New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-07
IN THE WORLD OF Sports.
Tee Skating Season Starts This Week
-West Point an Hockey League.
AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL.


Good contests should result this year in the Amer
can Amateur Hockey League series as all thf
teams have been strengthened. The Brooklyn
Skating Club has some players. snd the
team seems formidable The Crescent Ath-
ietic Club has also made changes in its line
Up. and is also considered to be strong delegation
TIE great strength of the Wanderers last season
robbed the league series OF much OF its interest.
and the final outcome was practically conceded
some time before the close of the series. This
season however. the teams promise TO be more
evenly rnatched- and a result the contests shout
be more close and exciting. West Point satis-'
fed with its display Of strength the gridron will
put seven on the ice. The soldiers VIII play sew
eral games this winter at the rink with various
military teams. The rink will be the headquarters
IN this country for the game. and VIII the home
Of the American Amateur Hockey League and the
intercollegiate and interscholastc leagues. thus
bringing into competition all the athletic club and
intercollegiate champions. together with the best
Canadian representatives.
New life Will be added this year 10 the figure
skating championship by the infusion of foreign
blood This viii be the first time in the history Of
American skating that the European and American
schools have competed in this country. The present
amateur champion. william Duffy of the New
York Athletic Club. will again take part: also DR.
4 J. heane, champion for four consecutive years.
end in addition, saichow, OF Stockholm the pres
ent champion Of Europe. and Hugel. of Vienna.
The athletic games OF the 18th Regiment in
indoor
season With every part Of the big drillroom filed
with spectators and the entry list represea tative
one The cne-1aile handicap race went to George
H Bonhag. Of the Greater New-Ycrk Irish Ath-
tetic Association, who started from scratch
and just beat Edward p Carr. the we'll known
runner OF the Xavier Athletic Club by few feet.
The surprise OF the night came in the two-nnile
bicycle handicap when Frederick T. Wanner. OF
{he 6, 20 Regimen; came In drst and Clarence A
Oscar GoeTke OF the National Athletic Club, who
t5rd Wenner showed that he Is N man ' to be
feared by taking first place in The one-ile bicycle
BOBBY waIthour who recently returned here
from abroad, where he the middle distance
paced championship. says that he thinks Caesar
Sirnar IS the best rider In Europe and that Sinar
gave him his hardest race in the 100-kiloretre
championship. He said that cycling is popular
ever in Europe. and that sometimes many
:sao attended the races at Park des Princes track
IN Paris In the last year started IN fo.ty.four
..Accidents caused most, OF NY losses, although l
efler got OF tie BOAT Since Lenders lament
abs aeeaent IN Paris which caused his dsa Tina
saisids and now The Pace oll9wsrS hays s to travel
t gbt Efps iacnte n3ie4 ssv hat after
d f TO ~a aa ts saa By tie o %bn ay ssadaa5
7 know that i saved my life on one occasion at
& fan from my machine while going at ffty-mIle-
sn-hour pace"
For to-norrow's automobile meet at the Empire
City track representative list OF entries has been
received which insures some exciting sport, in ad
oit.on TO the various matches and record breaking
exhibitions on the programme. Paul Sartori. with
and N. g. Berrlin. with w Gould Brokaw's 60.
n ten~mile match. and they viii also compete in
tie International Cup race There will be six start
chimes and at least dozen starters in the Empire
Handicap at five miles.
Arrangements being made for a match be-
tween Joseph Tracy. with his 32horsepower Royal,
and Tom Cooper with & 24-horsepower Matheson.
Il the Diamond Cup contest Frank Kulick will
enter with his 20-horsepower Ford racer to defeat
II C. Benin and the Renault- IF he should win
the race tooErow he becomes the P2ssessCE Of the
many trials on the track have furnished good rea-
worlds records up miles in his attack on the
watch to-morrow The frst race VIII start al =,
ks effort with the Winton Bullet.
There are excellent reasons for believing that when
the yachting season OF 1905 opens the owners OF
racing eloops and schooners will And that they may
sail in almost any club race under rules OF meas
urennent and rating that will be eminentiy more
satisfactory than those Of former years. Repre-
sentatives Of the leading clubs in New-York and
Eastern waters at a recent meeting In this city
took I'D the measurement question in businesslke
wav and to use q nautical phrase gave II thor
oggh es nafre wis take place looking toward
me betternent OF the present conditions. and me
t0STiggi 1oH Of healthy type of yacht doing away
9TH ae t fFea od type to be 50 cIsssed that theft
owners may enjoy the sport OF racing with some
chance OF winning q prize now anc then. me
abandoned and It will In future be Determined by
the rules Of the Yacht Racing Association soc Of
referred 10 that the rating formula OF inc New.
York Yafs G1e s asf 81 ths By the o
roo1 Of the sail and divided by % 5lfnes me
limit Of the load wsterine OF the drarght. and Of
the sail TO be DECIDED az ai!Ll
It is likely that the deliberatlons OF t re Ions
committees will have been submitted 10 tle Val
clubs and approved by them IN tune LOT iaI is
men TO order boats. built under the new rules
witness some Keen racing in all the CLASSES espe-
caily in those which include the one-desigh Ooa's'
The cruising season for steam yachts IS AT manu-
.fany yachts are being got ready for trips in West
Indian waters and some of the larger ones will
extend their cruises across the Atlantic 10 the
Medsterranean Eugene Higgins with a party OF
eleven friends has already started for Havana with
his big steam yacht Varuna- They are 70 WISH
other ports in Cuba and In the Windward and
Leeward Islands. going thence to Madeira on 7 Inc
vaTuna has crossed the Atlantic eighteen times
Mr. Higgins having crossed in her siSteen tiIlG f
& e Renfciet or the , Ne% ,b e a. who owns The
yacht Oneioa, has chartered from lSaac otei
his s'eam Yacht virginia and intenos 10 E naKe an
extended cruise going as far as Brazil Fre4erif f
g. Bourne commodore Of the New-foTk 1a 1cI
Club. is cruising In his steam yachI ij 7 ne
there she was to go Washington and Norfolk
and perhaps further sputh. Ihe steam IN yaG 51t
yoyk yacht Club has been fitted out at East Boston
FOR cruise IN European waters
That New-York does not support interconegiate
athletics as does Philadelphia clearly shown by
he grad m