Sporting Notes

SPORTING NOTES.

The Harvard track team candidates are doing unusually good this year.

Tim Murnane says: "No amalgamation. The wise American league will let well enough alone."

Catcher Joe Sugden of St. Louis has a chance to manage a minor league team and may accept it.

Selbach will be welcomed back to Washington and will come pretty near making good for Delehanty.

Horse racing began in Virginia, Maryland and the New York colony of Manhattan in the seventeenth century.

The first two-year-old race of 1903 was run at Ingleside, Cal., and was won by G. B. Morris' bay colt Precious Stone, foaled Feb. 3, 1901.

Arthur Redfern's young brother, a forty pounder, is anxious to become a jockey. He is constantly begging his father to allow him to ride, and the latter favors the idea.

While fighting is allowed by the authorities in most of the large cities in the United States, in New York the sporting fraternity has to be content with newsboy wrestling matches.