New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-20
LACROSSE IN GREAT BRITAIN.
PLANS OF THE AMERICAN TEAM.


GAMES BEFORE THEIR YOYAGE-CoNFIDENCE OF
VICTORY ABROAD.
\ TRIBUNE reporter called yesterday upon II.
H. Balc Of the American Lacrosse team, which will go
to England. and asked for the latest Mr. Balch
smiled and said that things were exceedingly satsfac-
tory. Grcat interest" said he. lis felt in matches
which the team will play before cmbarkng for Liverpool
We viii play against Yale on Thursday next at New
Haven where the team VIII complete its organization by
reectng officers Then we 70 TO Boston and play
the local club AT the baseball grounds on Fri
day the o5th. We meet Harvard the 2Gth
at the Cambridge grounds. Then we go TO
Princeton and play the college club the 27th On the
ooh We confront Baltimore club IN that city ON tho
30th We 60 Philadelphia under tho auspices Of the
Young America Cricket club and play their grounds
eghCe picked from the four local clubs. Then We
return to ScwYork and May We play twelve Of tho
best lacrosse players from any seven or eight clubs
the game 10 come of at Hobokcn. On May
3 We sal Tor Liverpool. party ~ sixteen
persons including III twelve o. he American team and
the two at,luses all whose names were uub he'd in
last sundays TRIBUNE, with friends. Of Wnom L.
" Fulton will assist the secretary re will have plenty
10 DO tor onr English friends who arc making arrange
menfs for Us have asked rs 10 bring 5000 pg
poster IA different colo, with blank, to he filed III At
the various places where play. TG- - recognition
Of The superior qu4ltcs of American posters which quite
surprised But Eugi,h friend, say could get
nothing good in England"
"What are yOur chances Of success abroadi"
ave have carefully analysed the report, 10 the English
pppar- matches the last three years, aud
we believe thai the team defeated It viii h. tho fault
OF the members We have the Science o. tho game which
T. considerable, aIt have ths pin, steal skill and Ivy
the limo o embark, we shall have lad the necessary
training In playing together. This Il where nave tho
advantage over antagonists in many Of the games
where we meet county associaans anl not clubs For
they are not accustomed to play together as
PINT q
viii he turned against u, for we shall have
TO play men who PLAYED together who know
thoroughly Their ground and who viii De playing before
have what is probably the strongest defence of ay club
in the United Kingdom, and they have soak,cptr who
j. second 10 none, even among the famous goskeepers
What odds 90 tho book-rnakers Ofor for or against
Il do not know That there ha, been single quotation
know that member Of the team Will bet. We VIII not
risk the pos .hty Of being mlsIc2rcseuied. II we win
We win win for the honor Of victory II are defeated
il shall bt honorably too. The National Association Of
Lacrosse Amateurs has Officially endorsed the team "a
representative OF the United states. Read this letter.
UNrED sIAU-s ,NArIoNAL AnA1LuR
. La Eus,L Association,
NEw-HoHK, April IL. 1891
DrM SR: In reply To your inquiry regarding the men
al, be-; ior he American Lacrosse loan C1,d st,
uly meeting the requirements that such team calls or
be ng AL them gentlemen amateurs OF the rsJ class
worthy Of the entire confidence Of this ASSOCIATION
personally know every one Of these men 70 90 ANA
IN the scics sense and such they receive onr
American be the best could send alro al
Should they representatives be defeated We shall
cheerully 9dm that such result fairly due To the
superiority IN sti Of our English opponents
Yours uuly j. r. FLASNURY.
Secretary and Treasurer
what is your route az laid out r.
We expect 10 arrive in Liverpool on Nay II or 10
A. friends read TIL TRIBUNE, and nar wish Ia tre.
eraph US will tell each OF stopping places Wc
Shall be the hotel opposite the North Western Railway
depO and tele grams TO the depot Will be ali right We
Lacrosse grounds, when the first match viii be pIsVed
Gu May II with the Liverpool club. We may
play second game there and On May 10,
Clarence Hotel No Pccadilly on the oIst
play the Lancashire Lacrosse Association the Long.
side Cricket grounds. On May %, the Queens birduY
ton the strongest leans in England From Man
chester we 20 to Sheffield. Our quatcfs will he al tbe
Naunche Hotel We meet the Yorkshire Lacrosse Assn
citation the BramUe Lane Cricket grounds Then We
20 10 Nottingham, where play the County Association
on May %. On May 81 we meet the South Of England
Lacrosse Assocation at the famous Hurnghsm
come the game, We shall there from London
where our quarters viii he in the Aldersgate Hotel u Al
dersgate-st On June play against the Mddlesex As
sociAon NJ tho WanstsRd Cricket grounds Our next an
tag0niss will be the Lacrosse Association OF Cambridge
University, whom we meet june during commence
week that our quarters will be nj Lambos Hotel
mol got determined and on June 10 start for belfast ON
June play the Belfast tesm. and on the l4th tho
United Kingdom Association This last match win be
truly inierpatiOnAi and shall do our utmost 70 H.
several ways"
ghe match between hs LACROSSE Association Of Prince
tom and tho Lacrosse Club, appointed for yes
tedsy vas dropped By mutual oopsent The Bsstef voca
ton bad scattetod tia college players and they we're
unable TO make up team