The evening world., 1893-10-26
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Olympic Club, of New Orleans,
Again After the Big Match.
Tho Axe Falls In the Racing Board
OF the L. A. W.

1t would fatigue n Trojan t. keep
pace with the shifts and moves nova
In the Corbett-Mitchei matter.
First Is heard the statement that the con-
test has been prohibited and that the
Club has resigned itself to the inevitd-
bic, accepting the ultimatum of the au-
thorities. Then the scene changes. n
hint Is thrown out that, after all, "A
boxing exhibition may he given at the
Island, and Corhctt and Mitchell will
spar for points. Meetings between the
Coney Island people and the boxers are
held in secret, and sporting writer's are
thrown down by false on all
sides ]
The fact of the matter Is that there's
a fine muddie in the whole affair. The
Club doesn't want to lose the attraction
for December. sutherland, TiGAc and
McKanc know what n good thing Cor
bett and Mitchell in the arena viii be
for the Club. \ whole lot OF people
are rabld in their denunCiation Of the
contest. the Gu and the contestants.
To appease the clamorings Of those peo-
pie the authorities declare with a great
blare OF trumpets that "there'l b" no
fight" The Club says: THAT IL quite
so. We never Intended that there should
be one, but we Will give you a boxing
exhibition"
Mysterious hints are thrown ont to
sparrers. who continue to eat three suuar
meals a day with complacency. Strange
] Y aSG,dent al mT nsra Sa are het Mr., % Sndf1
and Billy Brady. Now, the Judge goes
on record as being out Of the manage
ment OF the Coney Island Athletic cub.
For n man with no authority, Judge
Newton still appears to have an un-
common supply OF Influence with the
G. l. A. c; on tap and ne dispenses It
OF the boxers $1,000 for training *.
penses. If the club doesn't make good
Richard V. -. himself Will pay them,
From New Orleans to-day comer n de-
spatCh which says that the Olympic
Club Will make another effort to secure
the contest for hat city. The Contest
Committee Of the club mot last. night
and instituted measures towards feeling
the pulse of the public at large as re-
CARDS the contest. II the opposition he
that amount, with n guarantee that the
contest would surely be. permitted,
jump for New Orleans. They are both
out for the coin. and now that 1t looks
as though, it was slipping. away from
them, both are feverish to dig their
fingers into a pile of ready money.
Billy Murphy and Ike O'Neil Weir. the
Belfast Spider, are to box at the Crihb
Club, Boston. Tuesday next. Murphy is
in Passaie, n. j.; training at Jim G,b;
and square things with Jim, else he'll
suffer the fate OF the unfortunate bicy-
cl!st who jumned Gibhons's bin for boHri;
The biker had 1.-TWO little eyes all blue
when Jim finished with him.
The National Athletic CIub.of brooklyn,
announces a boxing entertainment Nov.
6 at the clubhouse, II Cedar street.
-Four, special eignt-round bouts are
scheduled.
The axe has again fallen in the, Rae
Ing Board or the l.. a. W. and MS Is
prizes dnstead OF house lots and &c 1
nuggets and unset diamondsD. Suspen-
sions for various but not as heinous
+. u. Garret, L. {, Peabody, James
Bray, +. Gould, A. Marshall. James Sui
Ivan. Charles Poor, clayton Gould and
Ernest Perkins. John a. Roberts and
James A.. Forbes, who are accused of
making false entries In race meets.
have been suspended for sixty days.
The Board has also decided not to
sanction races he'd under, the auspices
of the intercollegiate Athletic Associa-
ton or any colleges affiliated with that
organization. This means that college
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intercollegiate rules will he suspended
and barred from all races sanctioned by
the League OF American Wheelmen.
Football scores Yesterday were: Prince
ton rs, Lehigh 6, at Princeton; Yale 50.
Williams 0, at New Haven; Harvard 6,
Graduates 0, at Cambridge; Varsity
Pennsylvania IS, Pennsylvania State Col
lege 6, at Philadelphia; Cornell o., Tufts
6, at Ithaca. The scoring of Lehigh
? a painpt prinratnn lie amazing
Joe Upton has left Harvard to coach
the Williams College team.
The championship match between the
heavyweight Graeco-Roman wrestlers,
Ernest Roeber. champion OF America, and
Prof. Karl. champion Of South America,
will take place Saturday evening, oct. 2s.
in the Rink. Troy, y. Y. The match
is for $500 Il side and is best three in five
falls.
Jacl, Levy is not satisfied with his de-
feat by Jimmy German. His hacker,
Fred Merritt, has posted $lW forfeit
and challenges GorOlsn again for a fin
side. Richard X. Fox holds the for
felt.
At a special meeting OF the Clipper
Athletic club, Prof. Thomas l.. Mauss
was elected Second Nice-President OF the
Club.
The athletic grounds OF the Y. NJ. C. A.
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