The evening world., 1893-10-25
sPORT|he NEWS AND GOssIP.
Tventy-secoHd Regiments An.
nual Games Thanksgiving Eve.
Important Football Mssting to Be
Held To Night.

Sprintefs, Jumpers, runners n DIX
ers" in the Twenty-second Regiment
Athletic Association are keeping them
selves on edge for the annual indoor
games OF that organization in the ar
mory. Thanksgiving Eve. Nov. 20. The
programme Is appended. events belng
open to members Of the regiment only:
Seventy-yard dash, handicap; 4IO-yard
run %(novice). scratch; Ss0-yard run ham
dicap; mile IN, handicap; 22O-yard hurdle,
handicap; high jump. handicap; one-mile
bicycle novice). scratch; two-mile bt-
cycle, handicap; bayonet race, obstacle
race.
A feature Of the games will be the one
mile relay race by teams Of four men,
open to all National Guardsmen. 1t Is
believed that the T~wenty-third Regiment
Will enter two teams and the Seventh
and Twelfth Regiments one each. The
lected as yet, but 1t is likely that 1t will
0e. made up of George Sands, H. z.
Billings. IT,, F.: c. ,Purer and w. De
Salazar. The T~wenty-second has some
bb arn. ara X. sMSiineSS on' H. zust' p F.
At the close of the games soclabillty
of the. fun. The entries fol these games
VIII close Nov. 20. with George Sands.
Company c.
York Athletic Club will not float over
the brown-stone palace once occupied by
the Manhattan Athletic. Club. The men,
bers SO decided last night. at a meet
the clubhouse; On a motion to buy the
property, II 1t could be secured at a
reasonable figure, the members voted
That settled the matter and the N. v.
A. c. will devote itself hereafter. to
pushing things on the proposed new
house at Fifty-ninth street and Sixth
fered why the Manhattan property
shouldn't have been purchased.
the corbett- Mitchell contest. A meet
Ing between Billy Brady, Judge Newton.
Mitchell and one or two others Is
planned for this afternoon. and perhaps
Conferences have been frequent and
prolonged Of late between Mitchell and
Brady, and. plenty of midnight oil has
been burned in the EFFORT to find a club
New Orleans Is apathetic in the mat
ter. the National Sporting Club, of Lon
don has declined the attraction with
ton, offered s12,5OO which Brady has
desiined, because he figures that, IT a big
organization, such as tne Natlonal,
lesser club, the Bolingbroke. hasn't any
call to 1t. So IT. would seem as though
the Cone, Island A; c: is, in truth, the
last resort Of the big boxers.
The Coney. Island Club hasn't official
ly notified either Corbett or Mitchell of
Its inability to conduct the contest. 1t
may be that the men who run the Club
Know a few things that the public does
not, about boxing at the island. When
the boxers are notified officially that the
bout Is of, as far as the Club is con-
s eern sand t. VIII be quite ! time enough no for
Island.
The Intercollegir Football Associa.
Windsor Hotel, and the eligibility OF
players will be extensively discussed.
This meeting is called to lave the III
other, before Princeton and Wesleyan
play the opening game in the Intercol.
legiate championship series on Saturday.
' s % Il eG gule. to sa ,sro pfinse ou'
Princeton's men will work like Trojans
to defeat the undergraduate rule, and
with her. Yale Will have Wesleyan's
vote on a strict adherence to the rule.
The matter Of field for the Princeton
Yale game on Thanksgiving Day is yet
Manhattan Field. is holding. out for
terms that were the same as last year
and Manager Hotter, OF Yale, thinks he
should come down a peg. Mr.. Freedman
has the best of the argument, in offer.
ing to do exactly as was done last year.
The game hasn't deterlorated since then
and he ttraction-Yale VS.. Princeton
Is Just as strong. No grounds in this
vicinity can equal the Manhattan Fled
in Its accommodations for players, spec.
tators and press.
Harvard's game with Cornell in this
city. Nov. I, will be the first time the
Reds have been seen n this city since
sss7 The N,o game will be played at Man
McCrea and StIllman, Of Yale. are of
the team for unsatisfactory playing.
Princeton plays Lehigh University thi.
afternoon at Princeton.
On Election Day the New York A. C
will have a paper-chase at Travers
Island, over a four-mile course. The
hares will be F. NJ. Hartshorn. E. c
Carter and H. T.. Billings. -jr.. Mortimer
Bishop will be master Of the hounds
and the pace will. be slow enough tc
permit the older members to be I'm IT.
for a while. "Hares and hounds. vii
be run frequently. during the Winter
months at Trave Island, and a serie.
OF pleasant cross-country dashcs will b.
held.
George Slddons, who has figured II