Evening star., 1896-10-24
WHIST CIRCLES BUSY,
recent Games Played in the Local
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Clubs.
Local whist circles have been busy the
past week. At the Columbia Athletic Club
last Saturday evening four pairs contested
"a hands. hands with each other pair.
The results were as follows: Shaw and
Swearingen. plus -; Walls and Taliaferro,
plus 2: Barnard and Baldwin, plus 2, and
Stafford and Jack 10 minus
Wednesday evening at the same club g
pairs played hands with each other pair
the final score being as follows: Shaw and
Hampton, plus 10; Walls and Macy, plus
7; Wooten and Stafford, plus 5; Taliaferro
and Callan, plus l, and jackson and Swear
ingen, O.
The play of Mr.. Shaw has been unusually
strong He Is new member and has at
once stepped to the front among the whist
players.
Two fours played 10 hands. duplicate
whist. at the Washington Chess Club, sl4
18th street, last Saturday evening Messrs
turner, Knight, Behrends and Lee defeated
Messrs. Finn. Martin, Marks and Walker
by tricks. the total gains being II TOT
The following the leading scores in
the compass whist match at the Capital
Bicycle Club. counting only those who have
played at least two evenings: Williams
?-35; McComb 7.19; Young, 6.05: Mattingly,
5.57; Cole. 5.2S; Stephen, 482; Fogg, 35O
Cooper, 2.04: Carr, 1.98; Pelouze, l.s9
Clark, 1.50; Myers. OS1; Hoeke, O.f3
Wednesday evening at the Capital Bicy-
Gle Club teams of played a complica ted
match with all the other teams, the results
being as follows: Fogg. McComb, Schoen-
born and Mattngly. plus II: Pelouze Writ,
Myers and Cooper, minus 1; Hills Barnes
Cool and Clark, minus / Carr, Cole, Ste
phens and Hoeke minus 3; Prince Bail
brache. Bunnemeyer and Taylor, minus T.
A meeting was called at the Columbia
Athletic Club yesterday afternoon for the
purpose lea
among the local clubs. The Columbia Ath-
letic Club, Capital Bicycle Club Woman's
Whist Club and Washington Chess, Checker
ard Whist Club were represented. After
brief discussion it was decided to arrange
a series Of matches among the clubs rep
resented should it meet the approval Of the
clubs themselves. each club to play one
match with every other club. Il was also
suggested that each team be composed of
eight persons. but this has not been def
nitely settled. 1t is probable the first
match will be played on November 10.
The Womans Whist Club is composed Of
about twenty young ladies, who meet at
private houses each week and play for
prizes. They have a team which, in play
ing strength, is probably unequaled by any
ladies' team in the city. 1t will be inter-
esting to watch the results of their matches
with teams from the Capital Bicycle and
Columbia Athletic clubs.
Then the match between the c. Ri C's
and the c. a. C.'s will prove very interest
ing. The latter have such veterans as SAT-
ford, Walls and Wooten among them and
have large number Of others to draw
from, such as Taliaferro. Bedan, Jackson,
Barnard Macy, Swearingen, Shaw, Childs
and others.
The c. A. C's have formally challenged
the c. BIZ C.'s to match, irrespective CT
the above arrangement. and 1t will un-
doubtedly be accepted. Both these clubs
are practicing their players a great deal,
and the matches between them will be
we'll contested.
Fit1 and Shnrkey Matched.
Fitzsimmons and Sharkey have been
matched to box ten rounds at San Fran
cisco December 0. The men will compete
for $4,000 purse, the winner to take all.
Big Foot Ball Games Today.
Today's foot ball schedule is:
University of Pennsylvania vs. Lafayette
College, at Franklin Field Philadelphia
Yale University VS.. Carlisle Indian School
in New York city.
Harvard University vs. Cornell Univer-
sity, at Ithaca, N. Y.
Princeton University VS.. Pennsylvania
State College. at Princeton. N. J.
Brown University VS.. Lehigh University
at Providence, r. /.
United States Military Cadets VS.. Union
College, at West Point, N. Y.
Cooper md Bald Matched.
Tom Cooper's hackers have deposited $500
for a series of match races with Ed Bald
for $1,000 side. AS Bald has been ex-
tremely anxious to race Cooper, the match
is practically an assured fact. Three races
will be ridden in three different cities of
the south, the distance to be decided later
The three towns will probably be Nash