Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-10
General Sporting Notes.


Not much reliance is placed in the report
that Foxhall Keene is anxious to purchase
Ard Patrick, the Derby winner of 1902 for
$4,000.
The hull of the Shamrock III has been
painted white below the water line and
green on her top sides. The Shamrock I
went into dry dock at Greenock on Feb
ruary 25.
Guy Adams. manager Of the Butte Ath-
letic Club, has received notice that the
clubs bid of $4,000 for the Sharkey- Mum
roe fight, to take place In Butte, has been
accepted. Five thousand dollars will be
posted as a forfeit. The fight will take
e. D. Morgan, the New York banker. has
increased his offer to $4,000 for the blind
trotting stallion rhythmic. 2.08. but Jesse
Turney of Paris, KY. the owner of the
still declines to sell or even name price he
would take for the great stallion.
Major Taylor, the famous colored cyclfst,
Is great favorite with patrons Of wheeling
in Australia, where he Is now racing. Tay
Tor has been competing In many meets In
various parts Of Australia this winter. He
is to receive nearly $4,000 for his services
on the tracks there this winter.
Word has come from England to the eff
feet that the Oxford and Cambridge golf
teams will not make their expected trip to
this country this summer. The Britons
fear that they would be unable to get to-
wish to lose prestige by sending over sec
ond-rate team.
Jimmy Michael, the crack American pace
follower, is now in Paris and is already In
hard training for the season. Michael will
ride free lance in Europe. 1t is probable
that he will not return to America for the
season. He has number of engagements
carrying him well into the summer.
At the annual meeting Of the Yacht Rae
ing Association of Great Britain, held In
London on February Is. H. r. H. the
Prince of Wales was reelected president
and Mr.. A. Manning and Mr.. w. G. Jane
son vice presidents. None of the proposals
relating to handicap racing and the ap-
pointment of official handicappers which
were brought forward was carried.
In order to develop champion golf team
at Yale this year teams have been organ
lied in all Of the classes in the different de-
partments and an fnter-class tournament
pointed over losing the intercollegiate
championship to Harvard last year. and
will do everything in their power to de-
velop a winning team this year.
8. H. Hildreth processes great confidence
in the ability of his flly Witful to win the
Crescent City Derby on Saturday next. She
was maiden until very late in the sea-
son. At one time S. S. Hyde Of Hemp
stead, L. l., owned this wonderfully i'm
proved f1liy. but she was beaten so often
in his colors that she was resold to her
breeder. j. e. Madden Then Albert Sim
mons bought her and Hiidreth got her out
In the ten-round fight at Pittsburg last
night between Joe Walcott and Mike Dono-
van, Walcott secured the decision. Dono-
van stood his punishment well. but was en-
tirely outclassed by the negro, who landed
his blows when and where he pleased ex-
cept In the sixth and seventh rounds, when
Donovan made a stand and kept his oppo-
nent busy avoiding his fierce lunges.
Neither man was severely punished in the
bout
]. B. Respass has placed $500 on his colt
Bernays in the American Derby at odds of
100 to 1. He therefore, stands to win $780,
600. The colt is full brother to Siddons,
the noted 1ong-distance racer now in Cali
fornfa. Both are by Wadsworth (son of
Longfellow), out of Modjeska. Mr.. Respass
said that the chief reason why he backed
his colt was that 100 to 1 was false price.
Bernays In his races on the eastern courses
clearly showed that he liked a route.
Arthur Featherstone, owner of Arsenal
and Reina, winners, respectively, of the
Metropolitan and Brooklyn Handicaps last
year, stated to a crowd of horseman gather
ed at the Hoffman House. New York, yes
terday, that lighter was the best horse he
ever owned. This remark caused consider
able comment. as Mr.. Featherstone owned
Mesmerist and Hatasoo, two of the fastest
sprinters in the country two years ago.
Igniter, Mr.. Featherstone said, was sick
early last season and never fully recovered