The evening world., 1890-07-21
SPORTS IN FIELD AND AFLOAT.
Hope that the College Football
Teams Will Meet the Scots.
Fast Time Made by the New York
Athletic Clubs Four.

The Scottish football team that ia to
arrive here the latter part Of next month
is composed of the pick of Scotlnnd's
players. As there never has been any
profess onnl American football team.
in order not to inval!date the stand
ing of ANY If the clubs on this side
of the water which the Scots may
meet, the visiting team will he organized
aud conducted strictly on an amateur
basis. Fortunately. the visitors will ar
rive at q date early enough TO admit of the
college teams playing against them
should the colleRians SO elect.
The college hoys would lose hut q
tritle ly INDUCING in tho Association
gaino for n week ur two in
practice before meeting the SEQ s.
They could then resume their Rugby
game, according to an authority on col
lege football. lie said further that he had
noticed n disposition among the Yale and
Harvard footballists to measure strength
with the Scot. They want to see just
how II tennis compare with the best
football PLAYERS OF Great Britain.
The Princeton boys have already signi-
fed their intention OF putting nm As-ocia.
tion team into the field to play the Scots
early in October. While none of our
college boys claim To be sanguine that
they can defeat the visitors. they believe
they can give them n very strong fight.
The Scottish team which will play here
will be Scotlhnd's repI esentstive team
that will meet the represe ntative team
of England in the annual great inter
national match between Scotland and
England.
New Workers arc to be congratulated
upon the fact that there IL u strong prola-
bility that many of the matches to be
PLAYED by the visitors with American
clubs will take place ut the New Polo
Grounds.
Among the interesting events that will
take place next Saturday on the occasion
of the big athletic games OF the Star
Athletic Club, OF Long Island City. will
be the appearance of Tommy Connect.
the Manhattan Club Aver. IN scratch man
in the one-mile run.
The Secretary Of the Club has received
hIl bNloLAAtD ~ Va "a
from the most prominent athletic orgnui-
cations, including the Now York, Man
haitian. Pastimc. New Jersey. scottish
National, Brighton and Union
Athletic Clubs.
An attempt will be made by an I'M
known" 10 lower the hundrea-yard swim
ming record july 80 at the foot of Fifty
fifth street aud East River.
The Bedford Bicycling Club is the
nnme of a recently organized association
in Brooklyn. A clubhouse AMI q large
member hip Lave already been secured.
The representative teams of the Berke-
ley Athletic Club aud tue New York
Cricket Club are to play Il match game
Wednesday afternoon at the Berkeley
Oval.
The New York Athletic Cub will give q
- ladies' iav" set of athletic games TO.
morrow afternoon at their Travers Island
home. Rowing contests will be a feature.
The annual regatta of the New York
Athletic Club, VIII eli is set Tor Saturday.
viii include single aud double shell. four
Cured and eigh,-oared shell events. 1t
will he open to members only.
L. T. Davenport. of the Fountain Gun
Club. and Theodore Peck. of the Rock
land Club. will shoot tomorrow Mt Hav-
erstraw for stakes OF $3.50 a side. One
hundred uirds, thirty yards rise, will be-
the =" stint of each contestant.
The time made Saturday by the New
York Aihieti' Club and DnuntlesS Row
ing Club four cared gig crews was re-
mHrkahly fast. The course was "a mile.
s%traIghtawav. from Mncomb's Dam Bridge
to Gates's undergrad.
The distance was covered by tine New
Yorks IN bnI. SIS. and by the Danntles III
bm, 5ss. The time OF the New York, was
within quarter of a second of the record.
which stands at SIN. 800 -, made with a
strong favoring wind and tile. There
Was little wind on Saturday at the time of
the race.
Particular pains will be taken to make
the hundred wards section OF the track at
the new grounds of the NSnha't tan
Athletic Cluh at Fiity-iifth street and
Eighth avenue the fastest possible. The
entire track will not be surpassed by any
i'll the country, So 1t is said.
The Metropolitan junior eight is row.
ing every evening III preparation for the
Middle States regatta. The junior eight
of the DAuntless Rowing Club will com
mence practice to-day or tomorrow.
The New Jersey Athletic Clnb will
make a strong bid for a high stand at the
Washington champiOuships. Tine team
that will represent the Club will be a very
one. and will begin training at
once.
The cherry diamond" and ''mer-
athletes will lie given "A
.l,sa mi bv tha snsaFuFtEiuu larsEvu,.n