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Lord Bourke, Lord Con- glish statesmen. Professor chow, German pathoiogist. W ida Ioach, ex-United States Se o, New York. Frank Tousey tounder of (magazine), N Y ork Rev. C. F. 2 r 2, editor German Ev @t 2 . Cicveland. ¢k, Duteh Minis- Judg butler, poet, v k. r R. Suepherd, X-Governor riet of Cowmvia, Batopilas, _Stratton, mine operator, Colo ssociate Justice Supreme Cou ette, Queen of the Admiral Burges Watson, W l.l Reid. editor United Presby- director of of the Smithsoni- Emile Zola. French novelist, by acci- dental aspnyxiation OC10BER. er Admirai N., #ily John W «x-Cor ie Wolf, Norwegian leader of English ant Jongress rkan Albert , barker, New Witlian Whitehead, ~m ther, Den Thom: tired), Wavery school textboo imbus, sorge Huli, inventor and N. ¥ . Americ don Whorter, ; Stanton, w York. A Ayres ) New York wager Lake Thomas author, ar Washington. Frederick Tudor, building engineer, Boston. Dr. Daniel E. Hugh ladelphia Chris NOVEMBER. Rawson, author, illus- st, Néw York Botha, Boer ger, in Lom- ancier and ex-Ci k. Harry Main- , actor, Los Ange 1 Robert N. cal author, ag of Saxe-Weimar. nglish novelist. English re- »n, Episcopal kson novelist, hop of Bouton ir M Judge Jabez G. Sutherland ks, Berkeley, Cal L German cannon W. Osborne, sci- Paio Alto, Cal popular song com- author of Septimus Win poser, Philadeipnia Colonel b chiltree, journal- sman, Virginia Dr. Joseph Parker, minister of London City Temple. Rev. Abbe Colin, su- perior of Sulpicians, Canada. DECEMBER. Thomas H. French, amatic and publisher, New York . Prudente J. do Moraes, first President of Brazil to be elecicd by the people. umheim. naturalist, Miito: Wis ck, Un Minis ter to Jap Dr. Henry Cutler, composer and usical director, homas B. Reed, National Hou Washington. Consul General Nast, American cartoonist, in dor. Profcssor August Lodeman, lin- guist. Michigan University. Harry McCalmont, Engiish sportsman and member of Parliament. . Alkkman Carnahan, Congressman- e'ect, Washington, Ind. James H. Mathes, author and journal- ist, River: Cal. . Judge John W. Henry, ex-Chief Jus- upreme rt, Admiral C. Kruys, Marine Major Alexander Shaw, financi cual operator, Baltimore. Wil hcpman, discoverer of the Pen vania slate b ses 8. Grant, Washington. an co Sanchez Heirnavar- Governor at Santiago agent theatrical manager, ah Lees, San McKenra of Lime Point Light- Mary Hartwell Catherwood, ssie Benton Fremont, widow of Ger” Jobn Fremont, Los An- JANUARY. Two theaters in -New York, Miuer's and Ke.th's, burned Steamer Walia Walia founders after collison near Eureka, Cul.; forty-taree s lost cen men perish in copper mine ve-in at_Negauwee, Mich. New Yors Centrai trains collide 1« New York City tunnel, kiliing sevenieen persons. 4 Ten men killed by a mine explosion ot Dow, L T. Forty-tbree miners im- prisoncd in a flooded pit at Breux, Austria quake in the Mexican state of Guerrero razes a town and desiroys hives. Mine gas explosion mear Oskaioosa, fowz. kills twenty-two men. Expiosion in a tunnel shaft in New . Eighty-five 1 Vincent Isiand . Powder ¢ . Japanese . Excyrsion train . Circus . MM, d . Steamer C. R . Bridge over the Golden . American Glue . Fireworks . Boiler expl . Tawn of Andijan, Turkestan, . Collisibn of schooners York kil wrecks hospt six_persons and partially w York Central station, a i and two large hotels. . ieven lives lost in a Boston tenement house fire. FEBRUARY. rsons Rilled in a Mex can mine disaster. Business secuon of Waterbury, Cona., burns; loss, $2,500,000. Ten men perish in the burning of a St. Louis awning factory. exploslon in a i wen person: er 38,000,000 worth of property in the gcction of Paterson, N " < jost in the burn- the kmpire Hotel. St. Louis. ka, a2 Trans-C. jan tcwn, royed by eartiq many hun- dreds perish. Seven:y-first Regiment Armory and Tark Avenue Hotel, New York. burn; seventeen lives destroyed; property $1,000,000. e buries miners’ bunk house . Colo., with seventy-ave MARCH. Chicago house i Providence psizes in Mis- pi River ne ke Paimyra; tiventy person Seven life-saver e seamen