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THE NEW YORK CLIPPER ALMANAC.
 

138 miles in 2h, 33m., inclusiA'e of llmin, stoppage. Engine
Wabasha, Engineer Philip O'Neal, tAvo cars, Clinton to
Chicago, on the Chicago and Northwestern road, Sept.
3,1874.

New York City to San Francisco, Cal., 83.59:16—Jarrett &
Palmer's Transcontinental Train, as above. Left at
12.43 A. M., June 1, arrived 9.22, June 4, 1876. Time
eomputed from the time of passengers leaA'ing by ferry
for Jersey City until their arrival at Oakland Avharf.
Time from Jersey City, 83,39:16. No stop Avas made be¬
tween Jersey City and Pittsburg, Pa.
 

PRIZE   RING.
 

Longest  Battle  on  Record—6h.  15m.,  James  Kelly and

Jonathan Smith, near Melbourne, Australia, Nov., 1855.
Longest Battle in England—6h. 3m., Mike Madden and Bill

Hayes, Edenlmdge, July 17, 1849.
Longest Battle in America—4h.   20ni., J. Fitzpatrick and

James O'Neil, BerAvick, Maine, Dec. 4,1860.
Shortest Battles on Record—2m., by Watson and Anderson

in England, and by Tommy Kelly and W. Parkinson

in America.
Largest Stake Ever Fought for—$10,000, Tom  Hyer and

Yankee Sullivan, Rock Point, Md,, Feb, 7, 1849.
Largest Stake Fought for in England—£2,000, Tom King and

John C, Heenan, Wadhurst, Eng,, Dec, 10, 1863,
First Ring Fight in America—Jacob Hyer and Tom Beas-

ley, In 1816.
 

J U MPIN G .

MAX.

29ft. 7In., by John Howard, running-Avide jump, using 5S)
(each) dumb-bells, and taking off from a block of wood,
1ft. wide, 2ft. long. Sin. thick, and elevated 4in., Chester
Racecourse, Eng., Mav 8, 1854; without artificial aid,
20ft. 5in., S. Muir and J. Young, tie, Dalkeith, Scotland,
Sept. 11, 1869; 23ft. 13^in., *J. Lane, Dublin, Ireland,
June 11, 1874.

13ft. 7in., Joseph Greaves, standing wide jump, first trial,
230) dumb-bells, Wood Park Grounds, Bardslev, Eng.,
Sept. 18, 1875; 12ft. 23^in., *A. S. Thompson, 140) dumb¬
bells, San Francisco, Cal,, Nov. 25, 1875. 13ft. 5%in.,
best in America, Edward Searles, Utica, N. Y., Sept.
23, 1870, 120) bells.

6ft. 2%in., *M. J. Brooks (Oxford University), running high
jump, London, April 7, 1876; 5ft, llin., E, Vardv, Hay-
don, Eng,, Aug, 27, 1869; 5ft. lOin., John West-^best in
America—Caledonian games, Philadelphia, August 16,

47ft., 7in., R. Knox, running hop, step and jump, Leith,

Scotland, August, 1870;   43ft. 5in., *D. C. James, Cork,

Ireland,  May  2, 1876;   45ft.,   John   Maloney—best  in

America—Caledonian Games, Baltimore, Md., Aug. 21,

1876.
40ft. 2in., D. Anderson, standing hop, step and jump, Fort

Eyemouth, Eng,, July 24, 1865,
4ft, lOin,, *F. Hargreaves and E. Moore, standing high jump,

Manchester, Eng., Aug. 5, 1871; 4ft. 93^in., G. Tait, Ar-

miston, Scotland, Aug. 15, 1868.
lOft. 10%in., *C. W.  Goskin, pole-jump,  Sheffield. July 3,

1876; 10ft. 9in,, D. Anderson, Bridge of Allan, Scotland,

Aug. 6, 1870.
26ft., John Howard, over a hurdle 3ft. 6in, high, Richmond,

Yorkshire, Eng., April 30, 1855.
 

HORSE.

39ft.—over water. Chandler, ridden by Capt. Broadley, War¬
wick, Eng., 1847.
34ft.—over hurdles, Calverthorpe, England.
33ft.—over Avail, Lottery, Liverpool, Eng.
 

FIRE ENGINES, HOSE COMPANIES, ETC.

PI^AXING.

321ft. 4in., horizontal, solid stream, steam apparatus, 100ft.
of hose, 13^-incli nozzle, taking Avater from a cistern,
Mis,sis6ippi No, 2, an Amoskeag double-pump machine,
NeAV Orleans, La,, Dec, 27, 1874.

311ft. 93^in., horizontal, solid stream, steam apparatus, 60ft.
of hose, 13^-inch. nozzle, Creole No. 9, second-class Amos¬
keag machine, Ncav Orleans, Aug. 24, 1873.
 

KUNNIXG.

220 yards 30ft, ladder put up, with climber on top—333^sec.—
Centennial Hook and Ladder Co., Plymouth, O., July
4,1876.

220 yards, carrying 160ft. and laying 60ft. of hose, and get¬
ting Avater"through nozzle—3632sec.—Hose Co.'s Wide
AAvake and No. 3 of So. Bend, Ind.—there, Sept. 3,
1876.

