Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-04-05
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Arthur S. Dulaney, high jumper on
the University of Wisconsin track team,
has left school on account of i'll health
This will be a great loss to the track
team as Dulaney took first place in the
high jump this year against both Chi
cagO and Michigan, making feet il
inches against the latter.
Oxford won the annual games from
Cambridge in London Friday. American
Rhodes scholarship athletes showed to
good advantage, although Schutt of Cor
nell was beaten in the three-mile event.
There were 1873 horses that trotted in
2:l5 OF better in 1904. Of this number
over forty were bred in California or
were sired by authenticated SireS. Two
went under 2:05. Twenty-Five trotted
III 2:09 or better, California contributing
no less than nine, as follows:
Sweet Marie, by Mckinney. 9 :04ai
George g., by Homeward. .........2 :O6T
Consuela s., by Directum. 2 :O7A
Stanley Dillon, by Sidney Dillon. .: O7M
AristO by Nushagak. ..............2:0 Sh
LiSOnjero, by Dexter Prince. .2:0SA
Tuna, by James Madison. .2:081a
Direct View, by Direct. .2:0S4
Judge Green, by Directum. 2:09
With the opening of the harness rae
ing on the mile tracks nearly three
months away, two of the fastest PAGERS
before the public have been matched to
race for 5000 d side, and the match is
undoubtedly bona fde one. The
2:03H, by ]. J. Audubon. and Ecstatic,
2:O5A by Oratorio, and by the terms OF
the agreement the race, which will be
best two heats in three, will come off on
August 81 next over the fast track at
Readville, Mass, during the grand cir
cult meeting at that point. Ecstatic is the
mare that, under the pilOtage of the
young Vermont trainer, Frank Lang,
surprised grand circuit followers last sea-
son: She met and defeated the cracks
of her class, losing only one race during
the entire season, and retiring in the fall
with a record of 2:05A
The PAGER Afford c., 2:1215, by Long
worth, that Charley De Ryder, the Wis
consin trainer, has in his stable at Pleas
anton, Cal, has about as much speed
as runner. De Ryder recently stepped
this PAGER an eighth of mile in 1879
runner to go, pulling a sulky and
driver. Afford G. will be seen in the
east next season, as he is a member of
the East View Farm stable.
Before 5000 persons Friday at the
Eureka Athletic club in Baltimore, Kid
Sullivan of Washington and Young Cor
bett fought ten rounds to a draw. Coy
belts showing was something of a dis
appointment. The Denver lad was in
poor shape. Sullivan, on the other hand,
was in prime form.
Battling Nelson has posted a forfeit of
$1,000 to bind a match with Jabez White,
the English lightweight champion, who is
to fight Jimmy Britt for the worlds light
weight championship on April %. Mel
son will fight in public or private, and
will bet $500 against $1,000 that he
knocks the British boxer out within ten
rounds.
Jack Munroe, the Butte. Mont. miner
and Doc Payne of Cleveland, O., have
been matched to meet for fifteen rounds
at catch weights before the Atlanta A.
C. Of Atlanta, Ga, on April 20.
The American league baseball park at
Boston now seats upwards OF 10000
The new bleachers, which We're built to
accommodate the crowd at the Brown
Dartmouth football game last fall. have
been moved back against the bank in left
field, and are large enough to take care
of at lea ST 1900 of tho overflow