per- ish by the capsizing of a lifeboa pe Cod Sxplosion in a mine at Dayton, Tenn., kills twenty-two workmen. APRIL. Tweive hotels andja score of other dings at Atlantic City burp; lo n accident : gow, Scot.and ta lost in a cyelone off of India; 139 lives lost. at Managua, Nicaragua, ling 150 soidiers. ténango, Guatemal )y an eartheuale. Steamer City of Pittsburg burns in Ohio River above Cairo; sixty-three partly destroys ten persons. states Dacea and sur- ng towns in Indiz: 416 lives lost. Cen young women killed in a Philadel- factory in panic caused alarm of fire. MAY. Seventy-five lives lost in the burning of Lakayenanche, Japan. fifteen lives destroyed by a wa- terspout and Geary, Okla. Sruption of La Soufriere voleano, St. kills 2000 persons. Picrre, Martinique Isiand, totally troyed by Mont Pelee volcanic eruption: about 35,000 lives destroyed on the island. destroyed Glenrose, . Brazilian aeronaut Savro and his.as- sistant killed in France by the col- their balloon. on of oll tank cars at Shera- - a., near Pittsburg, kills twenty- persons and injures 250 others. t of Lisbon destroyed by a confla- ation. Goljud, Tex., almost wiped out by a rnado; 100 lives lost. . Gas explosion in Fraterville and This- tle ines, Tennessee, kills 21 son: per- . Explosion in a mine at Fernie, B. C., kills 150 men, JUNE. Eruptfon of a Bolivian volcano de- firoys two villages and seventy-five ives. Burning of a Chicago sanitarium wipes out twelve lives. Chi cruised Kai-Chi_blows up in Y tse River. killing 150 men. JULY. Trolley collision at Gloversville, N. Y., kills fifteen persons. Explosion of tiredamp Rolling mine, near Johnstown, kilis 112 men. ‘ampantle _of St. Marks Cathedral, Venice, falls. losion in a mine near Park (&) Ctah, kills thirty-five men. Twenty-four blocks in Guayaqull, Ecu- ador§ burn; loss, $3,000,000; many lives destroyed. Ca i of a sailboat off the New Hampshire coast drowns fourteen per- s in Cambria Pa., welve lives destroyed in and near " Baltimore by a whiriwind. xcursion steamer Primus wrecked collision with a tug in the river ., Germany; sixty lives lost. . One hundred and twenty lives destroy=- €G by a mine gas explosion at Wal- longong, Australia. AUGUST. . Fifteen workmen and. trainmen killed in a rallroad collision near Marshall- town, lowa. . Gas explosion in « mine near Trinidad, Colo., kills thirteen men. island of Toroshima over- Whelmed by a volcanic eruption; 150 persons perish. larthquake and landslide desfroy " twenty villages and 700 lives in Trans-- « rucasia. . Ten workmen killed by explosion of steel digesters at Wilmington, Del. . Earthquake at Tashkend, Turkestan, d Pelee and tidal wave SEPTEMBER. wrecked near Birm- . Ala.; thirty killed. persons perish in Northern Pa- cast forest fires, enteen lives lost in Algoma mine " explosion near Bluefield. W. Va. ed church at Birming- e Booker T. Washing- kills 115 people. wave sweep Sicily, vphoon and {idal wa Lama, Japan. destroy OCTORBER. e near Yoko- 0 lives . Fourteen persons killed by an explo- sion in the Lawson mines, Wash. elephant at Nijni Novgorod, Russia., runs amuck in the streets, killing sky and Morin aeronauts, éashed to death b of their airship, French the fall Lockwood founders in off Ashtabula; ten lives Horn, Con- stantinople, collapses; 100 lives lost. e unnex factory, Chi- cugo, burns ITOVEMBER. explosion in New York men and bo: Y k. South Russia, en- 1ombs 3 persons. British steamer Ei- umite wrecked off the Australian W persons missing. an town of Resht burns; 200 lives on in Swift & Co.’s pack- Ciicagn, kills 13 men. I¢s Hebard and Ban- sckburn dashed té pieces by a gule in Lake Superior: 38 sailors lost. DECEMBER. plosion on the s'«amer Progreso in co harbor kills 11 men. rieen gucsts perish in Hotel Lin- oln_fire. Chicago. house mers Cl . Yoxplosion of gas in South Wilkesbarre “a,) mine destroys (7 lives. the American Sheet Steel Com- piant, Canal Dover. O., de- stiroys preperty valued at cver $1,000.- 006, totally destroyed by earthquakes. . Eallroad coilision near Byrof, Califor- nia. kj 1% 25 persons. in Massachu- sctts bay kil s 11 persons. . . Three men kiled by tug b sion on Elizabeth River. . Six men killed in freight train wreck in Colorado. 