The evening world., 1893-12-08
sPoRTlAs NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Selection Of Referee for the Billiard
Match Now in Order.
Manager Brady Interested In a Foot
ball Tournament.

Now that the three blliiardists who will
play In the balk-line tournament at
Madison Square Garden Concert Hall
next week are in town, the selection of
referee is In order Schaefer, Siosson
and Ives may get together to-day and
discuss the matter, and possibly sur
prise the billiard fraternity. by agreeing
on referee without much waste of
time. 1t is the opinion OF billiard fol-
lowers hereabouts that IL the experts
will suppress their natural tendencies to
haggle and find fault with every sugges-
, ton made by one of the others they will
! not have to go far to get competent
referee.
Two men. who have been mentioned,
are. Dr. Jennings, a well-known amateur
of Brooklyn, and Edward Mclaughlin,
the philadelphia professional. Both are
good men doubtless but Il still better man
can be found. and right In New York, In
Billy Sexton. Sexton doesn't need mag
nifying glasses. and he is impartial. He
showed by his work In the lvesRoberts
match, that he is good referee, and he
has had more experience at balk-line
billiards, than either OF the others. 1t Is
to be hoped. however that whoever is
ss the ones vii not get
so often think they do.
On form. 1t would seem as IL Frank
rSss mere SGsd for tss
the like Of which was never seen before.
In the afternoon he ran 55J and In the
evening sos. Both OF these runs. rs far
i1-meh baik line. They are all the more
wonderful because they were made by
Open play. without the aid of the an
StS art nurse To But ,ss The NpOeHn
Ing too much billiards. and, as he en-
pressed it. he Is apt to become track
Jake. schaefer will begin practice at
the Coleman House to-day. Neither he
Iyes's big runs It's different in a tour
arc Altar S New s orEers witt s
thinking of going to San Francisco to
live, Chicago, he says. is ''plum-busted."
the seventh Regiment games tomorrow
evening, to give nearly every athlete in
the Association chance to win a prize
they will be run off is as follows
straightforward run, scratch. one.
half-mile run, scratch. championship OF
one half mile walk, scratch; one mite
safety bicycle race. scratch; 7S-yard
run. handicap: 93-yard run, scratch: 40
yard run. scratch; 2aO-yard run, handi.
\
walk. handicap; 5O-yard sack race,
scratch; putting 1s-pound shot, scratch
| two-mife safety bicycle race. handicap;
| 220-yard hurdle race, handicap: one-half
| mile run, scratch, for officers cup: 40
yard run. handicap; one lap three
| legged race. handicap: one-mile safety
bicycle race. handicap; ,1,000-yard run,
| handicap, two laps obstacle race, scratch
running high jump. handicap.
Manager Brady has completed arrange
| ments for a football tournament to be
held In Madison Square Garden Saturday
evening. Dec. 16. Two games will be
played. The contestng teams will be
the Volunteers and the strong eleven of
runa Boat Club and Dobbs Ferry teams.
The Volunteers will present the same
players who defeated the West Point
| Cadets. The rivalry between the Volun-
| teers and the Pastimes is very keen, The
| Varunas and Dobbs Ferry boys are II
good form. The Brooklyn oarsmen will
be strengthened by the addition Of several
team will play several college men.
| Those pretty yellow leather suits which
shone so brightly in the sun at Spring
| field, and made the Harvard football
players look SO formidable, are the in
nocent cause Of a sensatio at Cam
bridge. 1t seems that Mr.. Herbert White.
the football coaches have not had the
most harmonious relations with each
other. The coaches ordered the suits
| without Mr.. Whites consent, thus ighor-
ing Mr.. Whites authority and simulta-
| neously mourning an expense OF N,S1o:
Mr.. White didn't know the suits had
been ordered until he saw the players
ALL In, pa rlf IN