Evening journal., 1896-11-09
SPORTING NEWS NOTES.

The second anniversary Of the Will
mington Bicycle Club will be celebrated
on next Monday night, November 16.
The committee on entertainment has
arranged for a very enjoyable evening.
The football team ofthe Wilmington
Bicycle Club will play the Elkton team
at Riverview next Saturday
The game of football for which all
the chrysanthemum-h fans" are
anxiously waiting is that between the
Warren and Wilmington Bicycle Club
elevens. which viii take place at Front
and Union streets on November %.
Both teams are very strong, though the
Warren, perhaps, has the advantage in
weight and experience.
Hollie A. Sauder, Of Ohio, a right
handler, has been signed by Manager
Joyce to pitch for the New Yorks next
season. Sauder pitched in Hornells-
Vile, N. y, last Summer
The trotter Billy N, owned by W. 3.
Biggs. of Middletown, Del, died few
days ago OF throat trouble. The animal
had trotted a half-mile in 10y
AL Hereford, manager of the Eureka
Athletic Club, of Baltimore. and we'll
known as q matchmaker, will shortly
bring joe Cans here to fight George
Russell, Of Wilmington, for ten OF
twenty rounds. At the same time he
viii bring Jack Ward, bantam-weight,
who will fight some Wilmingtonian in
that class.
John Glynn, the Wilmington bantam
weight, is living in Brooklyn, and is
training for a fight with one of the
best English bantam-weights. This
fight will be one OF tournament which
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Club is arranging. Three or possibly
five of the fastest men IN England in
their respective classes are to be
brought over and hye Americans will
be pitted against them. Glynn is a
good man in his class and should he
defeat his man his reputation as a
fighter would be secured.
Tommy Barry, of Wilmington,
who, after staying here long enough
to sign articles for fight with
Jimmy Rodgers, left for parts un
/ known, has turned up in Syracuse n.
! Y. where he is to fight "Tom" Hard
man before the Empire Athletic Club,
this month.
The Warren Club is evidently a first
class football team. 1t has been uni
formly successful in defeating the
strongest teams of this section. It's
latest victory Is the one which il
achieved over the eleven of the Law
School of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, on Saturday. The cOllegians
were easily defeated by a score of 80 to
O. The one feature of the game which
ELECTED applause was the seventy-iive
J yard run OF Prentiss The summary:
Touch -dOWns-McDannell 3; Mozart
ney, 1 Prentiss. 3. Goals-McDannell
1. Referee-McKee. Linesmen-J r
{ Moritz ]. o. Porter. Umpire-Lyttletor
Mcguire.
The elevens Of the Wilmington Bi.
cycle Club and Company A met al
Riverview on Saturday and struggled
desperately for two twenty-minutl
halves, but neither side scored. Graf
the right guard of the Bicycle Clul
b team. had a rib broken in a scrimmage
The injury was very painful, but is no
serious. English took his place a
d guard.
Six gold medals will be awarded &
i, the players having the highest aver
l ages for each night in the whist tour
r nament of the Wilmington Whist Clut
= which win begin tonight and continu
; SIX weeks. One Of the medals will b
awarded each Monday night Fou
| other gold medals are TO be awarde
to the winners in pool, billiard, bowlin
and sbufle-board matches.
The Alva and Hickory football elev
; ems will meet at Riverview tomorrow
& This is the lineup: Alva-Harve,
; I left end; Ogle left tackle; Gooden. lei
guard; Stidham, centre; Wilkins, righ
S guard; Bice, right tackle; Doyle. righ
+ end; Jacobs, quarterback; Jack, lei
: half-back; Peters or Brady, right hall
c back; Lawton, full-back
!, Hickory-Smith, left end; Reese, LEI
!, tackle; Jones. left guard; Beckely, cen
/ tire; Kirk. right guard; Reese, righ
tackle; Shields, right end; Kirk, quar-
ter-back; Taylor. left half-back; Mont
gomery, right half-back; Reed full
I back.
UNION REVIVAL SERVICES.