The evening world., 1893-10-19
SPORTING news AND GOSSIP.
All the Big Football Teams Play
in This Vicinity Saturday.
Copiey, OF the Xavier's, Out with
Challenge.

All the big football teams will be seen
In this vicinity on Saturday next, win
the sole exception OF Harvard. ana mat
day will witness a ycritublc banquet or
the merry game OF Rugby.
The sturdy Titans OF old Nassau, with
their zebra-striped jerseys. will take on
the red and white clad lac OF Cornell.
The IthaCans have long wished to play
" real good game before n New YORK
audience. lii Princeton they VIII have
no opportunity of saying that the game
wasn't lively enough to suit them. Last
year Oh the Manhattan Field the Cor
nellians played against the N. V. a. G.
team in a pelting rainstorm with the
field ankle-deep in water. Much praise is
heard of this years eleven from Ithaca,
and that they will be tried to their ut
most Is assumed on the part of the IL
gers. The latter. by the way, had a DIFF
iicult task to defeat the L~awrcnceville
team yesterday. the score standing s
to 4.
Cornell's team Will reach New York
tomorrow morning, and they will util-
lie Manhattan Field In the afternoon
in t%horoushiy familiar'zlns themselves
Varsity of Pennsylvania eleven will
contest against the Crescents at East
srn Park, BhrS,SkiEn' Saturday, yw and Hax tas
will journey TO Orange, where they
play the orange. A. {. team A game
Of no little local interest on Saturday
will be that between the Volunteers
and the n. Y. a. Z. team at the POLO
This is a good enough indication that
the healthy, II ofttimeS violent, pastlme
will then have been started In earnest,
and the interest IN the sport will be kept
constantly whetted until the great col
lege games. which always set New YORK
in a furore.
Another attempt will be made by var
SHY of pe rmIs yw;;bdpa y% h "a q rne m.ge Of
the Advisory Board of the intercollegiate
Association in this city on Saturday.
With I !rdnnsCT S at hs sIa Side out Ut f for a q rs-
peal of the rule, but as Yale has an ally
IN Wesleyan, in opposition to It's re,
peal, the matter is likely. to remain a
deadlock; as It happened at the last se'-
An absolutely strict adherence to the
rule en- Yale's part would preclude her
Thanksgiving Day. So IL Yale refuses
to play Pennsylvania, to be conststcI,
she must needs refuse to meet Prince
ton. That, of course, is highly improba-
Bile in the face of the enormously eXpec-
tant profits of the Thanksgiving Day
game.
Directly a baseball season is finished
comes the talk OF what players VIII be
retained for the ensuing season and a.
ready h as gossip started as 10 VINO
The men on the New York team Who
appear to be slated for release are Mike
Herman. Roger Common, Mike Kelly;
management, and they are "on proba-
ton shorty, Fuller's game has been
posed Of when he shows up next Spring;
The players who have played good
ever ball and will undoubtedly be seer
again nHxt year in New p 5oyk un,RES usIe
Davis and Ward. 1t is by far too early
to ever suggest what new players MAY
be seG asnis in ne base SsaTI' that uht to- ]pr aTs s.
six months ahead Is folly.
Some one in the Xavier A. c. said thai
Richard Copley was defeated In a i've
mile run on Sunday. and It was so pub
lished in this column. This Is what Mr.
Copley says about the affair:
wish to say that there was no such race run
MIR. O'connell is anxious to contest with me
will run him a mile and give him 90 yards han,
a uI1 ~ AZ s,, Sny m u = ah Resnpe .nTs ne 'S'' !" u
S0'' OF ''' = RlciiAiRD coPLEY.
A great deal of correspondence ha!
passed between Eugene -. I1lthty, III
champion runner Of the New York anc
Brooklyn Police Departments; and thos'
who wish to compete against him. Chal
lenges have been hurled IN both sides
it Is time that something decisive was
done. officer Hickey's address is tn
Mulberry street station. and he write;
]. j. Connolly, OF the Twenty-frst Pre-
cinct. who has accepted his challenge
at any place he may select to arrange
race.
All the opposition to the Corbett
Mitchell contest isn't confined to thu
vicinity alone, II this despatch from New
Orleans to-day Is accurate
Gov. Foster. while in tho city last n,sht, wal
asked II he would take any steps 10 prevent th'
Mitchell-Corbett fight taking place here He re
THAT fight will not take place In the State Of
Louisiana. l do not think there is much iiksli,
do | shall certainly take steps to prevent It,"
How viii you do ~"
THAT will be found out later and he added
Significantly: SUFFICIENT unto the day is tho evI
thereof"
English champion Roberts played Ire.
!. markably strong game OF, pool agalnst
De ORC last night, and reduced the bis
lead OF ca points which De ORC Oh,
ORC. +Sl. Roberts, 425.
The New York Athletic Club will meet
Tuesday night next to consider, In H
general meeting, the pTOpOSitioh " pu.S
the Manhattan A. c. property on Mad!
: son avenue.
The Raphael A. C.. will hold ~,
smoker" Oct. 30, and a stag" Nov. =
The St. George &C. members are in
: d~ustriously working for the games ar
ranged with the St. Bartholomew's Gu
on Election Day on the former
grounds. The proceeds Of the game
n will be handed over to ]. Herman. tn
n trainer for the st. Georges,
The Stage A.. c. will give a boxing en-
. tertainnent at its rooms in Brooklyi
e tomorrow night.
Constant Readcr.-Repeat query as e
$ Mitchell and kilrain. 1t never reached
this department.
5 To a. s.-McCatfrey got the decision
: over Mitchell In four rounds in New
York, Oct. IL. 1851. McAulife weighed
1877 ga pounds; Myer,l37 1-2.
: To Foacr "Old Glory"
TACOMA. wish, oct. la.-Washlngton Com