The evening world., 1893-09-19
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Football Will Soon Occupy the
Eyes of the Athletic World.
Bicycle Tournament at Flushing on
Saturday.

With the expiration OF the baseball
season comes the Initiation of the glori-
Gus game of football. 1t Is the pastime
which pleases players and spectators
most when the boar frost encrusts the
emerald sward. There is altogether too
much turbulence in the game for the
torrid days of midsummer.
SO these are the days when the elevens
have the centre of the athletic stage
and monopolize public favor. Baseball
mines are relegated to the rear for the
nonce.
Princeton's team. which has been
getting into shape at Goulds Island.
Newport Is back again on the campus
Of old Nassau. and will begin its work
on the home grounds tomorrow. Capt.
Waters. of Harvard. rustled his candi-
dates on Holiness Field. Cambridge.
yesterday, for the first time. in any con.
Certed practice work. Varsity of
Pennsylvania are still practising on the
Mannheim Field next week. Capt, Hink-
ey, OF Yale. will not evacuate Trayers
will follow three or four weeks Of genu-
me hard work. with the candidates
nearly all selected for their respective
places on the elevens. and afterwards
maddening scrimmages between the
teams for the intercollegiate cham
pionship.
IT was a good fight the Columbia Attn
'etic Club, of 115 East Seventeenth
street, made for Its existence. but the
fates deemed it otherwise. The Column
sr a So Ssa nfs ans IS sa on
market for. rental, Even President Bob
Conn couldn't pull the Columbias out
of the mire.
The Mercury Wheel Club, OF Flush
ing. l.. L., announces its first yearly BIZ
cycle racing tournament at the Flushing
Driving Park Saturday next. =.
The track measures two laps to the
for safety's sake and to insure fast
time. The events are seven in number
and include one mile novice. open: one
mile scratch. open; one mile handicap.
open: one-half mile boys race, for boys
under sixteen years; two mile. handicap.
open: e-half-mie scratch open: one
mile championship of Long Island. The
entries closed Saturday with j. Van
hard training which Smith and Dixon
have undergone for the past six or
eight weeks, for their important meet
ns at a hs Son nrh ISLAND Te e%s
of the bout. lies in the fact that upon
the result depend the featherweight
championship of the world and the pos
The boys will both reach Coney Island
next Sunday night. Dixon going to
Jimmy Carrolls hotel and Smith to
Garry Katen's. They will weigh in at
must be at 11S pounds or less. Neither
will be permitted TO fight at an ounce
over. lls pounds; A large delegation OF
Californians. who are stanch admirers
of Smith; are, in the East, and they
carry rolls of cash. which they. are
holding to put on the Californian cham
pion at favorable odds. Among them
are Bookmakers John M Hum Ley
Andrews and Eddie MCGEE.
| Orders have been received for tickets
by Johnnie Eckhardt In such way as
| to indicate that an uncommonly large
audience will be present.
Some time late this afternoon the
White Star steamer Teutonic will prob.
ably heave in sight of Quarantine and
Charley Mitchell will have a splendid
chance to look at the building where
his contest with James j. Corbett may
take place in December next-that Is.
the Coney; Island club house. That +, the
must now be admitted.
The Columbian A. c.. of Chicago. is
under the ban, and the Crescent City
n. u, OF new oTledIlS, Is ueluiCt'
Corbett has signed with Judge Newton
and will hearken TO no other proposition.
Mitchell has a set OF articles in his
pocket which the Coney Island people
long ago sent him. He hasn't signed
them, and, in fact, he hasn't signed any
articles.
1t is known on the best of authority
that Mitchell never signed to appear
In the Columbian A. c., so he is free
to act as he chooses and in the spirit
of fairness there doesn't seem to be any
reason at all why he sh ould refuse the
capital offer of the Coney Island Club
of $4,000 purse. A quiet talk ought
t, settle the affair within very short
, time.
T. F. Kelley. the all-round amateur
champion of Ireland, is accredited with
winning eleven prizes in one meeting a,
the Kilkenny games on Sept. I. This Is
an unsurpassed record.
NJ. Lesna, the Swiss champion, In a
twenty four-hour bicycle contest In
Paris Sunday, covered 696,56s kilometers