The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-09-19
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Football Will Soon Occupy tie
Eyes of the Athletic World.
Bicycle Tournament at Flushing on
Saturday.

Gus game of football 1t is the pastime
which pleascs players and spectators
| most when the hoar frost ancrusts the
emerald sward There is altogether too
much turbulence in the game for the
torrid days Of midsummer.
So these arc the days when tho eleNens
have the centre ot the athletic stage
and monopolize public favor. Baseball
mines are relocated to the rear for the
nonce
rrinceton's team, which has bcc'
getting into shape at Gou,d's Island
Newport. is back again on the campus
OF old Nassau, and viii begin its work
on the home grounds tomorrow. capt
Waters. of Harvard. rusilcd his cauii.
dates on I'"lmes's Field, Cambridge
yesterday. FOR the first time IN any con.
| ccrtrd practice work. Varsity oi
Pennsylvania arr still practising on the
field at Cape May. hut will hasten to
Mannheim Field next week. capt. Hink.
ey, OF Yale, will not cvacuate Travers
Island for ten days. perhaps Their
will follow three or four weeks of genu.
lie hard work, with the candidates
places on the elevens. and afterwards
comes the merry, mussing, nauing
maddeninc scrimmages between the
teams for tn. intercollegiate cham.
pionship.
Y was a good fight the Columbia Ath-
street, made. for it's existence. but the
fates deemed 1t otherwise. The Column
b'a A. G. died nicely. AMI to-day Its
former spacious clubhouse is on the
market for rental Even President Bob
Conn couldn't pull the Columblas out
OF the mire.
The Mercury Wheel club, Of Flush
ing. l." L.. announces it's first yearly hi
cycle racing tournament at the Flushing
Driving Park Saturday next,
The track measures r two LAPS to the
FOR safety's sake and tn insure fast
time. The events are seven In number
and include one mile novice, open: one
mile scratch. open: one mf1e handicap,
open; one half mile boys race, for boys
under sixteen years; two mile handicap.
open: One-half-mile scratch. open: one
mile championship Of Long Island, The
entries closed Saturday with j. Van
Herwerden. Flushing.
hard trai ling which Smith and Dixon
have undergone for the past Fix or
eight weeks, for their important meet
next Monday night. The Importance
the result depend the fea overweight
championship OF the world and the pos
next Sunday night, Dixon going to
Jimmy CAROLS hotel and Smith to
GsE5y Mondav nsy T weigh snd !" snch
must be at lis pounds or leas Neither
will he permitted to fight at an ounce
over lls pounds; A large delegation of
Californians, who are stanch admirers
carry rolls of cash. which they, are
holding to put on the Californian cham
pion at favorable odds. Among them
Hseheq pane 9oe on Mse ans
Andrews and Eddie MCGEE.
Orders have been received for tickets
by Johnnie Eckhardt in such a 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 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 he admitted.
The Columbian A. c.. OF Chicago, liz
under the ban, and the Crescent city
A. u, OF Ne" oTltuHS, IL L.
corbet't 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
them. and. in fact, he hasn't signed any
articles.
1t IL known on the best OF authority
that Mitchell never signed to appear
to act as he chooses, and in the spirit
OF fairness there doesn't seem to he any
reason at all why he should refuse the
capital offer Of the Coney Island CLUB
t, settle he AFFAIR within very short
time.
~. F., Kelley. the all-round amateur
winning eleven prizes I'm one meeting at
tho Kilkenny games on Sept. I. This Is
an unsurpassed record.
NJ. I.esna. the Swiss champion, In n
twenty. four-hour bicycle contest in
or q little over AZ" miles. beating the
Shorthand. the English rider.
The opening play in the big billiard
match between Roberts. the English
champion. and Frank Ives. OF Chicago:
Ives by a score Of 1000 to s93. The young
Chicagoan made IA run of 3O4.
The eleven OF the Chicago A. A. de-
feutcd the New York A. {. football
team last night in game by electric
light.
Trick Riders Kaufman and Barber
have been matched for II trick wheeling
contest in Rochester oct. 8.
J. ]. Ooms, the winner OF the Henley
diamond sculls in 1892. defeated Edward
Carney, OF the Institute Boat Club, on
the Passaic at Newark yesterday. Car
ney fouled Ooms. but the latter had him
beaten at that. ga
New York lost TO Louisville yesterday.
s to g. while brooklyn Won from Puts
burg, 8 to q This is the record:
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