The evening world., 1893-12-07
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Billiardist Frank Ives Showing
Winning Form in Practice,
Moro Trouble for Seventh Regiment
Athletes.

big billiard tourney at Madison Square
Garden Concert Hall next week that he
Is showing In hts daily practice Mt Days
he ought to be mighty close to first place
at the finish. Ives has averaged around
the ffties since he has been here, and
yesterday he averaged 60 and Sc respec-
lively in his two practice games. the
games being 600 points.
While the chances are that such a high
average will hardly be reached during
the tournament, such a thing Is not al
together improbable. Indeed. 1t would not
be a very great surprise IL N~ignaux's
record average of 20. which has stood for
a number of years. should be surpassed,
such is the fine form that Ives, Schaeter
and Slosson are showing. As for Ives,
that young man Is playing better bill
i IA, ,,n daily, ana !, Is only a question
notch position in the billiard world.
About the only opportunity New York
ers have had of seeing him, since he got
into the Championship class was when
he played John Roberts here In the Fall.
There IL. no comparison between his
playing then and at present. He plays
now with a speed and confidence totally
different from his play on the English
table. AS an illustration OF this, Ives
was asked yesterday II counting In the
American game didn't seem slow to him,
in the English game. mo, quite the re-
verse" he relied. You can make them
so much easier on the American table"
There has been an unusual demand for
tickets for the night on which Schaefer
and Ives will meet. Manager Daily. is
unable to answer the question as to Just
open Monday night. The winner plays
Schaefer Tuesday night. If Ives loses
to Slosson he will not meet Jake until
Wednesday night.
Schaefer will be here to-day. His
brother Charlie accompanied him. w. A.
Spihks the California expert, Is now look
ing for a room in which Jake can prac-
tise.
The athletes of the Seventh Regiment
Athletic Association now have another
strong organization to contend, against.
The League of American Wheelmen has
joined hands with the Amateur Athletic
Union, and announces that all who com
pete in the bicycle races at the Sew
enth's games Saturday night will be
suspended. Whether they will show the
same supreme indifference to the action
of the l.. A. w. as they always have
to the A. A. u, remains to be seen.
The officials OF the Seventh Regiment
A. A. profess to have no other feeling
than one of amusement at the J.. A, WIS
Seventh stick together, as they, have
done, and regard the events of their W
games as the only ones worth winning, II
win make little difference to them what
~ i' H ''r VI ohs o''N ''.S 'D
But the l.. A. w. is a much more
powerful and far-reachlng body than the
A. A. w.. and. as, bicyclists, are more
enthusiastic sportsmen than athletes.
they may. not fancy, he Idea OF being
debarred from all other competitions.
Charles A~shinger, the professional cy-
clist, who will race twenty miles against
ison Square Garden next Saturday night.
has had a checkered career. AS an ath-
lete and Cyclist he has travelled all over
the country on his wheel. When the
boomers made their celebrated rush foy
Oklahoma, Ashinger was one OF the
cyclistn who were among the tlrst tc
pblishing his claim for a quarter sec.
, t1or of land admirably situated.
Sin ? ne laid claim to II It has become
at Eorry. D. r., saying that a pretty
Ohio girl had her case in the courts and
also put in a claim for his quarter sec
ton. and proposes to fight for posses
sion. Immediately after his race witt
Alexandra, Ashinger proposes TO 90 {
Oklahoma to try and recover his land,
poses to marry the young lady, pro
vided. of course. she is willing.
The twelfth annual report of the Ath.
letic Association of the University OF
Pennsylvania is just out. The Treasu
year to have been SIS, 5S1. So. and the ex
penses $35, 1897. "a, leaving a deficit o.
50, 7b5. sc. which, however. was partially
met by a balance of $3,5jS.2 20 left ovei
from the previous year. The football re
ceipts for the year were $l2, $40, q, ant
the expenses so, l64.54. The baseball re
ceipts were $7,Si0.0l. and the expense
81, 60G.5 The rowing receipts wer,
81, l06.17; expenses. S4,S63. 81. The tract
athletic receipts were s726.6O: expenses
81, 949. 40.
slsting Of Jerry Barnett. Charley Kelly
Batty Weldon, Barney Mullins and Char
ley Barnett, who will try to uphold thu
reputation of New York against Boston
boxers Saturday night, will leave for thu
Hub via the Fall River boat tomorrow
night.
Clubs will give d pool tournament the
latter part of the month. An entrance
fee of S. Is required. Entries close with
Secretary Hildrick Dec. IL.
This despatch comes from Jacksonville
Fla, this morning:
at has finally been decided that Cor
bett will train at Newport for his fight
with Mitchell. Corbett is expected ir
seems to have died out. at least nothing
is heard from those who have been op'
posed to it
The Princeton baseball nine IL making
an effort to get kid" Nichols. the crack
Boston pitcher, to coach 1t next Spring.
The fencing tournament. for the beneH
OF the French Hospital and the Italian