Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-09
SPORTING NOTES.

II. J. Hill defeated Joshua Crane. Jr.,
the American arllteur champion, Sat
urday, in the amateur court tennis
championship games at Queens Club,
London, by a score of to l.
The work-hOrse parade, which will
take place, May 80, at Boston will be
the same excellent show that it was a
year ago. The entries foot up more than
400. with 80 named in the popular "old-
horse class.
A match has been scheduled for May
Is between a rifle team composed OF
,nidShipmen and officers of the Mary
land Naval Guards. 1t will take place
at the navy range at Fort Madison,
opposite Annapolis.
Business in the Boston horse market
is good. The dealers who are doing all
their selling at private sale seem to
have foreshadowed the fate of 1.-The
horse auction stable bill' and have no
cause to dread the closing Of the pres
ent year.
Tom Sayers, after his terrible beat
ing at the hands of John c. Heenan,
never entered the ring again. From
gentlemanly fellow before the battle,
he became a drunken and disorderly
sot after, and his last days We're passed
in low class rum shops in England.
The breaking down of Terry Nc
| Govern, the well-knOwn lightweight
boxer. after defeat is another illustra-
ton of history repeating itself. And
| the result in Terry up to date has not
| been so serious as in the case of many
| who have Travelled over the road be-
| fore him.
Willie Fitzgerald and Jimmy" Card
ner have been matched to fight in
Grand Rapids, Mich, June Z. Gardner
has agreed to make 1873 pounds ringside.
1t will practically be catchweght for
the Brooklyn boy. Those two met in
Butte, last July. Gardner winning by
Knockout in the fifth.
| The Boston Caledonian Club has fixed
the date for the. annual Scotch picnic
as Saturday, Aug. 5. The games COM
mittee reported that the biggest and
best set of professional athletic events
eyer given at these picnics was con-
templated, and that the amount of
prize money needea was $1,000.
Leighton Calkirs, secretary of the
Plainfield Country Club. announced.
Saturday. that an exhibition lawn ten
mis- match between HOlcombe Ward
and Malcolm d. Whitman. respective
| ly champion and former champion of
the United States will take place at
the Plainfield Country Club, Plainfield,
n. j., on Tuesday, May 9, at a quarter
I asst four o'clock.
Worcester Academy's former pole
vaulters are figuring prominently in
college athletics. Young Jackson, who
holds the 3. A. A. indoor interscholastic
| record and Harvard champion, won for
| Cornell on Saturday against Princeton
| with vault of II TT. 93s in., while Phil
ago. who has record of IL fit. 6 in, won
second for Cornell. Kirkpatrick won
| first place for University of Pennsyl-
vania in the dual meet with Columbia,
at a height of II it. 2 in.
Jack Johnson will take on two men
at the knickarbOcker A. C. at Philadel-
phia, Tuesday night. One of JohnsOns
opponents will be Jim Jeannteete of
New York. Each of the bouts is sched-
uled for three rounds. is the club could
not ind man to meet the colored
heavyweight for six rounds. On Thurs
day. Sammy Smith and Jack Roller of
New York will again try conclusions at
the Broadway, and on Friday night,
Owen Moran will make his first appear
ance in this country il a bout with
DANNY DOugherty at tho LnickerbOcker