The evening world., 1891-06-08

The next meeting OF the Long Island Amateur
Athletic LeSRue will be held at the rooms OF
the Brooklyn Athletic Club on Thursday OF
this week, when some more olubs will fall in
line, among which will be the varunAs.
The new Ss-foot schooner yacht ComRnche,
which belongs to q gentleman in Denver, COL,
is to be entered IN some of the crack races in
this section OF the country during the present
season.
Adrian Anson left for Boston feeling de-
cidedly crestfallen after the defeat OF the Chi
cagos by the Brookiyns on Saturday and New
Yorks victory over Cincinnati
Great Preparations are being made by tho
Granite Association, OF Hoboken, for -.
much-talksd-ot ten-round go between Frank
Slavin and Jake KrlrAin, which taEes place
next week. A large crowd is expected and
they will be well taken care or
While there Ia q very large entry list for the
Harlem River Regatta, the clubs which form
that association feel sighted at the meagre en-
tries they received from the clubs forming the
Passalc River Regatta Association.
The Lake RonkonEoma Gun and Fishing
Club will hold Its regular monthly meeting on
Saturday evening OF this week at the club
house, on the banks OF Lake Ronkonkoma,
Long Island.
Owing to the rainy weather yesterday the
Harlem River was pretty free from boats I'LL
after O'Clock in the afternoon, when the ma
jority OF the oarsmen who will take part In the
regatta on Saturday next got out and did con-
siderable practising,
Some good racing Is expected to-day at the
annual Spring regatta OF the Hudson River
Yacht Club. The course is from the foot OF
seventy-sixth street to a stakeboat OF Yon-
kers.
As the time draws appreciably nearer for the
great varsity race between Harvard and Yale,
the interest n the two crews and their work
increases percrptIbly. There Is not the most
cheerful feeling over Harvard's prospects,.
" What hard luck pursued our Varsity crew, I"
is the remark current at Cambridge, Just now.
FIRST was the fact that only two OF last years.
crew were left TO form foundation upon.
Then came the heavy blow OF shaws death,
and last comes the misfortune to Capt Perkins
hlmself-a sprained wrist. 1t was but a day
or TWO ago that Perkins sprained his wrist, and
It will he at least a " eek ana half before ne
can nave MA arm out of the sling. Iale, on
the contrary, Is credited by number Of eX-
pert III gees with having the fastest crew II has
lad since 1888 on IA recent practice pull this
crew was timed for the four miles at 90 min
utes, VI seconds.
Slavlu has settled down TO hard work and 10
getting himself in prime condition for his
match with KIrain. Mitchell. too, has reduced
SlavIn Is not over-cUnndenL bnt at the same
time he thinks he eau best Kilrain In the ten
ROUNDS.
An important meeting of the Seawanh7ka-
Corlnthan Club will he held this evening at
the club rooms in East Thrty-secOnd street,
OF purchasing an anchorage and building II
CLUB house a; Oyster Bay.
There has been q great boom In baseball this
Spring and more attention has been paid to II
than there has been before during the past ten
years.
At the last regular meeting Of the Stuyvesant
Annette Cub twenty-Oae new members we're
ton, having grounds AZ one Hundred and
Eighth street and East Rlver and cluU-house
at 1854 East one Hundred an TwentV-seventh
aIra.t ThrnuUn the efforts of Cantain Frank