The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01

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cisco in fight for the feather-weight cham
pionship.
April Cambridge wins national boat
race from oxford.
April Pc. p. Martin elected president OF
the Western Golf Association.
April 3.-Tom Jenkins regains the worlds
championship at wrestling by defeating
April 4Coach Yost. of Michigan. charged
with football crimes by David Starr Jor-
dan, president of Leland Stanford Uni
versity. in an address at the University of
Chicago.
April 6-Jockey Milton Henry. barred
the Western Jockey Club. George Gard
nec knocks out Peter Maher in two min
utes at Philadelphia.
April 7-Claude wins Tennessee Derby at
Memphis. Jockey Bonner rides four win
ners at Oakland.
April 11-Reliance is launched at Bristol.
April 12-Michael Egan wins handban
Championship of the United States from
Louis Keegan.
April 16-M. Delfenderfer. of Wood River,
Mass. wins Grand American shooting
handicap at Kansas City.
April 17-Governor Durbin, of Indiana. or
ders Hammond officials TO prevent betting at
the Lakeside race track.
April 20-Kid Weller arrested at Lakeside,
but betting continues, despite Hammond Of
fcials.
April 22-Jack Root defeats Kid Mccoy in
ten rounds at Detroit.
April 2S-WiscOnsin's ball team quits Uni
NClSily VI lllilu lClu btNduSt VI ciNSNN
unfair treatment by umpire. Fore and Art
wins the Cumberland Derby at Nashville.
April ~25-University of Michigan relay
team wins four-mile race at Philadelphia.
Banter wins the Mound City Derby.
April 2~6-Gambling cases against Lake
side fail, prosecution being a farce.
April 2S-P. Dunno sells Early to M. H
Tichenor & Co. for $l2, 000.
May 2-Judge Hines. at odds Of s 10 l.
wins the Kentucky Derby at Louisville.
Benny Yanger defeats Kid Broad in a
tWentV-rOund bout al Louisville.
May +Jockey j: Reiff. who was barred
from French tracks, is granted a license
by the Western Jockey Club. Dan O'Brien,
of Lexington. Ky, of pole-moving no
toriety. is reinstated by the Western
Jockey Club.
May 7-Gunhre wins the Metropolitan at
May S-Miss Rhona Adair wins English
women's golf championship at Dublin.
st. LouiS-12 TO Is.
May 9-Articulate beats Old England in a
match race at Morris Park. Vignaux is
declared by French courts to be winner of
the international billiard tournament Yale
beats Princeton in track meets TO 20.
May PC. K. G. Billings buys Lou Dlllon
Hart in twelve rounds at Louisville.
May 14-C. A. A. reinstated by the A.
May he. R. Thomas pays $4,000 for
Hermis.
May 19-Both Chicago ball teams lead in
races for pennants.
May 2O-Woodlake wins Latonia Derby.
Tod Sloan barred from French race tracks.
May pr. Maxwell wins amateur golf
championship of England.
May 23-Judge Hines, at 20 to l, wins
Hawthorne handicap. Yale beats Harvard
in dual meets TO Is. Chicago beats Wis
consin in dual meet-72h TO 53k.
May 27-Rocksand. ridden by Danny
Maher, wins English Derby at EPSON.
lay 2S-Irish Lad WINS the Brooklyn
handicap.
May 5-Michigan wins Western intercol-
legiate track games with ~ points, Chi
cago second with 40. Wisconsin third with
10. Yale beats Harvard in meet at New
York by Az TO Al. University of Illinois
ball team clinches Western college cham
pionship.
June 6-McChesney wins Harlem National
handicap. Detroit A. c.. wins Central A. A
u. championship.
June 7EHorses owned by NJ. Edmond
Blanc run one, two, three In the Grand
Prix at Paris.
June Hilary vardon wins open golf
championship Of Great Britain with low
score of 500.
June 12-Home run by Pickering in four
teenth inning. gives Philadelphia victory
over Cleveland.
June 13-Jimmy Britt and Jack O'Keefe
fight twenty rounds TO a draw at Butte.
Mont. Claude wins the st. Louis Derby.
Cincinnati makes only one hit off Christy
Matthewson. Princeton wins Eastern col
lege baseball championship.
June 1S-Africander wins the Suburban
handicap.
june i9-Jockey ]. Reif badly hurt in a
June 2O-The Pickett wins American
Derby at Washington Park in 2:33 for one
mile and a half; Claude second and Ber-
nays third. Jesse Burkett and Manager
Tom Lotus in fight on St. Louis ball
grounds. Kentucky courts decide against
ruled off at Detroit for ringing" O
June 22-E. j. Arnold barred from Wash
ington Park. Burkett and Lotus suspended
by President Johnson for fight on ball
June 23-Entries of Pittsburg Phil are
ordered refused by stewards of the jockey
June 2EDes Moines beats Denver, Z to 0,
in eighteen innings.
June 25-Yale crew beats Harvard by three
and a half lengths in annual boat race.
June 26-Cornell crew wins at ~Poughkeep-
sic; Georgetown second and Wisconsin
third.
June 27-McChesney wins lakewood handi-
cap at Washington park. George Davis
awarded to New York club by President
Pulliam of National League and baseball
fight is begun. Willie Anderson and David
Brown tie in open golf championship at Bal
tusrol.
June 29-WiIlie Anderson wins open golf
| championship.
June 3O-Yanger and Hanlon light twenty
rounds TO a draw at San Francisco. E. z.
Farley barred from Washington park track.
July 3SComiskey secures injunction to
prevent George Davis from playing with
New York team.
July 4George Gardner knocks out Jack
Root in twelve rounds at Fort Erie for
light heavyweight championship. Santon
wins Sheridan stakes at Washington park.
Ellery Clark of Boston wins all-around ath-
letic championship of the United States.
July 7-Edward Delehanty, ballplayer,
commits suicide by jumping from bridge at
Niagara Falls. Africander wins the Law
renee Realization stakes. Umpire Sheridan
and Danny Green fight on American League
grounds at New York.
July Capt. Robert Lowe is released
from Chicago team.
July &c. r. Farley begins series Of raids
on the Washington Park track. I'm which
bookmakers and track officials are arrested.
July L-Fonso, the great sire. dies at Lex
ingtOn, KY.
July 14-Claude wins Canadian Derby at
Fort Erie.
July 17-Alexander Smith wins Western
golf championship at Milwaukee.
July a-NatiOnal League magnates dis
approve of President Pulliam's action in
George Davis case and take a vote to stand
by peace agreement with the American
League. Cases brought by f.. Z. Farley
against Washington Park Club are dis
missed.
July 22-Stalhon Mirthful and other horses
burned 10 death at Lexington, Ky.
July 23-John Taylor wins the NJ. and NJ.
stake at Detroit.
July 26-Betting prevented on harness
races at Cleveland.
July 3O-Major Delmar defeats The Alb
bott in a match race at Albany.
Aug. Myrtle McAleer wins West
ern championship in women's tennis singles
at KenwOod. Collins and Waidner win
championship in mems doubles. Miss Nicely
and Miss Closterman win women's doubles
Aug. 4Kreigh Collins retains Western
tennis championship in singles.
Aug. sc. Lind and d. j. Lynch ruled of
by Hawthorne and Harlem Judges on charge