440 yards—54sec , 100ft. of hose laid and water thrown in 1:07,
Hope H. and L. Co., 10 men, 1 borse—New Orleans,
La., Aug. 21, 1871.
 

540 yards—1:223^, laying 300ft. of hose, and attaching pipe
in readiness for Avater, 20 men, including pipeman and
hydrant man, Garryowen Hose Co. of Builington, Vt —
Port Henry, N. Y., Oct. 19. 1876; in 1:23. same condi¬
tions, by GarryoAven, at Whitehall, N. Y., Sept. 11,1876.
The Geo. Brett Jr. Hose Co. of Whitehall, N. Y., with
10 men, ran 440yds. to hydrant, attached and laid 260
feet of hose, and screAved on pipe, in 1:23—Fort Ann.
N. Y., Aug. 30, 1876.

500 yard.s—1:23%—carriage and 500ft. of hose weighing
1,6001b. 15 men—Maple City Hose Co. No. l~Hornells-
ville, N. Y., July 5, 1876,

880yds. run and Avater throAvn—2:043^, Hope H. and L. Co.,
10 men, 1 horse—Ncav Orleans, La,, Aug. 15, 1869,

880yds, Pun and 200ft. of hose laid—2:193^—Lynn Mass.,
Aug. 25, 1876.

1 mile—6:10, Active Hose Co. No, 2, 10 men, unreeling
300ft. of hose—Rochester, N. Y., Sept,, 1871.

BICYCLE  RIDING.
 

1 mile—2:66 1-5, John Keen
2, 1876.

33:00

36:20

39:35

42:50

46:023^

49:17

62:33

65:48

59:05
 

-Wolverhampton, Eng., Oct.
 

John Keen—Lillie Bridge, Louiiott,
Eng., Dec. 8,1876.
 

10 miles-

11 miles—

12 miles—

13 miles—

14 miles—

15 miles—

16 miles—

17  miles—

18 miles—

19  miles—1.02:09

20 miles—1.05:34

21  miles—1.08:50

22 miles—1.12:06

23 miles—1.15:46
25 miles—1.26:433^,'J. Keen, London, Eng., Nov. 20,1878.
50 miles—3.06:45, J. Keen—Lillie Bridge, London, Oct 9,

1876.
KX) miles—6.44:10, D. Stanton—Lillie Bridge, London, Oct.

14,1876.
106 miles-7.58:54>4, D. Stanton, Lillie Bridge, London, Oct.

19, 1874.
600 miles—in six days, Mr. Rawson; 43.52 in saddle—Molin-

eux Grounds, Wolverhampton, Eng., 1876.
650 miles in six days (tAvelve hours per day)—one hour and

tAvelve minutes to spare; time in saddle, 46.30—Lillie

Bridge, Oct. 26 to Nov. 1, 1875.
 

BASEBALL.
 

Best professional game—1 to 0, eleven innings, Chicago bt.

Hartford, at Chicago, 111., June 19, 1875.
Best semi-professional game—4  to 2,  seventeen innings,

Rhode Island bt. Taunton, Providence, R. I., June 7,

1876.
Best amateur game—4 to 2, eleven innings,  Hudson vs.

Nameless, at Brooklyn, N. Y,. Sept, 2,1876,
Regulation ball throAvn—133yds, lit. 73^in., John Hatfield,

Brooklyn, L. L, Oct, 15, 1872,
Bases run in—133^ seconds, Edgar E, Cuthbert, St. Louis,

Mo., March, 1875.

snow-shoe" racing.

440 yards in 1:05, J. D. Armstrong, Montreal, Canada, Marcb

4, 1871.
880 yards in 2:393^, J. F. Scholes, Montreal, 1871.

1 mile in 5:393^, J. F. Scholes, as above.

2 miles in 11:30, Keraronwe, as above.

3 miles in 17:52, KerarouAve, as above.

4 miles in 24:04, Keraronwe, as aboA'e.
 

TRAP-SHOOTING.

100 single birds killed in succession (tame doves), two hours,

A.  H.  Bogardus, Dexter Park, Chicago, 111., July 31.

1869.
73 birds killed in 6:373^, A. H. Bogardus, loading his own

gun and shooting from spring and plunge traps, Long

Island, Feb. 7,1871.
 

DUMB-BELLS.

R. A. Pennell put up a bell weighing 2013ilb, John Wood's
Gymnasium, N. Y. City, Jan. 31, 1871,

Mr. Pennock put up a 101b bell 8,431 times in 4h. 34m. in a
match for $1,000 AVith R. Shaick; conditions: the bell
to be put up not less than twenty-five tiin«i^ per minute,
and the fore-arm not to be dropped loAver than the
elbow—L. W. Manes' Gymnasium, Now York, Dec. IS,
1870.
 

RATTING.

25 rats killed in 1:28, Jimmy Shaw's Jacko, London, Enar.,

Aug. 20,1861.
60 rats killed in 2:43, Jacko, as above, July 29,1862.
100 rats killed in 5:28, Jacko, May 1,1862.