1y lives lost In Denmark gale. ht perish in Washington snow- 1 collision In Ontario kills 28 per- up Grand Duke Con. a . Sydrey Lasceles, ailas “Lord Waiter . Two burg 20. Lee Turner, . At Saxonburg, 27. Many hundreds . At Philadelphia, ol . \Will Reynolds (co.ored) shot dead and . Miss C: . Strikers and . Novelist . Colonel Jobn Gaynor and . Wiiliam “Bartholin 'JANUARY., ts at Kiev, Russia, try to blow anune’s paiace.* cresford,” arrested in Boston on a charge of swindling. I 1. Witheis, tormer banker of Beau- mont, Texas, afrested at Kansas City on a charge of forgery. Kanusas Cily Soutucin train held up and robbed near Spiro, 1. T. ¢ At St. Louis William A. Strother, col- ored bati.house attendant, confesses to the rder of Millionaire Alexan- der D. Cooper. . St Louis Grand Jury begins to hand down bribery indictments in fran- hise ovdinance case. trapped and killed in a house at Gallipolis, Ohio, and two of- :rs wounded. ie brothers, murderers, v jall in_ Pittsburg by the of Warden Soffel's wife, with whom they elope, afier overpowering guards. Pittsburg murderers, and Soffel overtaken and shot; the men die and the woman is captured. FEBRUARY. Kamtcheff, Bulgarian Minister of a va- in Chicago one man mortally wounded. Six men killed and six mortally wounded in a fight between Lee Tus s mountain outlaws near Middles boro, Ky. Macedonian ' brigands release Miss El- icn M. Stone and Mme. Tsilka. Strike rlots break gut at Barcelona, Spain. Kentucky feudist, sur- renders., Police Judge Porte Walker mortally wounds Banker Alfred With- (5poon in a duel at Lawrenceburg, y. . Incendiaries blow up six Cripple Creek (Colo.) assay offices. Five members of one family murdered at Welsh, La. MARCH. Butler -County, Pa., Henry B, Smith is murdered and his wife maltreated by burglars. . James Wilcox convicted at_ Elizabeth City of ‘the murderof Nell Cropse: . Neely and Rathbone, convicted of pos- tal frauds in ‘Havana, . Albert T, Patrick convicted in New York of Rice, fhe murder of Willlam M. 1 killed in Ta-Ming-fu, China, against misslonary Indemnity tax. riots at levy of . Four men kililed on Black Boy Creek, Ky. in an”attempt to capture Eph Hatfield, who was one of the slain. APRIL. Wiiliam Lane (col- cred) murders his employer, Mrs. - El- len Furbush, and, her daughter and wounds another ughter. Aeven Wheeling Councilmen indicted bribery charges: turned " at Tuscumbia, Ala., after shooting nine of a Sheriff's posse. agrie M. Jennett murdered in Detroit; her music teacher, Professor Joseph M. Miller, arrested. . Five men killed in Scott County, Va., in_a fight between officers and the Wright-Templeton band of outlaws. endarmc# fight a battle: at Charleroi, Belgium. . Major Waller acquitted at Manila. . M. Sipiaguine, Russian Minister of the Interior, assessinated. . Barry Howard acquitted of compitcity in the murder of Governor Goebel of Kentucky. MAY. . Russian labor peasantry from Moscow to Viadmir revolt. Paul Leicester Ford, New York, murdered by his sbrother, Mal- colm, who commits sufcid ptain W. O. Greene. who forfeited ball at Sa- ‘annah, arrested at Quebec. ur whites and three negroes killed and many wotnded in an attempt to arrest Will Richardson, colored, who perishes in a burning house. . Anarchist plot to kill the King of Spain discovered, . Near Hastings, Fla.,, Willlam Austin kills his sweetheart, four others and himself. JUNE. . Rioting breaks out bhetween Chicagp yulic? and_packing house strikers. Jeputies fire upon a crowd of strik- ers at Pawtucket, R. L, with fatal re- sults. . Mayor Ames of Minneapolis arrested on a bribery charge. . Anarchists lead a mob_attack upon silk mills of Paterson, N. J. 5. At Barnstable, Mass., Jane Toppan is acquitted of murder, Miss Jessie Morrfson convicted at El- dorado, Kans., of second degree of murder of Mrs. Olin Castle. JULY. . Albert C. Latimer murdered In New York. Rock Island train held up and robbed near Midlothian, Tll. Harry Tracy, Oregon convict, escapes after killing