The morning times., 1897-01-24
Sports and Sporting

Courtney, the sculler, has again been
employed to coach Cornell's crew.
Jake Lusky, the weli-known wrestler
| of this city, would like co get a match
with some one in his class. Lusky is u
| clever man in his line.
TheprofesSeti battle between Dan Creedon
and Kid Mccoy, il it ever takes place.
should prove q clinker. 1t is sure that it
would create vast lot of interest
| Mickey Fortune writes from Norfolk,
| Va. that he would like to get on a match
! with SOiue l15 or l1S-pound man in this
section. Mickey says he would take
| special pleasure in meeting Joe Bateman.
Dan Honig'S great st. BIaise horse
Magnet, who was supposed to have broken
| down so badly at st. Louis this summer
| that he would never be able to face the
starter again, is taking walking and trot-
| ting exercise and looks as if he might
again stand training.
Local interest in that fine game of
! ice-hockey, Will undoubtedly be awakened
by the contest next Wednesday, between
the Johns Hopkins College and the local
| team. 1t is fully as exciting as either
| football or basketball, and requires even
| more skill UUdn eltuef.
| The feeling appears to be growing every
where that Corbett and FitZsimmonS really
mean fight this time. Just what it is
that makes people feel this way, no one
seems able to explain, but they find
pleasure in the belief, even though it may
in the end prove a delusion-
| william Let's, who created such q
favorable impression at the Ice Palace
| last week, and who has been the amateur
| champion OF New Jersey and New York
| City, has joined the professional ranks.
His first professional race will occur
| next week, at Silver Lake, S. l.
Columbia College students say they must
have a crew this year, even if the pro-
fessors' salaries have to be reduced. And
they are very likely to get it. Columbia
students are more Interested In boating
than any other single sport, and some of
| their crews have been the most famous
of the American colleges.
Tie schedule of the University OF Viz
ginia baseball team has just been made
public, and it sets the date Of April 16
for the game with Georgetown College.
This is rather late, but the great rivalry
between the teams causes them to put
off the match until the best work OF the
season is possible.
One of the many hangers-on at the
Maryland race tracks, up to a short time
ago, was Fred Day. the ex1ockey, who
gained fame in 1889 by plotting Chaos &C
victory in the Futurity, when that event
was worth a little more than $4,000
Day has never recovered from the bad
fall he received at jerome Park, and al
regular intervals he is compelled to go tC
the hospital for treatment.
| Two new stakes are announced by the
Racing Calendar One is stake by the
Brooklyn Jockey Club, for horses three
years old, to close March l. The distance
| will be a mile and sixteenth, and tn,
value, $4,000. The name of this stak,
will be "The Broadway The Brighton
Association calls special attention to its
cup race, over two and quarter miles OF
ground. The added money will be $4,000
Considerable interest will no doubt b,
felt here over the running Of the Hudson
| stakes at the spring meeting Of the Brook