CormiGHT,THE 1883, BY THK SPORTINO LIPZ PTJBLIBHIKO Co. SPORTING ENTPBBD ATLIFE. POST OFFICE AT PHO.AMti.pmA AS BBCOND CLASS MATTER. VOLUME 2. NUMBER 20. PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 27, 1884. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. ment of Ed. W. Cole, of THE SPORTINO LIFE. The materially lowered, for among the other con­ prizes will amount to $200 and a championship LATE NEWS. testants will be Norton, of Harvard; Max­ BILLIARDS. emblem valued at $100, presented to the winner by THE SPORTWG LIFE. well, Hamilton and Crawford, of Yale; Eeed the J. M. Brunswick & Balke Co., to be held for and Rood, of Columbia, as well as repre­ two years before it becomes the personal property PUBLISHED WEEKLY Facts and Fancies Concerning the "Gentle* of the winner. The conditions will be published in Sporting Matters Gathered by Telegraph sentatives of Priuceton, Amherst, University our next issue. AT of Pennsylvania and other colleges. The man's Game." For Our Readers. college record for two miles is 6m. 51s., and No. 2O2 South Ninth Street, Philada. the amateur is 6m. 2s., a decided difference, Caroms. very Smith Eggleston has withdrawn from the room which should not be allowed to exist THE SYRACUSE TOURNAMENT. Y. [Below will be found the latest sporting news up AND long. Maxwell and Crawford, of Yale, will at the Whitcomb House, Rochester, N. The President of Mexico has ordered a Collender to Sunday morning, gathered by telegraph, Row, New York. go into training immediately. The former Frey Wins First Place, Malone and Button design to be made for his house. correspondents, and reporters. This news ar­ No. 23 Park made his mile very table of special Agent.) is reported as having Second and Third. craze Is spreading. Cleve­ rived too late for/roper departmental classifi­ {DR. WILLIAM MORRISON, Sew York close to three minutes. Crawford is also well The pool tournament The telegraphic dispatch last week an­ land is the latest. A tournament will begin there cation,] known as a racing man. Both of these In a week or two. FOKEIGK OFFICE : riders will make a strong endeavor to push nouncing that Malone had won first place in Catton and Maggioli will be matched at the No. 1 Scott'8 Yard, Cannon St., London, E. C. the blue to the frout. The Columbians are the Syracuse tournament was erroneous. On balk-line game of billiards for February 23, and CRICKET. s'ide at St. Louis. (F. R. GRIFFITH, Resident Correspondent.) well-known racing men, but have never de­ Friday, Feb. 15, the last day of the tourna­ for $500 a veloped any especial speed. With such a A New York paper says that a well-known ex­ The Foreign Trip of the Philadelphia Team*^ were tied for first strong array of riders, the future of college ment, Frey and Malone pert makes a practice of promenading the streets Additional Datoa Announced. played off and and insulting women. Recently an indignant TERMS. Two dollars and fifty cents a year, racing and riding ought indeed to be bright. place. In the evening they lady slapped his face. Correspondence SPORTING Lira. strictly in advance. Single copies, five cents. All of the principal colleges will hold impor­ Frey won easily by 11 to 8. Maione labored Postage free in the United States. Jacob Shaefer's games with Yignauz In Paris LONDON, Feb. 9. Thanks to tlie courtesy tant race meetings, which will be very liberal under the disadvantage of having a very have not been a great financial success Shaefer, CORRESPONDENCE on sporting topics, from any and open in their character, and will attract sore and swollen hand. His left thumb and who is soon to return,writes that he was handsomely of Mr. H. Perkins, of the Marylebone Club, section of the City, State or country, solicited. a large field of college and amateur riders. fore finger were swollen to almost twice treated by the French public. I am able to give some supplementary dates COMMUNICATIONS. Manuscript intended for their natural size. The following is the Lew Malone, was beaten at Waterbury, Conn.. of matches arranged for the Philadelphians publication should be written on one side of the record of games played and showing the Feb. 19th, by a local player named J«s. Magner by paper only, and must be accompanied by the BUSILY PREPARING 16 to 15. Malone spotted five balls each game and here. These, with the list I sent you some not necessarily for standing of each player at the close: writer's name and address, that accounts for the milk in the oocoanut. time ago, complete the list of fixtures already publication, but as a private guarantee of good For the Tournament of the Quaker City 5" £ W. Cook defeated Joseph Bennett in a billiard nith, and all communications, upon any sub­ Bicycle Club. Button..... Knight.... Leonard... Totalwon... barred) at London Feb. 2, by 61 ranged, but it is probable that in addition ject, or for any department, must be addressed | tn Heman.... Malone...i Wharton. Kuntsch... Dankleman match (spot stroke Wheelmen in Philadelphia and various points. Bennett received 200 points start in the some one-day matches will be arranged with FRANCIS C. BICHTEB, l-LAYERS. 