The evening world., 1889-03-01
ATHLETIC NEWS AND NOTES
1o-NoRRows aAlrHs OF THH NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION At THE aARDNN.

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San Francisc6 Sunday.
The annual Winter indoor games Of the
National Association Of Amateur Athletes of
America viii be held in Madison Square Gar
den tomorrow. The preliminaries begin at 2
p. M. and the finals at 8 p. M. The entry list
numbers over seven hundred. including
some fine athletes, and q number Of interest
ing contests will DO witnessed. The indica-
tions are that in order to secure q good seat
in the evening Il will be necessary to reach
the Garden early, unless Q box or reserved
seat has been secured. The match races,
bicycle race and tug-of-war will ue especially
interesting events of the evening.
The accounts of Jake Schaefer's runs at the
champions game Of billiards are by no means
surprising. Schaefer il playing on IA by %
inch lines, and OF this.game George Slosson
has made over 1000 points. while Schaefer's
big run the other evening was only 397, and
that not In q match game. Slosson'B run of
89s ct the champions game, on IS by SS-inch
lines. which il more difficult than IA by 2s-
inch lines, 10 the highest on record for this
game.
In an entertainment which precedes the
Windsor S~erenaders' ball at Clarendon Hall,
Thirteenth street. between Third and Fourth
avenues, tonight, William Symmons and
Frank A. Crook, middle-weights, employees
Of the Windsor Hotel. will slug each other
for three rounds. Arthur T.. Lumley has
been asked to be referee. The sst-to win
probably provoke much merriment.
Frank Herdic, the vell-known pool-seller,
arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and
will STAY here some time.
jerry Dunn has made ~sixty-one entries for
this seasons racing, which he expects will be
q successful one.
Johnny Griffin, the feather weight, who
defeated Tommy Danforth q short time ago,
Is in town. He came from Boston yesterday,
expecting to attend the Cushing Bartlett
fight, and was disappointed when he learned
that Gushing had been required to give bonds
lest he should engage in q prize-fght.
Andy MCCARTHY, the jockey, will arrive In
this city tonight from New Orleans with
Ocean; Probus and Doubt, the horses he has
Stable, in which he is interested. He will be
accompanied by Cor McAuliffe, the light.
weights brother, who has been South on
pleasure trip. Mccarthy has had an unsuc.
cessful Winter in the South; He has no!
s5 pounds. He has been .reinstated
at Guttenburg, where he was ruled of for ar
alleged pulling of Fiddlehead: Andy ex'
planned that the horse had walked thirteen
miles, from Clifton to G~uttenburg. and Ea'
to keep him from falling.
Johnny Reagan, the middle weight, wal
not engaged in q prize-fght in P~enpayluania
on Tuesday night. as was reported. he wa,
Tuesday in this column.
Dan Honig, the racing man, has bough,
the horse Can't Tell for $500
Two hundred men are working daily OF
the new track Of the New Jersey Jockey
for this season. Michael Dryer, who il a,
the head of the organization. IL looking fol
O successful series of races ON this course
when completed.
Jake Kilrain will probably start for Eng.
land the latter part of next week.
The match race between William O'Con.
nor, Americas champion oarsman, and Jaks
Gaudaur will be rowed in San Francisco next
Sunday. The match has been severely criti.
cised by Q number Of sporting men in Frisco
as an exhibition rather than for O square
race. but it will decide which man shall have
the choice of going to Australia 70 row Searle
for the championship of the world, and this
IL enough in itself to insure o square race.
An advance agent Of the wrestling fakirl
who have been working Massachusetts, and
| Connecticut for all they were worth the
greater part Of the Winter, has struck this
town and, as usual. IL out with q challenge To
wrestle any man tor from $500 to $1,000
| side, mixed wrestling at the three popular
styles. He IL Capt. DAILY, and it is confidently
expected that either Ross or Dufur will hap
pen along in . day or two and accept the
challenge, when q match will Of course be
the great wrestling match for the champion.