The evening world., 1894-08-20
SPORTING MISCELLANY.

The managers of the Seaside Athletic
Club have undoubtedly arranged q good
match In the ten-round bout announced
to be contested next Monday night be-
tween Jack McAuliffe and Young Critic.
IT Is also commendable that the young
Australian has been kept hard at work
In the Clubs gymnasium, where his
progress in reducing weight and getting
into trim Is said to be phenomenal. But
there In a further obligation on the part
or the Clubs officials. and II Is their
duty to the public to either enforce 1t or
to declare the match off. The fiatterring
bulletins sent out have been particularly
silent regarding the other participant In
the prospective battle, which in itself is
strange, considering he is the champion
In his class. As matter Of fact, 1t is
asserted on good authority that Jack
McAuliffe has absolutely neglected pre-
paratory work, and has not refrained
from an Indulgence in drink, and that
within few days he has been seen in>
toxicated at a Coney Island road house.
There is hardly a doubt that the public
would keenly relish meeting between
Critic and McAuliffe in condition, but II
would be worse than a farce to put the
Australian In the ring against a poorly
conditioned semblance Of the one-time
clever and conscientious lightweight;
oon cone ends ssssenss to the sa
opinion that his negligence is not un-
known to the management. 1t Is but
Justice to the public and duty to the
Clubs future welfare that IL 1t Is true
that McAuliffe - doing more drinking
than training they take summary action
in the matter and declare the match off.
The London Sportsman In commenting
ON Vigilant's accident Saturday lays
she Sp Of 10
the race. and adds a singing insinua-
ton that "Vigilant seemed to an or
binary spectator to sail as we'll after the
loss Of her centre, board as she did be,
fact that George Gould offered to sail
the race in crippled condition, and that
the Prince of Wales refused to compete
under the circumstances. To many 'or-
water it must seem strange how a pilot
who is supposed to be an expert In the
waters over which the yachts were TO
sail could lay that vessel ashore and M
This IL not the first occasion upon which
that form of accident has happened. In
this country a pilot incurs heavy pen pen.
revoked for such happenings.
Every race In which the new 21-foot
class has started this season has served
to emphazise the undesirabiiity of the
form of vessel to which the special con-
ditions have given cause for existence
out accident, would doubtless prove Of
value, but these little boats are far toe
tender aloft to be equal to anything
Ike yachting weather TO the he's old h,,t
Justification of their prophecies wheI
they first beheld the freaks which mus
tered in that class, and their cry is still
for an honest boat.
W. A. Brady. Corbett's manager, .hai
iete CUB Of a PURSE Of SIS 900 for finisf
fight with Jackson. The Club guarantees
training expenses. and has notified Jack
son that Corbett has accepted the offer
II the Club can show that the terms Of
fered can be assured, this proposition
should be directly in line with the ultima
tum of Peter, as ne announced It to Cor
bett IN his room at the Grand Union ias p
the North. he said. II a club able to pull
OF the mill should come to the from
within six months. He cared nothing fol
the amount Of the purse, he further de
clared.
The seventh annual festival and game
Of the United Councils, Catholic Benev
olent Legion, Of this city. Will be mel
tomorrow afternoon and evening IN SUI
and Twenty seventh street and Secon
| avenue. A series of games viii be give
in the afternoon, and dancing will tax
| up the evening. These annual gathering
OF friends Of the Catholic Benevoien
Legion have always proved 70 be enjoy
able and highly fiattering to the manage
ment, which has spared no effort 7
make to-morrow's festival even a create
social success than its predecessors.
The annual picnic and games OF IN
| National Athletic Club, Of Brooklyn. WI
be held at Ridgewood Park, l.. l., on Sat
| urday, Sept. s. The athletic contest
will be for Club championships and IN
half-mile run, one-mile run. one-mil
walk, putting 12-pound shot thrown
| le-pound hammer, running high tumI
running broad jump and pole vault.
Nearly every event on the programm
| of the New Jersey Athletic Clubs Labc
| Day Olympiad Is as promising as IN
next and not the least interesting Is IN
hurdle races. partly from the fact tns
tbe worlds Is record at the aao-yard hurdi'
having made the phenomenal time
Is 2-5s. around a turn at Worceste
Mass. on Oct. 8, 1892. 8. Chase, of tn
n. Y. A. c. defeated him In July
Saratoga, and as both men are enter ere
perate effort to recover his lost laurels.
Joseph Cornell writes that he vi
back Dan lyman. the champion 10
pound boy OF the Twentieth War
against Jack Levy to q finish for a sui