Show T SPORTING AND ATHLETIC The Turf and the StableBall and Bat Amateur and Professional Notes Thomson another dark one wants to meet tke champion Louisville Ky paid 20000 last year to base baliists as salaries i Ameica sends four amateur 1 chainpon runners to England tlrs year Prof Miller the Australian expects ex-pects to reach San Francisco about March 6 There is to be given 115000 in purses at the Mammoth Park meeting meet-ing ia July Harvard University has accepted the challenge issued by Columbia for an eightoared race The sonz of eastern pugilists ads I dresaedto Jno L Sullivan iVWere Waiting My Darling for Thee Bennett alias Durfurt the American I Amer-ican amateur champion recent y r ran a mile in 51 mnutes 14 teconds Canary the fancy rider has so far mastered the biciycle that he can now ride down a flight of stairs In this country the New Orleans meeting is exciting only ordinary interest there being but few of the wonderful cracks in the races The famous troting stallion Buccaneer Buc-caneer recently dropped dead at the farm of his owner near Sacramento Sacra-mento Cal John Tecemer the sculler is awaiting Hsnans return to challenge chal-lenge the champion for any amount from 1000 to 5000 If any horse man has a curiosity to see a handsome horse let him watch for Frank Armstrongs bay colt which Charlie Carrington Is handling The first of Luke Blackburns get was foaled nt Belle Meade TenD Feb 1st His owner say S500OOC wouldnt buy him if Le gets colts like himself Mr James A Grimstead a Ken tunfcy racing man of great promi mencej recently made an assignment assign-ment Cause said to be too generous gener-ous to borrowing friends Australians ire now eendng horses to England to compete for glory and great etakts at Derby Epsom AcotSt Ledger and other noted racing grounds of the Old Country The Providence Baseball organization organi-zation made 10000 laat season ever and above expenses That must be a firstclas club to collect so much money among the company they have to play ag nat Hutchins rEcent wonderful per formance of 300 yards in thirty seconds sec-onds is vouched for by reliable witnesses wit-nesses one gentleman of prominence promin-ence giving it aa Jbio opinion that Hutchins can even beat that Messrs David and Ally Bonner i recently purchased the gray mare Daybreak half eister to Maud S on the side of her sire and bearing tht same relationship to Jay Eve See on the sde oi her dam Though untrained she should be fast English racing circles are con iiderably exercscd ever the rumor that the Duke of Westminster is shortly to retire from the turf The poke has bred his proportion of Derby and other great winners and I the racing fraternity will certainly lose one of their staunchest and most influential supporters in his retirement The members composing the San Francisco Caledonian Olab recently purchased a lot of ground 60x 100 feet on which they propose to erect a building consisting of offices halls stores gymnasium etc The lot cost the club 16000 the building will stand tliem when eompetd 50000 We hope in time the Caledonia Cale-donia Club of our own city will amount to something as magnificent as the foregoing Certainly we have the material with which to make a perfect success of such an organization organiza-tion and in the proper hands it will be demonstrated that such is the case |