People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — SPORTING NOTES. [ARTICLE]

SPORTING NOTES.

I Rules committee of the National ' Baseball league has decided to recommend numerous changes. During 1894 the racing, board of the L. A. W. put 250 men In class J 5 and declared ninety lo be professionals. In the skating championship contests at Christiana. Norway, Eden of Holland won the 10.000. 5,000 and 1,500 metre races. At Davenport, lowa, Dr. Carver won the third of a series of championship shoots with Cl arles Hudd. The score was 89 to 77" Clem Ellison defeated Frank Ittce In the decisive game fur the amateur championship billiard tournament of Illinois. Cllead won the Thornton stakes for for four miles at Kan 1 ranHsco. La Gascon, the favorite, was beaten by a quarter of a mile.