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Show Sprays of Sport. Jackson will give an exhibition in Ogden tonight. The Payson base ball club crosses bats with the Nationals at tho park at 8:.')0 today. If all reports are true, tho Pittsburg National League club has dropped $13,-000 $13,-000 already this season. Muldoon is on his way from Chicago to New York. He will "at once begin training Sullivan for his mill with Jackson. Jack-son. Rusie, the young New York League pitcher, is a genuiue phenomenon. Only one comes in a season's crop, however. Joe Choynski of San Francisco defeated de-feated Jack Davis of Omaha in nine rounds at the Occidental Athletic club in San Francisco last night. The Boston Leaguers arc now iu sixth position. It is better to begin al the bottom and climb up than tocommeuce ot the top and crawl down. The work of tho eastern clubs against their western brethren is now being eagerly scanned. Thus far the latter have a little the better of tho situation. Shoeneck. who plays tho first oumj for the New Haven team, weighs 2!0 pounds. He is a heavy batter, too. Iu twelve gam is he made twenty-two hits. A boy from Missouri uamod Merca-dier, Merca-dier, proposes to swim across tho Hudson Hud-son river with arms and legs tied together to-gether and holding dumb beils iu his hands. The tennis match between Thomas Pettit of Boston muI Charles Saunders of England for 2."i00 a side and the championship of the world commenced in Dublin yesterday. It will be continued contin-ued AVednestlay ami Friday. |