The evening world., 1894-09-26
SPORTING MISCELLANY.

" oh'iNu mIoGELLRNI.
III ever a crowd Of sports were gwindied
out OF their money. they were when they
bought tickets to witness the Billy
Ahearn-George Reynolds prize fight.
which, after two postporements. was to
have been decided yesterday Afternoon.
This so-called fight was arranged two
months ago, and was first set down for
Sept IA. The battle-ground for the fight
was In Westminster. and when the time
Tor the lighters to enter the ring arrived
there were nearly 800 outsiders present.
Sheriff Dufry prevented the fight
The men were to have met again on
Saturday night. but the fight was post
poned again, the management. however.
accepting the money Of any one who
wanted to buy tickets. -...
For the third time the fight was an
nounced, to be pulled off yesterday af-
1ternoon In barn in Idlewild Grove
Inc Inc ngnters were notified to be in the
Reynolds was ready, but Ahearn did
not put In an appearance until nearly 4
o'clock, Then the lighters and the
swindled sports took carriages to the
the mean time. tickets were being sold
Ior = eacha and nearly forty were sold
at that price.
At 5.22 O'Clock everything pointed to
a night. and the men entered the ring.
Time was about to be called by Referee
stevenson, when. suddenly Ahearn saw
Heynolds's kpeaded gloves and at once
gloves he would not fight. Referee Ste
venson looked at the gloves and was
satisfied. but as the Ahearn people were
not Th ee i fhese w.; %ss sh n on The asrp,tea
sports made uncomplimentary remarks
aeout looking-glass fighters" and
asked ast a. for their money, but they could
sale Of tickets. Should these two men
ever fight, 1t will probably be a street
fight between them, for the sporting fra
ternity will not again be buncoed out of
their money.
Joe Ellingsworth would like. to ar
range for a finish fight with Mick Dunn.
OF Australia, at lB pounds, weigh in six
hours before fighting, for $3.50 side.
The Volunteer Football Club has been
IN practice for over a month, and is al
ready in excellent, trim to. do battle.
out forty-three candidates who are anx-
and Capt. Carls are working hard to
make this years team one of the strong.
est In the country. Games will be played
with Yale, University Of Pennsylvania
cent, Lawrenceville. Lehigh. Lafayette
Laureate. Amherst. williams. Trinity,
Rutgers and in fact all the best elevens
In America who wish to try conclusion, Ions
will probably mae the team are: O'Gor-
man, at centre; Cornell, Schaefer. Croft
GER and Lozier, guards; Hughes, Brown,
Morgan and Taylor, ends; Reinacher and
Caris, quarter backs: Outcalt, Evans
Cobb and Ershback. half-backs; Ayers
and Lefferts. full-backs. Besides these
work has been very, good in practice,
and, taken all in all, they will be hard
team to beat: Arrangements are being
made to ss ga o 9n ee to Rayd a tSe
The fistic encounter scheduled to take
place at the Scottish American A. g.
on Saturday evening should be OF the
most Interesting character. Eddie Con-
nell the 0pSnind Sra tb R 81 51e wsos
of Jersey City. in a six-round bout, at
115 pounds. Joe Reynolds, of the Scots,
will face Jack Aikens, of the Nonpareil
(scots) will meet Eddie EEan GNon;;
pareiD at 120 pounds. in four-round
bouts. Andy Hart will referee.
Fitzsimmons has announced that.
should he win from Gresdcp tSnlsh It
fight Corbett for the championship Of
that he viii back Steve 0pon mel for for
latter will probably take no notice OF
the opportunity to pick up round
purse by the ringside, as IT were. His
plan, as telegraphed to John J. Quinn.
Is to fight Corbett first. Should Corbett
decline, Peter Maher will battle for the
title.
Princeton's schedule of football dates
is arranged as follows: Sept. 20, Lafay-
cite. at Princeton; Oct. 8, Lehigh, at
Bethlehem: 10, Columbia A. c., at WASH
ington: Is, University Of Virginia, at Bal
timore; 20. Cornell, at New York; "a, Lee
high. at Princeton; q, Volunteers, at
Princeton, or Crescents, at Brooklyn;
Nov. 8, reserved for University of Penn
sylvania; 6, Orange A. c., at Orange; 10,
reserved for Harvard; %, reserved for
Yale.
The West Side Shamrock Football
Club has reorganized for the season.
Their players are Johnson, Toal, Patrick
and Head. full-backs; Murphy, Traynor
and Mason, half-backs; Curran and Fitz-
simmons. right wings; Mckinley and
Taylor left wings: Adams, centre: Hall.
substitute They would like to hear
from all association clubs who wish to
arrange games. Address Harry MUIR
ply, 432 West Thirty-seventh street.