Show SPORTING NOTES I New York Feb 15Widespread interest in-terest Is manifest in the annual meeting meet-ing of the L A W which wU be held in this city next Monday It is expected ex-pected to be the most important meeting meet-ing ever held in the history of the league Plans will be devised for the improvement and growth of the organization or-ganization and amendments to the constitution numbering over thirty have been proposed and will be acted upon In consequence of the many changes suggested it Is thought that the session will consume about two days as much discretion will have to be exercised In order to accede to the I demands of all divisions and still maintain main-tain harmony The various divisions are divided as to the proper means to settle the questions at issue i The members of the New Jersey divisions are confident that their efforts to secure the national meet for Ashj bury Park will be successful They now claim to have promises of support from delegates in all the divisions of the league San Francisco Feb 15The first 2 yearold race of the year was run today to-day and eight likely looking youngsters faced the starter Although he did not win Ed Corrlgans Derochoment colt l whlen lias teen namea KowalSKi seemed to be the best of the lot but he was not up to a race In the last race White Cloud a heavily played favorite fa-vorite at 2 to 1 ran away at two miles and dropped dead He was owned by J B King First race five furlongs selling Motto 9S Griffin even won Repeater 103 Bergen 5 to 1 second Catch Em 06 Cockran 4 to 1 third Tlme107hj4 Time107y Sir Reginald Flagstaff Jennie Deane and Charles Quick also ran Second race half mile 2yearolds Sister to Ruth Ryan gelding 115 Griffin Grif-fin 3 to 1 won Derochment colt 118 Bergen 6 to 1 second William Pinkerton Pink-erton 115 Hinrichs 10 to I third Time52 4 Aon Cache Rey el Bandi dos Josephine Wawoma filly and Josephine also ran Third race seven furlongs Flashlight Flash-light 97 Cockran 13 to 5 won Miss Ruth 92 Teem S to 5 second Arun del 104 Griffin 31 to 1 third Time 140 Warrago True Briton Experiment Experi-ment gelding also ran Fourth race sIx furlongs selling Braw Scot 107 Carr 2 to 5 won Ike L 87 Cockran 8 to 1 second Carmel 100 Griffin 20 to 1 third Time 123 ½ Talbot Clifton Sir Richard and Empress of Norfolk also ran Fifth race five furlongs lcan 102 Hill 15 to 1 won Steadfast 101 Hin rlchs 6 to 1 second Soledad 104 Tub Tu-b e 4 to 1 third Time 109 erl Timel097 Mount Carlos Arctic Bell Ringer Sam Brown also ran Pronto Wilda and White Cloud New York Feb 150ne of the most interesting pigeon shoots of the season took place today at the grounds of the Larchmont Yacht club between George Work and L E Davenport They shot from the 30yard rise at 100 birds each under the novel condition that the first string of fifty birds should be shot with the gun held with one handWork hand-Work not only won the match with 85 kills against S2 but also defeated his rival at his own game with 40 kills out of 50 birds shot at ne handed as 38 kills against Davenports kUa Olympia Wash Feb 15The Senate passed a bill today fixing n penalty ota ot-a fine from 50 to 1000 or imprisonment imprison-ment In jail from one month to one year for sparring with gloves or sending send-ing or publishing a challenge for such sparring match or prize fight Jersey City N J Feb 15 Dennis McLaughlin Gottfried Wallbaum Nicholas Croslua and John C Caren convicted of running 0 disorderly house In maintaining the Guttenburg race track were oday condemned to L 1 w 00 0 one years imprisonment In the county jail and to pay a fine of 500 each New York Feb 15W Steinitz tho chess expert will mail a letter on Tuesday to T Gunsberg in which he will ask the London player to endeavor to get Blackburne Mason Lasher and Teehmann to join in the play of len games ot chess with Steinitz the moves to be recorded by cable the ten games to be played on ten successive succes-sive Saturdays The British Chess club of London and the Manhattan Chess club of this city have now agreed on all terms of the proposed match to be played on ten boards by cable March 9 and each club is trying hard to get the best possible team for the contest New York Feb 15A race for 1000 a side has been arranged between the steam yachts Vamoose owned bW J Arkell and Judge owned toy IPraalc T Morrlll The cOUrt e will be 100 miles on Long Island sound The race will be sailed early In June Monte Carlo Feb 5The shMsSfos in the fifth triennial champIq STip pigeon shooting contest for 5000 francs and n medM w fh begun There on Wednesday was ended today RobertS and Malnetto each killed 24 out of 26 birds Both men missed their 27th and both killed their 2Sth Then Roberts missed his 29th leavIng Mainetto champion with a score of 26 killed out of 23 Roberts who killed 25 out of 29 secured second prize Fred Hoey tho Americanwho who took part In the contest for the championship failed to secure a prize |