The evening world., 1894-03-14
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The New York Clubs Fine Array
Of Pitchers for This Season.
A. A. U. Championship Entries Close
March 10.

INC view 10TH idheDdll IluD, as Wti
as can be foretold now, will start out
this year minus n condition of affairs
which proved a big handicap at the be-
ginning of last season. Then the Club
was badly off In the pitchers box. Crane.
King and Rusie were the pitchers, and
the first two were of hardly any service
whatever in winning games, and Rusie
did not round to for several weeks.
When the approaching season begins
Rusle will have German, Meakin, Clarke
and Westervelt to help him out. and It
Is reasonable to suppose, from their past
work.. that German and Meakin will do
much better work han Crane and King
did last year.
Rusie, German and Meakin are sea-
soned pitchers, who, wen II they are
touched up a bit, are men that can
stand The gsr," to borrow a pugIl,
quantity 70 the League. and so, for that
matter is Clarke, but the latter has
had plenty OF experience facing heavy
M slttsrs: he , share %s. hSnorS with KID" Ehan
that league was composed of fast ball
players, so why shouldn't he turn out
just as well as the B~ostonian? Consider
Ing, our hitters. base runners and bat
teries IT becomes al the more difficult
to answer the question. How can they
stop US?
Manager Sinclair, Of the University of
Pennsylvania baseball team, has re-
ceived a letter from Manager Humphrey.
bali m with HfS'' thes u IN SardHse te amy
during the season. The only reason
given Is that Princeton had already
scheduled as many games as 1t cared to
play. The prevailing. opinion among the
students at Pennsylvania Is that the
Tigers are simply carryig out the threats
made after the football game, last Fall,
Nyhnn thnx onnnttrNn1 that fhnu typtt1l
never again meet the University in ath-
letic contests.
The entries for the boxing and wres-
Ting championships Of the A. A.. y, will
close March Is with James e. Sullivan,
2tl Broadway. It T. absolutely neces-
iii out an entry blank. which an be
procured at the Secretary's Office, and
athletes are eligible to compete who are
members Of recognized athletis, boat or
that have been received so far, there is
every Indication that this will be the
most representative championship meet
Ing ever held in America, and the en-;
tries show that amateur sport Is still
In the a~scendancy.
The Elizabsth a; c., an organization
factor in athletic sport, has sent In ar
entry-E. Tucker, the well-known mid
dieLweight. who has been carefully pre-,
the Elizabeth contingent will be pres
their favorIte WIN perform when he
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a.. A., Riverside A. c., American A. A.,
tb on A. c.. Bridge A. G.. and Gin
acted upon by the Committee at its
meeting this evening.
The Harvard crews. from the Varsity
down, are al, on the river. except the
tan all to itself. The members Of the
81 boat are rapidly learning to use
their oars In place of The old rowing
weather will shortly take to their boat.
The other class crews have good pros
poets for steady work from now until
S mas d W., when m, they have their annual
ceived Its usual shaking up after going
permanently on the river. Billiard
does not seem to do so well at stroke.
and may have to give way to Fennessy,
who made such a good stroke last year.
with Fennessy rowing now at No. Z,
DAYS. at No. 9, Blake at No. s, Townsend
= and Purdon at bow. the crew is made
up Of as sandy" men as could be got
together; They are unusually light and
are quick in proportion.
More than usual interest is being
shown In the limited-round boxing con.
test. of the Columbia Athletic Club, to be
ntlu at tne Granu central Palace Satur-
day. night. Each of the bouts should be
we'll worth witnessing. as all the boxers
are men of reputation. or course, the
go between Billy Ernst and Billy Vernon
rivals are bound to make things lively.
Charles Segel, OF the Sparta A. c., viii
be referee; Martin Cowan and Jerry Ma
loney, timekeepers; Gus Tuthili and
Dave Holland, judges.
The .ten-round bout at Boston last
night between Dick Moore and BiIy
MCCARTHY was decided a draw. Moore
had the better Of the contest. Mccarthy
being In poor condition. Mike Harris.
of New York, and Jack Green, Of Am,
sterdam. boxed n seven-round draw.
The Western Baseball League will
meet In Milwaukee to-day to arrange a
schedule. 1t Is expected that the open
ing games Will be as follows: Milwaukee,
az Kansas City, Grand Rapids at In
dianapolis. Detroit at Toledo, Minneapo-
lis at Sioux City.
Billy Lavigne, of Saginaw, and Bobby
Dobbs, the colored lightweight, Will
hight at Minneapolis. March 10.
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