The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-02
SPORTING MISCELLANY.

! OF the Olympic Club, to CCrbett, printed
exclusively in "The Evening World
| Sporting Extra last night, gives the
champion until Thursday to consent or
refuse to fight Fltzsimmons. Corbett
will probably stick to his reply and to
his claim OF the title. Then the Olympic
| cub will proclaim Ftz champion OF
the world. This title will look nicely
ON show posters and reap many shek-
| els, theatrically.
Billy plimmer is III in this city, ant
! there are al sorts of stories about
! dosing" previous to his fight at New
| orleans with Johnnie Murphy. Martin
| bowling, his hacker promises to MAZE
! II hot" for those who had a hand In the
alleged dosing. This talk was not be
gun at New Orleans. although the al
| legged villany was committed TWO days
before the fight
The entry list for the Columbia Attn
! letIc CLUBS amateur boxing tournament
at Grand Central Palace Thursiay ana
Saturday nights, closed YESTERDAY some
! three hundred names have been re-
ceived. As dime would not permit all to
! compete. many names Will be thrown
uut, ana only tho best boxers accerto'.
! This viii bring the list down to about
TWO hundred. Sporting men ire showing
no little interest in the tourney, ana
! doubtless big crowd VIII he preS@n
! 20 see the sport. lhere VIII pe 'OiIN'lt
| previous to the bouts Already there
| has been a large demand for seats, hut
they will not be put on sale I'LL Thursday
morning.
The Atlantic Athletic Club has row a
membership OF 800, aud the arranSe-
mcnts Tor the initial exhibition In the
Sea Teach Palace oct. 10, are progresS-
| Ing finely 1t Is the intention Of the
| Ciuh to confine the shows to zeal
scientific bouts, securing tn" best await
able tdIent
The news from Cambridge that iar,
yard has decided not to play Princeton
this FAN viii be great disapp''thhtc-
natches planned for this season VII
| not determine tn" rcll champi 1nshir
# the big football institutions; Har-
ward will play only Yale anh pe ms ~
| md Princeton Princeton VIII encounter
My Yale ana Pennsylvania, Thus, no
| matter who the ViCtOrs may be IN tneSt
"untuet'. the fact that no Que college
! viii have played all the others leaves
| the actual championship in the clouds.
| Every college football treasurer Is eager
! 20 turn over d larger amount To ms
alma mater than any Of his predoces-
! eore and the steady Increase in pnpu-
larity Of the great college game has
| nnnbled the young tnanotcrs 10 DO luSt
| his Last year. by playing pennsyl-
vlnia at Manhattan Field Nov. H.
| Managers Hotter, of Yale, and Newton,
| n Pcrnsv lVaria, were all" 20 lnav"
town with checks for almost $5,Wn
| lriece In their inside pockets. 'ennsNl-
vana defeats by Yale have been in
lrithmetical retrogression. Each year
| Wales score has been about ten points
'"se than the year before. on these Two
-rourls II would seem that the Qua
! kers have every reason to expect Yale
10 play them again Although last year $
came was not played at Philadelphia
the Pennsylvannns do not ask Yale TO
meet them on their home grounds TINS
| time but will gladly meet them in TINS
rtv again Mr.. John c. Bell said to
THE Evening World' reporter Few
play Yale, why, Wen play, them in
Australia, or on a roof. If need he
Harvards refusal to meet Princeton
| Ia most unsatisfactory of all the excuses
rampant during the football season. The
last time they met on the gridiron in
1850 the Tigers enjoyed hearty rephst'
They are most eager to rspcat me eN-
| to play Yale. Harvard and Pennsylvana.
| as she desires to do this year. than Tor
| Harvard to play Yale, Pennsylvania and
| Princeton.
The talk about Harvard's only aim
| being to defeat Yale received a severe
sethack last November at Snrthsnvi,h,
vigor and II gularity for several years
it would seem the part of vaior ana prncc
| Frnrp for Ter to save Soire remnant vi
| Co nthan prestige by trying to beat some
| Of the other teams, instead of assuming
undue superiority and ignoring them.
| Nanager cable has announced the FOL
owing schedule of Yale FOOT ail Games
| New Haven. oct. &. Crescent at bFook :
! iyn; oct. 10, Williams at New haNeh'
oct. l3. Iehigh nj New haven on'' ~.
Dartmouth at Springfield; oct. 20, Or
! anre A. G. at Orange; oct. ~ Boston
A. A at New Haven; oct. x, West
| Point At West Point; oct. II, AmhGrsI a
Nov il. Chicago a. {. at New Haven;
Nov "a, Harvard at Springfield.
Paul Mills, who has. thus far put mp
the hest game back of the line among
| the Vale candidates, yesterday Sprbin'd
a finger so badly that he will be laid up
several weeks Sanford's knee Is now in
such shape that he can begin pract''e
next week,
The Ores ent Athletic club is san
guine that it Will 9aXe rN VERY st nT,1i
dates are now in training, and on Tues
day and Friday the first clever, plays
aSaips; IT," h scrub n TnS ''i,SwinF
Vale at Eastern Park; Oct. 10, tniver-
sty Of Pcnnsylvanil at philadelphia
oct. Is, Amherst at Eastern Park; oct
| I u :
crn Park; Oct. y, Rutgers COLLEGE IT
Eastern Park; Nov. 6, Cornell mt East /
ern Park Nov. 20. Roston A. A. at East
crn Park; Nov. 20 Orange ~ \. at
| orange oval
The road runs scheduled by the South
| BROOKLYN Wheelmcn are as follows: oct
:, Cdnnrsie; oct. A. Woodbury., y. v,
s'arting from chambers street ferry
saturday oct Il. a 4 l.. NJ; oct. n
Path Beach oct. IS, Century run to
PatchOgue and Neturn. about 100 miles.
At the National Circuit meet in
Steubonville yesterday Bliss broke the
ohio hdlc-mile record by one second
riding in IS - seconds.
George W. Wolf started Tor New
York ON his bicycle from Chicago at
o'ClOCk yesterday morning, He will at
tempt to ride to the New York "Worll'
once in better than record time. Accord
ing to his schedule he is due at hi.
destination early next sunday morning
Tonight Buffalo's candidate Tor teaIh
er-wcght honors, Frank Erne, who has
bested all amateurs IN this vicinity, vii
have his measure taken hy Solly Smith
Jack Dorsey, the colorcd priZetghter
better known throughout this city Al
2 the Baltimore spider was browne,
\ on Sunday after falling overheard iron
I the steamer John LenoN, which was O
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