The evening world., 1894-02-28
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Columbia College Athletes Very
Much in Earnest This Year.
7. Championships in the Gar
den Next Month.

rho men who are training for posi-
.,ons on the Columbia College athletic
team are evidently very much In earnest
IN their intention to make the blu and
white more prominent this year than at
onv time heretofore in intercollegiate
athletics. Capt. Lawson has fifty men
in raining. and there is a noticeable i'm
nrovement in their condition since they
hegan gymnasium work. A team, COM
posed of the following men, will go up
IN ,,ew Haven to compete in the Yale
handicap games March 10: 5O-yard dash,
smull, Chatain and Lawson; mile run
Kingsley and Bacon; 6OO-yard dash. Spies,
Beekman and Kingsley; high jump, Har-
rison; pole vault, Bowman.
An invitation indoor meet will be given
In the NJ. A. C. gymnasium March II, at
which 1t Is expected representatives from
Yale, Harvard and Princeton will be
present. There will be fencing, jumping,
a forty-fve-yard dash. potato race, ex-
hibitlons on the flying rings and parallel
bars. Bird and Baxter are showing up
well on the bicycle. Columbia has a
couple of dark horses which 1t expects
to spring on Princeton IN the Princeton
49, They are half-milers, one OF whom
recently did a trial in PIP on a board
track, without being extended. Columbia
hopes to beat Princeton out this year.
The Championship Committee of the
A. A. U. has assurance of a good-s!zel
entry list for the boxing and wrestling
competitions at Madison Square Garden
March 10 and o.. The, Pastimes. Nation
ais, Clippers and Ac9rns, Will furnish a
burg, Chicago, Philadelphia, Wilmington.
Baltimore and Washington VII each
send a team. The latest organization to
be heard from Is the GElu M a, Co.; ,e OF
by Frank Johnson. who is regarded by
class. The action of the A. A. y. in
every boxer or wrestler who completes
will have a tendency to swell the entry
list. At a meeting OF the II
was decided to postpone the closing OF
the entries to March 10.
Dick Moore and Dan Creedon boxed
ten rounds at Boston last night, and the
referee, Jimmy Co'yille. declared the
CO SGnt Ieser a arf IN ,h Ts, :. .]on Tes a frea Ma sea a
splendid exhibition. 1t is the opinion of
the referees decision did Creedon an
injustice. The Australian showed up
we'll from the start, being stronger han
Moore. although the ST. Paul pugilist
made a good uphill fight. Moore,s con
vent en- down H,Pe from I'M a right hand punch in
the fifth. and. was a bit groggy, but
Creedon was lenient and Moore recov-
cred. The pace was lively to the finish.
opinion Of those who saw the. contest
was that Creedon would have his hands
more than full If he went against Bob
Fitzsimmons.
Ma.srs Talcott and Vhee,er are on
titled to no end Of credit for their eff
forts to strengthen the New York Club.
Talcott is now prepared to wager any
shine to his seat in the Stock Exchange
that the Giants O. finish last.
The Outing Athletic Tub will hold an
amateur boxing tournament at the Flat
svenue entrance 70 Prospect Park, on
weights to be contested will be 40, 1875
Robertson have been eng aged to manage
the show. Entries will close March 8
with William H Robertson, % Park
Row, New York.
tests for the benefit of the poor Of
Brooklyn will be rolled at Trainor's
alleys, Gates and Reid avenues, tonight.
howard T.. aymon succeeus u. II.
Luscomb as L. A. w. delegate to the
A. A. u.
T. p. Conneff has resigned his seat on
the Board of Managers of the Metropol-
itan Association. The vacancy will be
filled at the meeting. of March IL.
The fight between Danny Russell, of
Bridgeport. and George Siddons. of New
Orleans, has been postponed two weeks
from March J., Siddons being considera-
bly, over weight.