The evening times., 1895-12-05
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

Nearly all the builders of all American
| football teams agree upon Brooke for
| fullback, ThorDe for one of the halfbacks,
| Williams for quarterback and Bull for
center. Woodruff is generally picked for
| one Of the guards, with the choice for the
other guard between Wharton, Chadwick
| and Riggs, Rinehard and PentoD for some
reason being overlooked. For tackles
Murphy, Lea, Farrar, Wagonhurst, Sweet
| land and Mott are mentioned. Those who
take men out of their regular position favor
Colbert and Beacham for ends, but Others,
who place these two players among the
halfbacks, are divided In opinion between
Cabot, Bass, Cochran and Dickson. For
Thorne's partner at halfback Colbert and
Charles Brewer have the first call, though
| some like Beacham. Twogood man that are
entirely overlooked are Barclay, of La
fayette, and Robinson, of Brown. After
ali the selection of n SO called ail-American
team amounts to little, representing, as 1t
does. only one mans opinion. and that
opinion in all cases is more or less preiu-
diced.
One Of the officials of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union, In discussing the wholesale
Suspension of athletes and officials who
participated at the annual championship
meeting of the union at Pittsburg, last
spring, said '.All we desire is that the
athletes shall come forward and make af-
fidavit to the effect of having received no
pay for competing, or, IL they did, how
much. The A. a. u. was badly swindled
when the division of receipts took place,
and the officials are determined TO as
certain the names OF the athletes or Of
ficers who were cnriched. Unless they
come forward 1t can only be taken for
granted that they participated iD the re-
ceipts.'
The position of the University OF Penn
sylvania In regard to the football champion
ship Is stated by the "university Cour-
Ter" in the following editorial:
"While Pennsylvania sincerely believes
that she has won virtual championship on
the gridiron this fall, she is not lost to the
fact that other teams have also established
great records. That Yale has produced
from ra material a team which haswonher
glory, she does not dispute. She recog-
nizes the fact that Princeton has done most
credItably in the face of the greatest disad-
vantages. But she Is willing, like Yale,
which has produced the only other unde-
feated team, ito let the public judge
zone thing that Pennsylvania can and
does claim, however, is the fact that her
team'ha been the only one which has won
every game played, which has not expert
enced that very disagreeable sensation.
tie. And there exactly is her position"
There has been much adverse criticism
advanced with regard to the new basket
ball rules, by which most of the open play
which was 30 characteristic of the game
as played under the old rules has been al
most entirely eliminated, and in its place
much mass playing and lotber uudesira-
BILE features substituted, and many of the
teams are forwarding the desire to con-
tinue the playing under last years rules.
Two worlds bicycle records are said to
have been broken at Cheyenne, Wyo., yes
terday. Charles Erswell rode mile In
1:4O, flat, standing start, unpaced road
course, breaking the previous beet record
of 2:04 2-5. John Green made one mile,
unpaced, from flying start, road course.
In 1:25, beating McLeod's worlds record
of 1882 2-5. A strong wind was blowing
directly upon the backs of the riders.
L. A. W. time-keeper and judges officiated.
A good fistic program has been ar
ranged for the Southwark Athletic Club,
Philadelphia, Saturday night. The wind
I'D will be bet tween the Pickaninny, who
made such a favorable impression last Sat-
urday, and AL O'Brien, the clever light
weight. other bouts will be between Joe
wrenn and Patsy Coon, John Henry John
son and "Kid" Brown and Frank Nagee
and Joe Brennan.