The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-04-24
General Sporting Notes.

The Bolingbroke Club, OF London, Of
fers ESQ purse for a fight between Sla>
Vim and ODonnell.
John Dale and Thomas GIN have bo,o,
matched to pitch game OF auoits next
Saturday afternoon on the grounds of
the Kensington Club for a purse of $40,
'Fhe conditions are 10 yards and Al points
up.
The winners in the second handicap
games at Swarthmore were as follows:
loo-yard dash, Hodge. SO; half-mile run,
JeTeries. 81; three-quarter-mile will,
Lippincott, '99; l0O-yard hurdle. Wilson
Ss: throwing hammer, Fouse, SO
A number OF Philadelphia and New
York society people have been Invited
10 attend the third annual cup race of
the Maryland Hunt Club Saturday.
The entries closed the other day include
nlteen OF the best jumpers and racers in
Maryland.
The Australian heavyweight nstic
championship was decided at Melbourne
recently. Jack Dooley defeating Bill
Purcell In the second round. Peter Fe-
Tx. the colored 6-foot Finch Hercules
is TO meet Dooley early In May. Dooley.
VINO mas met such stellar lights as Cree
uph ana Buralo' Costello. intends,
win or lose. Journeying to America.
/ The success of rannsvlvania's relay
runners in to-morrow'S races Is far
from being assured There Is not the
confidence IN the men that there should
be In such big athletic event. this be-
ing true both as TO the men themselves
and the students geucra..v Much re-
greet Is expressed that Boyer did not sue
ceed IN making the team that will repre-
sent pennsylvania in the mile relay race
All OF the largest colleges have abol-
lsheu their usual summer football prac-
tice except the University of Pennsvl
ranla, and IL Is mooted question at that
institution as to whether they shall abol-
ism the regular summer practice Alto
gether or only shorten the time II lasts.
Some of the authorities are for doing
away entirely with summer training,
thus following in the footsteps of their
great rivals. Yale. Harvard and Prince
ton.
The seventh series of boxing contests
inaugura:ed by the Greenwood Athletic
CUB Will take place next Saturday even
ing nj the Greenwood Olympic Rink.
Fifteenth street and Third avenue
Brooklyn. The following card has bean
arranged: Emil Moore. of New York.
vs.. Kid DougheIty. of williamsburg,
Ito pounds, six rounds: Jim Holmes. of
New York. vs. Jim McNev, of Brook
iyn, lSo pounds. six rounds; John Glib
hons. OF Brooklyn. vs.. Tommy Butler.
uf B:ooklyn. 40 punds, ten rounds. John
= Eckhardt will referee the bou.s. and
MES.
Since the frs; of this month the Cor
nell varsity and Freshman crews have
beemrowing daily on the wa ter under the
watchful eye OF Coach Courtney, who IS
assisted greatly in his work by Frede-
rick x. White, who had charge of the
men at Poughkeepsie last year while
Courtney was at Henley. At first II
was thought that the late winter would
seriously handicap the oarsmen, but on
the contrary they ATE in better shape
to-day than they were this time last
year. The makeup of a Cornell crew
Is always somewhat in doubt un,il ths
day OF race. for under Coach Courtney
no man Is ever sure of his place. 1t
can be readily seen that very good work
all the time will naturally result from
such a system.
The only opportunity to Witness n
boat race on Ibis side of the Atlantic
this year in which n Yale crew is n nrin
cipal Will be on June Is. when the Yale
Freshmen meet the Varsity eight of
the University of Wisconsin. The Yale
youngsters are happy. for they are hon
orded ms year by the rare chance Of
Tered them In e"irying n contest with a
Varsity crew instead of aeaIns, tho
FRESHMAN class of another institution.
and they are working more faithfully
for the event than Yale Freshman crew
trained since Freshmen were allowed
to row. The race itself will be OF two
miles. the usual distance for a. fresh
man contest. The course is being staked
out at the present tn,n. and th7 Vale
eight Will practice on 1t in q few days.
Inc stroke watch the Yale men will row
IS that invented. but never patented, by
BOD COOK. the Yale veteran coach.