San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-21
LIVE SPORTING NOTES.

Billy Layton, OF DeS MONIES, anu
George La Blanche, the "Marine,"
have been matched to fight Oct.
23,for $4,000 purse.
The'proposed fight between Jack
Dempsey and Dick Burge is off,
according to all accounts. Judge
Newton the matchmaker of the
Coney Island Athletic club, has re-
fused to offer purse for the fight.
The Metropole club, of Provi-
dence, offers $1,000 purse for a
fight between Mick Dunn, of Aus
tralia, and Dick O'Brian, of Lewis
ton. AS the Australian is 80
pound man he would be too heavy |
for O'Brien.
Peter Jackson is in New York,
where he will remain for another
week. Peter is looking remarka-
bly, well and weighs 1917 pounds.
He says that he is making. money,
saving it, and moving along with
the world like any ordinary citi-
zen.
The Naval Cadets played their
first game of football of the season
at Annapolis, Md, with the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania on We'd
nesday, Oct. II, and were badly de-
feated. The score at the finish was
"a 90. The Middles were over
weighted by their opponents and
played an indifferent game.
Capt. Hinkey,of the Yale eleven,
and Capt. Waters, OF Harvard, held
a conference at Boston on the night
of October IL, and harmoniZed all
the differences which rendered 1T
problematical whether the annual
Yale Harvard game would be
played at Springfield. The game is
fixture.
The management OF the Prince
ton Football association announce
the following schedule: October
q, Cornell in New York City; Oc-
tober %, Lehigh at Princeton; Oc-
tOber %, Wesleyan in New York
I City; November I, University OF
: PENNSYLVANIA at Philadelphia
I November j, Orange A. c. at
Orange; November 80, Yale in
4 New York City.
At mass meeting of the sta
dents of the Yale Law School it
J was voted to form a football clever
! from the material in that depart.
J ment of the university. The fol
lowing officers were elected
Manager, Albert A Moore, Oak
land, Cal; captain, George F. San
. ford, New Haven. Games will bt
arranged with most of the New
England colleges and with othel
Yale teams.
The Amateur Athletic Union O
the United States will hold it's ar
nual supplementary championship
on Saturday, October q, on the
grounds of the New Jersey A
C. at Bayonne city, n.
j., commencing at two o'clock
p. m. The events will be a two
mile steeplechase and ten mile
run. The entries will close with
J. f. Sullivan, No. 25l Broadway,
on Friday, October 20. An en-
trance fee .of 81 per man will be
charged. - s.s.;.1 800;
The candidates for the Princeton
football team were coached on last
Wednesday for the first time this
season by coachers outside OF the
college. There were not as many
!, men out at usual, but the practice
was sharp and quick, both by the
varsity and scrub. Long runs were
very few and the tackling was the
best seen thus far. COwan and
George, of the 1889 team, coached
the line men, and King and Tren-
chard the backs.
Thirty pairs of branching ant
lers were on board the steamer
"Bovie," which sailed from New
York to Liverpool few days ago.
The steamer carried thirty elks,
which were brought from Wyo-
ming under the charge of Major
Root, the well-known sportsman.
The elks will be taken to the coun-
try estate of Sir Peter Walker,
which is about two hours ride
from Liverpool, where they will
be placed in his deer park.
"Mike" Haley, of Norfolk, Va,
the backcr of "Steve"O'Donnell and
Hugh Napier, the Australian
heavy and lightweight pugilists,
has issued the following challenge:
81 will match "Steve" ODOnnell to
fight any man in England or
America for $1,000 a side and the
largest purse offered by any club.
O'Donnell is not particular whom