The evening world., 1888-01-03

1888, they will put in six or eight weeks of
good, solid training. Everybody knows that
the system requires a change after the winter
months and before the great increase in the
Lent has even now its adherents. These
young gentlemen will begin as nearly as pos
sible together and while not trying to
Guido each other in the amount of work
which they will do, each one will try to get
gradually down to his finest physical condi-
ton, and then come back to his normal
weight and quit work gradually. One of the
principal exercises will be work on the
punching bag and on the suspended foot
ball. 1t is believed that punching the bag
or the ball is the very best general exercise
known. Every muscle of the body is called
into play, and wind and eye and brain alike
are needed. After the exercise PONCE baths,
flesh brushes, crash towels and han rubs
will be in order. In three weeks from the
time the training is begun flashing eyes,
glowing skins and reduced corporations will
make the sensible youths almost strangers to
friends who may have been out of town on q
visit.
The coming winter games of the Nautilus
boys will be the first effort of these Y. NJ. @.
A. lads. The entertainment will be held on
Feb. 81.
The next ladies' day of the Manhattan Ath-
letic Club will be held on Jan. 10. Special
efforts will be made to have the days pleas
ures surpass the successes of previous occa-
sions.
The best and easiest way in which to dis
pose of all this question about fair and unfair
walkers is to have walking races of three
miles and upward only. This is the opinion
Almost every judge of walking has his W
idea of what constitutes a fair gait. Any
other style of h~eel-and-toe progression gets a
disqualification, honestly enough, perhaps.
but often mistakenly, In a race of three
miles or more the walkers are not near so
likely to run. Why, i'll a 75-yard walking
race records are made that a pretty fair sprin-
ter would have to exert himself to beat.
The Spartan Harriers and Company H of
the Twenty second Regiment will have q fine
joint athletic meeting at the Armory, in
Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue, on the
evening of Feb. IL. Beside a tug-of-war for
6%OO-pound teams of four men, there will be
so, 440, $50 yard and one-mile handicap runs
and a one-mile handicap walk. There will
be a reception, with dancing, after the
sports.
That " wall " of the Pastime Athletic Club
about the Manhattans taking the date, Jan.
ing competitions for the big indoor athletic
meeting, is the funniest thing imaginable to
people conversant with athletics. The Man.
haitian people say that they did it ignorantly,
ana IL seems quite likely that they dld, but
can the Pastimes blame them if the clash was
=? Mr.. James Z. Sullivan, the
Pastime President, one of the best fellows in
the world, hasn't been over-fond of the
cherry diamond wearer for a long time and
has never been a bit backward about showing
it. But now to come out with such q piece
of typewriting as that sent out the other day
It's lots of fun to give a fellow a terrific
cross-counter, but the sport vanishes when he
cross-counters you, in a different style, per-
haps, but Just as hard.
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The Athletic Association of the University
of Pennsylvania will hold its games in thel
Academy of Music, in Market street, Phila-
delphia, OH Jan. 90. The Manhattan ATHLETIC;
Club will send on q team of such champions!
as AL COPELAND, Z. d. LANCE, II. NJ. Banks,
jr., and =. ID. Skillman. This team will also,
compete at the Prospect Harriers' and Four
teenth Regiment games in Brooklyn onI
Feb. 1.