three officers, . Josh Anderson, white wife murderer, lynched at Owensboro. Ky. William Odey. negro. burned at the stake by a mab at Clayton, Miss. I'wo negro murderers of Chief of Po- "lice_ Wilmot lynched at Womelsdorf, \ . . Several persons seriously or mortally wounde: Republican primary riots in and near Camden, N, Pugilist Joe Goddard. . Fatal mine strike riot breaks out at Shenandoah, Pa. AUGUST. . Sixteen convicts escape from prison at Nashviile: one killed, two recaptured. Fugltive Outlaw Harfy Tracy commiis de in the Lake Creek country, asiingion. C. Andrews found guilty of ing {unds of Detroit City Sav- ke riots break out in the Pennsyl- vania anthracite and West Virginia coal régions.” SEPTEMBER. murderer of his mother and his sweetheart,” confesses his crime and commits suicide. . County Jail at Butler, Pi., damaged };- mob in vain attempt to lynch Jerry lennett : Nicholas Fish, New York banker. dies from injuries recelved Jn a_saluon. . Mrs. Annie Pulitzer, New Yo dered and threwn into a canal Jersey. . Warrants issued for the arrest of Lajra Biggar, Dr. C. €. Hendrick and amuyel Stanton on a- charge of con- ~p|§_gm v in connection with the Bennett case. om Clark, colored muyrderer, burned " at the stake at Corinth, Miss. OCTOBER. . R. M. Snydér convicted of municipal bribery in St. Louis, . Attempt to run cars in New Orleans kes 4 riet in which several per- are shot, r men killed in a feud fight at El- rado. Ark. iiomestead. Pa.. Charles demented, kills brother -and -two sisters. awle: his lqmnhr:r. . Three masked men hold up and rob a Pacific coast cxpress train mear Lin- . Attempt made to assassinate escape . Col. George W. . New York: . Philadeiphi; 8. Rochester, N. . Pittsburg—Jofin . Buffalo—Jenkins J., including . Milwaukee—Herman . New York—Dr. . San Francisco—! 14. Three aged brothers named Leach, near Rochester, O., attacked by six burglads; one brother kills three as sailants ‘and puts the others to flight. In New York, Willilam C. Tyrner £hoots_dead-Albert Hamilton of Pitts- burg ‘and W. J. Mallard, glass bottle manufacturers, and commits suicide. “James Younger, former outlaw, com- mits sulcide at Minneapolis. . At a raflroad eamp near Pittsburg, Dr. Eilis A. Duncan of Louisville shoots Bruce Head, contractor’s; chief book- keeper. . Northern Pacific passenger train held up and robbed and engineer killed near Bear Mouth, Mont. o5 NOVEMBER. B . Laura Biggar surrenders to authori- ties at Frcehold, N. J. - Hale Johnson, once Prohibition nom- inee for Vice President, shot dead by Harry Davis at Bogota, 1l Alan G. Mascn arrested i Boston on charges of assault and murder of young wo- men. - In New York, Molineux acquitted of murder. King TLeopold of Belglum. . Godfrey Hunter Jr.. son of the United Statés ~ minister.” kills William Fita- gerald at Ghatemala City Bandits hold up and rqb a Rock Island pas- songer train negr Davenport, lowa. : Strike riot breaRs'out in Havana. DECEMBER. Actor Harry Johnstone shoots and kills Actress Kate Hazlett in Phila- delphia. s Streeter and ot Chicago lake front squatters convic ed of manslaughter, . Leopold, King of Belgians, shot at. . Alaska Indians on warpath against miners. . Humbert family arrested in Madrid for safe frauds committed in Paris. . Aged couple of Spokane, Wash., found murdered. . Exposure of ghouls’ plan to steal ex- - President Harrison’s botly. / . JANUARY. Pasadena, Cal,: Michigan defeats Stan- ford University at football, 49 to 0. St. Louis: Bernstein is awarded the decision over Tommy Whiie after fif- teen rounds. St. Louls: Three runners bhreak a world's record for a 16-lap track—Shel- don the negro, Cartwright the English- man .and ~ Fahey of Pennsylvania; Cartwright makes the best time for 50 miles—5 hours 3 minutes, Philadeiphi Ferns knocks out Beny nett in the second round. Boston: McFarland and Maya win Ahe six-aay bicycl¢ racel, 118§ miles 3 aps. t. Louis: Shelton wins the six-day pedestrian race. . . World's stand high jump tecord with skates broken by W. B. Smith of Montreal; 4 feet 6 inches. New Haven: George Bothner defeats Jack Harvey in three