The evening world., 1890-07-21
SPUH7S N FIELD AND LFLUAT.
Hope that the College Football
Teams Will Meet the Scots.
Fast Time Made by the New York
Athletic Clubs Four.

Tho Scottish football team that il to
arrive here the latter part of next month
is composed of the pick of scotloud's
players. As there never has been any
professional American football team.
in order not TO invalidate tho stand.
ing Of any " the clubs on this side
Of the water which the Scots may
meet, the visiting team will bo organized
and conducted strictly on an amateur
basis. Fortunately, the visitors will ar
rive nj a date early enough TO admit of the
college teams playing against them
should the c%ollcgianS SO elect.
The college boys would lose but a
trifle by INDUCING i'll tho Association
game for n week or two in
practice before meeting the Sco'a.
They could then resume their Rugby
game. according to an authority on col
leEo 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 our teams compare with the best
football PLAYERS OF Great Britain.
The Princeton boys have already signi.
fed their intention of putting an Associa-
ton 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 a very strong fight.
The Scottish team which will play here
will be Scotland's representative team
that will meet the representative team
of England in the annual great inter
national match between Scotland and
England.
New Workers. are to be congratulated
upon the fact that there in q strong proba-
bility that many of the matches to be
played by the visitors with American
clubs will take place at 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.
tho Manhattan Club flyer. IN scratch man
in the one-mile run.
The Secretary Of the Club has received
an exceptionally large number of entries
from the most prominent athletic orGani-
HAITIAN. Pastime. New Jersey. Scottish
American. National, Brighton and Union
Athletic Clubs.
An attempt will be made by an :" un-
known " to lower the hundred.yard SWIM
ming record July 80 at the foot of Fifty
fifth street and East River.
The Bedford Bicycling Club is the
name of q recently organized association
in Brooklyn. A clubhouse and a large
membership Lave already been secured.
The representative teams OF the Berke-
lev Athletic Club and the New York
Cricket Club are to play q match game
Wednesday afternoon at the Berkeley
Oval.
The New York Athletic Club will give a
. ladies' day" yet of athletic games to-
morrow afternoon at their Travers Island
home. Rowing contests will be o feature.
Athletic Club, which ia set for Saturday,
will include single and double shell, four
cared and eighi-oared shell events. It
will be open to members only.
l.. T. Davenport, of the Fountain Gun
Club. and Theodore Peck, of the Rock
land Club. will shoot tomorrow at Hav-
erstraw for stakes of $3.50 q side. One
hundred birds, thirty yards rise, will be
the stint" of each contestant.
The time made Saturday by the New
York Athletic Club and Dauntless Row
ing Club four. cared gig crews was re-
markablv fast. The course was a mile,
straighiawsy. from Macomb's Dam Bridge
TO Gates's undergrad.
The distance was covered by the New
Works IN 5m. 3ls. and by the Dauntles in
5ss. The time of the New Works was
within a quarter of n second ef the record,
which stands at 5m. 30Sl r., made with a
strong favoring wind and tide. There
WAS little wind on Saturday at the time of
the race.
Particular pains will be taken to make
the hundred Yards section of the track at
the new grounds OF he Manhattan
Athletic Club at Fifty-tifth street and
Eighth avenue the fastest possible. The
entire track will moi be surpassed by any
i'll the country. So IT Is said.
The Metropolitan junior eight ia row.
ing every evening in preparation for the
Middle States regatta. The junior eight
of the Dauntless Rowing Club will com
practice to-day or tomorrow.
The New Jersey Athletic Club will
make a strong bid for a high stand ut the
Washington championships. The team
that viii represent the Club will be a very
me-, and will begin training at