-Wisconsin wins the duaI atb. letic meet from Chicago at Madison. 46 1-2 to 2S 1-2: Lord Quex wins Cres- cent City Derby.
 March 22-Cambridge defeats Oxford Inv hve lengths in the annual boat race, March H-Circus, 100 to 1, wins MontRom- cry handicap. one and one-sixteenth miles, at Memphis.
 April "A. G. Spalding resigns the Presi uonCy OL the NAuOnal League. April 3-William Holabird Is elected Pres- ident of the Western Golf Association. April All. C. Hirschy of Minneapolis wins Grand American handicap at Kansas City. killing ffty-third bird in shoot-off of tie with G. G. Spencer. April S-Abe Frank wins Tennesse Derby by neck from Lou Woods. April 15-Zibla, 200 to 1. wins fve-furlone event at Lakeside by ? neck from Bur. nte Bunton, the 7-to-5 favorite April 1I-NafinnaI T,aa Chicago, 6; Cincinnati. l. Pittsburg. l; St Louis, O. New York, ': Pbiis. Gelphia, Brooklyn, 2; Boston, l. Apr N-BriIrs Chicago League team 5,S0 pins for six games April 2-White sox E. Detroit 2 in first game of American League season. April S-George Gardner defeats JoA Waloott in twenty rounds in San Francisco J: A. R. Elliott retains shot championship, defeating W. R. Crosby at Omaha, N to 91 April &-Hyde Park was the western interscholastic field meet at Evanston, High School boys win eighth relay race at University of Pennsylvania. April 9-Joe Berlin wins Illinois bowling championship. with score of l.S1S pins for nine games. Joe Bruck. l,S15. May 1-Recruits, 0; Cincinnati. O fin twelve innings. Sam HiIdreth wins five out of six races on the opening day at Worth
 May S-Arsenal, 25 to l. wins Metropolitan hanlicap at Morris Park AIan-a- Dale wins the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
 May 10-Yale, 5-6, California. 4 1-s: in dual track meet at New Haven. May 2-Joe Cans knocks out Frank Erne In the first round at Buffalo. May Smith Division wins high school State meet at Champaign with d points; Paris, l4 c. W. Budd kills 100 live birds straight in winning flax ard trophy cup at Omaha. May 1s-White soX and St. Louis plav seventeen Innings to a tie, 2 to Z May 1S-"Kid' Carter defeats ''Kid' Me Coy in six rounds at Philadelphia. May 24-Reins, 40 to l, takes the Brook lyn handicap by head from Advance Guard on a fast track Harvard. 6l l-2; Yale. 32 1-2. in dual track games. Illinois, 3; Princeton, l. at baseball. May 2-Willis strikes out thirteen New