The evening world., 1893-11-18
sPORT|AG NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Changes May Be Made in the
Seventh Regiment Games.
Players Nearly Ready for the Big
Springfield Contest.

II would not be surprising IL material
change should be effected In the pro-
gramme OF the games of the Seventh
Regiment Athletic Association. to be
held next month. Already talk is heard
about the introduction OF a stipulation
regulating entries that all competitors
for rcgimental championship events
must be members OF the regiment for
at least period of two years. Such a
regulation, II adopted, would effectually
prevent the appearance Of 'importa-
tions" at the Seyenth's games That 1t
Is likely to be adopted Is evident from
the fact that a movement Is on foot to
call a special meeting of the Committee
on Athletics and thereat introduce the
proposition.
The athletes chiefly affected by such
, a move Will be, of course, II. 4. Bill
ings. jr., whose change OF base from the
Twenty Regiment to the Seventh
Is the talk OF regimental athletes just
now. Billings's resignation from the
Twenty II is sad, was not placed
in the hands OF his Captain in that regi-
ment untn after he had been elected
to membership in Company B. of the
Seventh.
Billings. as is well known, is the
champion half miller OF the Metropolitan
Association and outclasses everybody
In the Seventh at this distance This
year the programme OF the Sevenths
games includes an altogether new feat
urea half-mile run for the champion
! ship OF the regiment. Immediately such
feature was selected for the games
came the announcement that Billings
was elected a member OF Company Is.
1t dawned on the other runners in the
regiment that the half-mile event was
one especially prepared for Billings, and
they began to think. The other compa-
nies did not like 1t.
| Then arose the proposed agitation over
the two-years membership clause. Bill
! lings may find himself debarred from
trying for the half-mle run. Altogether
| 1t Is a pretty little rumpus.
The football players who will line up
from to-day are, with the exception of
position OF quarter back on the Harvard
IS Ss no. 6s sure a1oTsS nnS ys mSn dT Re
place At New Haven 1t is still as matter
Of doubt as to who will play right half
back. There is said to be a likely can
powerful fellow, who has been showing
great aptitude for the position the last
! few days.
bad impression he left by his slowness
! in starting in the Pennsylvania game;
| That same fault against Harvard would
render him quite useless. II there Is
Even money bets are ali that are being
made, but most of the offering comes
from the Cambridge men.
cyclist sails for England on the Etruria
to-day He expects TO be abroad for
about six months. Wheeler will go to
Nottingham hrst. where he will remain
to France. He will try to get on race
with Fournier, the French crack. or for
that matter will race against any of the
European professionals who will give
him race. He may try for some rec
ords in the south Of France during the
Winter.
Joe Elingsworth, who is to box Fred
Maddens Rockaway Beach show
Edgewster' \. j., that he j. in fine con. on
down to weight. he says, and confident
OF winning There is said to be plenty
of New York Athletic Club money TO bet
on the white man.
There were more long-winded sessions
in the National League meeting just
| closed than ever before. There was a
! tremendous amount OF lobbying and i'm
portant mysterious confabs, but little
was accomplished. The empty condition
of several deep punch pitchers was evil
dence: however, that the magnates had
| been busy.
The Boxing and Wrestling Committee
of the Metropolitan Association has de-
cided upon the following programme for
the next boxing show: Boxing lO5
pounds. lls pounds, 1856 pounds, l45 pounds
and 1853 pounds: Wrestling. los pounds,
1l5 pounds, l25 pounds, 1856 pounds
and l5S pounds. The entries win close
with the Secretary James L. Sullivan,
Dec. l6. An entrance fee OF 81 must ac-
company each entry. The preliminaries
will be held Thursday, Dec, q. at the
Central Opera-House. Sixty-seventh
street. near Third avenue.
Lieut.. Kendall, formerly OF the Queen s
Own, a noted cavalryman, who stands
6 feet inches in his stockings, and
Fritz Lund, the instructor at Dickel $
Riding Academy, New York. are the
latest entries for the series of mounted
broadsword combats which begin at Mad
son Square Garden Thanksgiving night.
Kendall arrived from England last week