straight falls for lightweight wrestling champlonship. Sharkey and Maher box a three-round draw, referee declaring it no contest. Baltimore: Dixon and Tipman fight a draw. Philadelphia: won by Six-day - bicyele race reeman and Maya: 1004 miles lfl\lfn.u A New York: Edward Gardner wins the National Association of Amateur Billlard _Players’ championship from Arthur Townsend. New York: George P. Moore of Brookline, Mass., breaks the American swimming record in plunging for dis- tance: 59 feet. Hot Springs. Ark.: ‘In the ninth round Creedon’s fight with Weinlg, Cree- n's seconds throw up the sponge. Portland, Or.: Al Neill wins from Mysterious Billy Smith in the tenth round on a foul. Baltimore: Dixon knccked out by Denny Smith in'the ninth round. London: In two rounds Jim Williams defeats Pedlar Palmer for bantam- welght champlonship of England. Chicago: Ferns given the decision over Tim Murphy of Australia. London: O'Brien awarded. the de- cision over Charley McKecger for the middleweight championship. - San Francisco: ‘Tim Heggerty given the decision over Aureiio Herrera. Portland, Or.. W. H. Kerrigan breaks the American record for run- ning_high dive, clearing the bar at 6 feet %. inch. . Waco, Texas: R. O. Heikes af Toledo breaks the world’s record for clay pigeon shooting; breaks 99 out of 100 and madkes a straight run of $9. ' FEBRUARY. . l!tfi,‘ York Flanagan makes a new . world's record by throwing a 56-pound welght 28 feet % inches. Y.~W. A. Hoagland wins the six-day heel-and-toe walking match, 242 mil . Jack Youngerefi}enks the competition bowling record’ rolling a score of Springtield, - IlL.—Franie Zumbroek breaks the American record for run- ning high dive—13 feet 7 Incheég. Nilsson breaks the two-mile indoor ice-skating - record-- 5:47 1-5. ) oy . Chicago—Willlam Tuttle swims forty rds_in 23 1-o seconds, lowering the American Tecors i Saratoga, N. ¥.—World's l¥le ice- trotting record lowered by Filrt to 2:17 1-5. defeats Parr in a wrestiing match, two straight fails. Philadelphia—\Waicott Knocks out Haundier in the second round. New York—Hegelman and, Cavanaugh win the six-day walking match—ii) miles laps. Chicago—J. Scott Teary swims twen- ty yards {n 10 seconds, a new world's record. i L Leéweik breaks ihe haif-mile world's record for buck- ard skating—1:i2. . g Jimmy Briit wins first nprotessional ght from Toby Irwin in 15' rounds at kland. o Hot Springs, Ark.—Weinig wins the decision over Jack MacCormack. Chicago—H. J. Avery, amateur, breaks the waorld's record for three- cushioned billiards. . Cincinnati—MeGovern whips Dave Sul- livan in ‘fifteen rounds. - & Ottawa, Ont.——Burr Patch skates five miles In 12:54, a new ice record. . Portland, Or —Tom Tracy awarded the decision over Rube Ferns. . San Franci=co: Britt knocks ouf® Heg-" garty in seven rounds. . MARCH. . Boston—Harry lLeMoyne of Brooklyn swims sixty vards in 35 I-5.seconds, a new world's record. . Boston -1« Moyne equals the unaccept- ed world's skating record'‘of eighty yards In 49 2-5 secon A l,nu!s\-uhm1.hn_\-nsk§{nncks out Han- rahan in the sixth round. . Monte Carlo—Chess tournament ends: Maroczy of Hungary wins first prize; Pillshury of Amerfea, second; Janow: ski of . France. third; Teichmann of England, fourih L P. Tttel of Pittsburg makes a score of 2458 in the 19-shot championship shooting match, break- ing the record. . New York—American team wins cable chess _tourney agnlmt Engiand. cott Leary swims 110 vards in 1:13 and 13 vards in 1:36: oward F. Brewer swims 660 vards in 941 and $i0 vards in 12:24-all new American records. 21, Philadelphia: Ruhlin knocks out Maher in_the second round. ¢ London: Oxford defeats Cambridge in athleije contests, ; Putney, England: Cambridge wins the annual boat race against Oxford. - . Chicago: Kid Carter knocks out Choynski in one round. Little Rock: Prowl wins Arkansas Derby in 1:46%. New -~ York: Clearwater world’s pool champjonship. . Baltimore: Gans knocks out Bennett in the fifth round. ’ . Grant Eby establighes a ney ‘world's pool irecord, with'4 continuous run in competition of ‘79 balls. APRIL. . Cambridge, Mass.: C. H. Robinson of Boston estabiishes a,new national Y. M. C. A. shot-put record: #8 feet, 9% inches. 