2,000, and the longest run was 126, made by Cook. elevens selected from the public schools. I other points of the country are manifesting It is promised Managing Editor THE SFORTINO LIFE, In the Detroit pool tournament understand further that Flowers and Peate great interest in the approaching tournament that there will be $700 in prizes. Play Is to begin of No. 202 S. Ninth St., Fhilada., Fa. early in March. Frey, Mafone,King, Button, Lam­ will visit Philadelphia in the early part - May to coach the team and indulge them in a and races to be given in Philadelphia in June 0 1 1 1 1 •\ 1 9 bert, Shaw, Leonard, Dankelinan and others are Frey................. 1 1 expected to join in. variety of bowling. Dan Kewhall has next, under the auspices of the Quaker City King................ 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1* f> 0 1 0 •\ 7 of the last game between written, asking Alfred Shaw to take the trip ADVERTISING- RATES. Nonpareil type mea- A number of entries have al­ n 1 •\ 1 1 1 On the third night rare, 12 lines to an Inch, 15 cents per line for Bicycle Club. Knight. ............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 1 1 3 Schaefer and Ylgnaux at Paris the glass chande­ across also, but the slow bowler's engagement ready been recorded for the amateur 25 mile race, 0 1 0 1 0 n 0 0 3 lier above it came down on the table in fragments. each and every Insertion. which event alone will doubtless attract the 1 n with Lord Sheffield will, I am afraid, pre­ ADVERTISEMENTS and letters of Correspon­ n 0 n 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 It did not stop the game, although the cloth wuato vent him accepting the invitation. The presence of a host of riders. This race awards the 0 1 ) 0 0 l 1 1 6 some extent damaged. dents, to insure insertion, should be mailed so as rand prize of the tournament, which consists of a n 1 newly-arranged matches are as follows: to reach us by 6 p. si., Saturday, as this paper n 0 i 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 H The table on which the second match of 3,000 andsome and valuable silver service set. All 0 0 1 i 1 0 0 1 0 5 June 10, at Dublin, Philadelphians vs. Gen­ Koes gcontestants in the race completing the twenty- 1 *fl points was played by Vlgnaux and Schaefer was TO PRESS EVERY SATURDAY EVENING. 0 1 n i 0 0 0 0 0 2 purchased by Baron Rothschild. It was of thej. tlemen of Ireland; at Dublin, .Tune 12, Phila­ rive miles will be awarded a medal. Considerable 0 0 0 0 i 1 0 0 i 4 at is already being shown in the proposed Dankleman.. ........ 1 M. B. & B. Co. make, with the Monarch cushion, delphians vs. Dublin University; July 3, interest and was shipped to Paris from New York. York, Philadelphians vs. Gentlemen of York­ special 5 mile race between John A. Green and Total tost........... i 5 3 7 7 7 4 2 6 8 1 6 55 All Checks, Drafts, Money Orders and Remittances Samuel H. Crawford, both of Philadelphia, and In several private encounters with M. Vlgnaux shire, and at the Oval July 17, Philadel­ mat be made payable to the order of well and favorably known as amateur riders. Garne forfeited to Knight by Kuntsoh's failure since the public contest, Schaefer has been vic­ phians vs. Gentlemen of Surrey. Both gentlemen will shortly begin training for the to appear. ____ ___ torious. His play has been improved with his WATCHMAN. Tie Sporting Life Publishing Company. contest, and the event is looked forward to in a French practice. He is to sail on Feb. 26. It is high degree of interest upon the part of their re­ also probable that Daly will cut short his stay spective friends. An official programme of all the CARTKR-GALLAGHER. abroad. COLLEGE;ATHLETICS. PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK, FEB. 27. proposed races will shortly De issued. The ac­ Slosson seems to be recovering his stroke, which tivity already evinced by numerous manufacturers Eugene Carter Defeats the St. Louis Man at last year's four weeks' practice at cushion caroms Meetlne of the Inter-Collegiate Association, and dealers in bicycles and wheelmen's goods be­ Cushion Caroms.