The evening times., 1895-09-03
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

An energetic young man named Mllburn
was around town On Saturday soliciting
subscriptions forstnck in an athletic under,
taking. Ii is his plan to build three-quar-
ter-miie bicycle track and club house. The
capital stock in the concern is tu be $40 900 =
Milburn says that he can build the track
and house for about $40, 200; that he can
furnish the club house with all necessary
athletic paraphernalia for about $4,000,
and that he will then have about SIC, 1000
left for working capital He says the
ground chosen for the track and club house
is about two and one-half miles from the
reservoir. and that there will be NO diff.
Guilty in the way of giving any sort OF
athletic observation-disclosures. Milburn says
that more than one-half the stock has all
ready been subscribed for
The most recent performance nf young
John Crum, the Iowa by, indicates that
when he meets the Englishmen. Bradley
| and Downer, in the hundred yards dash,
and Downcr and Jorda IN in the twu-hundred-
and-twenty-yards dash, at the contest be-
tween the foreigners and the New York
Athletic Club men, he will set an astonish-
ing pace for them. On Saturday, at the
Western Amateur Champion Athletic Club
meeting, Crum won the hundred-yar race
with great ease in ten seconds flat, and then
afterward to q very bad start, ran two
hundred and twenty yards around turn IN
twenty-one and four-fifths seconds, the
worlds record for such feat being twenty
one and three-fifths seconds, while Hutch
| ms professional record for the same dis
tance straightaway Y is twenty-one and three
fifths seconds. There can scarcely be
doubt as The Times has said before, that
Crum, for any distance from fifty up to
two hundred and twenty yards. is the fast.
est sprinter the world has ever seen.
The dates for the races between the VAL
kyrie and Defender have been fixed fof
| September Z, 10, and IL.
The Arlington race track property was
| bought on Saturday by President Freel-
man, of the Baltimore Driving Club. The
| price paid was 100000. Extensive inio
provements are to be made upnnt.
Andy WEIGH Frank Herdic and Tom Pow.
| ers have secured the betting privileges fog
| the Pimlico meeting.
There are now thirty candidates for hon.
| ors on the University of Pennsylvania foot
| ball team, in training at Lake Grimsby,
Canada. and at least twelve more are e1-
pected there during this week. Coach
| Woodruff expresses the belief that from
| their squad OF material he viii be able to
| pick the best football organization old
Pennsy has ever had.
Although there is to be no game this year
between Princeton and Pennsylvania, it
is not impossible that the Tigers will be
seen on the football field in Philadelphia.
They are now negotiating with several OF
the minor colleges in that city, and it il
thought a game will be arranged.
Fred Titus is to try to beat the hour record
of 26 miles, 1,492 yards this month!
Seavay, of Boston, anu Shabel, the
Frenchman, will begin a 1000 mile race
at Toronto on Thursday.
Sims. of this city, has gone to Spring.
field, Mass, to join the Columbia team.
He will take part in the Springfield races.
Knowles, the Bro oklyn man, is getting into
fix to make an effort to ride 10000 miles
at the rate of 100 miles a day. Knowle<
has gone 100 miles day fol sixty days.
And now it is suspected that sometimes
bicycle races, even under the auspices OF
Gideons League OF American Wheclmen. are
not run on the square. Titus, Cabanne
and Murphy have been suspended for put
] ting up job at st. Louis.
The Southern wheelmen. ofN New OrleanS
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