The evening world., 1889-02-12

cording TO its own Interpretation of the mean.
ing OF the word to be eligible to its runs. and
us dennition of An amateur will be even more
nnely drawn than that Of the Amateur Ath.
,e.ic Union lts change OF constitution will
DC almost an entire REVISION. and practically
o new constitution and laws will be subjected
10 the approval Of the members.
The American Athletic Club will postpone
It's W~ashington's Birthday cross country run
SO as to allow its members to enter the run
OF the Pastime Athletic Club.
Skater Joe .Donoghue received q cordial
welcome on his arrival in the CITY Yesterday.
and will meet with n more demonstratiye one
at his home in Newburg tonight. He will
haitian Athletic Club at 6 p. NJ. Joe expects
70 enter the long deferred skating champion
ships of the National Skating Association
and show his friends here what he can do
after his trip.
Maurice Days annual handicap amateur
billiard tournament is still in progress even
ings, at his billiard parlors, 321 Washington
street. Brooklyn. Arthur Townsend and
W. Barnard were a tie yesterday for first
place. The other contestants are DR.. Dent
ley, George Fogarty aud George Molten.
There is some talk in billiard circles of a
match game between A.. Townsend and Or
vile Oddie. Both men are amateurs, eddie
having won the amateur championship for
two years. Maurice DAILY will give a prize as
an lnducement for the men to come together.
The twenty-seven hour race. which ended
at Waterbury. Conn. Saturday night, was
won by Peter Hegelman, the pedestrian, who
covered 141 miles. Dan Malone was second.
with 1876 miles; George Connors third, 195
miles, II Norman Taylor, the ~pie-eater from
Vermont, fourth, with 125 miles. Happy
Jack Smith was referee. Hegelman's Az per
cent. of the money distributed among the
pedestrians was $S5.
A, twenty-seven-hour go-as-you.p please
race will probably start at Bridgeport, Conn,
on Friday.
The fight of twenty rounds between Ike
Weir and Frank Murphy in March, will de-
eide who is entitled to the disputed Police
Gazette diamond studded belt representing
the championship of America in the feather
weight class of pugilists.
George French. of 296 Mercer street, writes
to The EVENING WORLD that he will be at the
Police Gazette office his afternoon, ready to
meet Joe Hopkins. of New jersey, or his
hackers, and arrange battle with skin gloves
for from 5000 to $500. Hopkins has chal-
lenged French at 1876 pounds.
" oihooCy, WIN VINO tOSthbly utlthtou ny
Frank Donovan, was tendered a benefit at
Hudson Hall, Hoboken. last evening. The
hall was packed with men. Among the box
ers who appeared were were Cal Mccarthy
and Billy Clarkson. Jack Oman and Young
Shay, Billy Dacey and Jack Delancev, Pete
McCabe aud Tommy Russell. Andy Drumm
and Pete Davis, BUNS and Billy Walsh.
There was to have been q six-round go be-
tween Jack Lyman and Jack Griffin. both of
Boston, but at the end of the second round
Griffin said he had hurt his arm and could not
go ON. Sugar Murphy, the referee, declared
Lyman the winner, and Joe Classy wound
up with Frank Donovan in four rounds.
Ben Hyam's offer. cabled from London.
will make much talk in America and may re-
suit in an interesting pugllistic event. Ben
says:
II four out Of Ave Of the aforementioned
men will stake goo each, viz, Sullivan,
to box with ordinary gloves s'A'i four
rounds o., three minutes each, and the final Of
Hall, 1 viii add SO, 900, to be divided as fol-
lows: First prize, 81, 500; second, f70O;
third and fourth, $500 each. Entries must be
made to the Sportsman not later than March l.