The evening times., 1895-10-22

Just how il could be expected that $4,000
would buy him is not plain.
There is talk of n joint athletic enter
tainment, In " hich all OF the best athletes
in the various clubs of the city shall take
part. Such an exhibition would be of n
great deal OF interest. There is an abun-
dance OF splcndid material in the organi-
cations here who, together, could give a
performance seldom beaten aDyw here.
Boxing in San Francisco. as The Times
has noticed several times recently. sceIns
to be getting firm foothoid again. The
California Club is now out with an offer Of
4 50, 900 purse for a fight between Joe VOL
eott and Billy Gallagher. Woleou has sig
nified his intention TO accept the offer.
Gallagher has already accepted it.
Al Hereford, of the Baltimore Eureka
Club, has again signfied his intention To
try To get match for Hite Peckham, whose
chances of fretting anything TODD here seem
very slim. e;
On Saturday The Times said that b. F.
Grimes was liable to surpsisedhe bicycle
talent In the Dupont road race. and The
Times hit the nail on the heal. /, was
said last evening by Grimes admirers that
he rode Just fast enough to win. that was
all That he had no Jcs;pe tossmash the
record. but If lie had had any such desire
he could have gratifiedt ltt-i. They say.
Grimes could have rode .ie twenty miles
In considerable less time than.ile did. Sure
it is that Grimes made ,he race in good
shape, apparently riding well within fini-
self at every part of the road. and his time
was good.
The predictions made by the knowing ones
through The Times that Fred Sims would
not he in it in the road race yesterday.
turned out about right. II is true that
Sims beat all the other supposed likely can
didates, but the new and unknown talent
got him. 1t was naturally supposed that
Sims. with all that has been said about his
great riding during the season. would
smash the race record. but he didn't. He
equalled 1t, however. The grounds on
which those who did not look for Sims To
win seems to have been good. He was not
equal to hard road race, though he did
pretty well at that.
Billy Nally's resurrection is looked upon
with pleasure by his friends. Bill is not a
world-beater but he is a willing man when
1t comes to scrapping, a nd tina kind of man
always has admirers. As against Pat
Raedy. with the showing the latter has
made here, Bill should hay yc not worse than
an even chance, but his friends look upon
him as a sure winner.
The announcement that the interschool
track and field games have been set for
about November 10 win start ali of the
school boys to hard training, and some
good athletic work will be sure 10 fol-
low. 1t is said the programme will be
made up of a 1GO-yard dash, one quarter
mile run, one mile run, running high jump,
putting the shot. running broad jump and
pole vaulting. To these there will prob
ably be added a bicycle race or two. 1t
is possible the events will take place at
Van Ness Park.
The accidents to the wheels of Fred
Moore and R. II. Stone in the road race
yesterday are greatly regretted by the
friends Of both of these young men. Be-
fore the race both of them were looked
upon by those who knew them best as
having an excellent chance. but the mishap
took whatever show they had away from
them.