The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
SPORTING MISCELLANY.

Should the weather be clear tonight
1t is expected that at least 5000 persons
will visit Travers Island to witness the
regular Ladies Day" held by the New
York Athletic Club The committee
having charge of the affair has left
nothing undone to make the event
most successful one. Rogers's Seventh
Regiment Band of over fifty pieces has
been engaged for the occasion and will
give concert during the evening, be-
ginning at o'clock sharp.
The bicycle section Of the st. George
Athletic Club. numbering about twenty
Ave riders, will start Sunday morning
next from Fourteenth street and Broad
way and journey out to Plainfield. N. ].
valuable prize will be given the win
ner of this race.
The Yale team seems to be winning all
sorts Of fiattering notices from the Eng
lish press since their defeat. Even the
handsome lineaments of the team have
been dwelt Upon at length. That is not
| exactly what Capt. Hickok's athletes
went across the pond for. but their
hearty reception and cordial welcome is
at least step further towards better
and more intimate relation between rep
resentatives OF the athletic ,devlopment
of both nations. The !. adjustment Of
an entente cordiale betW zen the collie
giate teams Is undoubtedly wedge that
may lead to yearly competitions for in
| ternational honors. made possible by the
Yale mems, visit, In fact. it Is already
under consideration to send the pick OF
oxford and Cambridge here next year
| for return visit.
Tha
shaking hands with themselves over the
acquisition of new and permanent
home for the Club. Yesterday a deal
street, Brooklyn' The price paid Wss
$4,000. The clubhouse is handsome
three-story brick building. With brown
stone trimmings. in the Hill district.
| The grounds are lOOxlO0 feet, and will be
laid out in lawns and tennis courts.
Extensive retitting and alterations are
to be begun at once.
Minerva In yesterdays special race at
Shelter Island must not be accredited
as victory for the Scotch boat owing OWL
%ha as It sss saed SSn aet the
rowness Of the defeat is the more cred
table to Mr.. Gillig's fast sloop., A d9n-
BILE time allowance was granted to MI IL,
over a seventeen knot course. Minerva
Just managed to save two minutes of her
doubled allowance.
The nineteenth annual picnic and
games of the T. ID. Sullivan Associa-
ton will take place at snlzer's Harlem
River Park on "Wednesday AuE l. The
yard dash, handicap; 4lo-yard run. nov-
yard run. handicap; fail mems race, one
dica a rs 75-yard dash open only to mem;
bers OF the Association and a special
one mile run for the champ Pho
Post-ofiice departments. The winner
of this event will receive handsome
yea %edne sdaS July y Is. With John T. Nor.
ton. Of 2il Broadway.
The New York, Athletic Club swim
mers. Percy F.. Diekey, W. G. Douglass Is.
s Mu, weSt t. F Fl SHsfSn aa and c
ticipated in the National Swimming AS
ISOLATION races which were held in Phil.
nSsps %on h hIee night u the six events
feature OF the evenings sport was the
swimming OF w. g. Douglass; the nao N y. y y
A. c: man n who Easily Won m rm in
start start to the finish. H; Kollock, Nationsa
Swimming Ass0csati ;hr Was @sces S are "a,
follows: Novice race, finai heat, wor
5 sell. unattached. second. Time-l min
Four lengths. open handicap. tina
, heat won by +. C. Vail: y. F. Dickey
, =. Y. A. c.. second. Time min 81 =
Relay race. four lengths. won by tn
E National swimming Association team
Doris. HOPKINS shea ana . Mo' BoxS,a a :.
iSickev Murray and Miller. was second
' Time-i min. 40 sec. ..> A.,
Consolation race s, I9ne ' SnsY'A ma C
9 ". J. Meagher. N. s. A.. second. T'me-
e 26 3-5 sec.
j The St. Andrew 4, C VII aoi n,.sr sc
q Grove. on the Sound. The events WI
e NE Ioo.yard run, half-mile run half-mil
!. walk Prizes will be given Tor nrst an
: second men,
Australian Billy Murphy called at tn
Evening World" to-day to say that q
wanted fair and square deal from oot
R Pixon avn Whom he thinks he can put on
in eight rounds. and he insists on
= twenty round go a. Critic; SSme e l D,SG
and Grifro let Bil'y ro kh MAKE sI him ' Wor
overtime chasing you from place to place
e Joe Lane. Of the Greenwood A. C., VII
l. Columbia boxing. tournament last VII
i ter. is looking for 4 tinish fight wit wit
Pshrens was not a satisfactory one. an
,r he is anxious to night Behrens with sma
"A gloves for purse.
IL walter c. Sanger. In waitha,n. Mas.
10 Yesterday created new worlds bicycl
record for N unpeeed miis, dying 3ax
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