The evening world., 1893-10-12
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
On Saturday Yale Can Watch the
Tigers Work with Cresoents.
PatroIman Eugene Hickey Out with
Challenge.

The orange and black OF Princeton will be a
great deal in evidence at Eastern Park. Brooklyn.
on saturday, when the Tigers come up from
old Nassau to meet the Crescent A. e. eleven.
That viii mark the first game played this season
by Princeton. near enough for New Workers to
conveniently see II.
As :ale's easy and expected triumph over the
Crescents last saturday is still fresh In the
minds OF football enthusiasts a capital opportn.
nity presents itself to draw a comparison With
the New Haven team.
The Tigers do not lack for able coachers. They
have not pl ,yed as merry games with teams out
side their own university as Harvard or unlNer-
sity OF Pennsylvania. but their practice work has
been constant and thorough with the Princeton
sccoad eleven and the subs. Saturdays game will
not escape the wltchful optics OF the Yale look
outs. and Princeton is Just crafty enough not to
expose all the little tricks and lodges she is IN
to. unless the Crescents force her pretty hard. ami.
Of course. that isn't at all likely.
In yesterdays practice work at Princeton Hall
and Taylor were injured so severely that they hal
to leave the ieid. Bruises, however, as . general
rule, on the football held, are quickly healed.
game with Princeton is set down for Nov. I. at
Mannheim Field, Philadelphia.
The athletes in the Police Department, not a
few in number. are as careful OF their regulations
as any OF the amateurs or professionals
Hickey, of the Mulberry street station, who. by
his defeat Of Officer Nick J. Dunno, OF BROOKLYN.
understood that he Ia not the Hickey who won
the mile run at the policemcn's games at Lion
Park last week.
That Hickey is John j.. Of the oak street sta.
ton; and uncer Eugene. through. this column.
10 ANY distance for the Richard X. Fox medal.
rhg Mulberry street Hickey thinks John J. is
trading a bit on his u2ugcne'sD reputation.
The latter is an ex-mcmber Of the Manhattan
4. G., and ne doesn't wish his friends to think
which was the best John J. could do in the Lion
Park games. He Is Jealous of his title OF cham
pton OF both Departments, and that Is why he
invites John j. to compete against lin.
one must bestir himself these days to keep
posted on all the new records for bicycle sprint
Ing. Tho seconds are shaved on every few days,
new worlds records are made and broken again
Willie windle and Harry Tyler have been doing
marvellous work at Springfield OF late. and yes
terdsy two new worlds records for a mile were
the mile. paced by tandem riders, In l.56 40.
Tyler from a standing start: covered the distance
last week These are astonishing records.
1t is certainly nice 10 be a winner. Horace
Leeds who bested Billy Ernst at coney Island
Monday night, will be b%anqueted at Atlantic
uity this evnins. and there II be plenty of
at the Atlantic city Academy OF Music. and his
t MS,nS x III ,s present ssis HI, him WI, NTH r a a,aT 'SnS pin;
from New York and BROOKLYN sports. What do
we hear of Ernst the loser.
A despatch from Sioux city to-day tells how
htily o,D1nntil. feath sr-"eisht champion Of Iowa:
TeSas, in three rounds. before tho sioux CITY
club, for a purse OF $500 last nisht, lie was i'm
a. "1 pm3.s ., signed & sSo to IN 's sas p w..k n"'y bs E, q sms a so ipr
Smith one Of his hardest fights, and he and o. Don
nell fought eighty-one rounds to a draw last
Spring.
Patscy Sheppard. Of Boston. a keen observer o.
pnsilism and himself an x.ligh.-wsiEh, cham.
II consider Corbett the greatest heavyweight
this country ever had, and his ~Guickness AMI
for his heating Ki'ra!n and his battle with Peter
Jacks'n than ! do for his defea, Of sullivan:
heavy weight In the world at that time. while he
was lust cmerslns from the amateur ranks him;
self. II CJrbett and Mitchell meet. Corbett VIII
win. surely and quickly"
A triangular billiard tourney is likely to he ar.
ranged between Frank Ives, George siosson and
or early in December, All three have expressed .
willingness to participate II the conditions can be
satisfactorily arranged.
Brooklyn's baseball club defeated New York. q
two games ahead In the local championship
series. The clubs play again this afternoon In
Brooklyn.
To II. s. W.-Capt. Cooke Is the publisher and
editor OF The Police News.
Arthur d. Witt C~ochrane. of this city, has
been appointed captain OF the Yale Freshman
football team.
The Yale. Harvard football contest has been
settled for the Saturday before Thanksgiving Day,
at Springfield. II was decided at a conference In
Boston Yesterday by Capis. Waters Harvard and
Hinkey Nale).
Harvard can play its university eleven, but
Yale will adhere to undergraduates. The umpire
this year will be Mohatt, OF Princeton, who was
the ,eferee In last years contest with Yale.
rhe referee will be Capt. Schon. OF last years
University OF Pennsylvania eleven.