Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-05
AMONG THE AMATEURS
Sunny Days Awaken the Athletes
Into UnwOnted Activity.
PREPARING FOR COMING EVENTS.
Cyclers Make Many Funs and Tennis Gets a
Good Healthy Start.
A GREAT FIELD DAY AMONG SUPERI0RS

The past six or seven days have more than
atoned for the preceding month of bad
weather, and the wheelmen, tennis players
ana athletic association members have taken
the opportunity afforded for working them
selves into shape Tor coming events. The
sun has made matters Interestingly warm,
almost too warm for the start of, but as it
had the effect of drying the muddy roads
and soggy grounds no one cared particularly y
how high the thermometer went, so long as
the mercury did not boil over. The show
ers toward the end of the week did not in
terfere materially with out-of-door sport,
and unless May weather is repeated the
season may be regarded as fairly well
opened.
Decoration Day events developed several
things, one of which was that the athletes
of the East End Gyms, while above the aver
age usually to be found in such associations,
cannot compete with the record-breakers of
the intercollegiate League. The boys in
the latter institution can outjump them, out
ride them, in tact, there is scarcely divis-
ion in the list usually presented on field
davs in which they do not excel. 1t be-
hooves the GYMS, therefore, to spend more
time in practice il it is intended to make
the name of the association known abroad
The "ThreeA's" has take the initiative step
in this direction, and during the past lew
DAYS has had three of its best men in events
at three meetings in the East Pittsburg
and Allegheny have been rather backward
in pushing their talent forward, and now
that the start has been made 1t is but fair to
the community that otEer associations fol-
low the lead of the 'Three AS"
In the cycling world the clubs are not so
backward, and during the season it is ex-
pected that many of Pitrsburg's wheelmen
will carry off honors in outside events
Already to a wheelman of this city is the
first century run OF the season credited, and
on Decoration Day another of our wheel
men won a mile race (handicap) at New
York The State meet at Scranton will call
ont good many Allegheny county wheel
men, and that they will come home loaded
with honors is a foregone conclusion.
Tennis has hardly obtained good start
yet, although many private grounds have
been in daily use. Decoration Day was a
great day in the courts. Nearly every net
in the city WAS strung and the rackets were
in use all day long Particularly in the
East End were the tennis enthusiasts active,
and on some of the courts playing COM
menced with sunrise and only ended when
it was too dark to see the balls
The PittsbUrg Tennis Clubs new house
has been commenced and viii be finished
and ready for occupancy July 1. The clubs |
courts have been in use daily during the |
Teek and they are said to be in perfect con- |
iition. Practice has already been begun |
for the tournament in July, and there is en- |
earnest determination to bring back the /
cup TO the city.
Out-ot-town practice has hardly COM
uenced vet and only few desultory games
have been played 1t is not that interest is
being lost in the game, but there has been
- much wet weather that the delay has