0 Atlanta: Walthour makes a new record for a five-mile motor-paced race on an indoor track:7:3 . Kansas City: H. C. Hirschy of Minne- apolis wins the Grand fmerican shoot- ing handicap. | Muncie, md,‘{) Mungie. team wins the wins the American pold championship. . Atlanta: e Dro establishes a new record for. ¢orftinuou# pool, running s balis without missing. Joliet, Iil.: Michael Binzen, bowler, makeS 20 suecessive strikes in three successive games; second game a per- fect score of 300. Nice: Mile records broken by Wil- liams, motor bieyclist, 1:27 and by mont. mMotor tricyciist, 1:v3-5. . National Baseball League scason be- gins. - . Newark, N, J.: Frank Kramer breaks the quarter-mile bicycle record, tlying star 5 seconds. . Boston: Americans win Cable univer- sity chess tournament against the British. 6. Philadelphia: Jacob Schaeffer breaks the world’s record at Is-inch balk-line billiards, making a run of 145 points. MAY. 2 Paltimore: Frank Sherman regains the world’s pool championship asiunst W. H. Clearwater. Louisville: Weinig knocks out Choynski in the sixth round, Tuledo: At bilijards A. D. Stranahan makes 1i19 points without a break. Portland, Or.: H. W. Rerrigan makes two new worid’s records: 6 feel 233 inches in running high dive, and 15 feet 3% inches in running long dive. 3. New York: Metropolitan hand.cap won by Arsenal in 1:42. | Louisville: Alan-a-Lale wins Ken- tucky Derby in 2:08. 4. Newark, N, J.: krank Kramer breaks the quarter-mile bicycle record, 2 2-3 secands. 9. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard wins in- ter-collegiate strength™ contest, with 74,506 points. 11! Paris: Tom Linton of Englarid breaks the world’s hour bicycle record; 71 ki- lometers 955 mete: 12. Fort Erie, Ont.: Gans knocks out Erne in one round 19. Philadelphia: McCoy narrowly escapes being knocked out by Kid Carter in a six-round bout. 2. Berlin: Karl Mann, vegetarian, wins international pedestrian match from Berlin to Dresden, 125 - miles, in 113:14%. 21. Oakland: Sacramento and baseball teams tie game; score 4 to 4. 23. Denver: Young Corbett wins the de- ~cision over Kid Broad in a ten-round bout. Oakland play nineteen-inning Brooklyn handicap won by miles in 2:07. Latonia Derby won by 11 miles in 2:38%. 29. Joplin, Ferns knocks out Zeig- ler in three rounds. 29, San Francisco: Jimmy Britt out George Lavigpe in'7 raunds. 80. Providence: Elkes wins 25-mile motore paced bicycle race with e uuischard of France in 40:29 2-5. New York: M. J. Sheridan surpasses his own world's record by throwing the discus 125 feet 3 inches. Atlantic City: Joe Nelson of Chicago breaks the worid's amateur ten-mile bicycle record twice, first by 12 sec- onds and next by 14 seconds. Jext day he breaks the one, two, three, four and five mile amateur records. 31. London: Americans win the interna- tional_polo match and the cup. New York: A. F. Duffy creates a new world's record of 9 3-5 seconds for the 100-yard dash. . JUNE. 1. Newark, N, J.: M. L. Hurley breaks the five-mile bicycle record in 11:09 1-5. 2. London: Kid McFadden of San Fran- cisco wins the world's bantam-weight championship by knocking out Jem W iams of London. 6. Boston: World's bicycle records from 15 to 25 miles, motor-paced, broken by Albert Champion: 2% miles in 37:15 3-5. 12. Washington: Champlon of France twice breaks the ten-mile motor-paced bicycle record, second time in 14:03; also breaks all paced competition rec- ords from one to, ten miles inclusive. Boston: Elkes lowers all world's bicy- cle records from cne to 41 ‘miles in- clusive; fastest mile in 1:233, 14. New York: Suburban handicap won by Go'd Heels in 2:05 1-5. New York: Yale wins the inter-colle- glate ba all championship against Prineceton. Pittsburg: Champion makes new bi- eyele récords from one to ten miles; one mile in 1:18 2- 15. Newark. N. J.: Kramer, bicyclist, rides $6) yards in 55 secénds, a new world's record; half mile in’\:54 4 ten miles in 22:10, another world's record. % Wyeth wins American Derby 21. Chi in 2:40 1'5. