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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1902
Page
10
W W King of Chicago defeated Les Netzner of Omaha in a pro pool match at the Auditorium. King overcame 750 to 664 and overcame a 64-ball deficit to finish ahead by 86. The contest featured dramatic safeties, 15-ball runs, and a late surge by King amid shifting luck.
Impromptu wins the Castro event as Boots Stable takes the major prize in New Orleans. The victory shifts stakes with bids ranging from 8500 to 8500, reflecting a strong performance by the New Orleans racing circuit and its competing stables.
Special Dispatch to the Standard from San Francisco lists Mulhollands picks for tomorrow’s Oakland track event. The Forum Clarinette Temperane Second Yellowstone Dulcimer Estal Third Oroviva Venecia J H Bennett Fourth Sweet Tooth Princess Titania The Pride fifth Herculean Pangor Irate Sixth Lady Sterlive Quiet King Dellis.
The Castro handicap at Oakland is won by The Giver of the Boots stable with Water scratch a neck behind. Impromptu is bid up to 800 but remains with J B Earnshaw. other race results show Mythrax Ursula Baltest in the 5 1/2 furlongs, Mike Strauss Tirona Ru bino, Nigrette Desegno Guida, Gastro handicap winners The Giver Waterscratch Colonel Ballentyne, Grand Sachem Lunello Cougar.
In New Orleans on March 13, the program opened with seven furlongs selling where Cotton Plant won, Iola was second, Larry C. took third with a 1.28 time. The six furlongs follows with Parnassus the winner, Julia Junkin second and Lady Brockaway third with a 1.15 time. Third race listed mile and 20 yards with Mc as a participant.
In the program finals Williams toped Pay the Fiddler with Little Lois taking third. The fourth race, a mile and a sixteenth selling, Barbara Freitchie won with Lou Rey second and Deponan third in 1 47. Velma Clark claimed first in the fifth at six furlongs selling, Andes runner up and Echodale third in 1 1 34. The sixth race mile and one sixteenth selling saw Woodtrice win, Socapa second and Gladerun third in 1 48.
The race card lists weights for six races at today’s program. Entries include Temprano 97 and Fire Dance 109 in the first race, Lento 112 and Estado 117 in the second, Minnie Dressel 195 and Pres tolus 7 in the third, Katie Walcott 196 and The Pride 116 in the fourth, Ickum Bob 108 and M L Rothschild 102 in the fifth, Parsifal 108 and Walhurst 116 in the sixth.
It lists horse names and weights for five races including mile and one sixteenth selling with Royal Penny 110 and others, six and a half furlongs purse with Tobacco 115 and Imp Albula 112, one mile selling Top Roots 102, seven eighths high weight Lennep 120, and mile plus seventy yards Governor Boyd 111 among entries.
In Moran the entries list include Poomerack at 104 and Elsie Bramble 9 percent with Sixth race one mile selling. jun 109 Swordsman 105 Joe Doughty 105 Eight Bells 104 Poyntz 102 Meges 192 Prairie Dog 102 Homage 97 King Tatius 97 Add 92 Josie F 90 Elsie Dillon 88.
North Dakota middleweight champion William Peters arrived in Great Falls from Butte and will train at Black Eagle park with trainer William Miller ahead of Monday night match with Jack Curran.
Dummy Rowan of Anaconda Utah and Wid Rolly of California meet in a six round bout to settle months of differences. Utah reports promise a lively event from start to finish.
Joe Walcott and young Peter Jackson fought ten rounds to a draw before Eureka Athletic club. The bout drew about 3,000 spectators and followed the rule that Walcott would win the gate if he did not stop Jackson. Both fighters remained groggy but finished strong.
Harry Forbes bantamweight champion wins decision over Boston’s Kid Goodman after six rounds at the Pyramid club in Chicago. Forbes fights with a battered right hand.
Charles Weston of Wyoming beat Jerome Keogh of Buffalo 125 to 111 in Brooklyn. Weston produced a 5 ball run, the highest in the tournament, delivering a phenomenal performance.
In Philadelphia on March 13, the six day race continues with only ten of the original seventy starters remaining as the midnight score shows among the contenders.
Louisville leaders ban prize fights in the city including heavyweight bouts and matches involving black fighters. An order from the board of public safety requires principals to be examined by a physician and declared fit before any bout and bars negro seconds from corners.
Silent Rowan says Phil Green should seek a rematch at 122 pounds if he is eager to meet him again. He will also give Andy King another chance at the same weight if Green declines, and he refuses to fight at any other weight, citing past costly battles.
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