The evening world., 1894-02-28
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Columbia College Athletes Very
Much in Earnest This Year
Al. Championships in the Gar
den Next Month.

r,. men who are training for posi-.
.,.n. IN the Columbia College athletic
-, ira evidently very much in earnest
" ,.o;r intention to make the blue and
,,i,o more prominent this ear than at
,r,, time heretofore In intercollegiate
athletics. Capt. lawson has fifty men
An training, and there Is a noticeable i'm
urcvement In their condition since they
hep,n gymnasium work. A team, COM
no,,d Of the following men, will go up
10 Jew Haven to compete in the Yale
handicap games March Is: O-yard dash.
smull, Chatain and Lawson; mile run,
kingsley and Bacon; 6OO-yard dash. Spies,
Beekman and Kingsley: high jump, Har-
rson: pole vault, Bowman.
An invitation indoor meet will be given
IN the NJ. A. c. gymnasium March II. at
which II is expected representatives from
Yale. Harvard and Princeton will be
present. There will be fencing, jumping,
a forty-ive-yard dash, potato race, ex-
hibitlons on the flying rings and parallel
bars. Bird and Baxter are showing up
well on the bicycle. Columbia has a
couple of dark horses which It expects
10 cyl lnb III 4 'iV tiltcto1-
Columbia games at Williamsbridge, May
la. They are half-milers. one of whom
recently did a trial In zig on a board
track, without being extended. Columbia
hopes to beat Princeton out this year.
The Championship Committee Of the
A. A.. I. has assurance OF a good-slzed
entry list for the boxing and wrestling
competitions at Madison Square Garden
March 10 and %. The Pastlmes, Nation
ais, Clippers and Acorns. will furnish n
burg. Chicago. Philadelphia, Wilmington.
Baltimore and Washington will each
send a team. The latest organization to
be heard from is the Columbia A. c., of
Washington which VII be represented
his friends as a good thing. in his
class. The action OF the A. A. U. in
offering a handsome gold souvenir to
every boxer or wrestler who completes
list. At a meeting of the Committee It
was decided to postpone the closing OF
The entries to March Is.
Dick Moore and Dan Creedon boxed
Ten rounds at Boston last night. and the
a draw. There was a great deal
Of interest in this contest. 1t was a
splendid exhibition. 1t is the opinion of
some experts who saw the match that
tHt ItltItt > utClSlou ulu SIftuoh VI
Injustice. The Australian showed up
well from the start. being stronger thar
Moore, although. the st. Paul pugilist
made a good uphill fight. Moore's con-
went down from a right hand punch, in
the fifth, and was a bit groggy. but
was lenient and Moore recov-
cred. The pace was lively to the finish,
Creedon going all around Moore: The
was that Creedon would have his hands
more than ful II he went against Bob
Messrs. Talcott and Wheeler are en-
forts to strengthen the New York Club.
Ialcott is now prepared to wager any
hing from the price of a patent-leather
to his seat in h Stock Exchange
mat the Giants don't finish last.
amateur boxing tourna ment at the Flat
bush Academy. opposite the Franklin
avenue entrance to Prospect Park, on
the nights CT March u and 10. The
and l4o h.. Fred Burns and William II.
Robertson have been eng aged to manage
the show. Entries will close March 8
with William H. Robertson, 20 Park
Row, New York:
The second series of bowling con-
tests for the benefit OF the poor Of
will be rolled at Trainor's
Gates and Reid avenues, tonight.
Howard e. Raymond succeeds C. H.
Luscomb as L. A. w. delegate to the
A. U.
T. p. Conneff has resigned his seat on
The Board of Managers Of the Metropol-
Association. The vacancy will be
filed at the meeting. Of March IL.
The fight between Danny Russell, of
Bridgeport. and George Siddons. Of New
Orleans, has been postponed two weeks
from March J., Siddons being considera-
bly, over weight.
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