New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-25

At meeting OF the games cOmmiNee Of the INDOOR
championships of the Metropolitan District Assocla
Hon held at the Manhattan Clubhouse, programme
was arranged for the indoor meeting Of this Metro
nolitan Association which is to be held in the Madison
souara Garden on the evening OF Saturday January %
TIN, competitions will ne a. follows Seventy fveyari
RIM 15Ovari mn. 3oOyard run, 6OOyad run. 1'o'O-
vartr1n twO-mle run, tlrec-quarter mile walk Two
mile walk eicltyyard hurdle race, six flights OF feet
q inches hurdles 800 yard hurdle race, ten nights :
feet 6 inches hurdles standing broad jump, standing
high tump rpnrne hcp, step and jump pole vault for
astance throwing hftyslxpound weight for height put
ting tpntv-pound shot mile safety bicycle race,
turof.var teams of four men, weight limited to zoo
mounds including belt The changes, It will be no
tlced are from the ordinary bicycle to the SAFETY
which Is sensible keeping abreast OF the times; from
the twenty four pound shot to the twenty shot,
a revision likely to encoUage entities for new heavy,
weight men and make the ad-timers strive for new
record from a fOur-mile walk to two-mlle walk,
which places spesn, aH snd tbe changpe OF The
seventy-dveyad hurdle TO eighty yards Which MAXI
the s m 9 Sr SHrG srscys AFFAIR." fhee die
p'onshp medals will be awarded In each conpeuu0ln,
The entries will close on SATURDAY, Januay ~: Edt4
eeventv-sevenrri-st y. Y. \ fee of - must accom-
pany each entry
The effort first made by the New-York Athletic
Club TO make amateur contests popular with the
gentle sex by the innovation Of ladies' days has
become the fashion. A few years ago the feminine
Spaanos athletic s1s sa9S s as d Women SGT @
every athletic meeting doubly attractive; me Nan
rattan a., tsa Yors and the f games Of the
berkeley Athletic Club ut the Berkeley oval Yesterday
were really ladies' day, auother PROOF Oh Ihe Popu
Iarity Of the movement.
The Manhattan Athletic Club has reorganzed it's
aquatic department abOlshing canoeing and swimming
as separate departments and placing them, together
with rowing under the direction Of Frederick Fort
never who has the title Of Director, and is actively
setting abcut the creation Of brilliant indoor swim
ming season. number Of races viii be given az the
fine tank in the new clubhouse, end the building Of
a new boathOuse the Harlem for the convenience
OF the clubs canoeists win be advocated.
What wonder this Detroit Splinter, Jewett. must
bel lie won the final heat Of the 90 in the New
York Athletic Clubs autumn games at Travers Island
fraction Of Second Of as good time as any amateur
the distance, all out
Manhattan men say that their "crnck" oarsman,
Hawkins. viii be renstated in January. careful
investigation OF the Hawkins IL being made. but
he has furnished so many proofs Of good character
that there is longer any question about his stand
Ing.
Eugene Van schack, director of fencing Of the
Manhattan Athletic Club has received 50 large num-
Der of applications for the ploce OF Instructor 70 the
club that he hns decided 10 hold private tournament
with all Of the desirable applicants e0mpeti-
tors and 10 award the place TO the man making the
best showing. This done In the Of the
boxing Instructor with the result that Domnick Nc
Cairey was selected and now holds the place. The
only objection TO Mr. Van Schack's plan is the privacy
part OF H. Fencing Is game that needs encourage
ment and ladies are particularly fond OF fl, too.
Why wouldn't IL DE well 10 have the tournament
Invitation affair In some hall large enough 10 receive
the gathering that would like 10 witness Il?
The owner Of the great stallion Nelson is In hard
luck inst at present; beside getting his horse worse
than beaten" shown up for a 'qutterp-by ADerton
be has Just lost the fne mare MedO, 90 "a. Medora
was out Of the dam Of Nelson and was full sister 10
AuEine, one Of Major piekinsoas fass vsAr