Arizona republican., 1895-10-15
AMONG 7HB SPORTSMEg. Prominence Again Is Given to Athletics. A Fifty-Yard Sprint at Phoenix
 Park.
Organization of Football and Base ball Clubs For the
 Winter Season.

Sunday afternoon at the park was made lively by the presence of large crowd and by athletic sports of several kinds. The main event was fifty yard foot race, the contestants being Emmett Reed, of the High school, and Dave Fulwiler of the LamsOn Busi- ness college The race had long been discussed and trained for and not little cash had been placed on the out come. Fulwiler made a bad start, but was outclassed as Reed at every jump increased his distance from his com petitor, touching the string in the good time of five and three-ffths sec onds.
 The bicyclists were out in force, but no match races were run.
 Baseball occupied the ground nearly all afternoon, the play being merely practice to determine the membership of the next nine that shall play the strangers within our gates. Interest in the game is renewing and it is the anticipation of the "cranks' that the strongest team ever known in PhOe- nix will play this winter
 The football enthusiasts met at Drachmans cigar store and thence adjourned to the Military plaza, East Washington street, where mass plays were practiced. In many respects the material at hand is better than that of the victorious team last year. One of the new players will be Don, who was not long ago, a member of the All England team of worldwide ce- lebrity. Professor Cooley and Chick Fowler, who played with Stanford in their college days and Willis who kicked in the eleven of the University of California, couple of years ago, will also be mem bers of the team. Then there will be Willis Rulings, who is one of the cleverest of quarter backs, and Hughes, the all-round and redoubtable player. To these will be added the backing of all the former players, so that two elevens will no doubt soon materialiZe for competition work at home. As soon as the team is formed games will be ready. Two are to be played with the sturdy lads of the Indian school and one each with teams from Prescott and Whipple. Organization will be perfected tomor- row night at meeting in Firemens' Hall, and all interested are invited to be present.
 The Phoenix Cricket club have de- cided that their coming match with the pine environed city will occur on Oct. 26. The club have not grown carelss over their recent victory with the Pres ing and feel confident of winning the ing and fell confident of winning the game on Prescott's own ground.
 Today is the end of the militiamen's sharpshooting year and the captains of each company will render their final reports to Major H. B. Robinson, ln- spector of small arms practice. His tabulation and statement of the rela tive proficiency of the militia marks men will be awaited with deep inter est. It will probably appear in about week. Sunday was utilized at the butts by number of tagging sharp shooters in Company B, who were favored by the faultless weather in making good scores. The company average is expected to be very high.
 Mark Long and Horace Sleator, the two Phoenix bicycle lads, left last night for Los Angeles, where they will enter the employ of a bicycle agency. Both are excellent riders, as their reg ords will show, and they hope to aston ish the natives on the coast as to what can be done by boys from the Salt river alfalfa region.