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

1t would fatigue a Trojan to keep
pace with the shifts and moves nova
days in the Mitchell matter.
First Is heard the statement that the con-
test has been prohibited and that the
Gu has resigned itself to the inevita-
BILE, accepting the ultimatum of the au-
thorities. Then the scene changes. a
hint IS thrown out that. after all, "A
boxing exhibition may be given at the
Island, and Corbctt 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 sta teiuents on all
sides.
The fact OF the matter IL that there's
a fine mudile in the whole affair, The
Club doesn't want to lose the attraction
for December. Sutherland, Tighe and
Mckane know what IL good thing Cor
bctt and Mitchell in the arena will be
for the club. \ whole lot of people
are rabid in their denunciation OF the
contest, the Club and the contestants.
To appease the clamorings Of those peo-
pie the authorities declare with IA great
blarc of trumpcts that "thcre'll be no
tight The club says: THAT is quite
50. We never intended hat there should
be, onn, but We will give you Il boxing
exhibition"
Mysterious hints are thrown out to
Sparrers, who continue TO eat three square
meals a day with COmplacenCy. strange
~ accidental meetings are leld with
and Billy Brady. Now. the Judge goes
on record as being odt of the manage
m"nt Of the Cuney Island Athletic club.
For Il man with no authority, Judge
. Newton Sill lnnN1Tg IN Ia va an nm
common supply OF Influence with the
{. !. A. &. on tap and he dispcnseS II
freely. 1t is said he has promised each
Of the boxers $1,000 for training cx-
penses., II the club doesn't make good
Richard V. b. himself Will pay them,
From New Orleans to-day comes n de-
snatch which says that the Olympic
club Will make another effort to secure
the contest for that city. The Contest
Committee Of the club met last night
ana Instituted measures towards feeling
the pulse of the public at large AZ re-
CARDS the contest. II the opposition b"
not too. strong, the Olympics will Offer
$2p,G0o for the match. A guarantee Of
that amount with IA guarantee that the
contest would surely be permitted.
would make corbrtt and Mitchell both
jump for New orleans. They are both
out for the coin, and now that it looks
as though it was slipping away from
them, both are feycrish to dig their
fingers into a pil" Of ready money.
The axe has again fallen in the Rae
ing Board Of the l.. a. W. and this is
the result: Charles Grant and +. II.
I.ytl" are ruled off for racing for money
prizes dnstcad of house lots and gold
nuggets and unset diamonds"J Suspcn-
siOns for various but not as heinous
9ffenses as riding for cash: l.. +. Tufts,
y. y. Carrot. r. g. Peabody, james
Bray, i. Gould, a. Marshall, james Sui
lIvan. Charles Poor, Clayton Gould and
Ernest Perkins. John \. Roberts and
James A. Forbes, who are accused of
making falls" entries in race meets,
nave been suspended for sixty days.
The Board has also decided not II
sanction races held under the auspices
of the intercollegiate Athletic Associa-
ton or any colleges affiliated with that
organization This means that college
cyclists who rid" at II meet held under
intercollegiate rules will be suspend, l
and barred from all races sanctioned 10y
the League of American Mheelm,n.
The championship match between the
heavyweight Gra"co-IRoman wrrsllcrs.