The evening world., 1894-04-23
GR|FF0- -GRIFFEN CONTEST.
The Much -Talked-0f Pugilistic
Event in Foston Tonight.
Hnle's Grow Said to he Going Back
Other Sporting Notes.

night Is the most talkcd-of pugilistic |
event in this section of the country |
since the days of the big contests at
the Coney Island Athletic club VIII |
Griffo meet the same fate as his fellow
Australian, supposed to be world |
bcater in his class. did at the hands |
of Joe Wolcott last week? Is the uucs- |
tion. Since Critic has been in this coun- |
try nobody has been able II seems. to
get a satisfactory line on his ability. He
Is known to be clever and is known us
IA heavy feather weight.
To-nights contest being at catch
weights, 1t is argued by some who have
! seen the Australian in the ring that
that state of affairs will give him an
advantage over Grffo. Grften, as Is
known, has won some good hard fights.
and is probably the best man Griffo will
have met in this country. He can win
II fight. and at the same time give his
adherents more scares than anybody in
the business. He has lost two fights by
ca"elessness" or a chance blow" or
whatever other charitable name one is
disposed to call Il. Yet he Is always
fformidable, Bob t'itzsimmons remarked
In Arthur l.umley's office the other day
that he thought Griffen would come
pretty near winning. one of the most
mteTSs1ed bs To sneStators rat at the fight VIII
'iriHo to win. and so does Dixon. The
champions manager will watch the
battle IN order to get a line on the Aus
feet that the Yale crew had gone back"
were to be expected. but hardly SO early.
a short three weeks ago Rob Cook left
New Haven much pleased with the work
the candidates are iistless. careless
and show little life. There are not more
than couple of clean cut oars in the
boat and the prevailing influence is fast
demoralizirg the minority" Cook and
| ex-,apt Ives are expected shortly, and
dGnDtlsII there VIII be brace then
1t Is thought the big race will be de-
clded Thursday, June 2s.
The system of paying ball-players Is
an ANY wrong, ,To, SAYS Capt Nash, OF the h2s-
the championship or not 1t is all the
same do not get better salary than
me third baseman OF the weakest club,
the limit. In other words, there is not
the least inducement for u club or play
ers to win the pennant. II you win the
graduation. that is all. y champion
club 10 naturally the drawing card, but
the magnates do not recognize that fact.
|.
simply a scheme to keep down salaries
and enable the magnates to get more
money. | think. also, that iirs-class
work on the part of a player during the
season should not go without additional
reward"
The aYnticaw Gun Club, of Nutey, n.
j., shot return match with the Orange
Gun club at the grounds of Edward
Foster, In Orange, Saturday afternoon.
The conditions were six men on side
and thirty birds each. The Nutleyites
were defeated by nine birds. Foster,
Won Lengerk comprised the Orange
team. Messrs, Butler, Cooke, De Wolf;
the ianti;aws The visiting marksmon
were Hospitality entertained, which in a
measure mitigated the sting of defeat.
Hugh Winters.the BROOKLYN light
weight puSilst, who is TO meet owen
Zeigler,. of Phil adelrhia, in six
round bout at the Coleman Athletic
Clubs boxing tournament in the Lenox
Lyceum on May 8, began training for
the contest at Great South Bay yester-
day. If Winters defeats the Quaker
; City boxer he will challenge Stanton
Abbott to a finish fight for a stake and
purse.
The candidates for the "a Harvard
football team are very busy these days.
? TWO match games are to be played, one
about May 0. between men chosen from
the present candidates, and another af-
ter the class races.
One hundred and fifty entries have
been received for the Ravenswood Boat
Clubs boxing tournament, which takes
, place in Puritan Hall, Long Island City.
on Thursday and Saturday evenings OF
this week. The entries include most of
the new crop Of boxers who have dis
distinguished themselves In the shows
held during the Winter.
The good boxing programme which has
been arranged for Wednesday evening
at Lenox Lyceum, should draw a good
crowd. Joe Ellingsworth will meet Har-
ry Newmicr. Con Riordan will face
Aaron Isaacs Peter Burns will be Frank
Craig,s opponent, and Tommy Russell
Kyle, and Joe Harmon and Mike j.
Kearney will also meet in the ring.
! The entertainment which was to have
been rendered to BILLY Murray, to-mor,
Thirty-second street has been postponed
on account OF the hall not being llcens-
sStabIe sd pIeksaI ss Mi s secn2sa hSla good until
The New York Yacht Club stations
at Whitestone. Bay. Ridge, New Lon.
4 don and Newport viii open May 4 and
d May 10.
The West Side Athletic Club will give
$ a professional boxing show at Grand
: Central Palace May B.
| The Ives-Carter Cushion-carom billiard
: match, which was to have been played
Q In Paris within sixty days, Is OF. In
l. its stead Ives and Schacfcr will play at
cushion caIoms against Carter and Wig,
nauX,
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Found Dead In He'd.
Fritz Krouskopf. sixty nine years old, was found