The evening world., 1894-08-13
SPORTING MISCELLANY.

This Is the banner week OF the L. A.
W.. according to reports from Denver.
FOR SIX weeks wheelmen have been
pouring Into that city, and things are
in ripe state for a rafting, royal time.
The races will be held Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. aud everybody, en-
tertainers and guests alike, anticipate
smashed records all along the line.
some or the visitors may survive the
dining, wining, dancing and general
merry-making that is promised.
The record Of the Washington- Denver
relay race shows that the distance, 2.037
miles. was covered in six DAYS, ten
hours and thirty-scvcn minutes, beating
even the fast schedule arranged by
thirty-seven hours and twenty-three
minutes. The average per hour through
Ihe entire Journey was 1917 miles-a
rsmarkable pace, considering the roads
me fastest relay was from Julesburg
10 Cheyenne, lo5 miles in ten hours and
fourteen minutes.
novice run from New York to
Long Branch and return VIII be given
undsr me auspices of the Young Mems
institute Wheel men on Sunday. Aug.
~. All novice long-distance riders are
invited TO join in the run, the entrance
r Zee Or W. deiraying all expenses. in
Red bank. The schedule begins with
assembling at 5.i5 at The Washington
Arch; Washington Square. The route
VII be across Staten Island to Totten-
Nille, ierry 10 MataWan. The return will
be over the same route, leaving Long
Branch at Sis. Entries will be received
BY John l.. Mclaughlin, Secretary, at
% Washington place. every Tuesday
Saf
to 10 O clock.
The enterprisins Scranton Press Club
lew weeks ago planned a regatta at
LAKE Ariel Wayne County, Pa, to be
htid tomorrow. Ordinarily. 1t would
the shrewd promoters schemed to catch
the returning oarsmen who were at Sar-
atoga, III addition TO number who
Gouidnt get there, The result shows a
gatta this season. An innovation is the
waving OF entrance fees, which may
have been one OF the causes of this long
list, Edwin hedley is entered by the
which may njure the senior single
event; Hed!ey was declared protes-
sional. and barred by the National
Oarsmen officials. Members of that or
ganization who compete against him
viii be adjudged professionals accord
Ing to the ruIes.
A lot of people who wanted to see a
real ring night with bare knuCkles got
up early yesterday morning and jour
neyed by cable car to Fort George. They
arrived there Al $50 and made noise
enough to arouse the slumberlng spar
rows and Catbrds of that vicinity. In.
Cidentally, they aroused a mounted po-
liCeman, who, II Is to be presumed
was not exactly slumbering. He sum,
moned aid, and three poncemen de-
a "A
about TO begin. The would-be tignters
Danny Dugan and James Kelly. were
locked up, People who SO duck shoot.
ing should not take a brass band IN
full working order as one OF the appur'
tcnances.
John l.. sullivan came 10 town Oh sat
urday and put up al the DevonShirs no.
tel. y mdSnum a minute Is sand to have
been the rate of MIS- welcome yesterday
When fairy well primei the cN-cAGm'
piun honored the tlty OF Churches With
visit, \ cab conveyed him and his
jag TO the host,lry % MS Old friend and
lormtr Ina ker, Charley Johnston y re
the big fellow was fast lapsln: into a
sodGen state. when he CHANGED 10 miss
the diamond STUDDED bet which was
presented 20 him N Boston, and which
has been on exhibition in Johnson's
Darroom, II Is said that Johnston holds
II 20 secure mortgage and that ne had
placed II n the safe recently. sullivan
kicked up a row and was escorted uui
and shippel per cab 10 this city. After a
cali at Wake.y's, where he again became
ho'sterous, he was driven 10 The Devon,
shire.