The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29

a speciality this season of hurdle and fiat races
vaulting, and high and broad jumping, while
considerable time will be given to advancing
their baseball club. They had very fine
amateur team last year, and expect, with the
increased inducements of this year, to improve
it at least SO per cent. They are an energetic,
pushing set of young men and deserve all the
success that will come to them in honest
amateur sports.
The Manhattan Athletic Club, of New York,
want the earth. They are raising a row be-
cause of the failure of the clubs composing the
Middle A. A. U. division to elect Mr.. George w.
Carr, of the Manhattan Club to be a member
of the central committee. So incensed are
they that they talk of withdrawing altogether
from the union. Besides this the Manhattaus
have fight on hand within their own ranks
the social and athletic members being arrayed
against one another. To add fuel to the flames
the club by its governing committee has de-
cree that newspaper reporters must keep out
of their house. This is funny, as some of the
best workers of the Manhattans are space
writers in the big journals of New York, and
from them all the news is sold to the press.
The Manhattans are the best advertised semi
professional organization in America, and it
is comical to read about their prescription of
members of the press. When they become a
bona-fide amateur organization it will be better
for the athletic world.
Athletics in Baltimore are looming just at
present, and the indications are that in a short
while there will be a club the equal of any in
America. AT meeting on Thursday night
over two hundred representative men
from the Ariel and Neptune boat clubs,
Druid Lacrosse team, Maryland Bicycle Club,
Pastime Athletic Club, and other organiza-
t1oDs 1t was determined to push the matter,
and the chairman, Lawarson Riggs, the old
Princeton foot-ballist, was delegated to Sc
lect committee to assist him. The purpose
is to form one distinctive athletic club similar
to the A. @. s. NJ, of Philadelphia, the clubs
composing it to retain their individual mem
bership. This is the proper way.
If you should happen to meet Potomac
Athletic man and ask him, 'Where is Carcio-
finiE' he is liable to use language not quite
proper to print in a Sunday paper. Carciofni
was the Italian count that suddenly shot
across their path in the role of a sparring in
structor, end as suddenly shot out into space
without as much as bidding his pupils good
bye. The embryo sluggers of the organization
mourn his loss for more reasons than one,
some for lessons in sparring they had paid for
in advance, others for sums loaned the
Professor. He didn't get very large sum, to
be sure, but he got as much as he could, and is
now perhaps working some other city. Addio,
Signor.
The Yale Varsity crew is now in Phila-
delphia getting ready for the race with Har-
ward. They are being coached by Robert j.
Cook and expect to produce the fastest eight
they have ever had afioat. The men who are in
training are Brewster, 91; simms, '92; Heffel-
finger, '91; Paine, '94; Hagerman, '92; Ely,
'9l; Babbtt, '92; Jones, '91; Crosby, '92; Mills,
1913; Graves, '91, and Gould, 94. The crew
has been extended the courtesy of the Schuyl-
kill Navy.
VIII Crist, of the G. A. c., will make a big
effort this yearto capture the bicycle champion
ship of the A. A. U. Crist was formerly the
worlds champion, but after winning that
great honor gave up regular training, and
hence in the races he started in since then
never was in champion form. He will therefore
try once again to reach his best mark.
Despite the factious opposition Mr. Harry
Mcmillan was elected to the presidency of the
Central Board A. A. U. This action pleased
the large contingent of the Schuylkil Navy as
well as many other clubs of the Middle AS
sociation.
Several members of the Potomac Athletic
Club have requested mention Of the fact that
they would like to see Charley Warden enter
The lists Tor captain. Competition makes
organizations, and the more candidates the
greater the interest.
John Eeyder is the secretary of the w. L. l.
9. Athletic Club, and, as John is a hustler in
baseball and other sports, it goes without say
ing that he is working the new scheme to per
lection Tommy Eyers says he is a la-la.
George Carter, of the c. A. c., is developing
into first-class all-around athlete. Not
content with being a champion at sparrng, he
has gone to wrestling and later on will try for
place in the junior four of the club.
Lieut. C. NJ. Loeffier is the director of
athletics, w. l.. |. c., and to enthuse the boys
he has announced his willingness to run any
member OF the corps one hundred yards, give
or take weight, for age.
The National regatta will take place on
Tuesday and Wednesday, August II and is.
| This is the only date that does not conflict with
any professional baseball engagement in this
city,
Young Seribner, who plays with the Y. NJ.
| g. a. ball team, is one of the best amateur
] ball-players in this city.