The evening world., 1889-02-01
THE RIVERSIDE ATHLETES.
AGOOD ATTENDANCE AND MUCH INTEREST
AT THEIR GAMES.
Western Union Boys Want TO Ne a Nix
Days' Race-Now Fallen IL Thanking Of
Lees-ChanEes In the N. Y. A. &. Eight
Mike Kelly Training for His Coming
Season-Sporting News and Gossip.

Days, Race-Now Fallen IL Thanking Of
L~ees-ChanEes In the N. Y. A.. &. eight
Mike Kelly Training for His Coming
season-sportins News and Gossip,
The first Winter indoor meeting Of the Riv-
erside Athletic Club. in the Belleville Ave-
nue. Rink. Newark. was attended by over
fifteen hundred people, and was declared TO
he n most enjoyable exhibition of athletics.
There were over two hundred and fifty en-
tries in the various events contested. and as
the preliminhries and finals were all decided
without intermission it was five hours before
the programme was completed.
The officers were: Referee, f.. J. Gianini,
N. Y. A. G. Judges-William Halpin, o. A..
c.; W. G.. White, N. Y. A. c., and j. X.
Gore. X. A. c. Timers Robert Stoll, 3. l.
A. c.; j. E.. Sullivan. p. A. c., and S. ID.
See, b. A. A. Starter-W. II. Robertson.
Official Handicapper-W. g.. Hegeinan.
Judge of Walking s. G.. Austin. Official
Announcer-F. w. Burns.
Tn finals were won as followsf
Fifty-yald run, won by W.. p. Henry. O. A..
Diss0-yaId run, won by J. W. Rumpf, $. A. A.
c., thirty yards handicap, IN Pm. LIS.
A. kGH e.. sIx:ih hiTih Gis H%ap; ToR height ss It. ! Pff f. : iS,. y l.
NOnpareil Rowing Club, in Al 2-5A.
Tug-ot-war, won by Naruna Boat Club.
?2O-yard hurdle, won by J. J. McMullen, New
York City nine yards h@sn n! in - 2.'s,
c., scratch, in IOm. los.
44o-yard run, won by =. Z. Corbett, $. 1. A.
c., two yards handicap, I'm. "s.
William O'Brien received yesterday a dele
CATION of Western Union boys, who called on
him at the Police Gazette office to gain his
| ,nr,n,,I o. tbair a,Ior;,r -, bio naxt uiN lay,
go-as-you-please race i'll Madison Square Gar
den. Mr.. O'Brien promised that they should
enter and compete against one another, thus
making two races ut the same time.
The internationa horseshoe turning match,
| which is to be decided in Madison Square
Garden Feb. 20, will be IA novel affair. Each
forge, and will make the fire fly. Several
other events are being planned for the same
evening.
"Soap McAlpin nearly had his skull
smashed to-day sad q well-known sporting
man yesterday. He was coming down
sixth avenue, and the strikers took him tor a
scab. Soap thought when he broke away that
he soon would be what they took him for"
Jack Fallon has recovered from the injury
to his aukle, which he sustained at Bay
Ridge, whiie training three weeks ago. He
declares that he is feeling tip-tup ana would
like to have n talk with the men who offered
the 81. 600 purse rs an object for him and
Tom Lees to fight to O finish.
Lees told the writer before he left for
Strcator. H.. to train Billy Myers for his
fight with Jack McAulltfe, that If he could
get on a fight with Fal!on he would return 10
this city after the Myers cAulife fight; but
If not. he will go to California and thence to
Australia.
The places in the New York Athletic Clubs
crew OF eight men. made vacant by the retir.
ing of w. o. Inglis and L. McDougall, will
be filled this season by J. 2. Thornton, the
half-mile runner. and /. Laidlnw. Thorn
ton will weigh $50 pounds and Laidlaw 1870.
Mike Kelly is in training for the coming
seasons baseball work on the Boston team.
Mike walks 10 Central Park and then runs
several miles every morning.. He says he is
feeling IL fine form. kel will spend O few
days with his friends at the Hub.
Paddy Troy. who was formerly teacher of
boxing IN the Chicago b BARD of Trade. is in
the city, ready to meet any l35-pou.d man to
a finish for from 800 to $500. Paddy is
backed by u man of money here.
Miehling. who won the Verupa Boat Club
Wrestling competition in Brooklyn last week,
will go to San Francisco soon to teach in the
olympic Athletic CluD, III that city.
The entries for the second gymnastic
championships of the Amateur Athletic
Union. which will be held III the Berkeley
Athletic Clubs house. 10 West Forty-fourth
street. on Feb. IA. will close with Secretary
Otto Ruhl. 10i West Fifty-ffth street. Feb.
8. There will be three prizes for each event,
gold, silver and bronze.
The timers of the coming gymnasium
championships will be Messrs. A.. A. Jordan,
Wendell Baker and A. Nj. Sweet. w. H.
Robertson will be the starter.
There is some talk of holding the pole
vaulting contest. which was left out of the
recent games of the Amateur Athletic Union,
in a gymnasium on account of the desire Of
the athletes entered to have it dec ded. The
intention was to have this event included in
the Spring games of the Union, but this long
postponenent is said to have caused dissatis-
faction among the men who will compete.
The Pastime Athletic Club will give q cross
country run, Feb 6. starting from the club
had been received by the British Govern