The evening world., 1888-09-29
FRESH SPORTING GOSSIP.
Items from the Race Track, Field, Billiard
Hall and Main.

Items from the Race Track, Field, Billiard
Hall and Main.
The gentlemen who so successfully brought
of the recent Mccarthy Hornbac4er glove
fight are laying the pipes for another promis-
ing mill. Correspondence has been COM
menced with q view to bringing about n
finish battle with skin-tight gloves between
Charley Mccarthy and Johnny Murphy. of
Boston. This is just the kind of a battle
some of the Boston Boxing Club are already
vicinity the promoters of it will have to look
sharp.
Joe Coburn's expressed willingness for an
eight or ten-round blackened glove contest
with Jack Dempsey is creating talk uptown.
A competition between. these wonderfully
| scientific pugilists would be intensely inter-
esting.
The winter billiard tournament for the
metropolis hangs u, because of Jake
| Schaefer's u~nwillingrNss to become a con-
testant unless he can let everybody know he
corporal's guard would not pay to see a tour
nement in which the handicapping is by
points, while crowds would be enthusiastic
| over contests which did not make the handi-
Gaping 30 apparent.
The coming winter season promises to be q
brilliant one in the annals of cock and dog
fighting. A number of canine contests for
big money are being talked of for the OPEN
ing of the season, and the early cold weather
the inaugural battles of Thanksgiving time
very interesting. Westchester County, New
4 Jersey and Long Island country farms are
alive with the finest bred young fighting
fowl.
Anybody playing the races on the double
up-on-the. favorite principle at Gravesend,
yesterdy, had to put quite q sun on by the
time 1t came for Fordham to win.
Firenzi was perhaps not quite on edge on
Thursday and yesterday, probably a little off
from her hard race of the day before still
many think if Garrison had sent her q little
faster the first mile of Thursdays race with
Kingston she would have killed him off. If
jockeys cannot acquire Mr.. Sooner "
Strauss's perfect system of keeping track of
the time while driving or riding, cannot some
mechanical appliance aid them? Surely it
would have paid the Higgins. even if it cost
them $500 or $500, to have informed Garrison
at the principal points of his journey what
time the distance just traversed had been
done in.
The second annual games of the Queens
| Amateur Athletic Gu make q centre of in
terest in Long Island to-day. There are first
class entries for all the events. The bicycle
contest is to be o feature.
The fact that the Irish athletes have thus
early in their American trip become involved
in the unpleasantness existing in local ANA
teur athletic circles cannot be attributed to
any fault of the visitors. 1t is their mis-
fortune. due to q misunderstanding of the
| condition of affairs and to misleading cir
cumstances. 1t should not be allowed to in
terfere with the success of their exhibitions,
which will undoubtedly be of the first order
and we'll worth the attention of all who have
the love of athletics within then. The games
at Eighty-sixth street and Eighth avenue this
afternoon should be well attended.
The Yale Athletic Association fall games
will be held at Yale Field. New Haven, Oct.
IL, ut 2. 80 p, N.