St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-07
FIELD SPORTS.
The American La Crosse Teams Visit
to England and Ireland.
Games to be Played in This Country and
Games Arranged for over the Big Water.
Polo League and Games Played by the
Gem City Club.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
New YORK, April 6.-The arrangements
for d visit of team of amateur lacrosse
players of this country to England and Ire
team will sail from New York for Liverpool
on May at noon, on the new Anchor line
steamship, the Austral. The staterooms have
been engaged for some weeks and special
arrangements have been made for the com
fort of the men aboard ship. The
only difficulty has arisen over the
selection of the team, for there have
been forty excellent players practicing
all winter each one of whom has hoped to be
chosen. 1t has been desired, of course, tc
get the strongest men, and yet to take about
an equal number from each of the colleges
interested-Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and
one or two others--as well as from the anna
teur clubs in different cities. Several days
ago few men were picked out. They are
Hodge, of Princeton; Davis, Johnson and
Simson, of Boston; Cattel, of Yale; and
Wheeler, Gerndt and Richey, of New York.
The remainder of the team
will be chosen early next
week. Before sailing the men will play
several matches in this part of the country
on April "a, Thursday, with the Yale team,
the next day with the Unions, of Boston
and on Saturday, April 26, at Cambridge
the date for Princeton; Tuesday, the goth,
for Baltimore, and Wednesday, the Both, fol
Philadelphia. The New York matches
will be played at Hoboken. The
national association has arranged for the
Celrichs tournament to be played at
Hoboken on the 1st of May. After the tur-
nament proper is over the best team that can
be picked from six or eight clubs competing
will play against the team that is to &C
abroad. This will be the final game before
sailing
Late reports from England and Ireland show
that there is growing enthusiasm among
La Crosse players there over the proposed
visit of the Americans. The dates for the
international games are as follows: The
opening match is on Saturday, May II, in
Liverpool, against the Cheshire County
La Crosse association. On Monday follow
ing the second match will be played in the
same city against picked team. On We'd
nesday, May 81, the Lancashire La Crosse
association will be met at Manchester. Al
the same place the next Saturday, the queens
birthday, the north of England La Crosse
association will try to defeat the Americans.
IN, ha T
association will play at Sheffield. On Satur-
day the 31st at birmingham game will be
played against the South England La Crosse
association. On June the men will be al
MiddleseX county, June at Cambridge with
the Cambridge university team, and on June
TO- at the Private Banks Cricket grounds,
they will struggle in a return match agains
the South of England. The Americans will
then go directly to Belfast, where the hardest
match has been arranged for June Is. On
June ii the team of the united kingdom will
will have contest with the visitors.
The team from this side goes to win if pos
sible but their opponents will give them a
hard struggle In speaking of the chances
of success for the Americans, II. H. Balch
said yesterday: "The chances of the team
are excellent. The English play good game
but so do we. The Manchester men, it is
said, will rush us hard, but the fercest fight
probably, will take place at Belfastin Ireland,
when on June Is an all Ireland team will
face US, and on the next day, when team OF
picked Irishmen and Englishmen will have
to be met Still | believe our chances are
even there" Lacrosse is an
Indian game and is called the national game
of Canada, but it is growing rapidly into
favor elsewhere. The parent club in the
United States is the New York La Crosse
club, which was organized about 1875, prin-
cipaly through the exertions of Herman
Oelrichs. Since that time both Mr.. Oelrict
and Erastus Wiman, president of the Ma
tional association, have been its sturdy sup
porters and it is chiefly due their encourage
ment that the interest in the game has spread