The evening world., 1893-12-01
SPORTING NEWS ANO GOSSIP,
General Discussion on the Great
Ya,e-Princeton Contest.
Many Entries for tho Six-Dny BIZ
cycle X .ce at the Garden.

noticeable thing about the football /
game yesterday was lalr's surprising /
reversal in form since the Springfield -,
game. The men played as If they had |
met Harvard only an hour before in |
stead of five days. The old Yale pluck !
vas there. but that was all The spirit !
was willing, but the flesh WIS weak |
There are two ways to account FOR this |
The men may not have been sufficiently !
recovered from the Harvard game l.
ore. Princeton is the other. Yale was M
against "A team stronger In every way
than the one she faced last Saturday.
There was no ilukinr on soldering in
the Princeton lines when things didn't
go just To suit thcm. AS an evidence Of
this, Butterworth's long run past Trcn-
Chard didn't disconcort them in the
least II was the strongest team OF
Tigers ever sent out from old Nassau.
and thu strongest seen in New York
since Yale had MctlunG. ii"ncllinE"r,
Morrison, Winter. Wallis, Laurie Bliss
and Vance Mctnrmick in her ranks the
team OF ~. That was the strongest
football aggregation ever turned out
Princeton has always been strong ON
the defensive, and yesterday IN" was
She fairly Outdid herself. Indeed, tn"
| Tigers aggressive play was the feature
Of the game. ENccrt at c.ntr" ana run
back they outclass"d Yale. Ward,
| Morse, and Blake started with amazing
at ckness, and hit Nalr's line like cannon
balls. Most of these plung"s wor" mad"
through Yates tackles, the weakest spots
Yale, however, hraCed up whenever
| the bah was dangerously near her
goal line, and but for that unfortunate
| off-sidc play just befur" the touchdown,
| 1t might have been different. lr' the
| best Yale could have got was a ~, Tor
| she never had chanc" tn score
princetons interference was something
| fine. The Yale ends were fairly smooth
cred by it, Both lIinkey and Green
way played we'll, however, under the
| disseminating circumstances.
In spit. OF the adverse tide Of the bat
| tie. the Yale captain was cool and cal
culating to the end. Stillman played
| through. ltutterworth, a. t.lal. was
Yale's best player. He was the only
1t AN VINO could do any ground gaining.
ON him fen all the work of stopping
prncctons end runs. and his taclding
was superb lie played up to his repu.
tation, that of being the best football
player on the field to-day. Just who did
r'pyer seemed to stand out. If ever an
eieveI was entitled ,.irot to victory hy
seemed as if the, Princeton players an
ticipated the Yale PLAYS, consequently
they We're frequently able to meet the
pays naI1 way.
on one occasion Trenchard shouted out
just what Yale man would run with the
bah, and SO it turned out. The game
was particularly hard one, not in the
sense of smuggling or roughnoss, but it
was fierce and trying on the players,
there being an unusual number OF stops
for regeneration: Hinkey and Balliett
| We're badly cut. but accidentally.
Yale will never rest until she has wiped
out yesterdays defeat. She keeps her
team intact for next year, which is a
| big help. Twelve months is a long time
to to- walt for revenge and she ma, have
| to wait even longer. 1t Is n good thing
for the sport that Princeton won, for In
terest wanes when one team wins all the
time.
So far twenty-thrce entries have been
received for the .six-day bicycle rae"
which begins at Madison Square Garden
| Dec. "a This will be the most thorough
| ~ International contest of the kind ever
held. FRANCE will send three representa-
tives, NJ. Pantrat of Paris, who first
fore, Terront: LeSna, also of Paris, who
holds the worlds record for twenty
four hours, and Core, who rode in the
which race 1900 people paid admission.
If America does not carry off first
mGnGy 1t Wil not lot be for the sd want OF
complete. William Martin, of Detroit, who
| now holds the championship, and c. w.
! Ashinger. of Oklahoma .Territory, who
I mas won the ScNtntS-tWO-nOuf Cnhill
pionship, will be dangerous competitors
| Jack Princes unknown, who he says
will be among the first three at the
finish; Albert Shock, OF Chicago; Peter
| Golden. of pedestrian fame; Frank AL
bert. OF New York: Edward Reading, a
| Fort OMAHA soldier; Dawson FOrnalt, of
| HarrisharG. Pa: William breckenridge.
of Milwaukee. Wis; John s. Brooks of
BlossburE, Pa; II. W. Bremer, of Lyons
la; NJ 4, liageter, of West bethlehem,
| Pa; William G.. Hart Of philadelphia:
W. o. Levin. Of New York; Fuller, of
Binghamton, y. Y: j. G. Moran, OF Bos-
ton; George ii. Van Emburgh, of Ar
lington \. j., and Tom Roe, ore Ameri-
| can entries.
As the contestants have been using
different kinds of machines the. man
agement has decided not to restrict the
riders 10 any special wheel.
There is trouble in the ranks of the
Whist Club. The Whist Club, as it's
| name implies, Is an organization the OBJ
| icCt of which Is to prOmOt" and cultivate
| good whist playing. 1t Is composed of
men well known in business and social
| circles. The trouble arose from the in
! PRODUCTION of game known as bridge
| productive of "A good deal of gambling
| that gambling, in fact Is the principal
| feature of 1t. The game took such Il
| hold that regular whist was overs had
| owed. The older members of the club
| didn't like this, and about thirty of them
| have resigned and will start new club
| of their own.
The proposed billiard match between
| Frark Ives and Jake SChaelcr, with the
anchor nurse barred, will not take place
| SchaefeI didn't like the idea, SO de-