The evening world., 1893-10-19
THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 49,, 1893.
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
All the Big Football Teams Play
in This Vicinity Saturday.
Copley. OF the Xavicr's. Out with
q Challenge.

Challenge.
All the big football teams will he seen
In this vicinity on Saturday next. with
the sole exception of Harvard, and that
day will witness a verltable banquet OF
the merry game OF Rugby.
The sturdy Titans OF old Nassau. with
their zebra-striped jerseys, will take on
the red and white clad lads OF Cornell.
The lthacans have long wished to play
a real good game before II New York
audience. In Princeton they will have
no opportunity OF saying that the game
wasn't lively enough to suit them. Last
year on the Manhattan Field the Cor
nellians played against the n. y. A. {.
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 tt
gers. The latter. by the way, had Il DIFF
ficult task to defeat the L~awrenceville
team yesterday. the score standing y
to 1.
Cornelrs team will reach New. York
ize Manhattan Field in the afternoon
in thoroughly ,familiarizing themselves
with the grounds. -,
contest against the Crescents at East
ern Park, Brooklyn, SATURDAY. and the
b~lue-hosed brigade from New Haven
will journey to Orange, where They
OF no little local interest on SATURDAY
will be that between the Volunteers
and the N. Y. A. (. team at the Polo
Grounds. -.
This is n good enough indication that
the healthy, II ofttimes violent. pastime
will then have been started In earnest.
constantly whetteG until the great col
lege games, which always set New YORK
In a furore.
Another attempt will be made by Var
sity of Pennsylvania to have the under,
graduate rule Withdrawn at a meetlnS OF
the Advisory Board of the lntercolleSiate
With Princeton at her side in the aues-
tlon, "Pennsy" will stand out for a re-
peal OF the rule. but as Yale has an ANY
real the matter is likely to remain a
sion Of the Association.
An absolutely strict ADHERENCE 70 tne
rule en- Yale's part would preclude her
from playing Princeton IN THIS city on
Thanksgiving Day. So il Yale refuses
to play Pennsylvania. to be consistent'
ton. That. OF course, is highly improba-
HE In the face OF the enormously eXLe2-
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 ana Al
viii be released from. the New Works,
The men on the New York team who
appear to be slated for release are NIKE
Eddie Burke and Mnnircn. Petty and
Baldwin haven't pl,cnet 10 please me
ton shorty, Fuller's game has been
posed OF when he shows W next Spring;
h players who have played good
even ball and will undoubtedly be, seer
again ga! Wilson, THss year Ge RI Ss" b 5oyk Rusie
Davis and Ward. 1t is by far too earl!
to even suggest what new players ma
he ssG dasIs in ne sasc SsiiT' that i' to pr OPT
six months ahead Is folly.
Some one in the Navier A.. G.. said that
Richard Copley was defeated In n hve'
mile run on Sunday, and II was so pup
iished In this column. This Is what Mr.
Copley says about the affair:
l wish to ray that there was no such race run
as was mentioned in your sporting column. u
will run him . mile and give him % Yards han.
RICHARD CorLEY.
A great deal Of correspondence ha'
passed W Eugene |: Hickey tn,
Brooklyn Police Departments: and thos,
who wish to compete against him. Chal
lenges have been hurled on both sides
1t is time that something decisive wal
done. officer Hickey's address is tn
Mulberry street station. and he write:
to this department saying he viii NEE
j; J: Connolly, OF the I~enty-hrs IRE
at any place he may select to arrange
race.
All the opposition to the Corbett
Mitchell contest isn't confined to thi!
vicinity alone, II this despatch from New
Orleans to-day Is accurate
Coy. Foster. while in the city last nisht, wa,
Mitchell corbett night taking place here. lie re
piled:
Louisiana. | do not think there is much likelt
hood Of the principals coming hero. but II thel
do ! shall LII Ssr, tat, X tax: steps to prevent It,"
That viii be found out later" and he adhe'
sisniheantly: 'sunheient unto the day is the evil
English champion Roberts played a re,
markably strong game OF pool agaihS sa
lead of g. points which De Orc OBJ
tained to 26. The totals to-day are De
Orc. 45l: Roberts. +25.
The New York Athletic Club will NEE
Tuesday night next TO consider. In &
general meeting. the proposition to buy
the Manhattan A. C. property on Madi
son avenue.
The Raphael A. c. will hold =
smoker Oct. 90. and a stag" Nov. p
The St. George AZ members are in
dustriously. working Tor the games al
ranged with the st. Bartholomew Gu
on Election Day on the, former
grounds. The proceeds of the game
will be handed over to J. Herman. tn
trainer for the st. Georges.