The evening world., 1889-02-27
M-YACHTING NOTES.
THE SEASON TO BEGIN EARLY AND BE A
BRILLIANT ONE.

sandy Hooks New steamer for the Nom
mouth Park PRtrons-A Draw In the
Horseshoe Turning Match-Not a Bright
Prospect for n Observation-Disclosures
FiGht-Sporting News in General.
All Of the steam yachts owned in the vicin.
ity of New York will probably go into com.
mission unusually early this year to take part
in the centennial celebration of Wa~shington's
Inauguration. This will help TO insure a
more brilliant steam-yachting season than has
been seen heretofore. Joseph Stickney will
put his beautiful yacht, the Susquehanna,
into commission early in April and will be
followed by others of the American Yacht
Club.
The construction of DR.. W.. Seward
Webb's new steam yacht is going on rapidly
in the yards Of the Holland & Hollingsworth
Company, Wilmington. Del. Mr.. Webb
will use his Yacht on Lake Champlain and in
places where he will encounter locks. To
admit of as much length as possible, q new
device will be tried whereby when going into
q lock the bow and stern can be removed,
leaving the yachts ends nearly straight.
The new Sandy Hook steamer, now nearly
completed at Wilmington, Dol: which will
the city to the Hook, will be the fastest
steamer afoat for harbor use. She will be
launched March 8. and will probably be
christened as the Sandy Hook.
E. Laidlaw, of the New York Athletic Club,
will not row with the clubs eight this season,
owing to the recent death Of his mother. He
is a good man, and the club is sorry to lose
him from its crew.
The international horseshoe turning con-
test between David Meridith, champion Of
England, and Jim Donelin, champion Of
America, he'd last evening IN Madison
Square Garden, was declared a draw by
Referee John Johnson, of Forty-second
100 shoes was In. 29m. 27s., while Donelin's
was In. 2Sm. 19s., beating the record by ON.
Ais. but Meridlth's work WIS pronounced
the better of the two and this altered the re-
suit. G.. Girdle, who won the messenger
boys race of two miles in Inn. AIS. was
protested on the ground that he was not a
messenger boy. G. Cain won second place
and q. Bartlett third. Eugene Fliedner de-
race and j. Mccarthy de Gated L: Delaney i'll
the match race of five miles. The manage.
ment lost over $500 ON the affair.
Dominick McCaffrey will not reveal what
saloon he has set his heart on owning, but il
ID buUpObtu W no vi OhlOu oVuuIC, vi very
near it. Dom said yesterday that in case he
is not successful in opening n saloon here he
will have something to say to Jack Dempsey
and Jack Ashton.
1t does not look at present as though q
match would be arranged between Cal Nc
earthly and Eugene Hornbackor. Cal said
yesterday that he met Hornbacker's hacker
and refused to fight at 116 pounds or for less
than $500 a side. Hornbacker wants Nc
Cartny to fight for $3.50 a side and Cal will
not fight at over ia pounds. As regards
he will fight him for a 81. 600 purse and $500
a side on the outside at ia pounds and re.
peated his offer to Murphy, printed in this
column last week.
Tom Farrell, of Yonkers, is matched to
fight Owen McElroy, OF T~arrytown. to a
finish with skin gloves for 5000 a side and
the m~iddle-weight championship of West.
chester County.
Princeton College will seni its tug of war
team to the N. four AS games on Saturday,
and has entered %Janeway for the shot, and
Roddie for the quarter and half mile runs
of-war, is doing great pulling. Jim Robin.
son. the athletic instructor at the college,
was in the city yesterday and said the pros.
poets for his men on Saturday are bright.
The Brighton Athletic Club, of Brooklyn,
is contemplating the erection of a new three.
story clubhouse.
The National Cross Country Association
will enjoy an evenings run with the Scots OF
Jersey City next Saturday evening. The
members will take the 7 80 P. NJ. ferry from
Cortlandt street and join the Scots at 43I