Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-31
CURRENT SPORTS Talk
International Contest for the
Americas Cup Will Be.
Gin Sept. q.
Trial Race Of the Shamrock IL.
Does Not Alarm the
Americans.
Current Sporting Gossip in Var.
led Circles..With the
Pugs.

4 more keen. The interest is not confined
to the east by any means, altho yacht
1 ing being more of sport in that Sec
ton of the country there are probably
more who are in touch with the situa-
ton. The country in general is anxious
for the races to be pulled OFF and thru
out the west there will be the usual
amount of betting as to the final out
come. AS there has been some doubt as
to when the races for the Americas cup
will come off it may be said on the au-
| thority of j. v. S. Oddie, secretary of
the New York Yacht Club. that the first
racing day Of the series will be on Sat-
urday, Sept. 81. The second race day
will be on the following Tuesday, Sept.
"A; the third on Thursday, Sept. &c, and
the fourth IL necessary, on Saturday,
Sept. 2S. In case the contests, thru in
ability to complete or otherwise, con-
tinue into the following week, the races
will be sailed on the Tuesday. Thursday
and Saturday of the subsequent week or
weeks. Sundays are not counted in
reckoning the alienation of the race
days. The first winner of three races
takes the cup. The first sailing of the
challenger Shamrock III. off Sandy Hook
this week was by no means alarming to
the present trustees of the Americas
cup The wind did not bring out any Of
the more valuable qualities of the boat
because 1t was too light, when there
was any at ALL OF course, the ability
of boat to drift fast in light airs is of
consequence, but when the breezes are
so feeble that a thirty-mile course can
not possibly be sailed in the five and a
half hour limit, the value of the per-
Torrance is lessened, Just az it was
when the Constitution showed ex-
traordinary speed in less than time
limit breeze. The outcome Of the trial
was, in the opinion of the majority of
those present, that the Columbia has lit
tile to fear when drift comes into a
race which may with difficulty be fin
ished within the allotted time. The
Shamrock II. was not sailing with her
club gafftopsail set land it is said to be
ans eHfayuasls Se IS t9f laisRt aai5S
ances for the difference of sail plan the
English boat did not seem to possess
either the lightness or alacrity of move
ment which has always characterized
of chess. and especially those interested
in the development of the Ruy Lopez
opening, John F. Barry of Boston, has
declined the offer of Pillsbury to play
match game in order to test certain
variations, concerning which the two
noted players entertain opposite views,
Pillsbury adhering to the old-estab-
lished play, While Barry advocates a de-
parture. AS was feared, Barry's bust
ness proves an insurmountable obstacle
to the proposed encounter, to which,
practically, the Boston man was chal-
lenged. The latter deplores his inability
to accommodate Pillsbury at this time.
and says that, without wishing to de-
tract from Showalter's laurels in any
way. he attributes his defeat by seven
games to two. prior to the Pillsbury-
Showalter match, to the fact that he
worked nearly every morning up to
within short time of starting the
games in the afternoon. Under such
conditions he would be severely handi-
capped with Pillsbury and unable to do
himself justice. The real object of such
match might therefore be defeated.
The foot ball schedule of the univer-
sity of Pennsylvania team has been
completed. The team will play fourteen
games, opening at Franklin field on
Sept. 2S with the Lehigh team. All of
the games with the exception OF three
will be played at Franklin field. The
Columbia match will be decided at Man
haitian field on Nov. 2. The Harvard
game, which is scheduled for Nov. q,
will take place at Franklin field. Among
the new teams on the schedule are
Bucknell Swarthmore, West Point and
the University Of Virginia. The season
closes at Franklin field on Nov. %, with
Cornell. The schedule follows: Sept. %.
| Lehigh; Oct. 2, Franklin and Marshall:
Oct. 5, Pennsylvania State College; Oct.
10, Swarthmore: Oct. IL, Brown: Oct. 16,
University of Virginia; Oct 10, Buck
rell; Oct. 90, Gettysburg, all at frank
lin field; Oct 2e, Chicago. at Chicago;
Nov. 2. Columbia, at New York; Nov. 9,
Harvard; Nov. 16. Carlisle Indians, at
Franklin field; Nov. %. West Point. at
West Point: and Nov. %. Cornell, at
| Franklin field.
Edwin S. Merrill, crack all-around
athlete Of Beloit College, has probably
seen his last days as college athlete.
The ground or which Merrill may lose
his amateur tsatus Is competition in a
meet at Dixon, ILL.,, on Aug. "a. The
meet was held without the sanction of
the A. A. U. and consisted mostly of
professional events. It was a firemen's
tournament and it is charged that Mer-
rill competed for one Of the teams en-
tered. While the meet was In progress
some one telegraphed to DR.. George H.
Herman, of Chicago, secretary of the
central division of the A. A. u. The lat
ter instructed the sender of the telegram
to gather all the information possible.
Afdavits are now being made on the
case.
| Some fast bicycle riding, motor paced,
was done at the Queens Park. Montreal,
track this week and several records
were broken. Archie McEachern, the
fart Canadian, beat Champion, of
France. in the twenty-fiye-mile paced
race, his time being 80 minutes and IS
seconds, which is a new record. Kent
and DAILY beat Fourier and the motor
In five-mile race, the time being min
lutes and . seconds. worlds record.