The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-06
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES
NEW YORK ATHLETES TO COMPETE
 IN BOSTON GAMES.

Yates Is the Champion Long Distance
 Blcyclst of the N. Y. A, C.-Some NY.
 A. c. Fixtures-The Racquet Champion
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 New York, Feb. 5.-The annual indoor athletic meeting of the Boston Athletic association will be held on Saturday night, and a number of New York ath- letes will journey to Boston to compete in the events, The games will begin at 7:S0 o'clock, and the order of events will be; Ninety yards handicap dash two mile invitation run, 600 yards hurdle race, 1000 yards run high jump, putting the shot and relay races. Harvard has relay race on with the University of Pennsylvania. Yale has a race on with her old rival, Princeton; Amherst with Williams, Brown with the Boston Ath- lctic association team, the four classes at Harvard in a special race, the Wor- cester Athletic club vs the Suffield Ath- letic club, Cmbridgeport vs. East Bos- ton, and the First regiment vs. the Naval brigade. Fitzpatrick and Hol- lander, two New Workers, have entered for the middle distance runs. Orton will probably win the mile, as ConneH and Bean will not be in condition to do any running for several weeks. Flar- ward will be represented by big string of athletes.
 ''The development of bicycling" says Edward c. Carter, "has been particular ly noticeable in the New York Athletic club. The mileage made by the mem bers during 1895 furnishes startling and positive proof of the great advance made by wheeling in the past year. An aggregate total of 24S,634 miles have been rolled up by those members who have ridden the 1000 miles necessary to entitle them to recognition by receiv- ing a club medal. This is probably the largest mileage ever credited to one club, but stupendous as the figures ap- pear, they give no adequate idea of the tCtal ridden by members of the New York Athletic club. There are hundreds of riders who either have not recorded their mileages in the required way. or have just fallen short of the 1000 miles, and certainly not less than ,00O miles would be added if the work of this divi- sion could be correctly ascertained. Talk ir.gs the figures as they stand, the num- Der of miles covered are more than three times as many as in 1894, while the 1893 figures are quadrupled. Although the veteran c. l.. Jones increased his pre- vious years score by nearly l ,000 miles, he failed to hold the pride of place which he gained in 1894 A younger, if not more determined aspirant, for the honor appeared in John B. Yates, with the usual result. MT. Yates has orly been a devotee of the wheel for about two years, and his name did not appear in the mileage list for 1894. His natural muscular endowments have been kept in play by baseball and kind red sports, while his past arduous sea- son on the wheel has left him in fine physical condition. a speaking sermon on the advantages to be derived from wheeling. Many interesting stories have been told about the way in which MT. Yates contrived although a busi- ness man, to ride nearly 13,o00 miles, an average of thirty-five miles a day, win ter and summer, rain or shine. Anoth- CT new rider who deserves the greatest credit for the work done in 1895 is N. E. Gouldy. Mr Gouldy, although a conn parative novice at cycling, is a veteran in years, and if weight for age was the rule, he would probbly be called upon to ccncede an allowance to everyone of his companions in mileage making. He is one of the early and staunch mem bers of the c1ub-tWenty-on on the roll. Yet in his first year of earnest work he finished fourth, with the grand total of 6,241 miles, The members entitled to gold medals are: John B. Yate, 12632 miles; Charles L. Jones, 1908; A. Spring, jr., 7,011; N. E. Gouldy, 6,241; c. S. Post ley, 5,244; J. e. Howard 5,204;J w. Car ter, 5000; Douglas Henry, 4,691; J. H. Henson 4,397; J. o. w. Pine, 4,277 Ed Weinacht, 4246; w. G. Bates, 4,16S; A. U. w. Evans, 4,100; G. G. Van SchaiclS, 4,OO3; w. K. Gillette, 3,S30; I. A. Powell, $500; Dr. J. T. Kemp, 3,333; T. E. Don- sceke, jr., 3,322; Wesley F. Smith, 3,31S; F. c. E1gar, 3,2S9; w E. Smith, 3,265; Sterling Postley. jr., 3,2S4; W. R. Yard, 3,218: J. J. Champion, jr., 3,1S3; E. F. Schhenck, 3,167; John A. Healey, 3,0S1; R. lM Thompson, 3039; Dr. $. D. Powell, 3,022; HI. G. Barnard, 3017; Fred Oalses, 3,016, and w. Hopkins, 5000.
 Father Bill Curtis has received a handsome new typewriter as a present from the Fresh Air club, and all his friends are happy. Mir. Curtis, it must be known, never sits down to desk In keeping with his good views of health, he always works standing be- fore a high desk. Some years ago he had the typewriter fever and invested in a machine, and for few weeks thereafter it was apparent that his nov ice dashes at the thing entitled him to a big handicap in the typewriters' free for-all sweepstakes. As perseverance is one of his strongest traits, however, MT. Curtis became an expert in a short time. After a six months trial of the machine, the letter A quit running one day and tn efather of athletics has been putting it through a hard practice sprint From that time on he was &C., customed to go over every letter, in serting As in long hand each time there was a gap where one belonged. Since obtaining the new machine MT. Curtis is said to be very happy, and now it is possible that he may advocate type writing as a means Of exercise for men Of sedentary habits. JHe pounds away daily on the machine with the same pleasure that a New York Athletic club