The evening world., 1894-01-11
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP
Healthy Views of Mr.. Weeks, New
President of the N. Y. A. G.
Testimonial to Billy Madden Should
BE n Success.

NOW that the members OF the New
York Athletic club know who will be its
officials for tns year the appointment
of committees is the next thing OF in
terest. This will be done by the Board Of
Governors next Tuesday evening. The
makeup OF the Athletic Committee prob
ably attracts the greatest interest. The
athletes OF the New York A. G. were not
altogether pleased with the Athletic Com
mittee of last year. one OF them recently
said that Committee was lacking In ex-
ecutive ability, and did not achieve as
good results with the athletic appropria-
tion as did the Committee for the pre-
ceding year.
On the subject OF athletics, Mr.. Bar
tow S. Weeks the newly elected Pres
dent of the Club, has some healthy
views which, If they can be brought
into use. should make the Mercury Foot
athletes more prominent in athletic con-
tests. ut IL my belief" says Mr.. Weeks,
that a big club like the New Yorks
should encourage smaller clubs by hav-
Ing their athletes compete In the smaller
clubs games more frequently. 1t would
help the performances OF our own men,
too. 1t would be good for their nerves
Actual competition is better than theo-
The athletes of the N. Y. A. c. have
not doe as much competing at the less
| important meets as they might have
done, coming out as a rule only at their
own or big championship events. A good
iese, where they may have acquired up
pish notions, and perhaps fear con-
tamnation from competition with ath-
n nsi Tn0 in hs SUrK Evening" sh hs be sesf
for the sport IL more democratic ideas
| prevailed.
The INDICATIONS are that the testi-
monial to Billy Madden, to be held at the
Windsor Theatre. the 2sth Of this month.
will be a success. 1t ought to be. Mad
den has done more for the game OF pugi-
sporting men in this country put to-
gether, as glance at the list of the
names Of men ne has brought before the
ps6e Ti sh9w Am9ns thess Are snl
McAul.ffe, Kilrain. Goddard. Tommy
Ryan. Dawson. Slavin. Maher and Nc
Carthy. Madden Is the originator of the
In spite OF the good men he has handled
Madden cannot be said to be. living on
the, fat. Of the land. But that is no
have come to him IN large doses. Blu.
you wouldn't know that, if you waited
for Madden to tell you. He Is man OF
over fnH split ii Pmk Sn HIS " testimonlai should
De a success.
Great rivalry exists between the first
and second bowling teams Of the Bay
onne Rowing and Athletic Associat ton.
Last nigh, the second game of a series,
| the first of which was won by the first
team, was rolled on the Clubs alleys
a win for the first team by the excellent
score of 1929 to l,l2s The contest was
umpired by Capt All Smith, Of the third
| team.
|
| The members OF the University OF
Pennsylvania baseball team will begin
their regular practice next Monday after
o90h Arthur 1r%in T'S % From The he
at the present time the outlook for {
successful season is promising, as eigh
OF last years team will respond to thu
call.
Adolph Norseng the skater, is train
ing at Fishkill for his races at Man
sengs trainer called on Receiver Freed
man yesterday and told of close cal
the Dane had the other day while skat
The The ice gave way and and Norseng Wen,
out of sight in fifteen feet OF water
After hard struggle he was fished Out
alive. but very numb. He has about re
covered now.
Harolu Hagen. the Norwegian crack
S1s % written a,ys rons to Se R9noghue "n,h saying
country, II there IS any chance of get
ting on race with Donoghue. The lat.
ter has already signified his willingness
to skate Hagen the latter part of the
season.
Now that the anchor nurse seems to bt
4 thing of the past and a new game has
besn adopted for the cracks, the following
able, showing how Jake Schaefer and
! George SloSson stand with each other
will be interesting to billiard lovers
Schaefer SlossOp