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Show i Sporting Splinters. The first "hard times smoker" was recently recent-ly held in Australia, making a big hit. Tom O'Rourke, Dixon's backer, was confident con-fident that the colored boy would win, but expected a long battle. It is reported that Billy Madden, the well-known well-known manager of pugilists, has gone off quietly and got married. Baker Coe, a colored ftx-pugilist and and one time a boxing partner of Yankee Sullivan, Sulli-van, is dying at his home in Bellviile, N. J., aged 90 years. The forty-fifth anniversary of the first baseball match overplayed occurred a short' time ago. The contest took place at Hobo-ken, Hobo-ken, N. J., on June 10, 1840. Buck Taylor and Billy Osborne, colored light-weights, fought a 16-round fight near Kensico, Conn., on Friday night. Taylor won, knocking his man out with a blow on the side of the head. Paul Patillo, well known in Canada and Michigan as a prize-fighter, was killed at Detroit, Michigan, a few days ago, by falling fall-ing from the seventh story of Pingree & Smith's new building. He leaves a wife and two children. G. and C. P. Cecil of Granville, Ky have sold to Alexander Hardy of Logansport,Ind., a weanling colt by Gambetta Wilkes, dam by Membrino Startle, second dam the dam of Charley P., 2.16.. Price, ?1050. The attempt to have a match race between the Norwood and Vamoose will probably be abandoned. Instead a race between these two yachts, the Now Then and the new Gardner & Mosher yacht, building for W. B. Cogswell of Syracuse, N. Y. Belle Hamlin and Globe, Al Pointer and the trotting dog Doc have been secured as the stars for the opening of the kite track of the maple Valley Trottiug association, at Kirk wood, Del., on July 4. 2:45, 2.30 and 2.23 trotting races and two big bycicle rues are also included in the programme. Alf Kennedy and Billy Myer left for Strea-tor. Strea-tor. 111., this week. Kennedy has decided that Myer shall do all his training for the coming fight with Jack McAuliffe at his old home. The training quarters are all ready, and in a few days Myer will begin active work, and hopes soon to be in shape to enter en-ter the ring against his old-time opponent. Ed Smith of Denver, Colo., who is well known in 8alt Lake, and Jack Riffle of Dayton, Day-ton, O., fought at Kingfisher, Okla., recently, recent-ly, for a purse of $1000. In the second round Riffle was knocked down four times, and in the third he was put to sleep. The fight was with five-ounce gloves, and the agreement was to put Ritlle out in six rounds. . - |