The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-09-20
THE FIELD OF SPORT.
THE ATHLETIC CLUB.

Inc instructor may be found at the
gymnasium daily, Sunday excepted,
| from a. IN. to ~ M, and from l. 80
until p. IN. alao on Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday evenings. At all
times, except when engaged with classes
or special private instruction, he will be
ready to furnish such assistance and adj
vice as members may desire.
Glass instruction for business men will
be given on Tuesday and Friday evenings
Monday and Thursday evenings will
be devoted especially to instruction in
fancy gymnastics.
Each member may now have record
OF his physical status made at the be-
ginning of the seasons work. The in
struetor is supplied with anthropometic
apparatus, which affords by measurements
and tests an exact standard of compar-
ison, SO that some of Their results of exer-
else are stated with numerical precision.
The attention of members is called to
Bylaw No. 10:
The use of the gymnasium, bowling
allies and tennis courts may be granted
to che families of members, at such times
and under such conditions as the Execu-
Give Committee may see fit. provided that
such uses do not interfere with the &C.
oommodation of members -
hTe classes for boys, which were sue
cessfully conducted last season under the
authority of this bylaw, will be resumed
Tuesday, October 1st. Boys between the
ages of eight and eighteen are eligible.
They will be divided into two classes,
| according to age and ability. The in
trutor will have them under his charge
during the whole time that they are pres
emit in the gymnasium. Boys must enter
They will not be allowed to enter any
| room of the main house.
The classes for boys will be held on
Tuesdays and Fridays, from 2.45 until
4. Is, and 430 until 6 p m. Each boy
must come at the time specified, and
only at such time
On application to the Instructor linn
tied number of boys my receive instruc-
ton in sparring.
| Instruction in swimming will be given
to boys on saturday mornings from 8. 80
| until 10. and from 10. 30 until 11.s
The National League.
The following are the results of the
games played in the National League
yesterday:
At Cleveland-Cle s; Pittsburg,
At Philadelphia-Philade O.;
| Washington, 8.
At Brooklyn-Brookiyn 5; Baltimore,
| At Boston-Boston, 10; New York, 5.
Mrs John S. Dudley of West Gardiner,
the mother of E. G. Dudley, treasurer Of
| the A ugusta Savings Bank, was serious
| " injured in a runaway at Readfield
track at the Kennebec fair yesterday af-
| ternOon.
Oscar E. Blaney committed suicide in
| the state prison yesterday by hanging.
4 Blaney was convicted of the murder of
! Thomas Barrows of Kittcry, in 1885, and
was sentenced to be hanged The sentence
was afterward committed to imprison
ment for life.
At New Haven, Conn.,, Palmer Cox,
the author of the famous, Brownies,
was rendered an immense reception on
the old Green in the centre of the city,
| Thursday afternoon, not less than 20, 900
4
| nent gentlemen took part in the affair.
The Ammen ram Katahdin arrived at
Boston at 4. Is p m. from Bath, Me. and
anchored off the Navy Yard. She will
be placed in the dry dock at high water
today and the bottom will be thoroughly
| cleaned e
The State Department. has been advised
| by Consul J. B. German of Matamoras,
Mexico. of the shipwreck and total loss
of the lumber schooner Garnock OF the
Mexican coast, fifteen miles from Bagdad.
Col. Wainwright Gushing, chairman of
| the Military committee of the Executive
| Council, having been designated by the
governor to represent the state at the
dedication of Chicka manga Military
Park, is now absent at Chattanooga.
j. Pierpont Morgan was asked yester-
day if he was prepared to confirm the
| purchase by him of the control of the
New England Railroad company. He re-
plied it was quite true that he had pur-
| chased the control of the reorganized
company and the purchase was made last
spring in open market at prices then cur
rent. The certificates in his name are
now in his position.
| At Chattanooga, Tenn, yesterday,
while driving over Lookout Mountain,
Gov Upham of Wisconsin, jumped from
carriage and broke his leg. The horses
ran away.
| The San Francisco police have dis
covered and frustrated plot to assas-
sinate Murderer Durrant. The plot was
concocted by we'll known criminal
while awaiting sentence in the county
Jail.
AT Atlantic, N. j., the sovereign grand
lodge of Odd Fellows at Thursday S
session selected Dallas, Texas, as the
next meeting place.
At Wilmington, Delaware, the United
States court room was we'll filled at the
beginning of the second day trial OF the
alleged Cuban filibusterers Several wit
nesses were heard.
At the Skowhegan fair yesterday the
winners in the trotting events were =. 10
| by George H. match race, Buker; 2.2S,
| Hiliias.
In the United States Circuit Court
in Boston yesterday, Judge Colt dismissed
the petition brought by Edward r. Mil
Ter, president, and Charles Miller, gene
raj manager of the defunct plymouth
Rock Pants Company, asking Tor an
Injunction to restrain Receiver u. L.,
Hnntress of the corporation from prosecu-
ting a bill in equity brought against
| them.