The evening world., 1889-03-12
THEMARQUIS AND OUR JAKE.
rHEY NAY BE STIMULATES ON A TRIP
ACROSS THE OCEAN.

-, NqeC.rthy's Coming Fight with an
r,hpowu-BiTly Edwards on Fighting
yv.irbts-John Kelly Won't he an Um-
.,re-News About Kilraiu-Mutrie in
MIA Feather-He Thinks He'll Have
Tbe Polo Grounds for Another Year.
The MARQUIS of Queensberry and the Hon.
y.ls Kilrain may be shipmates on their COM
;no trim across the pond" The Marquis
lid on Mr.. Richard X. Fox on Saturday to
IAN at what time Mr.. Kilrain was going
S~.r and when Informed that he would sail
~ The Adriatic tomorrow intimated
Az, a was not improbable that he would take
.bo same steamer. His Lordship 10 very anx-
IONS 70 be present at the contest between Nh.
\ Mitchell and Mr.. Smith.
chi Mccarthy. of she Scotch Athletic
j mub Of Jersey City, and Holske's Phils-
d.lpbia :" unknown" whose name 10 also
MCCARTHY. are matched to fight to o finish at
"a mounds, inside of two weeks, the battle
20 take place within fifty miles Of New York,
MARQUIS Of Queensberry rules. The etakes
sre b. 600 q side. 1t Is probable that al"
Smith will act as referee.
Billy Edwards gives the following for the
hNnNf1t OF yuOBB III uOuubs - AhOIo COLhb W
Ia considerable uncertainty and unnecessary
S;scueion regarding the proper classification
of professional and amateur fighting weights.
The following is correct for professionals
Weight, il2Fto 1873 pounds: mjddle-weight.
is3 20 l64 pounds; heavyweight, over l64.
Tho amateurs allow up to 116 pounds for
feather weight. and as high rs 1853 for middle
j Weiobt. Also. sometimes they permit the
iiehi-Wejght TO run up to 1877 pounds. 2
49,.
John Kelly has refused 10 ~oficiate as UNI
pire in the Association. He Is IN receipt of o
letter from President Young asking him to
act AZ substitute. umpire in this city for the
the proposition under consideration, but
| saws his business requires 80 much OF his
time that he does not think he can afford to
do even this much umpiring.
.
Manager Mutrie is in high feather over the
result OF the meeting held ct Delmonico's to
arrange for the reception OF, the Australian
ball-players. He eayBit will be the grandest
affair Of RS kind. this country has eyer seer;
be covered with steam craft, from whose
decks cannon will boom and brass bands
blare, and o right royal welcome be extended
TO the All-Americas and Chicagos. Mutrie
states further that from the conversations
with the powers that be he has little fear but
that the Aldermen will decide to let the Polo
Grounds stand another year. The Aldermen
decide the emomentous question this week.
Mutrie has engaged the grounds for April 8
in order TO permit the public an opportunity
10 see the now world famous bal-tossers play
together.
A meeting will be held tomorrow to
select invitation, reception and banquet COM
mittees to receive the coming ball players.
Much interest is conferred In the election of
officers Of the New York Athletic Club. which
occurs tomorrow. Walter g.. Schuyler and
Otto Ruhl ara prominent candidates. for the
Vice-rfendency, e"
Pat Killen IL expected to arrive from st.
Paul tomorrow to make Arrangements with
expresses himself as anxious to get o match
on with either Domlnick McCafrey or Jack
y Ashton, for 81, 500 q side. He feels confident,
he says, that he can whip either.
81 ~
Joe Classy, far from being discouraged by
his defeat at the hands of Frank Donovan.
wants to make q match with any 105-pound
man in America.
.B~rookjyn.-The games Of the Seventh Regi.
llnnent on April 6 are open only to members Of
the regiment.
Billy Madden and Jack McAulife are Civ.
ing spArring exhibitions this week at Hyde a
Bohman's Theatre. Brooklyn. as part Of the
regular performance.
A prominent Yale man. Just from the uni
versity- says that Yale's boating prospects are
brilliant. The crew bids fair to excel even
the famous one of 1888. Harvard will have e
break the record of her three successive de.
feAts. Rowing men. in this city are already
beginning to look forwNrd to the race an6
arc turning their thoughts New London
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