Show i or J J WJ V Out Door Sports I F RACES EVERY DAY Getting the Trotters and Pacers Into Shape for lie Races I Some Finn Jluists of Speed to be Seen at Ij the Track Wheel STotcs and Other Sports Itr u Its lively every morning at the track r and you can see from one to live races said W A Brunow to THE HERALDS S horse reporter yesterday i One ol the liveliest brushes yesterday and one that brought all the stable men to the home stretch at the finish was a mile ash between Prairie Chief and Brino Trix W P Osborne had 4 the Chief out for his daily exercise when Carlston drove up letting Trix have the lines The two kept feeling each other until the half was reached when they settled down to business both horses working fast Chief came in on the stretch displaying a tremendous burst of peed and closed the t mile at a 2minute gait finishing in 227S a length ahead of Trix The Chief is acting fine as silkand if he keeps up his lick he will ioner the record several notches before the June meeting closes Jaysee is proving himself a great horse and ho is brushingup acainst the best of them He gave Bawley a good chase yesterday I yes-terday and Helm had to cut Bawley loose and to take the stretches out of the yellow IL C pacer to keep clear of Jaysee Bawley was driven over the last quarter in 3115 seconds Jaysee is showing better speed than his record of 224 and is getting in great condition for high speed His owner W H Grant has entered him in al the stakes east acd he is one of the horses that will be heard from this season W A Brunow is getting Buckskin down to a very fast clip and the old turf tearer is going to bother some of the best of them during the June races Sam JiTIntyre continues to draw the lines on Cognac Sam was sitting in the I sulky the other day when Cognac suddenly sud-denly took running spell and hauled I Sam around the track at a breakneck run for threequarters of a mile When Mac i finally held him up ho was heard to say That ere horse of mine must bea thoroughbred runner A horse that will be a hot one in the I Ireeforall trot is L D Hoses Richmond jr now at Altura Cal The prognostications are that the races will display great speed The Denver races are very fast and as most of these horses are coming to Salt Lake they will be in fine condition The Californians will not have it all their own way this year but will find that Colorado and Utah will have something to say in the distribution of the stakes Mark McKitarains has sold his 3year old pacing lilly 1 Irene L to the HIcEvoy Bros who in this purchrse have secured a valuable animal for their string The price paid was 1500 in cash and three or four horses into tho bargain Irene L ii a Utah bred horse and bv Enquirer raised by Charles Glmer at North Point and out of the Nutwood mare She marks quarter regular in from 32 to 31 and has driven Velox off his legs more than once She will be pretty hot stuff in the three minute pace if they will let her out As soon as the San Francisco races are over the California horses will begin to arrive here Williams has two runners already at the stables and the others of his string will be brought on next week The Colorado horses will show up hereafter here-after the Denver races close The stakes and purses offered by the Salt Lake Driving Park association are the largest hung up by any spring meeting meet-ing in the country 7 Our people do not appreciate this fact as much as they should Compare Salt Lakes 20000 ith the 6625 premiums offered by the Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Trotting circuit including Cleveland 0 Warren 0 Greenville Pa and Ashtabula O The Indiana Trotting and Pacing circuit cir-cuit including Connersville Uushville Indianapolis Columbus and Anderson gives but 20OQO for the live towns The Columbus 0 Driving Park association asso-ciation makes a great splurge over S000 purses for races that cover the 4th of July It can readily be seen that Salt Lake premiums are extremely liberal Baseball y The Man Without a Country musts must-s have been an umpire Pitcher lleccius released by Louisville has been engaged by Buffalo Jerry Denny is making a great record in the Southern League this yearLong year-Long John Healy has signed to pitch for the Erie club of the Eastern League Farrell is still proving a jewel to Washington Wash-ington He has recovered his hitting ability The attendance this season at the opening open-ing games was 53000 against 38000 last year Caruthers has been released by Cincinnati Cin-cinnati and Jud Smith will be played in right field x5 Young Kelley of the Baltimores has a Y batting average of 370 up to date He t f is one of Pittsburgh castoffs i Charley Bassett may bo playing bag number two for Chicago before long He would prove a great player for Ansou Ed Tate the old Boston catcher now weighs 233 pounds while the old Chicago shortstop lid Williamson poses at 28S Brodie of the St Louis Browns is doing some sensational batting He is taking very kindly to the new pitching rules To players in the Western League I Umpire Haskell is the champion amateur I I boxer of eastern Nebraska Take warning warn-ing The old expression The pitcher was knocked out of the box must be amended under the new rules He was knocked off the rubber slab might do JSo one disturbs Anson when he says that Chicago will win the pennnt It is an annual dream pleases him and harms no one The Chicagos are still weak at second base This has been a hard position for Anson to fill since he allowed Pfefier to I escape him Baseball never had such a chance for a successful season in New York city and it is most unfortunate that the Giants cannot brace up Nichols is considered Bostons best pitcher and the champions are still wondering won-dering at the manner in which the Orioles Ori-oles