The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-23
ODDS AND ENDS OF SPORT

Cash Sloan, a brother of the redoubta-
bic Toddy, is under the ban Of suspension
pending an investigation. Sloan has been
riding horses at the Oakland California,
race track all winter and in a race Tues
day, it Is alleged, he did not drive TO win.
Teddy. Sloan. by the way. can do other
things than ride horses and wear clothes
One afternoon early this week To-day
dropped into the Auditorium Annex in
! Chicago and played a game of billiards
with Robert Hilliard. the actor. Another
| game. with friendly bet of SO on the
side followed. DeWolff Hopper was the
referee-probably because he was the big
gest man in the crowd-and Willie Collier
refused to act as marker because he had
1 won, but the game was nothing out of the
ordinary except for the reputation of the
contestants.
/ New York school boys are dead sore
/ over the proposed action of the Inter
| collegiate Association making school boy
athletes ineligible to compete during their
! first year in college. The New York As
] sociation has appointed two delegates.
who will seek the privilege of pleading
| against the adoption of such a rule al the
meeting OF the intercollegiate executive
board Saturday evening.
| A year ago, when the six-day cycle race
was held at Madison Square Garden il
J 't7 Abtl4b that the u dGh was not a Iull
| mile. Now an error has been found in
| the measurement OF the track used by the
| riders at san Francisco last week. A
ers went Sc inches over for every mile
| with which they were credited Thus the
record is all the more creditable.
| Tommy Fisher captain of the Yale Uni
| Nersity track athletic team, has Just been
appointed first lieutenant of the New
! York Athletic Club.
| +. 9. Perkins who captained the ath-
| letic team at Yale in '9S. is at present at
! Columbia University devotng an his at
tention to the candidates for the hurdle
events.
Frank Waller has permanently retired
| rom cycle racing, and will live in San
Francisco, where he started his racing
| away back in '92 Ills record was 364
! miles instead of the 6lS miles Of the pres
en- en- lime. lie Is one Of the most unique
| characters that have been associated wit h
cycle racing in this country.
Ashinger's record of 4697s miles without
olsmount seems an endurance record al
| most impossible TO beat, and vet who will
care 10 predict that before six-day races
drc forever tabooed some man with con-
sntuuon Of steel will be able to cover 1000
miles without leaving his wheel
Iowa will take an active interest in foot
pan TINS year. The Drake, University
team is now negotiating TO secure the
services of either Herschberger or Clarke
OF the chicago University as coach for
A 25-mile Marathon race will be held bv
me Cornell Cross-country Club on April
Is. u the winner makes good time he Vii
pc allowed all his expenses 10 compete i'm
the Olympian games at Paris in 1900
n number of graduate coaches assisted
DR.. Gallaudet in his work with the Yale
! crew candidates yesterday They were
John Rogers, ~; F. A. Stevenson, SIS: r.
5. Brewster 81; S. j. A. Hartwoll ~:
$. b. Ives, 49, Capt. Payne Whitney, 'gS.
James o. Rogers, '9S; Redmond Cross
49, At conference of the coachers il
was decided that the crew shall abandon
| the practice of rowing on stationary seats
on Friday. Rowing In the harbor will be
attempted next Friday.
Tho Yale hockey team was outscored by
the Quaker City Club in Philadelphia last
evening 9 tQ 0,