The evening world., 1893-11-08
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Discussion of Yale's Showing in
Yesterdays Football Game.
Tho Negro Question May Trouble
the l.. A. w.

The opinions OF the critics are divided
as to the kind of showing Yale made
at Manhattan Field yesterday. A good
deal depends on whether one Is a Yale
~smypathizer or not. One Yale man,
who knows the game. stood on the lines
and remarked that it was the fastest
and hardest football seen on Manhattan
Field this year. The fastest It certainly
was, but no harder thar Harvard played
last Saturday.
King and Trenchard watched the
game closely, and there were no exultant
smiles visible on their P~rincetonian
faces. Whatever may have been their
innermost thoughts they wore very
sober expire iions. "They have good
ends and good tacklers," said Capt.
Trenchard. They play a fine offensive
game, as they always DO. but the centre
Is mono too strong" There was an at
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS smile OH the coun-
tcnance of Jim Lee, the Harvard half
back, OF three years ago, which may
not be there when night falls on the
SATURDAY preceding Thanksgiving.
AN; All the ms points of football are cyl Wo
l3le men. but, like the hangman who
adjusts the moose in the wrong place,
their execution was faulty. Take the
centre. for instance. The three men
as they should have been, when New
York had, the bail, but, somehow, the
New FORKS went through, The Vale
line sharply enough when their oppo-
nents had the ball, barring Beard and
Morris. These two men PLAYED an eX-
ccllent game all through, and will worry
their rivals later on.
ON the offensive. Yale showed I'm we'll
The backs run low and hard and keep
GOING until the last moment. Thorne ts
a hard man TO stop and he starts
quickly. Butterworth, despite his long
lay-off, struck the line with much of his
old-time powerful momentum. The run
MIN of the backs, as well as the tackles,
few end runs were made, but Thorne had
no trouble in going around when he did
skirt the ends.
The Yale ends. even though they were
substitutes, compared favorably with
Princeton's or Harvard's. With Hinkey
n Greenway they are probably bet
ter. Taken altogether on the showing
OF the different teams here, Yale's
friends have just as much reason to
hope as the others.
As to the New York Athletic Club team,
II is difficult to see how 1t can expect to
defeat the superior drilled and more tried
Crescent team.
The game AZ Orange YESTERDAY morning
ton nnderstudies played a l~istless and
bungling. game. A good many people
didn't take kindly to the idea OF having
this make-shift team foisted on them.
The. powers that be In the League Of
American Wheelmen will probably have
another troublesome question, besides
pure amateurism. to decide for next
year-the negro question. The Southern
representative on the Racing Board is
expected to bring the matter up at the
next meeting and make a strong effort
to have the word white inserted in
the constitution, thereby excluding the
negro.
Speaking of this matter, a member Of
the Racing Board said: AT present there
are only about ten colored riders in the
!. A. W., and 1t strikes me that our
before they come to 1t, Personally, the
Northern members of the Board have
no feeling in the matter. but II the
Southern members insist oil 1t. the word
Inserted"
our Southern membership is very
large, and we don't want to lose 1t. l
am informed that the feeling is so
man Is seen riding a wheel the make OF
the machine Is noted and some riders
won't buy a wheel of that kind"
The Pastime Athletic Club is looking
for a suitable hall for a boxing
.periencing no little difficulty in finding
just what they ant When they see
"A place that suits the proprietor either
wants too much rent or says a boxing
would ruin the reputation of his
1t is explained to him that this
is to be a strictly amateur show, but he
see that that makes any differ
Last year the Past!mes held a highly
successful amateur show at the Grand
Central Palace. Lexington avenue and
Forty-fourth street. That hall was com
times paid but $50 a night for it. This
year the proprietor wants $500. How
eyer, the Pastimes expect to find a
place to suit them and also to find a
big lot Of strictly amateurs, ready and
willing to box for gold medals. The
show will be brought off in December. IL
possible. The weights will be 10, 100,
leo, 40 and las pounds.
w. F. Murphy started from scratch in
the Kings County Whee,men road race,
the twenty-five miles in one
fourreen minutes and nineteen and
a half seconds This Is a new record
F.'s brother. held the previous record.
one hour. fifteen minutes and ten Sec
onds
The news from independence is that
Bicyclist Johnson lowered his alleged
mile record of l.56 At to l.o6 3-5 yester-
day, and. moreover, that he did 1t
twice Johnson, 1t Is said, is not salts
fled. and thinks he can do still better.
The New York Athletic Club fencing
championships will be held Nov. 70, II
and IL The annual team contest for
the challenge cup VIII be held in the
gymnasium Dec. Z. The cup was won
by the n. Y. A. C. team last year.
The latest from Jacksonville, Fla, is
a certified check for $50, 900 has been
to Richard *. Fox, as the stakes
for the CCrbett- Mitchell fight. Tie Jack
sonvillc people are said 20 be very con-
tlnnA IhL.t Ihn lnht r.ll hn HID IhaEn