The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-09-21
SPORTING news AND GOSSIP.
Yale, Princeton and Harvard Now
in Active Football Work.
Judge Newton to Meet Mitchell TO
Talk Matters Over.

ball teams are back once more to their
respective Varsity grounds. and to-day
really begins the earnest work OF round
ing into shape for the annual contests,
which win decide the championship OF
the intercollegiate Football ton.
Hinkey and his forces began at the
training table yesterday, and that means
that from now on 1t will be hard
grind" at New Haven until the snow
Phil King. who is to play half-back in
porarly on the field at Princeton. owtnS
to Capt. Trcnchards compulsory ali
sence from college in consequence OF his
fathers illness
Capt Waters and his crimson-hosed
cohorts. are at Cambridge digging away
right merrily. Daily evidences will soon
be seen, OF the sifting-out process and
idea OF the personnel of each team will
be gained.
! 1t is too soon by far to attempt to
likely to go into the field. as the repre-
sentative eleven Of any of the 'Narsitics.
Training is hard work. and many OF
the aspirants for positions on the teams
quickly filled, however. for there are
always three times as many applicants
as there are places for them on every
| college eleven.
Either this afternoon or tomorrow,
conference will he held between Judge
Newton and Charley Mitchell. u The only y,
as to Mitchell's intentions anent the
, Coney Island Athletic Clubs offer of
$4,000 purse for the Corbett- Mitchell
The club has the match half ratified:
declarations to hold off from Coney Isl
and has again put all arrangements In
"a
No serious thought can be given to the
Columbian Athletic club. OF Chicago
o'Malley and the men associatedwith MIN
| will hardly dare to open negotiations In
any sincerity with IA bundle OF indict-
! ments already hanging over their heads
I The Governor of Indiana has shown
! that he Is adamant In his opposition to
| the Roby organization.
The word from New Orleans is to the
effect that the Crescent City A. G. Is In
handling AN international affair of this
kind, which calls for purse of thou
sands of dollars where the Crescent
City has barely hundreds at their COM
\ keen observer OF things in the pugil;;
istie line said to-day: The Coney Island
Club can easily secure re-. the match v ana
just let Mitchell have his little bonus,
win or lose. and he'll sign, any articles
that Dick Newton offers him. Such. a
the English pugllist has enlarged ideas
Of his value as drawing card.
What do you imagine made him sign
certainty the wilyPresident of the Colum.
bian Athletic Club guaranteed Mitchell
a mighty fine slice of the proceeds OF
else he was promised good big bundle
Of greenbacks before he stepped into
the ring
in view Of MitchelIs strange persistency
In holding out to box at either Of two
clubs which confessedly are not capa-
BILE Of handling such a bout: Corbett
questioning the sincerity Of man who
prefers fighting in a bankrupt club in
preference to- club such AS the Coney
Island organization, which has always
paid up its purses and always had its
contests take place without interfer-
enco l am simply going to keep It's
set to fight Mitchell. II he funks any
man In the world can take his place, ba r
none. That is all I desire to say con.
f te5an the mater; The public can
No fault could be found with the
Coney Island people. IT, upon finding
would quietly shelve him and take OF
Peter Jackson Bob Fitzsimmons is
quoted as saying he. would go at Cor.
worse f match might be made, for the
auburn haired Australian has a worlc
of admirers who fancy he can pumme
any man in the ring to-uay. 4 mattel
with jackson could hardly be held unit
late In the Spring of 1894. as the col
ored fellow Ia out on the road with hi,
show, with his dates booked up to lat.
IN the season. jackson already ha!
signed to meet Corbe,L In June next, bu
no club has as yet made any offer fo
the contest.
Johnny Van Heest defeated Hugh
, Napier in twenty-eight rounds last nigh
at the Olympic Club, New Orleans, anC
won the best end of a s., go purse. TIL,
stipulated weight was l22 pounds. ant
: both boys were under that figure. Var
iteest was scarcely regarded as hgl
class enough to defeat Napier. VIII
lowered above him by seven inches, bu
the little fellows pile-driving blows toit
the story. and the elongated Napier
succumbered as gracefully as he could
All of which VIII tend to elevate so
Smith in the eyes OF the sporting fra
ternity, for Smith punched out Var
Hecst in fourteen rounds, giving hin
the worst furnishing he ever got in hi!
life.
Thus day by day are evidences coming
to light that George Dixon has by M
means the good thing at first predicted
when the Smith-DIxon affair was ar
ranged. Smiths right is a terriiier, 81
all the boys say who have run VI
against It. II he can shoot II In on tn
colored marvel at the proper time anc
place there will be gloom in Thompson
street. But Dixon is crafty. "A savage
| iabber with HIS left hand and uuick as 1