maltreated his curves I Bennett is the oldest catcher in the League both in years and experience Lang of Chicago and Clark of Baltimore are the youngest in both particulars Kid McGHls reform seems to be complete com-plete He has not touched liquor since he left Cincinnati last spring and is thirtysix poands lighter than last spring Kelly is a mark of envy on the Rialto Very few actors can come in from the grand tour and turn their talents to account ac-count upon the base ball field during the dull months Barnie has put in a claim for Baldwin Mark does not like it and will probably retire from the diamond if he has to sign with Bourbons as the alternative Joe Quinn and Chris Von der Ahe are the warmest kind of friends at present When the Browns go on the road for their daily medicine look for a change Pitcher Schmidt of Baltimore has a bad habit of kicking at players who make errors behind him This was one reason of his release from the Pittsburg league team in 1S90 The umpires are having a lively time in the south Every now and then they have trouble in getting back to their hotel 7ostoti Herald Whv dont they umpire games from balloons Treadway of Baltimore hits the ball awfully hard when he meets it Triples and home runs are his usual layouts I Ycio York Press Does he still have an I idea that he is the king of the team in which he plays Bierbauer made a queer twobagger at Pittsburg few days ago He hit a high fly which wouldnt have cone to deep center but for a stiff wind The wind I carried it back until it fell inside the baselines I base-lines at Second base 1 I Wilmot has signed with the Chicagos I He played ninetytwo games with the i Chicagos last year in which he caught 196 flies assisted eight times and had twentythree fielding errors an average of S9S Newman played sixten games and had an average of 952 The greatest trouble which Dan Brouthers experienced in his contest with grip was his inability to eat A man of Dans capacity becomes a I cumbersome part of creation when he I loses his appetite Dans table average when he is in good form is about 997 per cent and he has knocked more than one boarding house keeper out of the box Pugilism Stanton Abbott has posted 520000 for a fight with Jack McAulifle The DempseySmith battle takes place in the Coney Island club July 21 Morgan Crowther the featherweight champion of Wales who recently defeated de-feated Fred Johnson of England wants to fight any man in his class in America He will probably try to arrange a match with George Dixon The date for the fight between William Smith of Boston and Jack Dempsey at the Coney Island Athletic club has been I postponed till July 21 on account of the death of Smiths wife The fight will be for the welter weight championship and 6000 Dempsey is also ready to meet Austin Gibbons Johnny Griffin and Solly Smith the Californian are to fight a limited round contest before the Columbian Athletic club near Chicago on July 1 Dominick OMalley the New Orleans sporting club detective is at the head of the Columbian i Athletic club which is building an am phitheatre at the Roby Ind race track I Johnny White the manager of Eddie Pierce says ho is nreoared to match Pierce against Champion George Dixon under the same conditions the latter offered I of-fered to fight Johnny Griffin If Dixon accepts Pierces challenge the Coney Island Is-land Athletic club will hang up a good sized purse for the mill Pierce has just I recovered from a severe attack of pneumonia pneu-monia Horse I otcs Ohio claims a pony 133 hands that can show 230 gait It now costs but 15 to fit a sulky with ballbearing axles A Pennsylvania threeyearold rejoices in the cognomen of Wire Nail I Mascot 201 is entered in the 5OOO stake to be paced at the Worlds fair A Massachusetts colt by Gold Beater I bears the romantic title of Egg Beater Crit Davis Budd Doble George Starr I and Charles Marvin favor the new rules relating to distance I Rumor ha it that Flying Jib has already al-ready stepped a quarter in thirty seconds in his work at Pleasanton Cal I Changing gait is all the rage now and it will be hard work to keep track of the converted trotters and pacers I There have been issued just fiftyfour patents on the ballbearing pneumatic I tire sulky and many more no doubt to follow J owe r Probably oldest race track in the country still in regular use is the one at Columbus Ga which was laid out 59 years ago Richard Croker said to the jockey arisen i a-risen the other day that he was willinar to bet a large amount that Dobbins could run a quarter of a mile jn 022 I Pike Barnes the well known jockey its it-s said will be in the field this summer as a buyer of yearlings it being his intention tentIon now thathe has grown too heavy to ride to turn trainer A prominent horseman of California ventures the opinion that the pacing championship 01 the world this year lies Between Plying Jib and Hal Pointer Mr White owner of Russia 239If offers to give George Starr 1000 if he gives Czar 212Ji a record of 210 this season and 500 for each additional half second below 210 A French exchange says that carrier pigeons are extensively used at all the Paris trotting and running tracks to send the results of the races to the down town betting resorts It is reported that Budd Dobles business busi-ness has increased to such an extent that he now requires a bookkeeper and a stenographer sten-ographer in addition to the small army of men that assist in taking care of his string of thirtyfour horses Bicycling Sanger intends to have a go with the French racers before he returns to this country Philadelphia wheelmen are talking of forming an independent military cycle company Vogts Herne Hill record for ten miles is 2134 The best previous record was Osmonds 245015 Lumsden went into