The evening world., 1889-08-26

NAH Men Are in Fine Condition and n Great
F,abt IL Looked FOr-LRbor Day Games
oC the staten Island Athletic Club
sulIivnn's Exhibition mt Oak Island Next
saturday.
Billy Dacey, the clever lightweight pugil-
ist of this city, writes from San Francisco to
a friend, in which he says that California is q
PARADISE for good fighters, but a man must
he a good one before he is accepted as such.
Dacey paid a visit recently to Dempsey at the
l~atter's training quarters at Alameda, and de-
scribes the Nonpareil as being in fine form,
better than / aver saw him in my liie,' says
the writer. La Blanche is also described as
be,ng in splendid condition. The great battle
will take place tomorrow night in the Cali
fornia Athletic Club rooms The purse is
$500, of which the loser will get $500. The
Marine is quite atavorite in the betting. Dacey
ia trying hard. he says, TO get u match
IN with Jimmy Carroll. but the latter appears
20 avoid it, and plays the bluff game bv say
inc that he cannot meet Daoey until he hears
from Carney. whom he has offered SO, 900 to
come over from England and fight. The
meet after the Dempsey-La Blanche fight
and decide whether they will offer a purse
for Dacey and Carroll. Jack Delaney is ut
San Francisco, wait ,ng to make a match with
A l24- pound man. Warren and Murphy will
fight next after the battle tomorrow night,
and then the Reagan-Mitchell contest will
follow.
The Staten Island Athletic Club announces
it's third Labor Day ceie bration to be held
next Monday at West New Brighton. The
athletic games will open al 10. 80 a. NJ. with q
125-yard handicap run on the turf, a 220, 440,
$50 yard and q wo-mil run, all handlcaps;
A mile walk. u two-mile bicycle race, running
I'LL ;,pnn and a rnnninu broad hmm At
$50 p. NJ. the lacrosse teams of the ). l. A.C:
and the Montreal Lacrosse Club will
engage in a game: At $50 a regatta
will begin with an eight-oared shell race,
distance one mile, straight away. Each man
III the winning crew will receive a gold medal,
the winning crew a banner and the S.. L. A. G.
Cup. Crews of the Union. Passaic, Atalanta.
Alcyone, Potomac. Schuylkill Navy, Triton,
New York Athletic Club, Paramount, Sea-
wanhaka, Metropolitan and S. l. A. c. clubs
are expected to compete. At 4,9O a baseball
match will be played by mines of the Cape
May Athletic Club and the Staten Island
Athletic Club
Prof. Drohan, of the Parnell Athletic
Club, writes from Boston TO the illustrated
Ne,rS, to say that Sullivan will give an eXhi-
bition under the auspices OF that organization
next saturday, at Oak Island, when Ashton,
to appear. The Zig fellow is in the pink of
condi ion at Crescent Beach, where he is
stopping. Prot. Drohan describes the meet
ing between Sullivan and his parents as quite
affecting.
Oct. 10 and IL are the dates fixed for the
annual boxing competitions of the National
Athletic Club, of Brooklyn, and the Labor
Lyceum in Myrtle avenue is the place. There
will be c%ontests for bantams, electromagnetic,
light weights and heavy-weights, and gold
medals will be awarded the winners and
silver medals to the second best in each
class. The same Club will begin its regular
monthly boxing exhibitions on Friday night
next.
Chappie Moran and Kelly, the Harlem
Spider. will try once moro to meet at the
illustrated AetDs Office this afternoon and COM
plete arrangements for their coming battle.
An athletic club is being organized on the
west side of town. with headquarters ut 852
Eighth avenue. Prof. s. Arteagra ID the in
Structor.
The Passaic City Wheeling and Athletic
Club will hold its annual games next Satur-
day at Clifton, N. j. The entries closed last
Saturday.
Capt. Peter Hunt. the famous swimmer.
says that he will back one of his pupils in a
diving contest. for gracefulness and height,
against Alice Ward, or any other lady SWIM
mer. for $25 q side, the victor to give the
blhhCH ~ II NENlN 'OhLb . W. Doby
Inc
Frank NJ. Slevln says he has a boy sixteen
years old who he thinks is a wonder in
sprInting. The youths name is Michael
Giblin, and Slevin is anxious to arrange a
match between his pupil and Fred Carlton at
one to three miles.
Several important changes have been made
in the interior arrangements of the Central
Turn Verein at Sixty-seventh street and
Third avenue. Several new exercising ma
chimes have been added to the gymnasium
and the ceiling of the dinlng-room has been
redecorated in imitation of the Union Club.
Three large gas ranges have been put in the
kitchen and the dining service will be more
expeditions and better arranged than for
merly. To- the subcommittee, Messrs. Jacob
Rupert and John G. Gilllg, are the dining
facilities due.
The Usual Plan.
from Puck,