The New York Herald Newspaper, July 1, 1874, Page 3

OUR AWATECR ATHLETES, Tlow the Rising Generation Endeavor to Perfect Their Bodiew “XB WORK OF ATHLETIC CLUBS. —_—_—-—_— \ Performed by the Caledonian:, Turners and Young Muscular Christians. HIPPODROME ATHLETICS. The age of muscie seems at last to have come for Americans. Young men are striving and straggling with might and iain to Increase the Diceps and to expand tne chest in every hamlet from Maine to California, and the number of ath- letic organizations that are being formed every yin all our Atlantic seaboard cities is simply ‘ond calculation. The young American has at last turned nis attention to the culture | of his body, and it the steam 18 kept up in this fashion for thirty years our next generation will compare with those hardy Greeks who contested breast to breast im the Olympian games and smote the Persian Flaves at Salamis or died tree men in the rocky gorge of Thermopylw. No more weak lungs, flabby arms or wobbling legs is now the watchword of our young men, and all who wish well for the future of the Tace will wish them good speed in their attempt, AMATEUR ATHLETES. To be an amateur athlete, in the truest sense of | the word, is a worthy ambition (or any young man, and he cannot be otherwise than bevefitea by | moderate use of the members of bis body. Per- haps no other athletic movement that the world has ever known equalled in extent and progress the base vali movement, irom its first 1aception to the stage which it has now reawhed, A keen ob- server of athletic spor's suid to the writer the other day that he was positive that if he leaned ever the roof of any building on Broadway and should drop a brick at random among the crowa he woult bet 100 to 5 that he would kil a member | of a base ball cluv, On Decoration Da there were fifty-two games of bal! in progress at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and, of course, there had to be “nines” from one hundred and four clubs toh cep the games going. On every side athletic organizations are being formed, and grounds are eing prepared and laid out to satisiy the cravings for physical excellence. thousands indulge m manly sports, not having any Righer ideal than the simple gratification of the physical sense, yet there isa Igher standard for | all who desire to attain it. THE VURNER GYMNASTS. Among those who @ specially noticeable as amateur atiletes are the young men who belong te the New York Turnvere.n or Turners’ Associa- tion, which has its nai tn East Fourth street. Here pupils exercise every day, apd the Turners Dumber mavy hundred members. But of active athletes, that is to say youug men who can perform feats of the gymnasium or areaa, there are not more than about eighty, The Turners are very good as rope climbers and ou the parallel bars, and are very clever in the trapeze acts, but as a general thing they do train correctly and are not fit for longea exertion, Two of their best Christoper Meller gymnasts, but although weighs over 160 pounds. clearly understood that in this articie only those who will not enter into any contest for sums of money or tor prizes can or will be spoken ol. In many athletic contests the Turners have carried men, of smail stature, each of prizes, and in thelr last annual games hei glittering armor and nodding plumes, From be- Lads feet ‘capt ks i ole eae? hed in youd the flapping barriers came the stormy New Jersey the competition was excellent and Xounad of the chariot race, the ‘“bravos’ spirited througaout. Atthe Hipprodromeon Fn- | of the audience and the whirlwind o! day evening Mr. Kunze, a member of the Tu- ners, carried off tue graud prize, & gold medal, for rope noing, laviag got to tue height of 36 leet 63. anene: Forty feet 1 the maximum among gmateurs for climbing a straigit rope, and } nas ‘Gen dene by Mr. wiler in e ‘Turn Haile in private exhivition Mr. F, Stembuch, of tae Turners, who weighs 147 pounds, has ited m a tournament two dumo bells Weighing seventy-live aud engiiy pounds, and on the parallel bars Mr. Christopher Muler carried away first honors. In raising the body with one arm Mr. Otto Scuiessel periormed tue teat with great dexterity. But in vaulting the prize generaily goes to the Caledonians, for bere comes in the fact that the Turne:s do hot train long enough to be able to vault to any great hent. The rurners’ Association 18 ramified ali through the word, and was founded about seventy years since by Jann, the great German aposile ul muscle. they are often seen in the strects and on jestival days, these Turners, in their shirts, white linen coats or jackets and linen trousers, and wearing red sushes around their bodies. that color being a favorit all German athietes. THE NEW YORK ATHLETIC. CLUB. ‘The first nucleus every furmed vy the gentlemen athletes of this city occurred sume Six years ago at the Knickerbocker Cottage in Sixth avenue, when Mesers. Curtis, Henry Buermeyer and Van Wyck, and some other gentlemen, gatuered tozetuer in & little private room and jormed tuemselves into What | is now known as the first