The evening times., 1896-11-12
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS

Haverford College and Brown University
have botn decided not TO have basketball
teams.
Mr. Howard Gould has presented the Sea
wanhaka Yacht Club with a model OF the
twenty-rater Niagara.
A. j. Cassati's steam yacht, Anita, has
been purchased by S. NJ. Provost, OF the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company.
The next important event in Pennsyiva-
vania's track athletics is the annual
cross-country run with Cornell on Thanks
giving Day
Dick O'Brien, who defeated "Scaldy Bll''
last Monday night and Tommy West, also
of Boston, will be matched in a few days to
box twenty round- before New York
club.
The Racing Board of the L. A. w. has ac-
cepted the one-mile professional unpaced
flying start record of l minute 90 10
seconds, made by c. 4. Coulter, at Denver,
last month.
Jack Lynch is conditioning himself for a
twenty-round go with Casper Leon, in
private, in New York, for a $500 purse, at
ctach-weights. The bout takes place in
about two weeks.
Warren Lewis, match maker of the Greater
New York Athletic Club, has leased the
old Seaside Athletic Club, at Coney Island,
and will probably open the club with d
twenty-round bout between Dan Creedon
and Dick O'Brien.
Catcher TeitZ Of the Cincinnati Reds is
practicing with Pitcher Figgemeyer of the
Minneapolis club of the Western League,
and the pitcher may be drafted by the
Cincinnati management. Breitenstein, Fig
gemeyer and PETIT would make strong
three handed pretZel combination.
Whether Tom Sharkey, the sailor, is de
feated or not in his ten-round contest with
Bob Fitzsimmuns, on December 9, in San
Francisco, he will in all probability be
matched To rlecJ Joe Choynski in an eight
or ten-rOund bout to take place the latter
part of February, in san Francisco.
The work Of building the Elkwood Park
and clubhouse and pavilion at Long Branch
is well under way. Phil DAILY, who owns
Elkwood Park, recently purchased a fifty
acre farm. 1t is west of the present shoot
ing grounds. tits here where Daily expects
TO have one of the finest shooting grounds
in America. The shooting ground proper
covers fifteen acres.
George Green, the California welter-
weight, better known as Young Corbett,'
has received a letter from the National
Sporting Club of London, which says that
the club will give purse of $500 for a
fight between Dick Burge and Green, To
be divided as suits the contestants, to box
twenty rounds, some time next March, at
144 pounds, weigh in at O'Clock. Green
has accepted.
As the time for the big football match
between Yale and Princeton in New York
approaches the critics are spending their
spare time in comparing the relative
strength of the elevens in an attempt to
figure out the winner. At present Prince
ton has the call, but the general impress
sion seems to be that Yale's team will
be in such splendid shape that the men
will put up their strongest game of the
year.
George f. Smith (Pttsburg Phin, owner
OF the Evergreen stable, has added an
other good horse to his string. He has pur-
chased the three year-old colt The Winner,
The price paid is said to have been 81 800.
The change in ownership will restore The
Winner to good standing on the big tracks.
He was barred from running on the Jockey
Clubs tracks on the latters ruling, when
they decided to refuse the entries Of VIII
Wallace, owing TO The Winners inconsist-
ency at Gravesend.
Jimmy Ritz, the well-known New Or
leans shortstop, died in Pittsburg yester-
day. Ritz made his debut in the National
League at st. Louis and innocently made
the first break between A. c. Buckenberg-
er and the owners of the PittSburg club
Three years ago when the Pittsburg club
was in sore need of a shortstop Ritz was
quietly signed by Mr.. Kerr and sent to St
Louis to Join the club He approached
"Buck" at Sportsmens Park, introducing
himself as the new man. He lasted three
days.
Father Bill'' DAILY went to a theater in
Baltimore on Monday evening 1t is the
custom of audiences in that city to ap-
plaud the orchestra directly after the over
ture has been played. 1t was just at this
time that Bill entered the theater, and as
he walked down the aisle thunders of ap.
plause We're heard. Bill glanced around
and as everyone seemed to be looking at
him he bowed, first to the right and then
to the left. He thought that he was be-
ing applauded because he Won the match
race at Pimlico on Saturday.
Though the German newspapers claim
that the attendance atrecent trotting meet
ings was satisfactory, they have for a
long time past desired the government to
allow Sunda racing, as the week ida public
is relatively less numerous, thus inf1icting
severe inroads upon the receipts, and the
breeders finally suffer, as purses cannot
be for that reason made any larger 1t
is now limited that the authorities have lent
kinder ear to these representations and
that Sunday racing may soon be allowed.
German trotting associations may, indeed
look for greater prosperity, if the permits
sion is granted, and they need it pretty
badly.