New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-16
GENERAL GOSSIP ABOUT SPORT.
WHAT CLUBS. ASSOCIATIONS AND ATHLETES
Ape DISCUSSING


ARE DISCUSSING.
The latest about the feature this weeks athletic hap
penines the rowing championships at Washington on tues
a. ad wodna.dav IS that while excursion tickets from
New.York may be purchased for 90 o. OF one iu %
they are good only in block, or as the tfuhA % pu "
ION solid tickets" All must go and come o'cA Voee'i
M s.rae0line E. W. Knickerbocker the secohu lieutenant
80 the Nev.York Athletic Club tried to make arrange
ments otherwise that the crews might go w''u. N
gard to their shells but he was unsuccessful anu ]
York boys will start from Travers lsiaho ul's n'h"e
With their boats Much OF the Inconvenience OF Ohe1r
49, ho,yovor &c saved because the passenger cars
which conway them are run right to the Maryland aha
20 that way to jersey City. The journey OF sue a. 3
n oarsmen as the New.York Athletic CuD Is HdhB ioi
, a,,onoi ,eeatta + more undertaking Than IL
,ooks The expenses from Travers lslahu 70 "dfins'
ord hack counting hotel bills and ALL for the eish TWO
doubles and the single. will figure up close 10 soVV'
Manhattan Athletic Club was commenced eNer"hcro io
IL, enterrise and liberal expenditures in sehulhs '
NJ athletes across the water this summer DuI IL IL PoOa'
that tba New.York Athletic Club has gone 10 nearly as
large an expenditure for considerably less fc'uin'
estimated that SO 900 will little more than cover inc Vos
tn the Mercury organization OF this feireSeaoN
the Washington regatta Of the Naaona AS'ooS"oh VI
,,o.aur Oarsmen The New.Yorks senior eight is row.
tn very fast lust now although the crew Is Dit ehC anu
had to et up' during the hot weather Of last week
Charles ooser Of the NcwYork Athletic Club has been
obliged to tender his resignation as captain Oh account vi
an intended change Of residence to Chicago whefe Inc
house he is connected with is starting branch esoSh
ment lot Of discussion over successor mas oee sS
IN at the island and the Fifty-hitht clubhouse I'll.
,ot yee The choice is said to heve practically seVUeu
on Fucene Gannin the captain Of the senior elghoareu
crew of this body whose qualifications for the position are
many Giannini ought to be just the man lof VI" po
a. he is not only fine oarsm0n, ana oil course' an en-
husiast In aquatic division OF the clups spor' o
he is also an excellent aaround athe'e anu
ront IN all the branches OF field and track and in
| door games. :. ,,.
There was more or exciting comment when 1t was
announced few weeks ago that the AthieVc CIuO u "
schuylkiu Navy would give the 1891 swimming chapon
hlns under its auspices the Flat ROCK Dam course
on the Schuykin River. above Philadelphia some peopo
thought Il was rebuke to the Manhattan AhleVc Oiuo'
which has given swimming championships LOT Tic iAS'
two wears The experts however were not so nuch sur
It'd ,yhAn the Athletic Club of Schuylkil Navy
found that having picked up hot potato IL "ouu uIop
II by insisting that Amateur Athletic Union lush
the nrizes The Amateur Union OF course declined 70 20
this Then came proposition from Massachusetts that
the swimming championships be given near Worcester ana
that the railway company would pay for the meoaIS
| in return the excursion privileges II IL h4u NOV
been for the high a0d sportsmanlike stana prUnp"y
\ taken by the Manhattan Athletic Cluo' ~
likely that this unpleasant scheme would nave to"e
through and the dignity OF the Amateur Athletic Union
considerably lowered thereby. Messrs. carr Perry
Hughes Cornell promptly decided that the Mammalian
Athletic Club would hold these championships again even
AT loss which Is the usual penalty, and al once alOeFeu
the date from August 81 and made the place
on the Hudson Nyack. Entries close ON August -
IL has been decided to put permanent convenience
where swimming championships are to be gwen inns
wear and there will be increased facilities fer those ue'
string to see 1t Is just possible that MeHeft may
he permitted to swim in these championships; any way
he will contend the 900 yards race for the swimming
championship Of Canada September B. 1t Is OF course
matter of regret that the NewIoI Athletic Club VIII
not be represented in this years swimming races T. L.
schlesinger who swimming 100ysrd trials In lle3
has been compelled withdraw from competitions on ac'
count Of the death Of his father and II Is repop tls
| Wells will this year.
erhe talk Of the clubhouse the New'York Athletic
| Club is going to build in Fiithave maxes me very
weary" said F. d. Sturges, secretary Of the New-HoK
| Athletic Club, yestsrday. "Tbere may be some talk
among the members Of such undertaking. but II mas
never come before Governing Board in any way or
shape the fact that the club is spending several
thousand enlogng the baths and otherwise re-
fitting present clubhouse does not look at all as II on
immediate change of quarters contemplated"
| The New-York Athletic Club has done larger and
more profitable and bar business this summer
both at Fityhh,st and at Travers Island than ever
before Members whose wives and families are out OF
town have dined and breaasted almost constantly at the
clubhouse Travsrs Island Saturdays and Sundays
especially holidays, has beon uneasanty crowded
/ There been talk all along about the filling in OF the
space between Trayes Island and the mainland which Is
marsh at water and surveying TO enable estimates Of
the probable actually done but there IS
present probability of Trsvers Island being made part Of
the mainland. IL is an improvement that must come
eventually, however When It does come the New York
| cinder path.
The Harlem Regatta Associations autumn regatta, which
apsed year. will not be given this year either
meeting Of the representatives Of the different clubs In this
association called night last week at the Grand
Union Hotel. But Mr.. Behrens, the vce-prosident,
Metropolitan man, Nonparel man, and Ataana
the only other members who came did constiBte
quorum and attempt give the fall regatta this year
which by the way Is always closed one falls through
The enthusiastic George D Phillips present, 'or
account Of being strict training with Hard represent
NewYork boys who must row next month will have
| good chance at New-England Rowing Association
| Labor Day regatta on the Charles River.
| g. l.. Sterry r is Msnhattan Athletic Club man
who has come 10 believe IN active corrective
for most bodily Ills. Less than years ago this
athletic. good.ooking young sadly run down
from excessive business and work Somebody
told him he ought 10 ~ box lie pitched In at once
and It takes an able professional to 'stop' OF
get away scientific left and right Mr.
sterry IS built exactly the lines Of the recent,
successful modern boxers being IT, IL ia. height
stripping at 145 NJ 1t Is said that he gives present In
tructOr, Dominck McCanrey, regular battle every tint
they practise together. Members Of the Manhattan Ath
etc Club would like arrange special OF
rounds a silver cup between Mr. Sterry and Arch
Thompson, Of the New-York Athletic Club Such meet
ing would do great deal for the practice Of boxing 70
soUe this hardy branch Of athletic ort beer
left great deal who by any mean
| representative athletic club between tw
such athletes and gentlemen Mr. Thompson and Mr.
stcry would do great deal toward bringing this sport
| the place where ~ belongs It ridiculous 10 tall
about boxing being rough sport and gentlemen amateur
keeping out Of it that Account when the best blood
the land is spilled football encounters tho most re
fned of young men have no hesitation about punhin