The evening times., 1895-10-11
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

The new Southern Racing Association at
Macon, Ga, failed to pay its purses on
Monday and Tuesday, and the Jockey
Club refused to allow the races scheduled
for Wednesday to be run. There are %
horses at the track, and stablcmen, owners,
jockies, and, in fact, everybody at the
track, are in bad way financially.
1t was announced at the Gravescnd race
track yesterday that Sir Excess, who was
purchased on Wednesday by Mr.. Richard
Croker for $4,000. will be- shipped To Eng
land in about ten days. II is also likely
that Mr.. Croker will take Rey del Carreres
to England with him. but the deal has
not yet been consummated.
Hard luck is striking the Cornell foot
ball team. DOwney's sprained wrist will
lay him up for the rest of the season from
end. Starbuck's injury last Saturday
proved to be the tearing of shoulder liga-
ments the same as Fitchie two weeks ago.
on Monday White, tackle, received a bad
twist of the right ankle which will lay
him off for severa days.
No better evidence of the squareness of
baseball could be addueed than the de-
ci,led way in which New York won the
Temple Cup last year and Cleveland this
If seven games had been played either
year more money would have been made
by the pla yers, but the public would have
cried 'hippodromc."
Charles ,Kid) Mccoy, the Diddlcweight,
accompanied by his trainers, will leave
in day or two for England, where he
will challenge Dan Creedon, should Creed
on prove successful in his match with
Frank Craig (the "COffce-COoler.'O 9th
erwise Mccoy will meet Ted Pritchard be-
fore the Bolingbrooke Sporting Club.
At n meeting held in Richmond last night
of prominent horsemen of Virginia and
North Carolina, a racing circuit of those
two States, to be kno wn as the Virginia and
North Carolina circuit, was formally organ
iZed. George Med. Blake was named as
temporary president, and T. A. s. Brine as
temporary secretary. committee will
correspond with all the racing associations
in the two States with the view of organ
izing the strongest turf association South.
In the last two years Virginia has made
great strides in racing matters.
The University Of Pennsylvania football
team will meet the team Of Lehigh Univer-
sity tomorrow on Franklin Field, near
Philadelphia. Great interest is centered in
the game, as it is expected 1t will materially
show the strength of the u. P. line, which
HIS Dttn cOuSlutItu WcthcT tiidh
last year. TT
The team took their final practice yes
tertiay, and Capt. Woodruff put his men
through a system of signals that will be
used in tO-morrow's game.
The Laurel football team, OF Laurel, Nd,
will meet the Gonzaga College eleven in
this city the latter part of the present month.
The Laurel team is said to have been con-
siderably strengthened since last season.
President Milbank, of the Princeton foot
ball team, stated yesterday that Capt.
Lea had been niisquoted as to a proposed
Harvard game, and says that no challenge
has yet been received from Harvard, stating
that it would be premature to state what
Princeton would do in case such a challenge
should be received.
John L. Sullivan, "Parson" Davies and
Joe sChoynski were in Pittsburg last night
to arrange for benefit. Sullivan said
the choice of Hot Springs for the big
fight was wise one and that he would
not act as referee.