The evening world., 1893-12-07
SPORTING NEWS ANO GOSSIP.
Billiardist Frank Ives Showing
Winning Form in Practice.
Moro Trouble for seventh Regiment
Athletes.

II Frank Ives shows the form In the
big billiard tourney at Madison Square
Garden Concert Hall next week that he
Is showing In his daily practice at Days
he ought to be mighty close to first place
at the finish. Ives has averaged around
the fifties since he has been here, and
yesterday he averaged GO and So respec-
lively in his two practice games. the
games being 800 points.
While the chances are that such n high
average will hardly he reached during
the tournament, such a thing is not al
together improbable. Indeed, 1t would not
be a very great surprise II Nignaux's
record average uf 10, which has stood for
Il number of years. should be surpassed.
such is the fine form that Ives, Schaefcr
and slosson are showing. AS for Ives.
i ard y daiIy. % and It Is R''S only " a question ton
of time when he must be given the top
notch position In the billiard world
ers have had Of seeing him. since he got
into the championship class was when
he played John Roberts here In the Fall.
playing then and at present. He plays
now with a speed and confidence totally
different from his play OF the English
table. As an illustration of this. Ives
was asked yesterday II counting in the
American game didn' seem slow to him.
inasmuch as, every carom counted two
verse" he relied. you can make them
so much easier on the American table"
There has been an unusual demand for
a aiSfei Iva ier wis III meet. o Ma mn.sn i pniy IS
unable to answer the question as TO Just
what night this will be. Ives and Slosson
schaefer TUESDAY. night. If Ives loses
to Slosson he Will not meet Jake until
Wednesday night:
schaefer viii he here today. HIS
Spinks the California. expert, Is now look
ing for a room in which lake can prac-
tise.
Athletic Association now have another
strong organization to contend against.
The League of American Wheelmen has
Joined hands with the Amateur Athletic
Union, and announces that all who com
pete in the bicycle races at the Sew
nth, games Saturday night VII be
same supreme indifference to the action
of the l.. A. w. as they always have
to the a: A. IT, remains to be seen.
The officials of the Seventh Regiment
a. A. profess to have no other feeling
than one of amusement at the l.. A. WIS
course. AS long as the athletes OF, the
done. and regard the events of their own
games as the only ones worth winning, it
will make little difference to them what
But isf the L.. A. W. is az a much more
powerful and far-reaching body thai the
A. A. u, and. as. bicyclists. are more
they may not fancy the idea Of being
debarred from all other competitions.
Charles Ashinger. the professional cy-
clist. who will race twenty miles against
iSnn Snlar a ~ T6pn nnyt ~ tlIrdav night.
has had a checkered career. AS an attn
lete and cyclist he has travelled all over
the country ms,s on ,,a his cs wheel, When rmsb the the
Oklahoma. Ashinger was one OF the
cyclists who We're among the first to
get over the lines; He succeeded In es-
ton of land admirably situated.
Since he laid claim to It 1t has become
very valuable. but the other day he re-
Ohio girl had her case in the courts and
also put in a claim for his quarter sec
sion. Immediately after his race with
Alexandra, Ashinger proposes to go to
Oklahoma, to try and recover his land
and, should all other ways fail, he pro-
poses to marry the young lady, pro-
vided. of course. she is willing.
At Yale they play more like profession.
ais than any lot of amateur baseball
pIdytIS III tne couItIy' anu ths itd'ulc
Of their work is always noticed by the
League teams. They never encourage rec
ord-playing at Yale. and their off hand
hustling qualities Is bound to enthuse
and eventually get a good position for
the team.
The twelfth annua report of the Ath-
letic Association of the University of
Pennsylvania is just out. The Treasl-
rer's report shows the receipts for the
year to have been s2S. 5s1. IS, and the ex-
npnSpS Sb 3RI "a. lea wing a deficit OF
IS. 1855. 66, which, however, was partially
met by a balance of s.. 55S.29 left over
from the previous year. The football re-
ceipts for the year were 81, 800. q, and
the expenses $40, 1874. "a. The baseball re-
ceipts were $7,S4O.0l, and the expenses
50, 6O6.57 The rowing receipts were
81, lO6.1 IT; expenses. 81, $685. The track
athletic receipts were $726.6O; expenses,
81, 949. 40.
John Eckhardt's team of boxers. con-
sisting of Jerry Barnett. Charley. Kelly,
Batty Weldon. Barney Mullins and Char
reputation of New York against Boston
boxers Saturday night, will leave for the
Hub via the Fall River boat tomorrow
night.
Count Giannini is hard at work get
ting together a team of gymnasts for
the January Ladies' Day OF the New
York Athletic Club. The member who
will take part In the gymnastic eXhibi-
tlons are c. II. Enos. jr., +. NJ. Harris
horne, w. +. S. Hart, Joseph Ward, c. G.
Turner, Bob Hall, Lew Sharp and T.. J.
Giannini.