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: Cornell wins ~Il three inter-collegiate boat rdces. 22. Newark, J. Hst,erides amateur record. 22. Lowdon: Ruhlin whips Tom Sharkey in 11 rounds. 26, New London: Yale wins ‘varsity boat race azainst Harvard: Harvard wias fcur-cared race: freshmen's race a d heat. 26, Vienna: Paris-Vienna automobile race won by Rerault, the Frenchman; 15 hours 22 minutes. 27. San Frarcisco: Joe Gans, ligh:we'ght cbhampion (f the word, knocks out George McFadden in 2 rounds. JULY. 5.Newark, N. J.: M. L. Hurley, blcy- clist, rides ten miles In 10336, a new vecord. 1. Pittsburg: Freeman wheels 20 miles, pced. in 290K 4-5. a new record. the English- san. wins diaménd boating scuwis. 2. New Yerk: E. C. Schaeffcr of Phila- delphia makes these new Americ swimming reeords: 110 -vards, 1:19 3. 230 urv.:s 453 530 yards, 8:21 3 knocks mile in :57 3 a 370 yards, 151 3-50 o0 ards 14, Detroit: Direct Hal paces a mile in 2:00 3-4, a new record for a green horse, Fort Erie, Ont.: Kid Carter knocks out Weinig in_the 12th round. 16. Providence: Kramer wins the one- ihird ‘mile national bicye'e ehamyinon - ship;’ time, 29 2.5, defeating E. M. Byers of Pittsburg. 19. Chicago: L. N. Jaities of Chicago wins the nationai golf éhampionship. 21 London: F. Appleby cuts the worl ?%ux\:r_reuord for running.15 miles to 24. Oakland: Gans knocks out Rufe Tur- ner in 15 round: 2. San Franc Jeffries knocks out Fitzsimmons in the eighth round. 26. Salt Lake: Unpaced professional bi- cvele record for one-quarter mile bro- ken by Furman. Hoffman, Chapman and Samuelson, in :24 4-5. 31. Walsall, England: D. Billington breaks the world's swimming record for 0 yards: 6:25 T AUGUST. 2. Boston: Harry Gill of Ottawa wins the all-ground . professional athletic championship of the world, with 7.45% points. beating all previous record: 5. London: , Joe Nutall lowers the worl . Hanover, . Pittsburg: Joe . Berlin: . San Francigeo: . Néwport: W. . New able in 1:M. . New York: . London: F. . Chicago: . Fort . Readville. . Chicago: . Pittsburg wins the National E . L . Lexington, Ky . Cleveland: . Fort Erie, Ont. . Clevelan £1. Memphis . Footbal . Parts: . F.os. Angele: . Dourdan, France: . St. Lows: . San Franeiseo: . Chicago . Dourdan, France: " T'sle 5, Pennsylvania C. . St. Lot " broken by’ Ewry; do . Pitt<burg: . San Franciscg: in seven rnn?t 271. Football: P . Foetball: . Philade’phia: . Detroit: . San Franeisco: swimming record for open water, td Londor: 'F. W. Chase, on motor bicycle, covers five miles in 6:10, and mile, flv'ng start, in 1:09 25, both world's records. Friedetau, Germany: Rohl of Mu- nich beats.'the werld's six-mile cycle record, averaging 37 miles an hour. Germany: Janowsky wins the .internatioral chess tournament ew York: World's amateur mile agon record broken by E. E. Smath- er's Lord Derby; 2:05%. Nelson lowers the world's 20-mile cycle record to 27:13. Fhellla and Sconce each break orid’s shooting records by scoring % kilis out of 100. W. H. Golcher breaks world's record in fly casting by throw- ing line 134 feet. A. Larned, American, retains the American tennis champion- ship against R. F. Doherty of England. San Francisco: Hanlon knocks out aurice Rousch in 6 rounds. fork: Futurity race won by Sav- quarter-mile, SEPTEMBER. Dr. J. E. Mulligan makes a new world’s record for ten !X;E\d'n‘ jumps; 116 feet 34 inches. M. F. Swee- ney breaks the world’s record in hitch and kick by touching the bell at 9 feet 4 inches. George N. Holden estab- lishes an American road record for ten miles in motor cycle race: 14:57%. V. C. Lane, Australian, makes a new world’s récord for 30 yards; $:41 1-5. Women's Western tennis championship retained by Miss Myrtle MecAteer of Pittsburg, who defeats Miss Carrie Neely of Chicago. rie, Ont.: Tommy Ryan knocks out Kid Carter in the sixth round. New York: Lord Derby trots the " fastest series of three heats to wagon cn record; 2:06%2, 2:06, 2:06. Mass.: Dan Patch equals the world's mile harness record, 1:39% . Philadelphia wins the American Base- all League pennant g Jack O'Brien defeats Choyn- ski on points in a six-round bout. OCTOBER.