The evening world., 1893-10-16
SPORTING news AhD GOSSIP.
Football Talk from All Owe.
This Part of the Country.
Roberts and DO Orc Begin Their
Pool Contest To- Might.

Now that the football season has fairly
opened daily reports from the head
centres of interest at the leading col
leges are in order. Yale seems to have
been particularly unfortunate 40 far this
year In usif, Up ner best men in prac-
ticc. Butterworth, Stillman, Dyer.
Cross and Adee are all on the hospital
list, with sprained ankles and diclo-
Gated shoulders, but Capt. Hinkey con-
graduates himself that the casualties
include no broken bones.
Yale is also suffering from lack of in
dividual coaches. for her graduate foot
ball cracks are in such demand all over
the country for coaching work at the
smaller colleges that the best men are
not available. Harvard's eleven, as we'll
as the Princeton team, has escaped seri-
Gus accidents thus far, and both are
doing good work n making rapid i'm
provement under the supervision of
competent coaches, as the results of
games already played indicate.
The Tigers have ten of last years
players In training for the Championship
ing candidates Is larger than ever before.
Harvard's material Is said to be eXcep-
tionally good, and as her coaches have
suoptOu liz I VI lIhlIlll6, n
pectntions at Cambridge have been
raised high.
The result Of the Dartmouth game Mt
New haven on Saturday showed Yale
to be in poor form, even at this early
stage of the proceedings, n Walter
Camp. who watched the play closely, was
f:r from satisfied with the work OF
Capt. Hinkey's men. Good reports come
from the University of Pennsylvania,
n Cornell expects to have n team in
the field by November which will, be
nrfh fn Cnpfn n,nr .tN 10 I~as
of the New England colleges.
In this vicinity the interest in the
game is more marked than in any pre-
vlous year. and the Crescent. Orange and
New York Athletic Club teams promise
to make the local season a lively and
exciting one.
The report that Manager Hotter, of
to pay n visit to Inspector Byrnes for
the express purpose of urging him to
use severe measures with riotous stu
Thanksgiving time, has created a stir
in college circles. 1t Is said that Yale's
Faculty has made his eques as the
condition OF permitting the Thanksgiving
Day game to be played.
Yale students are hardly to be held
solely responsible for the excesses which
are INDUCED in by giddy young men on
these occasions, nor can 1t be said that
the police have in past years shown "A
disposition to wink at these disturb
ances. If there has been lenlency shown
II IL tHe fOllCe justices VINO must be
invariably discharged the Offenders who
have been brought before them.
Britain, and Alfred De ORC, the Ameri-
can champion. will begin their inter
national pol contest at Madison Square
OF, the contest will be the use OF two
tables. the American 5x1O and the Eng
fish 6x12, alternately, four consecutive
d Champions se1 viii p Iisy1 80 balls sn e eSary ni Tht
this week, except Saturday. when the
final 20 will be played; making, 1000 in
al; The match Is for 100 a side; 1t is
matched in Skill, and this uncertainty
has awakened the ~liveliest sort of in
terest in the contest.
The list Of winnings of the cash prize
far in the lead, with $3.50 to his credit.
;i.oos; Rich. $685.; Kiuge, sSS5; Ashinger,
1926; Albert, $50; Newhouse, $3.50, and
Kanoshn, Az. The winnings of none OF
ali $l2,T7O were distributed in prizes.
Fifteen men started in the opening
c~ross-country run Of the season held by
the Prospect Harriers yesterday from
Brooklyn. The course was four and a
half miles, and was laid along the Sea
Beach road over the hill through Ben
sonhurst and return. Tit runners fin
ished well together. f. II. Whitlatch
came in first In "a minute % seconds.
J. j. Leonard was second and r. +.
Goodwin third.
The American Football Association
opened It's series yesterday at Americas
Park, West Hoboken, with a game be.
tween the Centreville A. c., of Bayonne,
and the Americas eleven. The latter
won by a score of 2 goals to ]. More
than 1000 spectators We're present.
Harvard has refused to pay 81. 900 de-
mandedb by the owners of Hampden Park.
Springfield, for the annual Yale-Har-
ward football game, and declares that
the price Is eXtortionate. In 1889 the
price paid was $50. the next year 500,
ard the two following years $500 and
Although the figure has been lowered
to $500. n the gift of thirty tickets in
the best section of the grandstand
Harvard still holds out, and there Is
considerable doubt hat the game viii,
be played this year at Sprir gield.
Brooklyn preachers are keeping up the
crusade against the Mitchell-C orbett
meeting at Coney Island in December
and another blast against legalized
prize-fghting was delivered yesterday
from the pulpit of Plymouth Church by
the Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott. He de-