Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 13709, 14 March 1887 — Sllsccllaneoos. [CHAPTER]

Sllsccllaneoos.

There Is every possibility of a mounted sword contest taking place at an early date between Sergeant Owen Davis and Captain Jennings. Jagnarine can daily be seen riding her pet Selim over the roads of Oakland, trying to take some of the fire ont ot him, bnt as yet she does not seem to have been very successful.' A match game of billiards for $500 a side has been arranged between Al. Smith and Joe Cotton, the New York bookmakers.

Champion Jake Schaeter yesterday received a telegram from James Brady, who went to Chicago to make the match with Slosson, stating that everything had been satisfactorily arranged. The cnshion-carrom game will be played in Central Music Hall, April 4th, and the balk-line game at the same place, April 12th. . Each contest is to be for $500 a side. The cushion-carrom game is to consist -of 500 points, and the balk line, 600 points. A forfeit of $250 on each game has been placed with Curt Gnnn, a prominent sporting man of Chicago. Schaefer is entirely satisfied with the arrangement, and will at once commence practicing for the matches. He will not go to Chicago until a few days before the first game is to be played. 'From records in Sporting Life it appears that Henry Beckwith, the English champion swimmer,' who comes here about March 6th, has won over twenty contests, and twice that number that were not matters of record. Among his chief victories are those ' over the late Captain Webb, whom he twice defeated in a six-day race of ten hours a day and . once in a twenty-mile race at Lambeth Baths.: He also defeated T. Riley at Boston, Mass., for the world's championship, and has won at various times all the . different championships of the world for distances ranging from one to twenty miles, besides obtaining prizes all over the globe. Wm. Henry and Agnes . Beckwith are under contract to appear in Madison Square (iarden, wheni the Barnum-Forepaugh show opens, and will perform in'a specially constructed artificial lake.| ■% . .. . ._ :■;••- :