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

WIN the VI tHe pdsepdh
season comes the initiation of the glori-
Gus game of football. 1t Is the pastime
which pleases players and spectators
most when the hoar frost encrusts the
emerald sward. There is altogether too
much turbulence In the game for the
torrid days Of midsummer.
So these are the days when the elevens
have the centre OF the athletic stage
and monopolize public favor Baseball
mines are relegated to the rear for the
Ronce.
Princeton's team, which has been
getting into shape at Gould's Island,
Newport. is back again on the campus
OF old Nassau, and will begin its work
on the home grounds tomorrow. Capt.
Waters, of Harvard, rustled his candi-
dates on Holiness Field, Cambridge,
Yesterday, for the first time IN any con,
Mannheim Field next week. Capt. Hink-
ey, Of Yale, will not evacuate Trayers
viii Wits follow Sr three fse or four WEEKS of senu
nearly all selected for their respective
paess Se the sevens . sna
maddening scrimmages between the
teams for the intercollegiate cham
pionship.
letic Club, Of liz East Seventeenth
fates deemed it otherwise. The Column
Primer spaeeS. On tss
market for rental. Even President Bob
Conn couldn't pull the Columbus out
Of the mire.
The Mercury Wheel Club, of Flush
ing, L. l.. announces its first yearly BIZ
cycle racing tournament at the Flushing
Driving Park Saturday next.
mile, and has been banked at the turns
for safety's sake and to insure fast
time. The events are seven In number
and include one mile novice. open; one
open; one-half mile boys race, for boys
under sixteen years; two mile handicap,
open; one-half-mile scratch open; one
entries closed Saturday with ]. Van
Herwerden, Flushing.
These are the. closing. days Of the
hard training which Smith and Dixon
saYs eess fnr Se e the psst six
next Monday. night. The Importance
the e, SEut den ss In the the fact tina.
shampionship Of the world and the pos
The boys will both reach Coney Island
Jimmy CAROLS hotel and Smith to
Garry Katen's. They will weigh in at 3
o'clock Monday afternoon, and each
must be at 11s pounds or less. Neither
over 11s pounds. A large delegation Of
Californians, who are stanch admirers
Of Smith, are in the East, and they
f holding t to put IT on s the Californian cham
pion at favorable odds. Among them
are Bookmakers John HUMPHREYS. Lew
Ascher. partner Of Nose Gunst; Al
Orders have been received for tickets
by Johnnie Eckhardt in such q 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 heaye in sight Of Quarantine and
Charley Mitchell will have q splendid
his contest with James ]. Corbett may
take place In December next-that is,
the Coney Island Club ,ho, house That the
must now be admitted.
The Columbian A: G.. Of Chicago. is
under the ban, and the Crescent City
Corbett 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 is known on the best of authority
that Mitchell never signed to appear
in the Columbian A. c., so he Is free
to act as he chooses, and In the spirit
Of fairness there doesn't seem to be any
capital offer of the Coney Island Club
of $4,000 purse. A quiet talk ought
t. settle the affair within very short
time.
| T. F. Kelley the all-round amateur
champion of ireland. Is accredited with
winning eleven prizes in one meeting at
| the Kilkenny games on Sept. T. This Is
an unsurpassed record.
NJ. Lesna, the Swiss champion, In a
twenty-four-hour bicycle contest in
] Paris Sunday, covered 6s6,56S kilometers,