The evening world., 1889-01-21
ACHANGE OF CONSTITUTION.
THE NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB WILL
VOTE ON IT TONIGHT.
Jim Robinson VIII Try to Lessen the Dam
gers Of FootbRll-Thc National Curriers'
Listen to n sermon-A New Stable TO
Be Established on the Hudson-FiRht Of
the Two Patsiea Tonight.

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A special meeting Of the Now York Athletic
Club will be held this evening in the club.
house at Fifty-ffth street and Sixth avenue.
to vote on an amendment to the constitution
of the Club dealing with the election by the
Board of Governors of what has been here
tofore styled nonresident members. The
membership of nonresident members is
limited to 200, and whenever there
is o vacancy the Board of Governors
has the power to fill this place
by the election of any one whom they desire,
providing he is eligible to membership. 1t is
proposed to strike out this word " non-resi-
dent" in this clause of the constitution. and
insert the word : athletic, 3" making 1t read
The Governing Committee shall have
power to elect us athletic members any ana
teur athlete not less than sixteen years of
age" &c. The active membership of the
Club is limited to 1000 and the life member
ship to 800. These, with The nop-resi lent, OF
what will probably be athletic members,
give the Club n total membership of 2 800.
There are now about seven hundred applica-
tons for active membership filed away to be
considered when there happen to be
vacancies.
jim Robinson, the athletic instructor at
Princeton, while i'll England last year made
the subject of football, us played in that
country, n careful study, and is contemplat-
the approval of the Intercollegiate Associa-
ton. Mr.. Robinson is acknowledged to be
an authority on football; and his new ideas
of how the game should be PLAYED
attention by the football potentates here.
Mr.. Robinson thinks that much of the danger
10 ribs and legs can be avoided by n few
changesin the present manner OF PLAYING. On
an English team there are hfteen men, nine
forwards, or rushers az we call them, two
half backs, two t~hree-quarter- backs and two
full backs. There is no quarterback.
Many members of the Grand National
Curling Club of America went to the North
Presbyterian Church yesterday TO listen to
the annual sermon of their chaplain, the Rev.
DR.. William Ormiston.
T. G. Eastman, the millionaire, is building
a very handsome place on the bank of the
| Hudson, near Jay Gould's country home, and
he intends to construct a half-mlie track and
buy a few choice brood mares by next Sum
mer. This locality, between lrvington and
Tarrytown. will soon be famous for its sta
bles. William Rockefeller will transfer his
horses to his Hudson River home as soon MS
it is completed. and in addition to these there
are the stables of Robert Bonner and Jay
Gould.
line preliminary COnlpttiiOhS tic uut
Boat Clubs annual boxing tournament will
take place tonight.
Jack Costello. of Bay City, Mich, who is
matched to fight Billy Dacey with skin gloves
for 5000 in a short time. has a pretty good
record to back HIM. and it is expected that
be will make Dacey do lively work to defeat
him. if Dacey should do 30.
Henry Giles, a Peekskill storekeeper, swan
seventy-fve yards in the Hudson the other
day in 4 minutes and 80 seconds for So. This
is good time, but Giles may die as the result
of his swim.
The N. Four AS fixtures for 1889 comprise
twenty-one events, covering the period from
March 2 to Dec. IA.
Jake Valinski is all broken up over his de
feat by Gallagher. { ne of the sluggers of the
Scottish American Athletic Climb, of Jersey
City. Jake says he thought no would surely
win, and this conviction was made all the
stronger when he split Gallagher's cheek
open early in the fight. but he could not stay
with Aleck in the last two rounds.