People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — SPORTING NOTES. [ARTICLE]

SPORTING NOTES.

Johnson, the American, knocked out Robinson (“Cock Robin”) in a fight at London for the 146-pound championship. One hundred and twenty-four entries have been made to the La Belle stakes, for two-year-olds, to be run at Hawthorne. Tommy West, a Boston welterweight, and George Fitzgerald of Chicago, fought a hot fifteen-round draw at Lyons. Over >1,200,000 In stakes and purses will be distributed by western and southern race tracks during the season. Northwestern Breeders' Association will give >75,000 in purses at its annual meeting at Washington Park in August. Sixty thousand dollars In purses has been hung up by the Detroit Driving Club for its blue ribbon meeting.'