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

| "'ohe W MAKE the event 8
most successful one. Rogerss Seventh
regiment Band of over fifty pieces ha,
| oeeh engaged for the occasion and will
give a concert during the evening, be.
ginning at o'clock sharp.
Inc bicycle section of the st. George
annette club. numbering about twenty.
I'VE riders, will start Sunday morning
next from Fourteenth street and Broad.
way anu journey out to Plainfeld, N. 1
valuable prize will be given the win
ner OF this race.
Inc Yale team seems TO he winning al,
sorts of tiattering notices from the Eng
iish press since their defeat. Even III.
handsome lineaments OF the team have
peeh d"et Upon at length. That is not
exactly what Capt. Hickok's athletes
went across the pond for, but their
nearly reception and cordial welcome is
at least step further towards a better
and more intimate relation between rem.
rssentatives Of the athletic deylopment
OF both nations. The establishment Of
an. entente cordale between the collie
giate teams is undoubtedly a wedge tina t
may lead to yearly competitions for In
ternational honors, made possible by the
Yale mems visit. In fact, II is already
under consideration to send the pick OF
Tor return visit.
The Kings County Wheelmen are
shaking hands with themselves over the
acquisition of new and permanent
home for the Club. Yesterday a deal
N was closed Whereby tn. K; G.. W, ac-
street, Brooklyn. The prire maid uuu
$4,000. The clubhouse is handsome
three-story brick building. with brown
Stone ar trimmings, in the Hin district.
, Ia, out In lawns and tennis courts.
Extensive refitting and alterations are
to be begun at once.
Glorianas defeat by the Fife cutter
Minerva In yesterdays special race at
Shelter Island must not be accredited
as a victory for the Scotch boat, owing
to the extraordinary condition under
which it was sailed. In fact, the mar
rowness of the defeat is the more cred
table to Mr.. Gillig's fast sloop.. A dou-
BILE time allowance was granted to Mi
nerva, which meant eighteen minutes
over a seventeen knot course. Minerva
Just managed to save two minutes of her
doubled allowance.
The nineteenth annual picnic and
games of the r. d. Sullivan Associa-
ton will take place at Suffers Harlem
River Park on Wednesday Aug. /. The
following are the games scheduled: 100
ice; running high jump, handicap: $50
yard run, handicap; fat mems race one
mile run, handicap: one mile walk, ham
bbiSap IL 7S ,Ss dash topen only to
one mile run for the mpionship,
open only to the members of the New
York and Brooklyn Police. Fire and
act N lnV,a ttv, ~ vr,tk,
gold medal. The entries close on
Wednesday. July %. with John T. Nor
ton, OF 2il Broadway.
The New York. Athletic Club swim
n; Murray; T. F; Norton and Clark
ticipated in the National Swimming As
ssephs ast n MsSh Af New
men won three OF the six events. The
feature Of the evenings sport was the
swimming Of w. g. Douglass. the N. Y;
indoor championships Of America In, 8
min. and 20 sec. Douglass led from the
start to the finish. H. Kollock, National
The results Of the other races are as
follows: Novice race, final heat. won
by p j.. Dickey, N. Y. A. C.: j. Rus
sell, unattached. second. Time-1 min.
Four lengths open handicap, final
n. Y. A. c.. second. Time-2 min. 80 2-5
sec.
Relay race four lengths, won by the
National { thinning Association team,
Doris, Hopnins shea and Kollock. The
New York Athletic Glub t,, team: Dougi ans
Time min. y sec.
Consolation race ,, Zone lsnstm' final
". J Meagher, N. S. A.. second. Time
&c 3-o sec.
The st. Andrew A. c. will hold a set
Of members games July 26 at Oriental
Grove, on the Sound. The events VIII
be loO-yard run, half-mile run, half-mils
second men.
Australian BILLY Murphy called at The
Evening World" to-day to say that he
Dixon and Griffo. He is anxious to meet
Dixon, whom he thinks he can put out
in eight rounds. and he insists on a
twenty-round go a. Griffo. Come Dixon
willing to do and not make him work
overtime chasing you from place to place.
Joe Lane. OF the Greenwood A. c., who
was defeated by Dick Behrens at the
Columbia boxing tournament last Win
Behrens. He says, that his bout with
Behrens was not a satisfactory one, and
he is anxious to fight Behrens with small
gloves for purse.
Walter G.. Sanger, in Waltham. Mass,
yesterday created new worlds bicycle
record for an unpaced mile, flying start.
making II In 2m, II 2-5s. Sangers time
for the intermediate distances were;
Quarter. - Abs. half, i'm. 2-5s.; two
thirds, I'm 24s; threee-fourths, I'm. ss 4-Ss.
II Is too bad that some English papers
must find SO many excuses for Britain
MAS defeat. The Goulds said never
word when, day after day Nigilant was
beaten. Here's what the radical old
Times, the old "Thunderer." says of the
race.
"There was TOO much wind for the
Britannia to show 20 full advantage and
enough for the Vigilant to do SO. The
latter, in fact. had her day, and came
1t with flying colors, her first
victory i'm British waters being gained
in irreproachable style. The race proved
beyond doubt that Vigilant Is more than
equal In fresh wind on
every point OF sailing. It must be re-
however, that yesterdays
race was quite smooth-water trial. 1t
remains to be seen whether Ntgllant
will be able 10 beat Britannia In a head
sea This on the face of Nalkyrie's