The evening world., 1893-11-14
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Seats for the Big Thanksgiving
Day Game Going Rapidly.
Johnny Murphy Engaged az q Boxing
Instructor.

- W "NuAAiNA ~ us 1"S 49, 49,
out to be as pleasant as last Saturday
II is expected that the crowd at the
Yale Princeton game will break all
records as u size. The University Ath-
letic club Committee is thinking about
having a branch post-ofiCe established
at the clubhouse in order to facilitate
the hldling Of its big mail. This mail
consists principally of applications for
tickets to the Iale-PrinCeton game.
There are enough applications now for
all the covered seats. The uncovered
seats will 60 next. It is highly probable
that there will not he a single seat for
sale when the gates are thrown open
Thanksgiving Day. 1t may be a case
Of standing room only then, but as
nearly ten thousand, can be accommo-
dated in this way, nobody need stay
away who has good legs.
The L. A. c. Committee says there
will he no repetition of the scenes Of
last saturday. 1t will guard against
this by the construction of a solid board
fence on all sides of the playing field.
II IS only fair to Receiver Freedman to
say that had he had the time he would
have erected H fence for last saturday;
srhtre is rr "ns thing Ma am proud pTSgIa or 9f,.
son was hurt in any way. nor was
there SO much as a dress torn. | would
rather have had 10000 people crowd
nrounu the field than have anybody
hurt"
Echoes from the game of Saturday are
Slow to die out. There is go much in
dignation at New Haven over the cannl-
baiistic ana manning tendencies charged
To the Pennsylvania that Yale may de-
termine to have nothing further to do
with them; Under the circumstance no.
port that. Manager Hotter said that
Hickok, McCrea and others would have
been ineligible to play unless the new
undergraduate rule had been adopted Is
promptly and effectually contradicted at
New Haven.
But it is time to turn the eyes towards
the Springfield game-the most important
football struggle of the year. AS things
now stand 1t Is an even thing as to
who will win. Comparisons and prophe-
Cies are in order, although il Is TOO soon
for them to amount to anything. Both
teams viii doubtless work hard and
improve much within the next ten days,
and II will be a week yet before forecasts
can be made with any good reason.
Mr.. James E. Sullivan is authority for
the statement that william h. Curtis
does not propose to retire from active
interest in athletics. SO long as Father
Rili can walk says Mr.. sullivan, me
will he identified with the Fresh Air
club. the New York A. c., Metropolitan
Association and the Amateur Athletic
I lllplls III lpNt ~ dlIltlltS INlSStSSb'l
by Mr.. Curtis will never allow him to
retire; 1t is a part of him.
mo other man has dom more for
amateur athletics in this country, and
we do not expect the present generation
to produce many men who will prove so
valuable to the athletes of the Union.
He has guarded their interests well.
His time and purse have been at their
disposal so often and with such good
effect. that 1t requires no telling to
convince thinking men that this is SO.
Mr.. curtis Is n part of athletics in this
Johnny Murphy, the well known
feather-weight r%uEilist, has been en-
School, in West Forty-fourth street. He
Was appointed by DR.. White, and will
begin his duties to-day. Murphy should
he a good man for the place, If eXpe-
riencc. both In the ring and instruCting,
count for anything. He was instructor
at Harvard for "A number of years, and
turned out some good men,. He gave
George Dixon "A stubborn fight once,
and has also fought, among other nota-
bles Of the prize ring, Billy Murphy
ana Cal Mccarthy. Murphy,s legs were
the models for the statue of Sullivan.
Manager Brady, is much perturbed over
reports that Mitchell is shortly to go into
the theatrical business. A few lays
ago BRADY had the greatest faith in
M%itchells sincerity in his desire to meet
corhctt. Now he has qualified his
thoughts. Mitchell is said to have signed
a contract with a theatrical company for
ten weeks, at 5000 a week. II he has,
ne Is To he cOmplimented on his fine
ahility as a hnancicr and maker of bar
gains. The contract is so made, 1t Is
said, that Mitchell can cancel it If "a
J. r.. Bowden. the Florida gentleman
who came here with his partner. Mr..
Mason. to secure the match. has gone
South to look after the obstreperous min
listers. Mr.. Mason remains to look after
the signing of the articles. Denver is
now reported to be in the field. In the
mean while the public waits.
traction for his Rockaway Beach a. c.
boxing show Thanksgiving eve. He has
signed Frank Kreig. the Coffee Cooler"
70 box six rounds with his heavyweight.
Con f~iordan. This, with the two TWEEN,
ty-round contests he has arranged-Fla-
hcrty VS.. Craig and Morris vs.. Filings
werth-ought to furnish a pleasant even
ing's entertainment for pugilistic lovers.
Blcyclists Zimmerman. Wheeler and
the Banker brothers, have gone south
to Augusta to give exhibitions. Wheel
er, It Is said, will soon return and sail
for Europe.
The Union Athletic Club. OF Brooklyn,
will give an open cross-country run
Thanksgiving Day over the old Prospect
1 IOulSe.
NJ. l.. Vautheir, a noted French
%fencer, has been engaged as maitre
darmes by the Fencers' Club. The new
Instructor Is a graduate OF the Military
Fencing School at Joinville. and the
Fencers' club expect his ]nstructing will
have u beneficial result IN the art here.
Stcinitz, the Worlds mpio nj
chess. astonishel Montreal people last
night. lie played eighteen games stimuli
~taneously with Montreal's crack play
Grs and won all but one, losing this TO
X. Short.
says:
The Bowen-Abhott fight Is restrained nv
the injunction sued ont by the State and
has been temporarily postponed. II the
club succeeds in bonding the Injunction
pending a trial the fight will be sched-
ulei and take place within a few DAYS.
If the Court refuses 10 permit the giving
OF bond the fight Will be declared OH.
The annual meeting OF the National
League takes place at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel tomorrow. Several magnates arc
already here laying their plans. The
meeting Is to be AN important one, as
there are two or three VCXatious prob
lens 20 be settled.
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