The evening world., 1893-10-19
sPOa1|AG NEWS AAO GOSSIP.
All the Big Football Teams Play
in This Vicinity Saturday.
Copiey, OF the xavicr's, Out with
. Challenge.

All the big football teams will be seen
In this vicinity on Saturday next, with
the sole exception Of Harvard. and that
day Will witness n veritable banquet of
the merry game OF Rugby.
The sturdy Titans OF old Nassau, with
their zebra-striped jerseys. will take on
the red and white clad lads of Cornell.
The Ithacens have long wished to play
a real good game before a New York
audience. In Princeton they will have
no opportunity OF saying that h game
wasn't lively enough to suit them. Last
on the Manhattan. Field the Cor
nei',ans played against the N. Y. A. e.
tcali In a pelting rainstorm with the
fieli an%kle-decp In water. Much praise is
heard OF this years eleven from Ithaca,
and that they will be tried to their ut
most is assumed on the part OF the tt
gers. The latter. by the way. had a diff
1cult task to defeat the Lawrsnceville
team yesterday. the score standing s
to 4.
Corneirs team will reach New York
tomorrow morning. and they will util-
lie Manhattan Field in the afternoon
in thoroughly .f~amil.arizing themselves
with the grounds. -,
" VuibslNuiid ~
contest against, the Crescents at East
~bias.ho.sd BRIGADE" from New Haven
D Tili tss Sfans ss 2 prs e. team %heF r p ,hss
Of no little local Interest on Saturday
and the N. y. A. c. team at the Polo
Grounds.
This Is a good enough indication that
the healthy. II ofttimes violent, pastime
will then have been started In earnest.
and the interest IN thu sport Will be kept
iege games. which always set New York
in a furore.
Another attempt will be made by Var
sity OF Pennsylvania to have the under.
the Advisory Beard OF. the intercollegiate
Association in this city on saturday.
With Princeton at her sd In the aues-
tio-:. ''Pennsy'" will stand out for a re-
N Wesleyan. in opposition to its re-
peal, the matter Is likely to remain a
deadlock. as II happened at the last ses-
sion OF the Assoeiat ton.
rus en- fale's part would preclude her
Thanksgiving Day. So Il a refuses
play pennsylvania, to be eonsistent,
ton. That. Of course, Is highly improba-
Bile in the face Of the enormously eNLec-
profits of the Thanksgiving Day
game.
4. Directly a baseball, season is finished
comes ths talk OF what players will be
retained for the ensuing season and al
ready h as gossip starred al to who
T Ttll be mem 5si ss I'd. f NsW ' York St team ao wSo
Tffernan. Roger Conner. Mike Kelly,
Eddie Burke and Mliiran. Petty and
Baldwin haven't pitcned to please the
tom Shorty" rulers game has been
posed OF when he shows up next Spring:
even ne bali Inland and viii Viz urdouptediy be Seen
again next year in New York uniforms
ares. WILSON. German. Doyle. Rusie.
Davis and Ward. It is by far too early
many deals in baseball that to prophesy
six months ahead Is folly.
Some one in the Xavier A. G. said that
Richard Copley was defeated In a 1--we
i mits TIN in e this se Quinn. an This is What Mr..
Copley says about the affair:
l wish to say that there was no such race run
az vas mentioned In your sporting column. II
viii run him a miia and give him 20 Yards han.
dicap at any time and place he desires for a
gold or silver medal Respectfully H1SHsRp copLry.
A great deal Of correspondence has
champion runner of the New York and
Brooklyn Police Departments: and those
who wish to compete against him. Chal-
lenges nave been hurled on both sides.
1t is time that something decisive was
done. Oficer Hickey's address is the
Mulberry street station. and he writes
to this department saying ne Nil p pee
cinct, who has accepted his challenge.
at any place he ina select to arrange a
Al. the opposition to the Corbett-
Mitchell contest isn't confined to this
vicinity alone. II this despatch from New
Orleans to-day Is accurate
Coy. Foster. while In the city last night, was
asked he would take any steps to prevent the
piled:
That fight will not take place in the State Of
90 I! sh.,i certainly take steps to prevent H."
.'Iha. will be fond out later" and he added
'suncient unto the day is the evil
English champion Roberts played q re-
ma-kably strong game Of pool against
De Orc last night. n reduced the big
|ead Of Ga points which De ORC OBJ
to 26. The totals to-day are De
Orc. +5l; Roberts. AZ.
The New York Athletic Club will meet
night mex to consider, In n
meeting. the proposition to buy
the Manhattan A.. c. property on Madt-
ION avenue.
The Raphael A. c. will hold a
Oct. 80. inc a stag Nov. %.
The st. George &C. members are in