New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-05

OF course the talk in athletics today and for many
DAYS to come will be of the great National Champion
ships meeting wcr took place ut St Louis on SATURDAY
OF the closely contested competitions and Oh the eha
pions who contended. This trip will be bright spoo
I'm the lives of the half hundred amateur champions ana
their friends who made 1t, Just rs was the Journey "
Detroit four years ago.
Now the talk turns on athletic contests near ct
hand For one thing the amateur boxing season mas
becun Then the Manhattan Athletic Clab has taken
the two important preliminary steps OF securing the
date from the Amateur Athletic Union and engaging
the place and the great indoor games Of the coming
winter season will be given 40 the new Madison square
Garden on November 2S when n limited handicap
meeting will be given, something after the plan OF the
Manhattan Athletic Clubs very successful Caravan
Of Sport held on September 10 at Manhattan F1eid
This affair will be one OF high class In every way II
will not be- like the meetings given By this club dur
ing the famous war between the Amateur Cpion and
the old Association of Amateur Athletes, when bitter
rivalry spurred the officials to their utmost but 1t will
be more of peace jubilee occasion, II any such were
settlement of all difficulties between those great bodies
of amateur athletes, the New-Iork and the Manhattan
Athletic cluDS.
That meeting of the Board OF Managers Of the Met
ropoltan District Association at the Astor House on
Tuesday evening OF last week exceptional in two
ways. First the members got through their work ut
a surprisingly early hour; generally these meetings
begin an hour after the time announced ana last
till somewhere into the next day, but this occa-
sion everything finished in short order The
officials came early, in session within half an
hour II the time the meeting was called for. aid had
scattered for uptown for Jersey City, for Brooklyn
and for Staten Island by a little after ten O'Clock In
the second place q most unusual amount OF work was
gone through with. A lot OF schedules and COM
mlttees and other work Of that kind were rushed
through at railway speed, yet wisely and thoroughly
and the Metropolitan Association decided to hold It's
three big winter meetings far enough apart not to con-
aict yet at such time to be little ahead OF any
National meetings that may be given For instance
il was decided to hold the boxing and wrestling cham
piouships O, the Metropolitan Association in the latter
part of November just ahead Of the boxing and wres
Ting championships of the main body OF the Amateur
athletic uH29 W ndonr w Of the Metro
pOan District Association will DO held probably IN
Madison square Garden IN January; asq inc SmnaS'ic
championships of this body viii be heldin March,
II is not settled yet where the boxing and wrestling
championships OF the Metropolitan District Association
will be held or where the boxing and wrestling cham
pionshps of the Amateur Athletic Union will be given.
II might be a good idea to hold the latter in san
Francisco il money making were the only object IL
Is quito possible that they may be given ut buaio'
Washington, Chicago or ST. Louis. But amateurs
should not get the boxing and wrestling championships
OF the Metropolitan District Association ana the same
tournament of the National body mixed up as may be
the case Il the Metropolitan District Championships
are given where the American Unions big cnaHipioi-
ship meeting has genealy been held, III the MeI
ropOlltan opera House
Amateur athletes have been pleasantly surprised
within n few days by a visit from F. J. Kilpatrick'
formerly president Of the National Cross Country Sso
cation Mr.. Fitzpatrick who was the predecessor OF
Jordan and Ford In the allaround championship COM
petitions OF dozen years ago. Is now living al brugo-
port, Ala, where he has handsome house on
bluff commanding view for miles OF the Tennessee
River where it makes hook in the northeastern corner
of the State Mr.. Fitzpatrick says that athletic In
terest in the south is growing rapidly and it is likely
that a championship meeting viii be arranged there for
some time next spring. OF course the champions
will come for the most part from New-fork City ana
vicinity. Mr. Fitzpatrick announces his intention OF
taking as many will go, on special car Inc
former alaround champion is very POPULAR one Oh
the peasantest meetings the writer OF this conmn ever
attended was the early morning Cross Country Cham-
pionship run at Fleetwood spring morning three
wears ago when Mr. Fitzpatrick had invited the athletes
and their friends to pankedshad breakfast before the
carter heat #. p Conneif and 1t was made memorable
by Connects gallant struggle the pucky young IRISH
man EALING IN the pdnt 81 Rocks IN the last mile which
run on the trottlng track.
This is a reminder that the National Cross Country
Association which is great deal more alive now than
it has been for time. Will meet on Tuesday
evening at the Arena, Thirty -hrst-st and Broadway
The College Of the City of NewYork the ST. Georges
Athletic Club and the Xavier Athletic Club have APP
pipd for membership. This gives promise OF some
good cross country running next spring.
The heavyweight athlete and wrestler, William
Muldoon, still expects to take that 3oOmlle horse
back ride in company with party Of New-fork bust
men.
The project Of q trottlng meeting at Fleetwood for
this autumn has been given up. Instead OF $4,000 or
900 having been raised only 1895 was guaranteed
e,,l,ca Ix- ffann
members But there is plenty of sport at Fleetwood
track almost every afternoon and many as one
hundred members OF the Gentlemen's Driving Club
gather here every Sunday morning to see the trainers
speeding their uotters.
The clubmcn who gather at Fleetwood thought that
Do)le was rather severe Major Dickinson the other
day when he sent Nancy Hanks mile in :o0 on
regulation track Everybody knows that Major Dick
nson only missed becoming the owner OF this great
mare once by $1,000
The New-York Athletic Club has decided that the
postponed fouroared shell of the club regatta OF
september 90 shall be rowed on saturday, October
10 at O'Clock under the following conditions: The
third trial heat composed of the three crews debared
from starting by the accidents TO the boats VIII DC
rowed first, the starters being;
L. A. sharp, c. e. Knoblauch,
H. D. seaman j. J. Wells
Z Z / 3 ;!15s /. & ff fssis
The winners to row the winners of previous trial
heats. which were:
y Valentine L. D. Huntington,
+ A Miller IT, J. W. SpadlDg,
e. m SrhIespnger H. j. Laldaa,
n a IIaubold W. II. Pinckney.
"There's So co., Just half months salary list said
Superintendent Duffy in his cOsey Office back Of the
desk room in the New-YOrk Athletic Club the other
night rs he smoothed out a roll OF bills. Mr.. Duffy
says the salary list OF the club while tho Island has
been running has been close on to 5000 month
lie will be glad when the Island shuts down. as It
will after the autumn games on october IL.
The Amateur Fencers' League Of Amerlca. OF which
Dr. Hammond Is president and ". Scott O'Connor
Rotary lad Il meeting Of its Board Of Directors at
the Now York Athletic Club house Wednesday
evening. The object was to discuss amendments to
The present bylaws and TO draw up rules TO govern