The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-12-08
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Selection of Referee for the Billiard
Match Now in Order.
Manager Brady Interested in IL Foot
ball Tournament.

|. Now that the three billiardists who will
play N the balk-line tournament at
Madison Square Garden Concert Hall
next week are in town, the selection of
referee Is In order Schaefer, Slosson
and Ives may get together to-day and
discuss the matter, and possibly sur
prise the billiard fraternity, by agreeing
on referee without much waste OF
time. 1t is the opinion of billiard fol-
lowers hercabouts that If the experts
will suppress their natural tendencies to
haggle and find fault with every sugges-
tion made by one of the others they will
not have to go far to get competent
referee.
Two men, who have been mentioned,
are, DR. Jennings, a wcll-known amateur
of Brooklyn, and Edward Mclaughlin.
the Philadelphia professional. Both are
good men doubtless but a stu better man
can be found. and right in New York, In
Billy Sexton. Sexton doesn't need mag
nifying glasses, and he is impartial. He
showed by his work In the Ives Roberts
match, that he Is a good referee. and he
billiards. than either of the others. 1t IL
to be hoped. however that whoever IL
selected the defeated ones will not get
so often think they do.
on form. II would seem as IL Frank
Ives Io We're good thing" for the tour :,
the like of which was never seen before.
In the afternoon he ran b5J and in the
evening sos. Both of these runs, az far
is S1STn sap'ss b all S
wonderful because they were made by
open play, without the aid of the an
cfor nurse: But the young, Napoleon
ing too much billiards and. as ne en-
pressed It, he is apt to become track
! sore"
the Coleman House to-day: Neither he
| nor Slosson Is at all frightened by
iyes,s big runs It's different in u tour
r nSmSn! After fhe, this togEnament the
hut very little OF the Wizard. He is
thinking of going to San Francisco to
live. Chicago, he says. is ''plum-busted."
There are enough different events in
the Seventh Regiment games tomorrow
evening, to give nearly every athlete in
the Association a chance to win a prize
The list of events and the order in which
Ninety-three-yard run, scratch; one.
half-milc run, scratch, championship OF
the rcgimenD 75.yard run, handicapt
one-half mile walk, scratch; one mile
safety bicycle race. scratch 75-yard
run, handicap: 93-yard run. scratch: 44O-
yard run, scratch: 22o-yard run, handi-
cap; %Iyard run s.craeth; one,haif mile
scratch: putting l6-pound shot, scratch
! two-mile safety bicycle race, handicapi
300 yard hurdle race, handicap; hall
mia run, scratch, for officers cup. 4iO-
| yard run. handicap: one lap three
I legged race, handicap; one-mile safety
bicycle race. handicap; l.0OO'yard run,
| handicap, two laps obstacle race, scratch
/ running high jump. handicap.
Manager Brady has completed arrange
ments for a football tournament to be
held in Madison Square Garden Saturday
evening, Dec. l6. Two games will be
the Volunteers and the strong eleven Of
/ the Pastime Athletic Club, and the Va.
runa Boat Club and Dobbs Ferry teams
The Volunteers will present the same
players who defeated the West Point
| Cadets. The rivalry between the volmn
Narunas and Dobbs Ferry boys are ir
good form The Brooklyn oarsmen will
! he strengthened by the addition OF several
: Crescent players, while the Dobhs Ferry
team Will play several college men.
shone SO brightly In the, sun at Spring.
field. and made the Harvard football
players look so formidable, are the in
nocent cause of sensation at Cam
bridge. 1t seems that Mr.. Herbert White,
the athletic manager at Harvard, and
most harmonious relations with each
other. The coaches ordered the suits
without Mr.. Whites consent, thus ignor-
ing Mr.. Whites authority and slmulta-
neously mourning an expense OF u .57b
Mr.. White didn't know the suits had
on the field in Hampden Park. Now he
has the bill and the tailor Is waiting