People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — SPORTING NOTES. [ARTICLE]

SPORTING NOTES.

September 1 has been agreed to by the London Athletic Club as the date for the contest with the New York club. A. C. Wilson of Maryland, was chosen to succeed President LuscOmb of the League of American Wheelmen. Asbury Park was selected for the next meet. The negro question was dropped. Ellison defeated Adams in the amateur championship billiard tourney by a score of 300 to 167. He made an average of 10. Directors of the Western Bail League decided Manager Vanderbeck must pay. Glenalvin's claim or forfeit his franchise. Nominations t o the seventeen stakes to be contested for at Hawthorne the coming season aggregate 1,014. The Ghtcugo ball club will leave Feb. 27 for Galveston, Texas, where the players will get into shape for the season. Dissatisfied members of the GaelicAthletic Association have formed a new organization under the title of the IrishAmerican Athletic Association of Chicago. Peter Ostlund, the skating champion of Europe, defeated John S. Johnson in a hotly contested 1,600 meter race at Minneapolis. Independence (lowaj Driving ' Park Association has announced stakes and purses of $30,000 for Us summer meeting. Triennial championship pigeon shoot ing match at Monte Carlo was won by Mainetto, who defeated Roberts by onebird.