The morning times., 1897-02-03
Sports and Sporting

Officers for the Yale University Football
Association were elected as follows for
1898: C. C. Twitchen, '98, Hartford,
Conn, president: II. F. Benjamin, 'ss, Gam
SON on-the Hudson, vice president; ora
Preston, '9S, Englewood, \. J., secretary
and treasurer; j. Brown, '99, Chicago.
assistant manager.
The sixth game In the series for the
championship OF the Amencan Hockey
League was played at the St Nicholas
Rink New York, Saturday, when the
New York Athletic Club defeated th,
st. Nicholas Skating Club. Score, ) to2
Burns and Waterhouse will be strongly
represented on the big tracks in New York
State the coming season. They will ship
twenty horses To Morris Park some time in
April, and both Will visit Kentucky soon
to buy fifteen or twent y-five yeaTlings by the
most noted sires in that State. In addition
they Will have fifteen horses Of their own
breeding. II is estimated that the firm is
$4,000 ahead Of the game since the sea
son opened in California in October They
will have the biggest string ever gathered
in America.
Lawson's attempt to lower the fifty-rnilr
record, as well as the various intermediate
distances, tomorrow evening, is in line
with the terrible Swede's' speciality
Long distance work is his especial forte.
a novelty in the shape OF an ice bicycle
has just been patented, which seems to
be superior TO anything of the kind here
iofore constructed. II is Il sextet, and
is intended especially for pacing skaters.
Of Hn oar n
Institute defeated the Talbotts, at the
gymnasium of the former, night before
last. The youngsters play a fast, ag-
gressive game, and dispaIyed much skill
in passing the ball.
Yale College viii not be represented in
the PoughkeepSie regatta That seems TO
he a settled thing, and the sentiment in
the college seems 10 lie in favor OF send
ing another crew 10 Henly next summer.
Local sporting men in this city and Bal
timore are beginning to figure on the
total cost of u pilgrimage out TO Nevada
To see the Corbett tFitzSmmons fight, and
lowest estimate seems to lie about S2I >
for the entire tIip. Rather a stiff fig
uge, when it is Il possibility that the fight
may he short affair, or even fake.
Richard Harding, the local pool player,
is making a good record for himself over
In the Monumental City. He has been
matched to meet William stalley, the
champion Of Roanoke, Va.
number of sporting men all over the
country are wondering why a more decided
effort to match Tom Sharkcy against Peter
Maher is not made, the fight to occur at
the same time with the CorbettFitzsin-
mons match. The two men fight very
much after the same style and battle he-
tween them would prove big drawing
card.
Gallaudet College will have a strong
baseball nine this year, some good ma
terial having recently come to the
college, which, with the OLD men, will re-
suit in strong combination. The first
game OF the season will be played against
Johns Hopkins College in Baltimore on
March l 3.
The championship hockey series between
the Baltimore teams has commenced, and
the struggle for the possession of the si[
yer cup promises TO be a hot one.
Pity that Washington hockey team could
not have been formed early enough i'll the
season to inaugurate a series of intcr-City
championship games.