The evening times., 1897-12-23
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

Prime eton athletes have been forbidden
| to take part IN sports as the representative
| of any athletic club. Harvard wa the first
to pass this rule, and the other mig
universities are likely TO follow the good
example set.
TEDDY" Hale. champion Of Ireland AMI
former champion long g-distance bicJ Jclist
OF tn. world, will contest in a series 0f
five-mile bicycle races with little Joe
Rice, who rode second in the long dis.a ice
bicycle races OF 1886 and 1897 at Madison
Square Garden, New York.
Aspecialto The evening Post, from Shelby
Vile, Ky. rays: .'Mr. Sam Erown to.hy
sold to Ell H. TiptDn, or Lexington. La J. y
Reel, the dam of theltw0- year old Hamburg.
81 900 cash. Lady Reel has Teen hred,o
Hanover. the sire of Hamburg. The price
received for her is the highest any bru od
mare ever bro light in Shelby county"
John E. Madden has bought from T. c.
Mcdowell the bay weanling colt, David
Garrick. by Hanover, dam Peg Woffin g.un,
by Longfeliow for $5 900 and a percenta.e
OF the Futurity and Matron stakes, IL the
colt wins either. Also OF c. Davis, chestnut
yearlins filly by Hanover, dam FIeur d'pr,
by Ran On d'or, for 81 $50.
The Gideon presidential boom in the
field OF l.. \. w politics seems to gain
strength with time, and very short time.
too. 1t developed yesterday that the New
Workers were scared about President Pot
ter's CHI; rces for reelection. though they
whistled loudly to keep up their courage.
and decla red tha out Of 377 Votes to lie
cast at the wheelmen's national ass .'u-
hl in 81 JAI,iS Y IN ter L
surely poll 205.
Mccoy finds himself in a predicament.
There are no weiterweights who car. to
make match with him, and the middle
weights are not looking in McCoy's direction
just now. McCoy, even though his clever
ness may be overestimated. ontclasses any
i 15s-pound man before the public except
Fitzsimmohs. Under the circumstances
Mccoy will have to remain idle or seek
fights with men heavier than himself. His
youth and good habits will serve him well
in the next few years. 1t is said that as
a financial proposition he rivals Corbettf for
economy, willie he is far more economical
than Corbett in caring for his health.
The following was given out by the Cor
nell Athletic Council on Monday night:
Cornell has received challenges for a
four-mile boat race from Columbia. Iar-
ward, Pennsy lvania and Yale. All the
challenges are without conditions q to
time and place except the one from Yale.
Before takin6 decisive action in regard
to any OF these Cornell must await The
arrival of promised information from some
Of these universities. In the meantime
the vacation period will render anotl.r
meeting of the council imI,ossible before the
first week of January"
II the hockey games that are being
played at frequent intervals in Greater
New York continue to grow rougher AMI
Tougher week after week, as they have
been recently, there is no small chance OF
the authorities stepping in and stopping
the game. Last night the Hockey Club of
New York played the Skating Club of
Brooklyn at the Clermont avenue rink, I'm
Brooklyn. And while nothing serious
happened, and ambulances were not
dirty trick that is known to a hockey
player was not used Men were DELHI
erately tripped when skating at fun speed
and thrown headlong on tine ice; skates
were seen tG fly about in promiscuous
directions when iien were down, and on
one occasion a player. deliberately drew
back his club and swung with might and
main for the ships q an oppo ueut
Luckily the blow WAS low and no damage
was done. But tife player was ruled off
the ice by the referee