The evening times., 1896-02-15
GOSSIP OF THE SPORTS
Dan Stuart's Stock Takes a
Sudden Drop.
LOCAL DEVOTEES EXPEOTANT
Think the Maher Story II Bluff, and
Look for News of the Fight at / ny
Moment Baseball Dates.
Lyons and Irving to Meet-Payed
Sharp Trick.

The situation at FL Paso is very much the
| Same that it has been during the past week.
| Every one with the exception of Stuart Is
openly guessing, and the probabilities are
| tia, ne Is also III the same boat, though lie
keeps up his unruffled front and emphati-
caIly declares that the fights will all take
pace.
rne sporting fraternity, however, are be-
ginning To lose faith in him to a certain ex-
| tent. When st. Valentines Day came and
wcnt and no oFitzsimmons Maher fight with
it, Stuart's stock fell several per cent with
dull thud.
the story OF Maher's eyes being in such
cunuitiOn mat he was unaD.e to HSnt was not
gwen iuucn crc'iencc by many OF those who
have taken the trip South, and they were
| not slow III expressing tneir opinion 10 tnat
effect.
Its the general opinion among localsports
that the story is siinpiy "a bun, ana many or
them expect TO hear III any moment that the
there were little groups OF men gathered
around the newspaper Offices. expecting 10
receive some word OF the battle.
Stuarts latest plan, which contemplates
bringing orr several OF the smaller lights
before he does the stellar attraction, has
met with favorable comment ON ail sides.
II mas been the general opiniun, from the
time the carnival WAS first PLANNED, that
the w,sest plan would have been To have
had the principal contest or the program
for the last. This has been done in all
OF the big carnivals that have taken place
during the past few years, and just why
Stuart had departed from that custom was
not PLAIN.
College baseball dates thus far arranged
are as follows:
May 2-frinceton-Cornell at Ithaca.
May G-tniverslty or PcnnsyNanie-Cor.
nell at Ithaca.
May 9-Harvard at Princeton, University
OF fennSyiv;Iild- Cornell, ut Philadelphia.
May 16-iiarvard-Cornell at Ithaca, Yale
at Princeton.
May 23-Princeton-Yale at New Haven.
Harvard University OF Philadelphia at
Philadelphia.
May 27-Cornell at Princeton.
May 3U-Prnceton-Haryar,i at Cambridge,
University OF Pennsylvania Cornell ut
June 2-Corncl-unlvcrsity of PennsyI-
wanna at Philadelphia.
June 6-Yale at Princeton, University Of
Penns Viva MIA Harvard at Cambridge.
June 1O-Harvard at Princeton.
June 13-Yale ut Princeton, Coruell-
Harvard at Cambrldge:
June lS-PrincctOnH Harvard at Cam
bridge.
June 23-Univcrsity of Penns ylyania-
Harvard at Cambridge, Princeton Yale at
June Harvard Princeton on neu.
trail grounds in case Of tie in series.
The next attraction at the Young Mems
Athletic club Will he Il { contest Between
HuGhy Lyons and Ralph Irving, 10th of
this city, which VIII take place on the night
OF MaShinGton's birthday, Saturday, Feb
These boys have been anxious 10 get at
each other for son!c time and should put
up rattIing good fight. Ly Ons has bech
in training ior a couple of weeks, having
assisted Jack Kelly in his preparatory
work for his fight with Howard WILSON
The bout Thursday night was good
one in every respect up 10 the time TIA.
Kelly ran against VIII on's right and left
hand swings and anyone WHO was not
satisfied mat he had rec Cived his MONEYS
hmlnary fight alone between Alec brown
and zoe Mack was well worth going sew
eral niles 10 see.
The challenge issued last week by f.
{. Mcclelland OF PittSburg, to run any
man from five 10 twenty miles for the
championship of the world, recalls an in
cident which happened when McCleiland
aud Miller ran thcIr race at the Chestnut
street rink lii Philadelphia several years
ago. TWO wcll-Snown local sporting men
Were present at the race. looking for
chance 10 make sta ke. They Were nearly
brohc, having but $40 each. They fixed
up Il COB, and iLcu getting an outsider into
the game, they gave him one OF the bills
and Il bet was made, one or the sports be-
ing made stakeholder. This gave one man
so and then they looked around to bet
lhc SO, the holder insisting that his chum
be made stakeholder. Then the Chum with
$40 10 bet would go hunting for another
innocent, and 50 on until The party siood.
70 win or lose nearly 500, their money
being on NcClelland. Then they hunted
UP a Lttkiildu slill Ulfil 10 Jt at the
door handy, in case they needed to skip.
which they would have had to do had |
Miller Won. Then standiu as near the
door as possible they rooted for Nc
tlclland, and When he won. through Millpr's |
dropping on the track in a faint the am |
bitious sports We're IN great glee. They |
had taken long chance ana won. In the !
language OF the originator OF the scheme: |
q You couldn't hold IIs down with an an chor |
rope after the match. but while it was going |
on strand OF sewing cotton would have.
bound Us hand and foot
If some pbiianthropist would build a |
home or asylum for ''giass-arm'' PLAYERS, |
says Charlie Mathewson. and II all those |
= hl; beens" would live under the roof what |
a colony there would b, and what countless |
stories Of the diamond would b. told about |
the firesides. 'Bohby" Carru,hcrs would |
have sack fun; so would Billy George
and Lady, Baldwin, John GARRISON. ..tius''
krocE, George Van Haltren. "Prctzel"
Getzein, Tim" Keefe, Mickey WEIGH.
" Jimmie" Calvin, and scores of Others.
IS fast as old death would strike one out |
another would go lame on the diamond
and soon find his way TO the home of the
glass arms.