uthietic amateur club in the United States. They have prospered exceed- Ingly since then, and have held tournaments at the Academy, and in other places, in which they have proved their mettle, and have suown that athletes can be gentlemen, and that because a man way Taise a 100-pound dumb bell or run a mile in goad thue be need not be foul in langnage or rowdyish in behavior. This club nas fine groauds at Mount Vernon, which were opened with great success to the jublic On Monday. The Atmetic Club has about 20 members, and its headquarters are at Wood’s @ymnasiw in East Twenty-eighth street. where they have baths and aii the paraphernalia of the amateur athlete. This club bas also a boat house and several fine sheils on Ha:iem River, and thus it is a rowing as weil as an athletic club, The Members are generally merchants, professional | men, insurance and bank cierks, and are, with lew exceptions, a fine bodied lot of young men. Among the memvers of the Athletic who have distin- guished themselves may be mentioned Harry Buer- | meyer, Elliott Burris, William B. Curtis, George | Thompson, Vaniel M. Stern, George L. Brown, Louis Cohen, &. W. Rathborne, W. &. Sinclair and others, Buermeyer 1s six feet one inch in height and weighs about 195 pounds. He can be put down as a splendid club swinger. He has raised— but only once—a 100 pound dumb bell in each hand. William &. Ourtis, one of the earliest mem- | bers of the club, has lifted 3,300 pounds weight In harness. {n the match where this was done Dr. Winship lilted 2,400 pounds and Mr. Abra- | nam A. Buits, of Onio, [ited 2,737 pounds. Mr. Buermeyer has lifted with the hand strap 2,200 | and George ihompson bas lifted 2,200 pounds. In the ‘one hand ift’ Ourtis has raised 1,240 pounds and Kuermeyer 1,150 pounds, This is big ‘Work lor amateur atnietes, and is some indieation | New York Athietic Clu is | o1 the stuff that the composed of Cohen and Stern, both members of the Athletics, are good 200 yard and Elliott burris has displayed remarkable speea OD more than one occason while there. One of the men in the United States—he is a clerk in the Manhattan Gas Company, and has put up @ bell weighing 180 pounds—it is said may trial with the strong man known 4s Keily, who is said to think nothing of luting @ 200 pound aumb bell. The Opening of the grounds of tne Athietic Club marks @ new era for the amateur athlete, and any one who Will pay @ visit to the headquarters o1 the athletes at Wood's gym- nasium und take @ look at the amount of hard work and skilled exercise which the crack men of the clubs go through each day in order to attain perfection in tanly exercises will come away with an impreasion that a great benefit is coming slowly but surely to American physical manhood through the effurts of these amateur associations, under whatever name they may do their work, THE STRONG MEN OF SCOTLAND. Chief among the clubs of this city given to athietics is the one which has its head- quarters in the very comfortable and cosey club House ip Sullivan street, and which is known as the Caiedonian Club. This organization ts com- posed solely of Scovchmen and their sons born in She United States, and is weil known to New York- ers, Who have so giten Witnessed the members, in all the panoply and paraphernalia of the Gael, marching through the streets to the wild and mad- dening music o1 the screaming bagpipes. This club ts about twenty years old, and has in tts ranks, which number over 150 men, quite a large num: ber of vigorous id powertul jumpers, runners and walkers. Tue best caber tossing, the best throwing of the heavy hammer and the best stone putting in the country ts done by this club ac their annual games, which are held yearly in presence Of eager and attentive thousands. No one who has ever visited these games and took a trip into the “club's tent’ 18 likely to forget the athletic feats which take place there, the Qnest of all being that feat known as the “bending of the slbow.”” ‘This ¢nb has an excellent record in all manly sports which belong to the land of moun- sain and heather, and o1 the best kaown members we shail speak briefly. In the standing long jump Beorgie Goldie, a rege little fellow and a fine vase nall player, takes high rank, having done ten feet, and has no cquaicxcenting in Vrank Duke, anor a It is true that very many | not | pro- | and Louls Kramer are excellent | Of course it should be | runners, | have a | Caledonian, who te fast attaining the front rank. Tasker 1s 180 a good vauiter, and Rennie 18 tore- Most 19 the runuing long jump. At the last an- nual games this same geuvieman made a jump of over uineteen teet and was closely lollowed by George Addison, who made out very well a8 an aiuateur. Mr. John Anderson, & Vigorous and pow- erluly armed man, threw the heavy, hammer ninety feet, Rennie standing a8 number two in tus teat, Mands more strength tuan apy other—by Mr. M. E, Moore @ distance ol 383 leet 6 In wouid have done better, but the track was too heavy and impeded aay great excellence, Mr. W. L, Campbell, Who is a memoer of a t-of-town