The evening world., 1894-04-30
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Umpire Question Much in Evidence
in Baseball Circles.
|DIileage of Kings County Wheclmcn
for March.

The League baseball season is scarcely
! week old, yet the umpire question Is
Ilready very much In evidence. jim
} Rourke gave an at times painful ex-
,ibition last week. not so much due to
he apparent lack of respect the players
I'd for his position; After last Satur-
US game the Baltimore people said
'nch was home umpire, although his
rk was gilt-eiged when New York
being drubbed in Baltimore. of
lrse, 1t makes difference whose OK
tored The suggestion has been made.
t it would be better if retired ball
ycrs we're not appointed umpires.
ne great trouble nowadays Is that
umpire Is not treated with sufficient
nifty by players. This is more apt to
the case when the umpire Is an ex-
yer. 1t is hardly to be expected that
man who has associated with ball
yers as one of them for years VIII be
led as Mr.. Umpire. rs the rule re-
res, especially when these players are
der the impression that that man is
Nv an umpire, because he has become a
ok number as a ball-player. .,
1t is tue some players might call ne ne
'eatest dignitary in the land by his us
nown him. IAN umpire by his bearing
lust command respect on the ball field,
lid Harry Wright the other day. When
man has been slapped on the back and
ubbed Jim or Jack for years 1t is
ret.y hard for him to inspire the re-
bectful treatment that a comparative
trtnger would do.
( During the month of March the mileage
,f The Kings County Wheclmen was
! 4Ol miles. an increase of 2,766 oyer March
II 1898. The individual records are as
follows:
Mor.honse Or S MG!99yE s.3 E. a. Laws 5 ai H w Kip
adS; F i. DoGp. ?oo, c, W Young, ls2; f. G.
IA; q. Tonlin, id7; c, e Har,' i5t
q. e. n. VI Water es; r. Hawley li5 : j. Graham
III Sonys i1 ;,h p ff'i r cdse sSs % 8
S. l.. $. Paige, u; L. " B,aslcy, jr.. a; o, r.
Gurnse esi T. Haup', Cs' Nsr,n m no""Ss' Ss ' W g.
s.eves esu%s'" So: 4. C. Kipp. G5; g. II wariel 60;
". II. Kay, 6o NJ, D. freeman, 80: e. Wins"ie'
Faul, SO, D. Mclean, 81 &. Kenny. so; X. +.
Hibson. a.. W. stillwell. IS; +. G. Ayres, 81
" G. NSIls 81 j. Eos'fF "a W,aswoI;b M; ri gSH'ST aS
Loges, "a, c stephens, jr. q; u. L. Raine' 20
G. stiliger, 10. C. . Long T.
Good sport is promised at the boxing
of the Coleman Athletic
Club at LenoX Lyceum next Saturday
night. Five bouts, each OF SIX ROUNDS,
between ten of the cleverest boxers IN
this city. Brooklyn. Philadelphia and
Boston win be decided. The fun pro-
gramme is as follows. rSdu ="
Brooklyn, and Mike Cooney. OF Boston
at l22 pounds: owen Iegler. OF Phila-
delphia, and Hugh Winters, of Brooklyn
at iS5 pounds; Charles BulD Mccarthy
CT City, rhit'fic' ae 40 pounds nc Harry Fisher of
Brooklyn. anu DruH
city, at les pounds: Tim Murphy, the
and Benny Leon, OF -New foin, a. II.
pounds.
Improvement is reported during the
Aast week in the work OF both the Yale
Ind Harvard crews. No changes hay,
Zen made lately in the makeup of the
Elue. Waters, who was shifted around
good deal in the Cambridge boat, Is
regarded now az fixture at NO. I.
4 Joe walcott, who now claims the
y.elter-weight championship, will find ar
interesting eustomeir IN S9'bS hS
Craig, "the Harlem Coffee Cooler.
Craig arranged the bout several day:
ago, and the men will box four rounds
at Miners Eighth Avenue Theatre TO- to-.
several creditable victories in his record
In Rustin, Case and Speer, Yale has
the strongest outfield II has had n
years.
The Germantown Cricket Club will
have its opening day at Mannheim
May ..
the pitching for Princeton in the bi!
games this season.
The rifle team of Company b, Twenty
lNfNN -lN.Nt N1,fa tnl
with the team of the Fourth Separate
Company, of Yonkers, at the armory o
the Fourth Separate on Saturday night
The Ionkers team won by score o
500 to 4S5.
The New York and Baltimore baseball
teams will occupy six boxes at the I'm
perial Music Hall tonight, having &C
Gepted the the invitation ,i,r of the manage
honor. and q new baseball song will b
sung In the burlesque, "t'nlimite,
Utopia" in honor Of the occasion,
The result of the bowling match be
tween the clerks of Rooms l and o
the Surrogates Court held on rrhach'
alleys, One Hundred and Seventietl
street and Third avenue, Saturday af
ternoon last. was a win for Room 5, b.
the following scores: First game-Roor
5, l,257; Room |. 1,134 Second game
Room 8, 1,2S9; Room l, 1.l21.
THE Worlds" New Uptown OfHce
1.-The Worlds" Uptown Office ha
moved into Its new quarters at tn
junction of Broadway and Sixth ave
enue, at Thirty-second street. Their
Will be eight entrances, two on Broad
way. two on Sixth avenue and four OF
Thirty-second street.