SPORTING NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4096, 12 April 1876, Page 3

SPORTING NOTES.

Bothwoll, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas in 1871, and the favorite for the Derby, is advertised for sale for LSO, and described as suitable, being dirt cheap, to lead yearlings, or for a hack. It is proposed to hold the great International Regatta between the English and American Universities on the 19th of July next, on the Schuylkill Kiver at Philadelphia. Arrangements for the Centennial Regatta are now almost completed. Commodore B. F. Brady, of New York, and Commodore Jas. Ferguson, of Philadelphia, have the matter in charge. The programme as thus far completed is as follows: —The amateur races will be for four oars, pair oars, and double and single sculls. The x-aces will be rowed in heats over a course one and a-half miles straight away. The first prizes will be gold medals, second silver, and third bronze; and there will also be diplomas from the Centennial. Besides the amateur races a four-oarjd inter-collegiate race, open to foreign colleges, a four-oared graduates’ race will be lowed. Tho races for professionals will be for four oars, pairs, and singles. Valuable money prizes will be offered. The course will bo three miles, wit]i a turn. Tho races will be rowed between August 20 and September 15. A pigeon match for l.OOOdols and the championship of America is to be arx-anged between Capt. A. H, Bogardus, of Elkhart, 111., and Ix*a A. Paine. John Dewit, of Auburn, N.Y., and Jack Golding, of Brooklyn, have signed articles of agreement to walk one mile each eucoacbxvc hour until nature compels one or the other cl them to sacr-n.-.r. The match is to commence on the 15th day of January, xu the Mammoth Gardens, Brooklyn. The stakes amount to LI,OOO dollars,

Daniel O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, has forwarded LIOO to the editor of ‘ Bell’s Life ’ in acceptance of the challenge issued on behalf of Perkins, the fastest, walker England ever saw, for a home and home 100-mile match. Chicago has, among other things, a female German who shies her castor into the pedestrian ring, as follows:—“I, Bertha Von Hillern, hereby announce my intention to exhibit my powers as a pedestrienne, sometime within a month, in a contest in this city, for the championship of the world, with any woman of unblemished character, who may wish to enter the list against me—said contest to continue through five consecutive days, and I pledge myself to pay over to her, in case she should make the greater distance in the given time, the sum of 500 dollars.”

There have been numerous plans proposed by -interested parties for inaugurating a grand billiard tournament to be held in Philadelphia during the coming Centennial Exhibition. The latest proposition is to make such a contest international in its characters and have the Brothers Dion to represent Canada ; Maurice Vignaux to represent France; Daly, -New York; Slosson, Chicago; Bessunger, Philadelphia; Sexton, the rising generation.

Mr H. E. Bird, the distinguished English chess player, who has arrived in New York, is remarkable for the rapidity of his play and for his powers of endurance, playing ten or fifteen games or even more in a day. Ho ranks with the best European players, and has played with Andersen, Steinitz, Wisker, Boden, Staunton and with Buckle, the author of the “History of Civilisation.” He played with Andersen in the tournament of 1851. He is a railway accountant by profession, of large experience, and well known in connection with railway investigations. In 1866 he came to this country in the capacity of Auditor of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway. He has recently produced a book on chess—“ Chess Masterpieces ” —a collection of choice games, with notes.

The jockey’s at the Austin, Minn., Driving Park are breaking an elk to trot, and they promise that, when the season opens in the spring, they will astonish some of the old turfites.