The evening world., 1890-06-25
SPORTS OF The ATHLETES.
Exodus to The Great Yale.HarVard
Varsity Race Friday,
Over 200 Entries for the Eastern
states Athletic Championship.

season will be the annual races OF the Kings
County Wheelmen. at Washington Patk,
Brooklyn. Saturday afternoon. The entries
number over three hundred, and among
them are many local cracks of reputation.
Twenty.one events are on tho programme.
Two are club cham pionships Of the brook
Ign Bicycle Club, and ore the club cham
pionship of the Long Island Wheelmen.
The event " the meet will be the mile safety
race which has attracted HoylNud Smith.
one Of the fastcst men in the country, and
Murphy, Schumacher and other cracks.
Many Harlem oarsmcn and their friends.
who take n great interest In the coming race
at New London between Yale and Harvard.
have succeeded in securing the Stonington
steamer Rhode Island, which will he run
direct to the course on the Thames on tho
day Of the race, and return to New York at
the termination Of the contest
So large q delegation Of local boating men
has never before attended the races nj New
London, but tho unusual interest and I'M
rortAnco of the contest this year will, no
doubt. bring oarsmon together from all
parts Of the country.
co-President william j. Swan. OF tho
Manhattan Athletic Club. will leave for
Europe on the Aurania Saturday in COM
pAny with his wife. Mr.. Swan IL very pop
nlAr in tho Club and about one hundred and
Atty OF its members VIII see him OIL in great
They will take tho steamer America and
sail down the Bay with the Aurhuia, which
l., where they will give their departing OH
Ger and his wife q parting adieu. Then they
will DO taken direct to the staten Island
Athletic Clpb,s GROUNDS in time Tor th e
events.
The Manhattan Athletic Club has thirty
nine entries in, the Eastern championship
events to be held on Saturday, a larger
number than any other club. The total en-
tries are over 200 in number, which is larger
than usual.
Mr.. william Young, who has come all the
way from Scotland to arrange a series Of in
ternational football matches: Y highly
ha. been received. Ho has already received
letters from the secretaries OF the leading
clubs fayorinR the, proposition. The Oalo-
donna, Club and other Scottish societies are
already talking about giving the i~nterna-
tional team . banquet on their arrival.
The Northheld Athletic Club held their
for the LAMBERT medal. 1t was won by
Dick Burbank.
the payment of tho stakes to Stansbury.
OhConnor claims the race on the ground that
Stansbury took his water n quarter OF q mile
from the start, and that a foul ensued. The
umpires deny that there was n foul. The
Sydney. H"rdid says that O'Connor. has
claimed the championship because Kemp
would not accept his challenge. O'Connor
will not row in Australia again, but will
challenge Kemp to row oil the Thames for
$500 q side.
eight-oared race at the Long Island regatta
Saturday, II will probably have starters
from All the frst;Glsss clubs IN this VICINITY.
The Nonpareils. New York Athletics. Unions
Tritons.. of Newark. and others are among
the entries. The DAuntless Club will have
= tug at the regatta; j. will leave their boat
The new cutter yacht Juma, built from
Of OSwego, by Mr.. wintrinGham, lay in the
basin at Bay Ridge yesterday all ready to be
towed up the Hudson and through the Erie
ant Oswego canal TO her future home, Lake
Ontario. Those who have, seen the Gutter
a counterpart Of that famous boat
A fifteen mile race will be sailed July
between oyster boats from Hempstead HAr,
Dor, Oyster Bay. Cow Bay, City Island and
Keyport, n. j.. over q triangular course of
the breakwater at Glen Cove landing.
The Larchmopt Clubs eleventh .nnua!
race will be sailed July I over the regulAI
course. The prizes will include the Common
and Gould cups aud the cup won by the
Clara at the last Spring race.
The second special race OF the American
Yacht Club will be sailed over a course or
Long Island Sound July z. There will be q
prize in each class where two yachts start.
and q second prize il four start in q class.
John l., S%ullivAn's friends are jubilAnt
over his escape with 4 fine at Purvis, Miss.
In Boston the sports held . regular Jubilee,
Sullivan wired his father that he would
come North Immediately.
A special cable to Richard K, Fox sayI
that Joe McAulitfe and Billy Madden re-
ceiyed q splendid reception at the Pelican
Club. and that McAuliffe is a popular
fayorite.
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