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

King Eric, sire of Dick Welles. dies at
Lexington. Doherty brothers beat Collins
and Waidner for championship in tennis
Aug. ~2O-Shamrock III and Reliance fail
TO cover the course in first race for Ameri-
cas- cup.
Aug. -Hawthor wins the 10000 Bon
ner memorial stake at Brighton Beach.
Aug. 22-Reliance easily beats Shamrock
III in first race for Americas cup.
Aug. BE. COrrigan assaults a spectator
at Hawthorne race track. j. o.. keene, an
American trainer, is suspended in Russia.
Aug. 26-New national baseball agreement
is signed by the baseball leagues at Buffalo.
British golf team defeats An-American
team at Shinnecock.
Aug. 27-H. l.. Doherty. of England. wins
individual tennis championship at Newport
Aug. 29-Hamburg Belle, a nlly, wins the
Futurity at Coney island.
Sept. 3-Reliance wins final race with
Shamrock III and successfully defends
Sept. 5-W. ]. Travis wins amateur golf
championship of United States on links at
Nassau. Water Boy. after winning Century
stakes, is called greatest horse in the coun-
try.
City handicap at Coney island. Jockey Blu
chanan is reinstated by the Western Jockey
Club.
Sept. s-The Pickett beats A~fricander In
the September stakes at Coney island. Box
ing is stopped by police commissioners in
Sept. IO-Milwaukee Athletic Club wins the
| Junior A. A. L. meet at Milwaukee,.
Sept. 11-New York Athletic Club wins
the national a. A L. championship meet at
Milwaukee.
Sept. I2-Miss Bessie Anthony defeats Miss
Higgins in finals for women's Western golf
championship at Exmoor. William c. Whit
ney announces his retirement from the Eng
lish turf.
Sept. I7-Boston wins the pennant Of the
Sept. 1S-Pittsburg wins National League
baseball pennant.
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Sept. 2-Major Delmar is sold TO E. E.
Smathers for $4,000.
Sept. Sd ]. Lynch Is reinstated by the
Chicago Jockey Club.
Sept. 29-Benny Yanger Is defeated by
Eddie Hanlon in twenty rounds at San
Sept. 9O-E. E. Farley. after long legal
| fight, is taken 10 Jail at Detror on charge
of ringing" F~itzsimmons knocks out Con
Oct. Hockey Buchanan, a short time
after his reinstatement, is ruled on by
Judge Hamilton at Harlem.
oct 3-Afiss Bessie Anthony wins wom-
ans golf championship Of the United States
at Wheaton.
bets made on The Fiddler. a winner az Nor
ris Park. claiming that the horse Is a
ringer"
oct. eStewards of Morris Park track de-
eide The Fiddler Is not a ringer"
Oct. &c. Z. Smathers buys Sadie Mac.
favorite for the Kentucky Futurity, for
Oct. S-sadie Mac wins the Kentucky Flu
turity at Lexington.
Oct. 10-Miss Rhona Adair, English golf
champion, wins invitation tourney at Phila-
delphfa, beating Mrs. Stout. former Ameri-
can champion, in the finals. Amherst beats
Harvard at football. 5 to o.
Oct. I3.-Boston wins the worlds baseball
championship in series with Pittsburg team.
oct. I7-Football: Chicago, 8; Northwest
Oct 2O-Lou Dillon beats Major Delmar in
stright heats for the Memphis gold cup.
Walter Eckersall is suspended by the Amer
lean Athletic Union on charges OF profess
Oct. 2i-orris Hickok. noted reinsman.
sent to asylum at Cleveland. Harvard wins
intercollegiate golf championship.
oct. 24-F. o. Reinhart, OF Princeton, wins
Individual intercollegiate golf championship
Charges against Walter EckersaH made by
Michigan alumni. Footballs: Chicago, is; IL
Oct. Si-J. J. Ryan barred from tracks OF
Jockey Club of New York Football; Chi
cago IL. wisconsin s; Michigan 6. Mime
sofa. 6; Northwestern II, Illinois IL.
Nov. 6-Danny Lynch and c. Lind ruled
off the turf by Western Jockey CLUB.
Nov. Harvard il, pennsylvania TO- at
Nov. i4-Football: West Point 10. Chicago
6; Michigan Is, Wisconsin o; Minnesota q.
illinois O; Princeton IL, Yale 8;
Nov. 2iNFootball: Yale 1s, Harvard o;
S. wisconsin s.
nov 25GF1tzsimmons defeats George
Gardner in twenty rounds at San Francisco
I'm fight for the light heavyweight cham
pionship. New York courts decide man can
collect money lost in betting ring,
Nov. 26-Football: Shortridge H s 81; NJ.
T. H. 8. o: Michigan q. Chicago o; Carlisle
indians IS. 0; Minnesota IL,
Wisconsin 0.
Nov. 29-Summary Of football fatalities
shows nineteen killed.
Dec. ACTION on Cresceuss wichita rec
ord reserved by American Trotting Associa-
/. ton.
Dec. +Bookmaker Jim Davis and Jockeys
Adkins. Terrell and d. Hall ruled on az
Oakland for alleged fraud
Dec. Union Jockey Club OF 81. Louis re-
fused racing dates by Western Jockey Club;
Hot Springs Jockey Club given time 10 pre-
pare plant and Kansas City Jockey Club
Dec &ssm Langford defeats Joe Cans in
fifteen rounds at Boston.
Dec 9-National League votes 10 extend
length of baseball season.
Dec I2-Walthour and Munroe win siX-day
bicycle race at New York.
Dec. l4-TOd Sloan wins suit against
French Jockey club, which had barred him
Dec i5EHeirs Of Robert Bonner protest
record of Dos made by Lou Dillon 20 high
wheeled sulky and claim Maud SIS record
pee. IS-Ban Johnson is voted a salary OF
$4,000 a year by American League mag
Dec. 2S-Abe Attel and Harry Forbes
matched TO box ten rounds on Jan 4 IN In
dfanapons. Annual meeting American As
ISOLATION; ]. Ed Grillo elected president TO
succeed T. J. Hickey.
Dec. 29-Young Corbett defeats Eddie Han
Ion in sixteen rounds OF twenty-round bout
pionship.