training on June 1 for the fall races He will ride a nine teenpound machine The French cyclist George Du Cros will make his first appearance in racing in this country at the IrvingtonMilburu road race Sawyer the American wheelman now in Brussels beat all the European cracks in the competition for the kings prize a few days ago A race between a camel owned by the Bedouins at the Worlds fair and a cyclist will be run sqme evening in June on the new Chicago track In Boston Eddie McDuffie of Maiden lowered the American twentyfive mile road bicyle record riding the course in 1 hour 13 min 5525 sec The Worlds fair authorities have decided de-cided to admit bicycles to the grounds and will construct at once a cnecking station at 25 cents a check George A Banker will train at Spring field Mass at the invitation of the Springfield Bicycle club Banker is to represent Pennsylvania in the Worlds fair races W P Brown is another new English racing man who has recently appeared He has made the quarter in 032 25 on the Kensal Rise cement track In a mile handicap en Henn Hill his time was 219 35 James White jr of Milwaukee has a record of 5503 in the Waukesha load race He is over 6 feet in height and wears pink tights when racing He is a great coffee drinker and says it is good for racing menThe men-The new uniform of the Narragansett wheelmen consists of 0 black cap black sack coat black bloomer pants black stockings and pearl gray sweater with the club emblem worked on the front of same in blue and gold A neat little skirt weight has been invented in-vented It is made of lead about as large round as a half dollar and is covered with plush A clasp is fastened to it aud all a iady has to do is to snap it to the skirt just before she starts on a ride The Detroit wheelmen have challenged both the wheelmen of Buffalo and those of Chicago to a twentyfivemile team road race twentyfive men to compose each team and are anxious to be counted in the proposed ChicagoBuffalo team race A 10000mile trip on a wheel is being laid out by Dr C Z Bahl of the Quaker i City wheelmen It embraces trip across the continent to San Francisco then south to Mexico across the southern states to the Atlantic coast and north to New York They are becoming more civilized in Paris The time was when if a man or woman was run down by a cab or any vehicle drawn by horses that the indi vidusl run down was fined Wo noted a case where a cabman in Paris was fined 300 francs for running down a cyclist It is becoming more evident every day that the bicycle thief must be severely dealt with for his tricks are becoming bolder and bolder all tho time Many I have been caught but when it comes to prosecute the culprit the owners of the stolen wheels either refuse to do so or are willing to compromise With the returning return-ing of tho machine The best cure for Monday blues is the wheel The best preachers meeting is a good road each with a safety to have a good spin I speak from experience experi-ence as a member of such a meeting Fo health recreation and utility I know of nothing that can compare with the bi cycleRe A S Mowbray Newport Del A challenge has been issued by a Buffalo Buf-falo man in behalf of W C Hands and F H Wherry against any tandem team in the state ot Michigan for the amateur championship of the state at any distance dis-tance over one mile and lor a prize or I prizes not less than 100 in value nor I more than 200 George McKay may be substituted for Wherry Bicycle agents all speak of the large increase in-crease of sales of ladies wheels this spring over previous years They all agree that the ladies cycles have come to stay and reports from all over the country point the same way Ladies have come to realize real-ize that cycling is less dangerous and more healthful and enjoyable than another an-other exercise that they can partake of Cli Dorntge of Buffalo has built a sixteen pound wheel The rims are of wood Dorutge may ride tandem this II year after all but not with his last years partner Penseyres He intends to ride I z tW fo wIth his brother Joe but he says Joe is as lazy as an old woman and ibis probable prob-able that Dirnberger of the Press Cycle club will occupy one ofthe seats Pen seyres intends ride with I Eddy Bald i His Highness the Khedive witnessed the ecent cycling meet in Egypt The races were held on the new course at Cairo The members the Alexandria1 l Cycling club and the Aida Cycling club ot Cairo mustered in full force The Alexandria Cycling club carried off the honors of the day by winning two events out of three The victor in the first race of lortyfive kilometers 100 laps was Signor Mano Bella of the Alexandria Cycling club who won in fine style in 13400 and thus became the champion of all Egypt An Arab in the service of Prince Ibrahim came in second while the third and fourth places were taken respectively by a frenchman and a Greek both members of the Alexandria club August is to be the wheelmens month at Chicago It is then that the races will be held and the clubs will be willing to extend true western hospitality to the visiting cyclists As for the races they vill be unquestionably the most interesting I interest-ing ever held in this country The Chi cago cyclists expect their own men to uphold up-hold the credit of tho Windy City and not to extend their hospitality to the extent tent of allowing the visitors to carry off the major nortion of the prizes Arthur E Lumsden is generally considered the greatest of all Chicago flyers and he is expected to lower the colors of every man he meets not excepting the mighty Zimmerman Zim-merman Next to Lumsden it can be safely said that Chicago riders consider J P Bliss their best racer Last year at Philadelphia he surprised the cycling world by riding second to Zimmerman |