Show notes of bowl ng tournament mayor david S rose the chief ex of milwaukee was chosen fifth president of the american bowl tag congress milwaukee was unanimously chosen as the next place tor the convention and the date for holding it wag set forward to the last week in february that city has guaranteed 2 for the prize fund and will hold the tour cament in the exposition building which s said to be the best building in the country suitable the ansons of chicago led by captain anson captured first hon ors in the team event with a total of 2 pins dave woodbury being the best man on the team with an aver age of 13 the chief being second ansons lead the work in high team game anson himself played a fine game and landed a good average although splits came often to the big baseball leader world s fair hand cap compilation of the entries to the fair grounds stal es for the coining year shows that every prominent owner in the west will race at st louis during the season in the world s fair handicap which has closed with fifty one most of the prominent eastern stables will be represented the closing of the en tries shows that there are 1149 nomi nations to the fair grounds fixed events as against nominations the previous year the total value of the added money events is a record for st louis tracks the worlds pair handicap valued at 50 will be run on june 25 and will RUSSIA SELLS MORE GAL TEE gallee more the irish bred horse which has just been sold from the hussian imperial stud to count hohndorff Lohn dorff for won the triple crown of the english turf in 1897 capturing the 2 guineas the derby and the st leger and was then sold by bis owner john gubbins to the czars agent for ard patrick also owned by mr gubbins win ner of the derby of 1902 and of the eclipse stakes the greatest english race last year was sold to the german government tor a large sum gallee more has left in the impel ial russian stud a progeny ot colta and fillies be the race of the year the weights will be announced march 15 nat onal bowling league formed A national bowling league to be composed of two divisions of tour clubs each was formed at a meeting at cleveland ohio the eastern sec alon comprises new york philadel phia brooklyn and buffalo the west ern has not been definitely settled chicago and toledo will be in it and it Is hoped to have detroit and mil walkee waukee tor the other teams pitts burg cleveland and columbus will get the franchises it milwaukee and detroit do not come in anson was elected president samuel harpt secretary and J W mccormick treas aurer these officers will begin the wort of arranging the western circuit and a schedule at once liptone fourth challenge A letter from sir thomas lipton has been received by the officials of the new york yacht club with refer ence to a fourth challenge for the america s cup the presiding officer declined to say whether the letter was a formal challenge or the preliminary to a challenge it was the general opinion ot the members sir thomas had signified his desire to Is sue a challenge but was anxious that yachts of some other type should con tend for the cup the letter re to a committee of five which will be appointed later by the chair man A resolution of thanks to the syndicate which owned the reliance was passed new game laws needed the league of american sportsmen has adjourned to meet at seattle in june 1900 resolutions were adopted favoring the enactment of a new law governing the ohio fish and game commission declaring against spring shooting in any of the states and favoring the enactment et laws in all states requiring foreign born allred persons to secure a 1 cense be tore they can hunt this is aimed to put an end to pot hunting new amateur II 11 ard champ on J ferdinand I 1 arg of the N club voa the asna t it U beur championship billiard honors in the final match ot the tournament poggenburg won out in the play off of a tie for first honors with dr L L mial of new york and he outplayed the latter by a score ot to poggenburg and dr mial had tied for the highest run 73 but the tie for the highest individual run was decided in the final game with a score of 41 dr mial won the second prize edward gardner ot passaic N J won third honors and charles F conklen of chicago took fourth place tommy warren Is dead tommy warren once the champion featherweight pugilist of america died at san francisco last week of pneumonia for several years he had been in the army transport service and recently returned from manila ills last appearance in the ring was with terry mcgovern april when the referee stopped the fight fn the first round warren was then but a wreck of his former self change in golf rules after giving the all match play tern a years trial the united states golf association has decided to return to the qualifying round previously in vogue while this decision will doubt less find favor in the east it will not be received with the same amount of satisfaction in the west where the all match play plan was given a good trial with satisfactory results abi cago tribune jeffries to fight billy delaney manager of james G jeffries champion pugilist of the world Is in new york he stated that his mission here Is to accept on behalf of jeffries any challenge that may be issued to fight by the winner of the munroe sharkey bout jeffries will not make any match unless de laney says he may do so lord derby to race lord derby 2 05 the famous horse of E smathers trotting string Is to be raced this year through the grand circuit it has been two years since he was raced or a season it was believed he would never race again but george spear smathers trainer says he Is working sound and he will enter him in all the 2 05 and 2 06 trots his first start will be at detroit american henley on may 30 the regatta of the american row ins association popularly known as the american henley will be held this year at philadelphia may 30 the managing stewards of the association have decided upon that date in prefer ence to july 2 when the races were held last year the latter date was found too late for full representation from the colleges dan patch in fine condition mchenry the veteran driver says dan patch will do stunts during the coming season that will make every thing he has accomplished previously dooh looh like a ticket to last night s show the big pacer he asserts will go in 1 2 before fall and he predicts that before the middle of the summer he will have cut large chunks from h present record sutton Is in hard practice A parisian expert writes to a bev aorl friend that maurice vignau and george button are in hard tice for their match game tor the world s championship at eighteen inch lal kline billiards one shot in which 3 to take place in that city fridae ening march 4 st lou s man champion bowler st iouin furnished the lal champion of the united states in the closing hours 0 the national bo v ing tournament at cleveland marti kern a former member ot the A stars won the honor with a conn ot his games being ai 23 win two man bowling event krausa sp es 0 won the two afen ifen ebent at the nation a bowlins at velan their beate in te gante play |