The evening world., 1894-07-21
SPORTING MISCELLANY.

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| shutdown OF the game at Boston comes
! the announcement that New Orleans Is
| bidding right and left for tae stars of the
arena. or course the customary bid for
tn, Corbett jackson fight Is on dit, and
! the bait Is 81. 900. offered by the olympic
! club. Should jackson not come to time
the club will hold out the same offer for
! Fitzsimmohs an, Corbett Jimmy Car
I roll ana Andy Bowen are scheduled to
meet before the Auditorium Club on Aug
s for purse % 81 800, on Aug. % Jack
Dempsey and Billy Mccarthy are billed
for go. with SOD purse attachment.
before the same club. The Olympic Club
Will bring Jack Everhard and Stanton
| Abbott together on Aug II in a 25-round
! but for $l.JO. 4.
The fac, that the recent Legislature
refused ID pass a bill prohibiting glove
contests IN Louisiana opens up "A long
/ vista If prospective contests to the day
dreams Of New orleans sports. OF
course. Just al present. the figures In the
/ vision are IN ulc front rank Of pugilists,
and Joe thoynski, Jack McAuliffe, iior-
ace Leeds. Peter Maher and their ik
ting the vision with A Golden halo Of
begins. and see the kind of ish that win
/ RS" To the gilded bait at tn" Crescent
6ity, "Woul i-bcs' and have becns" will
managers. heads swim and the market
price f iistic nohodc5 viii probably so
| up to such an altitude that club treas
nri1s Would he depleted in securing a
mediocre match. And these same 'pugi-
Iists' deplore the passing of the game.
The annual picnic and games OF Guar
gan Encampment NO. 81 G. r. A..
knights of ST. John and Malta, will be
, ncld at Banners Grove, Ridge wood. l..
/, on Tuesday afternoon and evening,
Aug. a. The games, open to members
o snEs, VII be started at + NJ; and are
yard dash handicap; fat mems race,
/ scratch: fve-man team shooting: half
| mile run. handicap; egg race; bindman's
race; threS-legged race: bowling match;
| Iudrter-mle run. A programme of ath-
letiC events Is also provided for the
women and children
A. G, Spading & Bros. have made
proposi,tiion to the managers Of the Good
| August at Asbury Park. They suggest
that coastins championship be held in
connection with the tournament; that
an entrance Zee of 500 be charged each
manufacturer and the tournament be
held, providing that six entries can be
procured from six of the prominent
manufacturers Of America, each manu-
facturer to enter his own bicycle linn
itlnE weight of bicycle and weight of
| rider.
At the Cleveland Wheel Club races
yesterday the results were: One-mile
novice, class All. T. Meckling, Cleve-
land won; f.. g, Heinrich, Cleveland,
second: H. T. KEEL Davidson. Cleveland,
| third Tine-2T. One-quarter mile. open,
class BE. c. johnson, Cleveland, won:
W. W. Taxis. Philadelphia. second;
+ G. Bald. Iiuffaio, third. Timc-36s,
Detroit, won; Frank r. Rigny, Toledo,
| Time-A 2-5s. One mile, handicap, class
BE. c. Johnson. Cleveland. won; r. +.
2.lS - Three-mile lap, class B-Fred J
Titus. Brooklyn. y. y, won; remainder
Of field diGtan need.
Horace NJ. Leeds, the Philadelphia
lightweight, assumes that Jack McAu-
life is afraid TO defend his title against
hin, at lS2 pounds McAulife insists
reta!ns his claim upon the championship:
Leeds will claim the title by forfeit II
his deposit is not covered by Aug. -. ara
will defend 1t against any lightweight in
America.
Frank Erne wants "A match before the
Seaside Athletic club at 10 to IA pounds.
So does Billy Murphy. Yet neither seems
to know that the other Is anxluos.
feet is scheduled for tomorrow by the
Yorkville Yacht club. The course is the
regular East River course of the Club,
starting off the club house, foot of Nine
ty-second street. The boats will be sent
off at ll.30 a. NJ.
A match bicycle race between Bob
MSAdam . And simon n, Frank, better bette,
morning on the Brooklyn Boulevard
over Il course of about five and three
quarter miles 1t was won by, McAdam
by two lengths. James j. Adams was
starter and J. Samuels judge.
The Good Roads Tournament, which
takes place at Asbury Park. n. j., on
widespread interest in tne cycling world.
In order to have the track fast the As
hurry Park Athletic Association decided
at a recent meeting to widen the corners
and improve their track generally. so
that the fast men, Johnson, Tyler,
Sanger, Bliss and others; will have an
night out the championship on fair
track. The different manufacturers and
people interested in good roads are. pro-
three days races will undoubtedly rank
ahead OF any given on tae circuit this
season. Among the noted riders that will
viii be Bald, the Buffalo man; G, Mar
shall Wells the champion Of Canada;
| Titus and Macdonald, the famous New
| York riders Rlauvelt and Brown. the
New Jersey riders: the Murphys. Of
Rrooklyn Royce. the, speedy Paterson
| tourist wheelman crack: Taxis, OF Phla-
| delphia: Lumslen and Citizens. of Chi
| cago; Edwards. Of California, and many
other noted riders. An important event
| q the extra event on the second day OF
| the tournament for the $500 champion
| cup offered hy The American Whee.man
for the Metropolitan District champion
| ship. open to riders who reside within
radius II nfty miles of The American
Wheelman's office.
| Murphy.-Jack McAulifre was born In
Cork. Ireland March "a. 1866
r. F., Long Branch. n. J.-seventy-
five rounds.
II. and N.-Five feet eight and quar-
| ter inches
WILL LOCK THEM UP.