Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-20
Sporting Notes,

WALTER W. BURNHAM was a great success last
season rs manager of the New Haven club.
1t may be that there was some misunderstand-
ing regarding that check presented by Catcher
Decker.
1T is fully expected that as soon as the new ball
club is thoroughly organized cinder path will be
built in Exposition Park. 1t is sure to be sue
cess.
THE Sporting Tunes is evidently on top. This
week it comes out in a new dress and twice its
usual size. 1t will also be profusely illustrated.
Brother Caylor is 4 hustler.
LAST year. at Hampden Park, Yale had but Is
seconds to spare when she scored her single touch
the third down instead of letting Yale have the
ball on the fourth down the game might have re-
suited in tie.
WORD comes from Buffalo that the Ramblers
Club, of that city, contem plates resigning from
the l.. a. W. at their next meeting and apply for
posed because a number of the Ramblers are all
round athletes.
THE troubles of the veteran catcher, Frank
lost his saloon business he met with a greater af-
Fiction in the loss of his father, and on top of
these il is now said that he has been made de-
fendant in divorce proceedings brought by his
wife.
CERTAIN Jockeys seem to understand how to ride
certain horses better than others who may be put
up. Taylor on stubborn or sulky horses seems to
be the right man in the right place. He has al
any other jockey, and on Dundee his last effort
was simply brllllant.
JoE CoBURN. the eN-champion pugilist of the
will be given an immense benefit at the Lyceum
opera House. on Friday November 2S. The con-
sent of the authorities has been gained, but no
eraI thousand dollars will be realized.
RUMoRs have been in circulation to the effect
that the management of the Yale-Princeton cham
pionshiD game had sold the bulk OF the tickets to
Spectators thus forcing those who wished to see
the game to pay an extra price for admission.
This is denied by the manager. who says tickets
can be purchased al regular prices.
A DISPATCH from Princeton says: Jim Robin
son was taken suddenly ill on the football grounds
To-day while coaching the players. He had to
leave the field. DR. Mcdonald was sent for and
pronounced it case OF blood-1ow to the brain due
TO overexertion in running. This evening Jim is
somewhat better. Princeton's chances tor win
ming would be very blue without her trainer and
Captain Poe. DIR. Mcdonald says that with good
care Jim will be all right soon. but that he must
be careful and not toverexert hmseIfin the future.
THE championship football game between
Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania.
which is usually played on the morning of
Thanksgiving Day, will this year be played In the
afternoon on the day before. 1t was proposed to
play the game at Eastern Park, but the Commit
tee on Football of the Brooklyns( Limited decided
that it was not advisable to take any chances of
having the field cut up in case the weather should
be bad on that day. More than. 8, 900 has been
spent in getting the enclosure ready for the big
lale-Princeton match. The indications are that
the attendance will top the record Applications
for seats are coming in from everywhere. Among
them is one from party Of 20 who are coming all
the way from Omaha to see the game.