Sporting and Athletic Records

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS 197 (in 1886 and 1891). N ORTH has scored 125 goals to S OUTH'S 59. In 1888 N ORTH won by 12 goals to I and in 1890 by 13 to 2; in 1891 S OUTH won by 11 goals to 9. Ball thrown from Lacrosse. In Canada, 165 yards 2ft. 7'.'sin. by B ARNEY Q UINN, trial against record, using ordinary lacrosse stick and regulation ball, at Ottawa, 10 Sept. 1892. In Australia, 148yds. 2ft. by W, B. K ENNY, at Melbourne, 20 Sept. 1886. In England, 124yds. by H. B OOTH at Cambridge, 18 March 1884. Pigeon Flying From Lyons, N.Y., to New Bedford, Mass., 324 miles in 5 hours 29 min. by G. E. H OOK'S bird. S LEEPY, 6 July 1891. This flight represented an average speed of 1733 yards per minute or just over 59 miles an hour. From Thurso in the North of Scotland to London, over 500 miles, in to hours by W. W AKEMAN'S bird, 28 June 1896. This flight represented an average speed of 1429 yards per minute or nearly 48 8 /« miles an hour. From Berlin to Metz and back, 740 miles in 34 hours 30 min., 10 and 11 August 1890. Longest day's flight —614 miles 1 furlong—by a M C G INNISS' regis­ tered pigeon "F" 18,056, flying from Gainesville, Ga., to Philadelphia, Pa., 6.40 a.m. to 7.42 p.m. (13 hours 2 min.), 4 July 1896. Average speed about 47 miles an hour. Greatest distance flown by homing pigeons —1182miles,—by F KED B OWERS' birds D ARBY and J OSEPH, flying from Pensacola, Fla., to Fall River, Mass., 24 July—8 Aug. 1892. Quoits W. M C G REGOR played 25 ringers in 11 50 in 20m., 70 in 30m. and 100 in 43m. at Chelsea, 6 July 1878.