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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1900
Page
8
Pantland, an 8 to 1 shot, led early but Jockey J Winkfield was unhorsed after 50 yards. The horse recovered, closed the field, and finished first without a rider. Newport sports debate the role of jockeys after this remarkable performance.
Miss Margaret Gast, famed for a 3,000 mile bicycle journey halted in New York, says she will try to beat the 100 and 200 mile records next Sunday. New York papers accuse her managers of stirring horror stories to draw crowds. Whether she suffered, she attended a dance Monday and played rag-time for dancers with nimble hands.
A long scroll of sports items notes the Limited Gun Club autumn tournament on November 1-2. Reports discuss E. H. Tripp defending the Grand Hotel Cup, plans to sell players like Kelly or Jennings for about $10,000, jockey and boxing happenings in Akron and Philadelphia, and racing notes from Yonkers and St Louis. It also mentions football and college team changes, a Bellevue Browns win, and theater figures tied to boxing.
A chaotic tale recounts a rough football scrimmage led by a coach named Roach. Players from Punkin Holler and Lonesomeville clash in a muddy brawl, produce missing ball, and leave Roach defeated by the enraged crowd as cheers rise and the town band plays.
The fragment mentions Crescens resting in his Toledo quarters and notes a remark by English turfman John Drake of Chicago who says Good winners bad losers, with an address for R. R. Williams in Sheridan Indiana referenced.
Crack wing shots from all sections of the country gather in Baltimore for a five year best tournament opening Tuesday. The Dupont challenge trophy with 2 birds and a $25 entrance is the magnet, first awarded in 1895 to Fred Gilbert of Spirit Lake Iowa.
The Heier gambling house case is postponed once more as state witness Otto Fisher cannot be found. Judge Ford notes readiness but requires Fisher to be available or under bond. Prosecutor Pugh asserts repeated efforts to locate the witness.
The British cruiser Psyche docked at New York on Monday and left within six hours after taking aboard Francia H. Roe, a Bermuda paymaster accused of embezzling government funds. The port authorities protest the commander ignored health rules and did not salute the forts. The consul general may be asked to explain the incident.
Polling Tuesday and Wednesday in Orkney and Shetland yields a liberal leaning result. Conservatives face a smaller than expected majority and a stronger opposition including pro Boer voices. Chamberlain remains the central figure as the war and Transvaal settlement shape the political landscape.
Washington October 23 Funeral ceremonies for John Sherman will be held at his residence at 1 p m Wednesday Rev Alexander Mackay Smith of St Johns Episcopal Church to officiate Honorary pall bearers include Justice Harlan Secretary Gage Senator Hawley Hon John A Kasson Hon J C Bancroft Davis Hon J D Cameron and M M Parker The funeral train leaves for Mansfield Ohio at 3 30 p m Wednesday on the Pennsylvania road
Chicago dated report states grand jury indicted Dr August M. Unger Francis Wayland Brown and Frank H Smiley on three counts each for conspiracy to defraud in efforts to obtain life insurance on Marie Defenbach who died August 25 under peculiar circumstances.
Pekin dispatch reports the Fourteenth United States infantry departed Pekin on Tuesday for the coast under orders to withdraw all American troops from the capital except a mixed force of 1,600. The Ninth infantry and the remaining American cavalry escorted the troops beyond the gates.
In Nebraska a cloudburst washed out roads near Stromsburg on a trip by Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn and his driver. With one light and few matches, he wrapped a nightshirt around a whip and used cosmoline as accelerant to make a torch. The improvised beacon guided them to safety as water surged and the path vanished.
A fire at J. B. Conk’s livery stable in Saint Paul destroyed fifty two horses and forty one vehicles, with the large barn consumed. Firemen report the total loss at about $100,100. The animals were confined in the basement when the blaze broke out Tuesday morning.
The San Francisco will of Thomas Keating, a horse man, is filed. It bequeaths about 50 600 dollars to settle his estate and includes a gift of fifty dollars for any widows that may turn up.
Congressman Overstreet spoke at Southport Monday night following a parade in which the First Voters Drum Corps of Indianapolis participated, along with a detachment.
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