The evening world., 1894-01-16
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
N. Y. A. O. Committees to Be APP
pointed Tonight.
Florida's Governor Insists He Is Not
Blumng.

1t will interest the athletes Of the
community to learn that Mr.. b.. c.
Williams, better known as Benny"
will in all probability be chairman of the
next Athletic Committee of the New
York Athletic Club. Mr.. Williams is
possessed Of a great deal OF energy,
knows athletics we'll, and consequently
should be the man for the place. The
Athletic Committee, together with other
committees. will be appointed by the
new Board Of Governors tonight. An
other duty the Board will have is the
appointment Of delegates to the Metro
politan Association.
A special meeting of the Board Of Gov
ernors Of the latter body will be held
next Saturday. and just who will be
Father Biz Curtis's successor from
the N. Y. A. c. on the Board is a matter
Of conjecture. He will. of course. be one
Of the three delegates appointed; Ths
present Is. II James e. sullivan is elected
TO the Presidency of the Metropolitan
doubt that he will be, who will succeed
hin as Secretary.
The Jerseyman is a good worker and
hiCW tbS VI SiiiNhtb VI thC oiihS
thoroughly, and 1t will not be an easy
matter to I'LL his place. The names of
four, however, nave been mentioned who
These are Tommy Connect. the runne
Of the Holy Cross Lyceum A.. A., 4 W.
Ryder, Of the Clipper Athletic Club;
Charles White, the w~ell-known Clinton
A. C. hustler. So 1t looks as II there
might be some lively electioneering be-
DOlitan Association is found,
Gov. Mitchell. Of Florida, reiterates in
the tnsv strongest 4E,s term terms , that he Is + going TIC to
him emphasizing the good-are behind
him, and that any notion the opposition
may. have that he is blufing Is a large
sized mistake. In answer to a question
whether ne would call out militia from
other parts Of the State in case the local
companies refused to serve he makes this
e oSn eonelu fsipls: r6s A msy are Gen sHai
J~acksonviiie and st, Augustine which
Manager BoWdea will interview the GOV.
Eastern Passenger Agent Thweatt, Of
busy man these days, now that there is
matter. will be settled as pei. schedule.
cations for through tickets to Florida
have been received and, in addition, Mr..
Thweatt is arranging for two sporting
Jersey City at 40 o'clock Monday after
noon.. and the second at the same hour
Tuesday afternoon. They go through to
Jacksonville without change.
The large sums OF money handled by
the athletic associations of Princeton
have made necessary the adoption of a
change which involves the reeonstruc:
the athletic associations. i provides
for an office to be known as the General
Athletic Treasurer. who is to take
d dIed By d the al, va afcosn ass oea %osey He haP Is
to receive a fixed salary. and shall not
be pursuing a regular course for a de-
P Poiate q ANNUALLY tns u iH,if sy the af Executive Is Il oe co aP-
mlttee, subject to the ratification Of the
Advisory Committee. He is also to have
fa,5s sro of 3 the sb %tEai NJ per tsSIe al AID du ais;
&niversity a Freasarer, Z 'n a%me er%is ut
n 1S the once sens WiiI Se b RrSyiS6infb before for this ths
College on Wednesday for ratification.
Capt. John Ward. of the New York
Baseball team, favors the abolition of
Il ine ought DHnt' to Wh be r rtsfseier c La,t0' wand shlnf is
one of the best hunters In the business,
but he thinks more batting would en-
lNeU tne game. IL III Is the ann OIL DdSe-
ball moguls to AVE skill cut as little
figure as possible in the game, then the
unit should be done away with. The
New York Club Is, barring the Bostons.
the NEST scientific hitting club in the
League. The argument that batting
would be liz eli n II there is no bunt is
not a good one. Why not stop base
stealing, so the runners would have to
be batted around?
Manager Sinclair has arranged for the
following home games for the University
OF Pennsylvania ball nine: Princeton, 2;
Cornell, 2; Harvard, 2; Yale, Brown,
Of Michigan. Georgetown. Lehigh
The The games aaes,s away from home: Yale.
/; Cornell, l.; tehigh, /. and Lafayette. i.
The season will commence March 20. Eas-
ter week.
Chairman Madeira, OF the Baseball
Committee, announces that after the
Varsity men were fully started a strong
effort will be made to maintain q
collegiate Freshman nine.
A Baltimore despatch says: "In their
dressing-room at the Academy of Music
last evening, Peter Jackson and Par
son Davies said they were strongly OF
the opinion that Corbett is a dead
cinch" to win. Weight. height. longer
reach and six years of youth over
Mitchell are the advantages they think