Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-18
AMONG THE AMATEURS
Though Sports Are Unreasonable
There Is Lots of Planning.
THE 8 AS NEXT FOOTBALL TEAM.
An Indoor Tournament Would Help Local
Athletic Interests
CONTESTS FOR TIE NEAR FUTURE

If there is any pleasure in anticipation
the members of the Allegheny Athletic As
socistion must be in the seventh story of
delight. AS far as football is concerned
their prospects for next year are bright
enough to throw a halo around every
member of the organization. Mr.. o. D.
Thompson made the following statement
to-day:
'Just you make your mind up, my friend,
that we will have one of the best football
teams in the country next year. We will
have Adams and Schoff. of the University
of Pennsylvania, in our team and these
men are frst-class. We also mean to keep
on our list of membership Heffelfnger,
Malley and "Sport" Donnelly. As long as
they are bona fde members of our associa-
tion they can play in our team and nobody
can object to them. These five men, along
with some other stars that well get, will
give US q team that will have a national
reputation. This is not idle talk by any
means. Football next year will be far
ahead of what it has been this year in pop
ularity, AID that will make it incumbent on
us to have the best possible team we can
get
Mr.. Thompson, during bis conversation,
pointed out that almost every leading ANA
teur athletic club in the country had men,
bers who did not reside in the city where
the club was located. He very forcibly
pointed out the efforts of the Manhattan
Club in going all over the country to secure
good athletes TO become members of the NJ.
A. C.
Already local amateur athletes are talk
ing considerable about the proposed athletic
carnival to be held at the Worlds Fair
next year. The Three A. s fully intend to
send representatives there. They will have
some good men to send. Good judges think
that the two Sterritts, of Little Washington,
are two of the most promising foot runners
in the country. They run q half mile and
a mile respectively. They are sure to be
sent to Chicago to represent the Three AS.
So will McKennan and Mclaughlin. One
of the most promising young wrestlers in
the country will also represent the Three
AS and Flowers will represent the local
association in the swimming contests By
the way, Flowers will be engaged rioing
horses for Prof. Gleason during the Worlds
Fair, so that the young Pittsburger will
be in tip-top condition to swim. Flowers
stated to friend the other dav that he is
anxious to compete against Kenney, the
Australian, at Chicago. Flowers thinks he
can defeat the AntiF Fodean, and should they
meet there is sure to be considerable excite
ment concerning the contest. Altogether
it is safe to say that there will be good
representation of athletes from Pittsburg
at the Worlds Fair carnival, because the
P. A. C. intend also to send few repre-
sentatives and they have few good ones.
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Next Saturday evening the Three AS IN
tend to have great time of 1t entertaining
the members of the Yale Glee Club. The
Three AS are mostly "Yale men," and
doubtless the dinner that is to be rendered
by them to the warblers from Yale will be
the occasion for some whole-souled merri-
ment
The F. A. C., Jrs, will play the Allen
School boys, December 26, in the morning
at 10 O'Clock, at Bailey's Park. The teams
will line up as follows: