Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-05

Kansas City for dates and believes that
games can be arranged. The trip will be
made in the next few weeks. The team
that is to go has not as yet been Sc
lccted.
According to the telegraphlc dispatches
OF the last week Dave OBrien, the local
bicycle crank, has been appointed chair
man OF the regulations committee Of the
League Of American Wheelmen. He has
recently returned from the east, where he
was in attendance at the national assembly
Of the League of American Wheelmen,
lately held in Providence. At this gathering
he was energetic in the fight made by the
western members of the assembly, which
resulted in the League Of American Wheel
men retaining control OF bicycle racing.
both amateur and professional. Regarding
this matter, he says:
The racing question was the one i'm
portant matter before the assembly and you
can see what the general opinion regard
ing the League Of American Wheelmen con-
troll is from the fact that the movement
TO cut of racing was downed by a vote
of 260 to 43. As a matter Of fact. the New
York delegation was the only one that was
strongly in favor of the movement and the
west was soildly arrayed against it. As to
tue question itself, | believe there is but
one side TO 1t. The only way that bicycle
racing can be run on legitimate and hon
est lines is under the League of American
Wheelmen control. The public is very we'll
aware Of this fact and therefore it will
not patronize races unless sanctioned by the
league. The bicycle racers themselves know
this and consequently feel that it will be
best for them to come under the wing of
the league. The natural result will be, in
| NV nntninn that oil tha C,.l,., 1,l-.. -stt
seek reinstatement and bicycling will be-
come more profitable and more popular than
it was during the last season"
Andy Dupont, the Kansas City pugilist
who killed Billy Walker in the prize ring
in South Omaha last fall and was recently
tried and acquitted in the district court,
will be given a benefit in Koutsky's hall in
South Omaha next Thursday night. Quite
a program has been arranged for the en-
tertainment, in which Dupont himself will
take a prominent part. He claims to be
champion wrestler of Kansas and Missouri
and will appear in a bout with Faulk, a
heavyweight of Chicago. He will also spar
three rounds with Paul Murray, the local
colored boxer. The other numbers on the
card Will consist of a wrestling match be-
tween Setfron and Lawler and boxing bouts
between Conway and Mccoy and Dryer and
ONeil. AS a consequence of the scrape re-
sulting from the fatal match last fall Dupont
Is penniless and he finds himself in an en-
barrassing position, owing to the fact that
his family is here with him.
College men from the east who still keep
track OF the work of their alma matters and
the budding athletes Of the west will be
interested in some new rules that have been
tackled on to the regulations of the eastern
intercollegiate association, in which the
main cast is assumed by Princeton, Penn
sylvania, Yale and Harvard. The changes
are in the direction of more strict ANA
teurism, with the main eye on those indi-
viduals who are drafted by prominent col
leges simply and solely for their athletic
work-the inducement sometimes being hard
coin. In order to bar out this class of ath-
letes the association adopted a rule that
no one shall represent any college or uni
versity as a competitor at the annual field
meeting who has heretofore won a first,
second or third in any open or field event
until he shall have resided one calendar
year at the college or university he repre-
sents and has passed an annual examination
on a full years work. Every competitor
must be a student for a degree or doing
an amount of work equivalent to the work
required for a degree. No one shall be al
lowed to compete who has been dropped
from his class into a lower class until he
has completed a full calendar years work
and has passed an examination thereon.
These changes in the rules, which were
adopted on motion Of the Harvard and Penn
sylvania delegates, are the ~strictest that
have ever hedged about amateur athletes.
The biggest tournament for the eastern
intercollegiate gymnastic championship ever
held will take place in New York on March
"A. In fact, this event will practically be
the first tournament of a truly champion
ship caliber ever held by the eastern col
leges, although small tournaments have
been held for many years past. Sixteen col
leges and universities will be represented by
teams, as follows: Princeton, Yale, Har-
ward, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Amherst,
Wesleyan, Lehigh, Lafayette, Cornell,
Swarthmore, Haverford, Rutgers, Union,
Union Theological, and the New York uni
versity. The events will consist OF horizontal
bar, rings, side horse, tumbling, parallel
bars and club swinging. Cups will be Of
fered as prizes to the first three men IN
each event and there are also to be three
exceptionally fine cups for all-round work.
Diamonds and porterhouse steaks will
soon be plentiful among the opponents of
the heel and toe artists round about New
York. For a number of years no long walk
ing match has been held in the metropolis,
but the sport is to be revived with consider
able eclat by means of a big international
twenty four-hour match to be held on April
I and s, in which prizes amounting to 81, 900
will be given. Some of the crack ''peds" of
England and other European countries are
expected to try conclusions with the Amer
leans. The monotony OF the match is to be
broken by means Of shorter walking and
sprlnting events.
The fourth annual chess match between
the experts Of the knights and pawns of
this country and England will take place
on March 10 and IL. Considerable hinges
on the result of this match, for II England
wins it will be her third successive victory
and the beautiful trophy that was put up
by Sir George Newnes will pass into the
permanent possession of the beefeaters, ac-
cording to the conditions of the tournament.
The Johnny Bulls won the match in the last
two years, America having carried off the
honors in the first tournament in 1896. The
full American team has not yet been
selected, but Pillsbury and Showalter will
be two Of the number.