- Philadelphia: Jack O'Brlen of E and bests Peter Maher in a six-rcund L5 seball ue pennant and the highest num. ber of games in a season in the league's record. Brookline, Mass.: the w Miss Hecker wins yachting ecup Ozanam_ wins nsylvanfa stake in the fastest serics of six heats ever trotted, each being_under 2:v. Katherine A tes the Futurity record for one heat, 2:14. Pittsburgs, pennant win- ners of National Léague, win tI world's basebail champlonship agair the All-Americans. Gans knocks out MePartland in five rovnds, Lexington Onward Silver trots two i 5. <ing the Americ ung Corbett awarded ision over Bernsteii Joe Nelson lowers the bicycle record, sin- gle naced. 5. Oakland: Eddie Hanlon, a young local feather-weight, jumps into prominence by knocking out Kid McFaddoen in 8 rounds. Memphis: Onward Siiver again low- ers the two-mie trotting record to 4:28%. Major Delmar trots a half- mile in 1:04, a new record Philadelpaia: Young wias the decision ag=inst Young Erne in & six-round bout Chicago: Jack Root awarded the decision in a six-round bout with K'd Carter. Memp imile in = Prince Alert paces a half- . & new recc#d in a ra Calumet bowlers beat the 1000 mark in each of three games, thus breaking the world’s record— 1081, 1079 and 1064, Memphis: Direct Hal an1 Prince Di rect break the mile team pacing. re ord, 2:05%, Nervola breaks the two- mile stallion paeing record 2 is: Contenet, the bi " 43 miles 6% yards in 1 hour, raising the world’s hour record. Cresceus lowers the mile trotting recerd to 4:17. two- . San Francisco: Jack Johnson, the col- ored heavy-weight. secures the de sion over George Gardner in a twenty- round bout. NOVEMBER. Princeton 10, Cornell 1. Yae 6 West Point & Harvard Carlisle 0. Pennsylvania 17, Colum- hia . Eddie Bald, American, wins the international . scratch race. 1458 vards, {n 2:33 1-5. New York: Two_world's athletic records’ broken; 56-pound weight thrown 30 feet 2 inches by Jim Mit- chell. Martin J. Sheridan throws dis- cus 133 feet 7'inehes. Zambria, gelding, duces - the world's fi reccrd to 12:24, Savannal Zeigler knocks out nett_in the first rou Fournier érives an automobile a‘ mile in 47 1-5, breaking the world's record, held by W. K Vanderbilt. At the horss show the pony Krueger vaults a six-foot fence, mak- ing a new world's record. Foctball: Cornell. 50, Jeftersen 0. Harvard 11, nia 0. le ‘36, Bucknell 5. University of Califor- nia.- football -teama wins annual game from :Stanford; score, 11 to 0. Root" gtven the decision over Hart in six round: Feurnier's mile au: le record beaten by Angeres ork: The Monk, driven by C. G. Billings,' makes a new wagon record for ome and an eighth miles Car- Harvard 16, Washington- Pennsyiva ciball: *Yale 12, Princeton ‘Dartmouth € . }.ondun. « Chase, riding a motor b chgle. covers 28 miles 20 yards in holirs. éstablishing a recore makes » record for 100 miles, h McCleliand - knocks out ullivan_ im the. tweltth round. : Yale 23, Harvard 0. ori®s _high-kicking records le kick, 7 feet %5 fifches; special kick, 7 feet 5% mches. Matty Matthews wins the decision against Eddie Kernedy Britt knocks out Erne nnsylvania 12, Cornell 11 Michigan 23, Minnésota 6. St. Louis: Toy wits the decision over McClelland. World's record for running long Aive broken by E. K. Skelly—14 feet 2 mches. . Oakland: Harry Foley knocks “Rough House™ Burns down 32 times in a fif- teen-round fight; Foley securéd the de- clsion. West Point DECEMBER. Kid Carter knocks out Maher in the second round. George Hanley makes the highest possible bowling score, with 12 consecutive strikes. Total score, 1300, San Francisco: = California Baseball League season closes. Oaklard team wins the pennant for season of 1902. Eddie Hanlon wins from Maxey Haugh in 4 rounds at Oakland. Oakland: ~ Harry Forbes, bantam- weight champion of the world, knocks out Frank Neil in § rounds. California Baseball League goes out of existence and is succeeded by Pacific Coast League; Portland and Seattlé are admitted into membership of new league. 22, Anna olis 8. v