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

The men who are training for posi-
tions on the Columbia College athletic
team are evidently very much in earnest
in their intention to make the blue and
white more prominent this year than at
any time heretofore In intercollegiate
athletics. Capt. Lawson has fifty men
in training, and there is a noticeable i'm
movement in their condition since they
began gymnasium work. A team, COM
posed of the following men, will go up
to .sew Haven to compete in the Yale
handicap games March Is: 5O-yard dash,
Smull. Chatain and Lawson; mile run,
Kingsley and Bacon; 60O-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-five-yard dash, potato race, ex-
hibitions 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 it expects
to spring on Princeton in the Princeton
Columbia games at williamsburg, May
10. They are half-milers. one OF whom
recently did n trial in 2.12 on a board
track, without being extended. Columbia
hopes to beat Princeton out this year.
The Championship Committee of the
A. A. Y. mas assurance of a good-sized
entry list for the boxing and wrestling
competitions at Madison Square Garden
March 10 and 20. The Pastimes. Nation
large share of the local talent. Pitts
burg, Chicago. Philadelphia, Wilmington.
Baltimore and Washington will each
send a team. The latest organization to
Washington, which will be represented
by Frank, Johnson, who is regarded by
MS friends as a good thing, In MS
offering a handsome gold souvenir to
every boxer or wrestler who completes
will have a tendency to swell the entry
list. At a meeting of the Committee It
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
contest a draw. There was a great deal
of interest in this contest. II was a
splendid exhibition. 1t Is the opinion of
f tSe re ssPee!!s % S%eeisi saw did ide G mesGn 'n an
injustice. The Australian showed up
well from the start, being stronger than
Moore, although the st; Paul pusilist
Illuut II bool upliill ST. . Noit
dition helped him along materially. He
went down from 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,
Creedon going all around Moore. The
opinion of those who saw the contest
was that Creedon would have his hands
more than full If he went against Bob
Fitzsimmons.
Messrs. Talcott Wheeler are en-
titled to no end of credit for their eff
forts to strengthen the New York Club.
thing from the price of a patent-leather
shine to his seat in the Stock Exchange
that the Giants dom finish last.
The Outing Athletic Club will hold an
amateur boxing tournament at the Flat
avenue entrance to Prospect Park, on
the nights OF March u and 10. The
and $40 h.. Fred Burns and William II.
Robertson have been eng aged to manage
the show. Entries will close March 8
With WilliaYm II. Robertson % Park
The second series Of bowling con-
tests for the benefit of the poor of
Brooklyn will be rolled at Trainor's
Luscom6 as L. A. W. delegate to the
T. P. Connef has resigned his seat on
the Board of Managers OF the Metropol-
itan Association. The vacancy will be
filled at the meeting. of March L..
The fight between Danny. Russell. of
Bridgeport, and George Siddons, Of New
orleans, has been postponed two weeks
from March |. Siddons being considera-
h1v nver wetphf