The herald., 1896-05-18

cording to a telegram from Columbia.
The Yale team offers $500 for the game.
| Work Is being pushed In raising the
necessary funds to send the Tigers to
New York.
w. A. Larned, the tennis player. will
sail for England next week. If in con-
dition will compete in the Irish cham
pionship games the last of this month.
After a short tour of the continent on
his wheel he will return and enter all
the big English Journeys. 1t Is SAID
that Malcolm Chace and Arthur Foote
may also play on foreign courts this
If what personal friends Of Fitzsirn-
mons say Is true, there Is every reason
to believe that "Lanky Bob" will change
his mind and agree to meet Jim Corpett
for the purse of $4,000 offered by the
Bolingbroke club Of London: Fitzslm-
mons, when interviewed at the kntck-
erbocker Athletic club show, said that
he had something to say to Corbett If
he ever met him, and judging from the
manner in which he spoke there's pros
pect Of rough and tumble fight be-
tween them. 49,.
east to participate in the western inter-
collegiate championship meet, to be held
in Chicago next month, and California
will expect them to do great things.
A London paper has been agitating
the question OF patron saint for bi-
cyclists. One suggestion is st. Ger
trude. the patron OF travellers; another
puts forward the claims of Elijah, who
it will be remembered went to heaven
on wheels a third thinks that one Of
the saints with wheels in his head
should be given the preference. The
Elijah suggestion is the f1ttest and gives
a new force to the expression, Get there
Eli"
Billy Gallagher has been matched to
fight Danny Needham at San Francisco
June Sd for purse Of $3.50.
j. p. Gum, who was one of the best Of
'em in '94, has come to California to be-
come a member of one of the leading
teams and will follow the NJ ional CIR
cult He. with our Shefski, ought to
make name for Utah in the bicycle
world.
Wheelmen generally will be interested
to know that the London Times has Of
fered to appoint Sachtleben, the famous
st. Louis tourist, to be its war CORE
spondent in Cuba. Sachtleben will &C
cept and will depend mainly on the BIZ
cycle for transportation.
w. w. Hamilton, the Denver ICY
Clone" Is said to have declared that
Walter Sanger, the big Milwaukee rider.
is backward about making a match with
him. Hamilton states that he is will
ing to race Sanger for any amount up to
SoU,OUO IL necessary. hamilton should
not be in too much of n hurry. He will
find that the "big 'un" of 'ss is not the
rider of '95, when Sanger was really
sick man.
Pittsburg and Philadelphia are still
in the lead in the race for the national
pennant. The Giants still continue to
carry the target.
H. r.. Warner formerly newspaper
man of Los Angeles, but more recently
on the staff of the Knoxville. Tenn, Tri-
bune. left that city May for bicycle
trip to Los Angeles. in the interest Of
number of newspapers for which he will
continue his correspondence en- route.
His main object is to make California
his future home. Mr.. Warner is under
contract to ride a single pair of GER
tain kind Of tires the entire distance of
$500 miles, and to make the trip in two
months without the expenditure Of II
single cent of money