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Show THE SPORTING WORLD. The Har." the Coursing Tournament SlHv IN FINE CONDITION. t than, i cdj ayor and I pej rtise f(j- ',411 the Kntries for the Races lis! ! ad flP "e Tournament for Den-v Den-v " ver Latest Sporting News. Major Levey received a telegram from California this morning stating that the hare to be used in the coursing tournament on Decoration day had been shipped and thy will arrive here, in a day or two. The event will take place at the fair grounds, and the novel sport wiil doubtless attract a large crowd. The dogs are in fine condition. con-dition. Ihe Kacen. Secretary Parks announces that nearly all of the entries for the spring races have been filled. Sporting Splinters. Patsy Kerrigan wants to meet Johnny Reagan. Joe Goddard thinks he can lick Pampadour Jim himself. Why don't the members of the Fencers club give an exhibition? The price of admission to the Sullivan-Corbett Sullivan-Corbett fight will be $10. The Lees stable of horses from Denver will arrive here tomorrow. Professor Donovan says that Slavi.i will whip Jackson and Dixon will whip Johnson. Jack McGee, through Billy Madden, has just challenged Young Mitchell to right to a finish. Harry McCoy of Burlington, Iowa, and Jack Davis, of Portland, have been matched to firht on May 30. tf. W.T. Carver, the great rifle siiot who has many warm personal friends in Salt Lake, is iu Denver. Jim Williams has not been seen about town for some days. He has probably7 returned re-turned to his sheep ranch. Tommy Ryan is trying to arrange for another an-other fight between himself and Needham to come off at New Orleans in September. Peter Maher has started home. Although a beaten man, he has lived high since coming com-ing to America, and takes away ".TOO American dollars. Local billiardists were right in the Ives-Slosson Ives-Slosson game, which came, off at Chicago on Saturday night. Slosson's average was lrj 1-0, while Ives' average was 36 3.5. The, Rocky Mountain Sportmen's association associa-tion will give a grand tournament on June 21, 22, 33 and 24, where money- purses aggregating aggre-gating $2000 in addition to medal and cup hoots, will be hung up. Peter Priddy has covered the forfeit of J. M. Kennedy, of Chicago, to run a three-mile three-mile race June 11 in Pittsburg for $250 a side, with 70 per cent of the gate receipts to the winner and 30 to the loser. The question as to whether bicycle records rec-ords made on Sunday will be recognized by the national board has again been brought up on account of the Milwaukee tournament, tourna-ment, which will be held on June 4th and 5th. Thomas F. Madden of Memphis dived from the great bridge over the Mississippi at that point last Sunday, a distance of 149 feet, thus eclipsing Steve Brodie's leap from the Brooklyn bridge. Madden jumped from the iron girders that rise on either side of the roadway. He did not drop 3s professionals, profes-sionals, but leaped feet down. Captain Milt Barrart went out to Garfield today to push the work on the improvements for the Salt Lake boat club. Extensive preparations are being made in the boat houses and in view of the expected regatta some time in July, Captain Barratt proposes to have things in such shape that eastern oarsmen will have nothing to kick about. |