People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — SPORTING NOTES. [ARTICLE]

SPORTING NOTES.

The annual bonspiel of the Northwestern Curling association began at Milwaukee, thirty-eight rinks participating. At a special meeting of the New York Yacht club Dunraven s challenge for a race for the America’s cup was was accepted. Ninety-three of the best horses in the country have been entered in the Garden City handicap, to be run at Harlem. In a live bird shoot at Rochester “Sim" Glover defeated Capt Brewer, the champion, by the score of 9* to 90. Ryan signed articles for a fight with Dempsey before the Seaside Athletic club Friday night. The third annual bonspiel of the Northwestern Curling association will begin to-day at Milwaukee. In a skating match at Minneapolis John S. Johnson defeated Peder Oestlund, the Norwegian champion, a- '. made a new record for a mile. Harry Pigeon and Jack Lawson fought under the shadow of Chicago eity hall. The former won in fourteen rounds. In the live pigeon shoot at Larch—mont, N. Y., for the amateur championship, Palmer Work and Davenport killed 23 out of 25 birds. Resolutions calling for the revision of football rules to prevent brutality and decrying professionalism in col lege sports were adopted at a meeting of presidents of northwestern universities.