Evening journal., 1897-09-01
LOCAL ATHLETES BUSY.
Field Sports Becoming Lively
as the Season Ends.
BUDeE4 OF LIVE SPORTING NEWS


LOST IT'S GAME IN PHILADEL-
PHIA BY ONE MANS BnSTEP.
THE WILMINGTON cRoQUET
GAME. 90
Very few local baseball games will be
heard of a, gain this season.
phiJadeln HAS baseball attendance
l,eens I'm re. narkably well. Many VIII
mine4onians are noticed at every game.
r'he marsh es to-day about town are
"hooming'' WI tn the echoes OF Hhe reed
blrd hunters .breech-loading gun.
"C,olonel" De xter, Louisville 8 agile /
risht-felder. feIi on his neck nd near
ly broke IL yeste rday in trying to pull
down Cross thre, fDase drive.
Captain William Smith, OF the ALI
Wilmington basketball team, has signed
pori Tavlor and Horace McDannell for /
active play.
First Baseman Igajoie was putt back |
in the game in Philadelphia vest erday, |
and did very we'll after his thre s-days' |
suspension.
basketball Captain Smith will. visit
PHILADELPHIA and the New Jersey league |
cities next week to verify the sched-
ules.
In the Philadelphia-Bouisv base
ball game yesterday Louisville prob
ably lost the contest through First
Baseman Werdens misatep. ON COOL
ey's hit to Wagner, the big hrst Dase-
man clapped his foot down about six
inches "shy" of the bag and a run
crossed the plate, there being iowo out
The University OF Pennsylvania's
opening football game will be played
on Saturday, September 25, with Frank
lin and Marshall, while the closing
game will he with Cornell on nhanks-
giving Day. The Harvard game will be
played Nov. 20. in Philadelphia. The
candidates for the Pennsylvania team
TO the number of about thiIty-two, un-
der Coach George w. Woodruff, will
leave for Eagles Mere on September 9,
where they will put In two weeks OF
conditioning work, returning 10 this
city on September %. The candidates
include Roy jackson, Of Dover and
Herbert Rice. of Wilmington.
West Chester is now being pushed
for return match by the Wawaset
Gun Club. All the Wilmington propo-
sitions have been unsatisfactory, and
now West Chester agrees to name the
date. and it Will be about the last Of
this month tr
Next saturdays bicycle races at Riv-
erview will be finally arranged for to-
night when entries will close. Some OF
those who have already entered in the
professional class are Charlie Church,
w. f. Selby, Robert McCurdy, w. r.
I.andis. w. Il. Dickerson, b. b. Stew
ems, G. 13. Jack. Ben Heck Robert
Wier J.'q4 Clark Jr., f. j. Pyle, l.. G.
Johnson. Some of the other men en-
tered are: John Zimmerman, who holds
the one mile and half-mile record for
Pennsylvania. II. J. Bond, Walter
Durusse, William Weiss, S. S. Wilson
J. II. Minnick, r. ]. Gillon, l.. X. Bay
is George Winkler. J. b. Gift, w. R
Cooley 81 J.. Lynch, Harry Pruschay'
skin. A. r. KettlewoOd, II. c. Ma
haffy. Jr Robert Wier will try for the
state record There will be over 500
distributed in prizes.
A new pleasure sl1iff, to be known a,
the Captain Taylor, was launched to
day from the Western bridge where ]
dhad been taken in wagon by ~
builders and owners, Powell Pattey
George Taylor and James Watson.
Jesse 70. Webb and William Il. Val
Osten, Of West Chester; Harry Hunte
and William Wagner, of Spring City
were among the contesting visitors VIII
did battle for the croquet champion
ship Of Chester county on tn
Wilmington CroQuet Clubs court be
ginning here yesterday Afternoon
Some of those who came down fro1
West Chester were Caleb Taylor
Thomas Temple. John Spear and Lev
Bender, she latter two riding thei
wheels william Il. Won Osten, one {
the contestants, started on his wheel 9
an early hour, But his machine wa
wrecked by collision with a rock som
distance out Of town and he was con
PEELED to walk back to West Cheste
He left for the scene of the match on
train at 9 o'clock A number of Sprin
City men are also here, some ridn
down on their wheels.
George Prentiss. the well-know
baseball pitcher of this city, received
telegram yesterday from Manag
Nichols, of the Cape Charles team, as
ing him to report to-day. Prentiss le
on the 11.56 train last night. There a
now four Delawareans on the teal
They are Roy Jackson and Radclin
Of Dover, and Prentiss and McDanne
of this city. Mcdaniel is captain.
On September Is the Wilmington I
cycle Club, which has been refurnis
ing and renOvating its house, at Del
ware avenue and West streets, W
have a reunion and reception. and W
keep open house An orchestra W
probably he present.
After it's special meeting next Su
day the Warren Club will resume ha
work on the football field, practici
at Onion street grounds. The meetl
next Sunday will be held at the ho
of David Kenneally, at Seventeen
and Washington streets, when impo
ant rules win be adopted.
r-,. READY FOR A RACE NOW.