Caleaumian Ciud, in the contest in whicn fifty-six pouud weizh(s were thrown, reached a dis'ance of 20 feet 5 incues, and, to speak generally, the Caledonians sustained their old reputation ag men ot brawn and sinew. THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, At the corner of i wenty-third street anda Fourth avenue there issituated the bullding occupied by the powerful organization Kuown as the Young Men's Cunistian Areociation, Wuich has @ membership of 6,000 young men in this city alone. Tuose, how- ever, and itis the great majority—who pass by the bu.lding—have a lalse idea that the youig men be- lopging to the Organiation are 0 usceite and devout in their ature tat they have no regard jor the health and periection | or the body. but this | take, lor the lower part oi tne building, out oi: sight, | aitogether is the gymnasium, which, though cov- | ermy buc a small space, has very guod appoi | ments «nd has for its director and instructor one | of the most thorough physical culturists in 1 United Status, The mun to whom we reer 18 Px fessor Willi;m Wood, who is to be a judge in the regatta at Saratoga next week, and who has tramed more pupils im physical courses than any | known living lostructor, “The young men belong- | ing to the association have, tu the numyer of 2,754, purchased tickets ior the gymnasiuin at @ Cost of | $5 each, and this ticket inc.udes batinog, bowling and Lie use of the gymnasium. Sometimes there | are classes of the pupiis numbering as high as 140 | | mewbers, and itis a great mistake that a grown and God- earing lad may not be abie to increase ius muscle or Wear the gloves as well as tue biggest | ps fighter in our land, The directors ol the | Young Men’s Christian Association, however, have | some scruples a8 to What sort of exercise should be tolerated in the gymnasium and | for over @ year have hesitated to permit the | teaching of Sparring or encing by Professor Wood. | ‘This, of Course, 18 Variousiy Commented upon, as the principle may seem to be involved, but it 14 believed (nat the Board of Directors will surren- | der such trivial prejudices and allow the nobie science of the small sword and the boxing gloves | to be augnt. AS yet the pupils of the Y. 0. C. A. have never appeared in any public ¢ bibition uot tue evening im iast week, im which they sent their team, consisting Of seven gentiemen to the athleuc sports now being neld av the Hippodrome, ‘these gentlemen e janes B, Burnett, Charles Huntiey, W. ye A. Side, Bennett Greig, J. P. McAulitt aud V Detmold, ‘Tae most expert of these ix Mr. Ben reig, Wao dispiayed couside. able sktli and plu | his rope climbing against tue pupils 01 otie 1uvious of Mure pretension, ‘Lhe other genticmen e entered jor walking, running und three- young men whose delignt it is to perfect tier podies by honest manly sport and cheeriul ex- | ercisex, and their number 18 increasing with great | rapidity. So be it. | Boot Notes of the Running Athletes at the Hippod@rome—The Olympian Games | in New York. Turning into the Hippodrome yesterday after- noon from the hot glare of Fourth avenue, the sme!) ol sawdust came pleasantly to the senses and revived instantaneously the circus recollec- Through the mystic gloom of | that cere world ‘‘pebind the scenes’? came and | through the bosky uel! between the bushes, | went the tinselled natives of the canvas world, a fair lady, all in blue and white, who stooped her jocheyed head as she dashed trom | tions of one’s youth, Now it the qui the track and reined in sharply | ermg hunter that had won her dle race. Again, it was the ungainly, bling camel, mounted by a Jersey Bedouin, that floated by disjointedly, giving place to the Mexican ranchero, with his circling lasso and the Tue prevailing clement was True, the monkeys chattered in their | Tush of his mustang. the horse, cage: his native jungle, shook the building with a roar but still the equine influence was predominant. The stamp of the upon everything. ‘mounting in hot haste’? and dismounting at cool leisure. | without a ticket coquetted with rainbow dresses, | tue finish. Of a sudden all changed, who had donned the silken tights of the arena jor the purpose of contending ior the prizes offered by Mr. Barbu to tue winners Of the events in the series Of amateur athletic games, In a few moments they stood mm proceeded to draw iots event, arace of 100 yards four and then three. The | Madison avenue end of the building. ' A. Rennie, of tis city, Won easly, the winning time being 11 seconds. He was | awarded the first prize, a gold medal, on whicn was stamped, as a design, the winged 1oot of Mercur, Mr. Charies Henraty, of the Young Men's Chri tian Association’s gymuasium, was # good second, and took tae silver medal. “Putting the sixteen pound shot” was the sec- | 1t 1s more Four essayed it. This gave tne one with | young athletes an unconscivus opportunity to | pose and showed the muscular symmetry o1 ther Mr. J. McMillan succeeded in landing the ball 34 feet 9 inches irom the toeing Mark, and pre- | ond contest. | forms, ies, and he | {8 @ grievous mis- | insu | ces, And now, tO conciuce, It may De | y stated that there are now in this city 25,000 | the hur- sham- the giraffes complacently ate their hay, and occasionally the lion, plagued by a dream of stable and the race track was | be thought suite Wherever one looked he saw ‘The stray sha ts of sanlignt that entered Tuere was a quick, sharp ring 0. the manageiai bell, tne horses faded from sight, aud there sprang tuto existence @ group O1 sittn-tinbed, broad-chested young men, the centre of the per- forming ground, in full view 01 the audience, and jor positions in tue first Seven started—tirst | can ‘ourse was @ straight- away dash irom the Fourth avenue end to the Mr. | elastic movements Of a well-iorm: ’ THE LONG BRANCH RACES. Away from the hot and dusty street#of the city | to the cool nooks of the laved sea shore; down the bay among tie busy vessels, past the forts, | the wooded heights and the sweet, shady villas of | stately Highiands to the bold binf beach oi Long | Branch. | 1and-locked bays and inlets. We hear the ever. lasting surge of the main ocean here— Over the dark waters of the deep blue sea to where they touch the far off summer sky, The | fresh easterly wind curls the tops of the incoming | waves aud sends the white caps tumbling towards | the land, Ships with their white sheets towing free sail swiitiy by; gulls skim over the billows of | the swell, the osprey Moats above, ready for a dart upon his prey; @ mile away porpoises roll ana dive and come up again rejoicing on ther way | towards the north, Some say the sea is gradu. ally undermining the beach at Long Branca, and that the place will soon disappe.r. Such things have been. | Its waves have roll'd Above the cities of a world gone by! Sand hath fi'd_up the palaces of old Fea weeds o'ergrown the hatisot revelry, | But it will be some time betore the waves have eat into the iand so that hotel and villa will topple i the yeasty surf, and a few centuries Will elapse el | Neptune’s dark gray horses © reer over th, | ntretches of Monwouth Park and rear their 10; | crests at the pillars of the club hou | stand. Foresight 1s @ good thing, but forego not the delights o1 the present worul anticipations of what may happen juture. Meantime Join Bull, stout and doughty a of many precocious and aspiring children in chosen spots and tertile places from thé Circle to the great Australi. Bight, had | ing. The coal beds or 800) out; the forests of America were already a | us gone; and with no fuel save tor the boll beet and potatoes and the heating of wat | grog, there would be an end to Britain. You | eat and drink and go to the races and a-gyp' but look out! Nemesis was “down in th mine underneath the ground!” Plenty of eisewhere! What of that, when it been discovered that =the sun, ik profigate youth squandering an estate, 18 q Up 1t8 Stock Of \Uel, gases and what not ats | rate Loat it willsoon be eXhausced and he! will bring brief cand) Yet hardihood of human nat courung, Marrymg and mi these as-ured ‘certa:nties. Even Dr. ma) aiter having established by smiallibie interp: tion tue absolute certainty of the end of the Ww. | in eighteen months, hagwied with his landlord a five years? lease of his house, and stypulated 1 | new roo! and sunury other repairs in two. Between the beach and Monwoutn Park couatry is pow very beautul ‘Thick aud dark verdure; luxuriant tue rustling olage of trees, Thecrops are lourisamyz. Green blade: corn Wave iu the se..born wind, The heavy-nead Wheat bends and sways in tie breeze, r veaill the first rich tints wiich mpen into the golde harvest. The air is luden with the sent ot new mown hay and wild fiyld flowers. The cool brook dashes and brawls Here summer that rrymakipy in spit | walk the race horses at shady close of day. Long grand equestrian games! Belmont, sanord, Cain- eron, Withers, huater, Travers, Moiris, Loriilard, | MeGratn, Cottrill, Welch, McDauiel and all the other owhers and breeders of the race horses, the country 1s th your debt, On 4, the races will begin, and, trom all that we can see and hear, there is promise of fine sport. The | numerons stables at the course are already nearly all occupied, yet the horses of several larg. lishments will not reach the course before Friday, Of the ihirty races te be cun at Monmouth Park perhaps the three most calculated to arouse the interest of the puvli: and excite the enthusiasm of | the owners, tratuers, jockeys, amateurs and ali the trives who love tiie race horse and celeorate , | his triumpis in fruitage of the vine will be the 5 Jersey Derby, on the frst day, and the Monmouth | Cup and Hopeiul Stakes, on th cient withou stakes, undervaluing tue merits oi the otuer grea A certain 1 Jerome Park stranger has published extracts from bis notebook, and informed ihe Jocsev Club and everybody else of delects and shortcomings at ) = that meeting. Fair and intelligent criticism 13 useful and should be received with respect, but when a man tries everyth.ng by lis own very lim- ? Med experience and narrow conceptions m3 con- f | clusions, Instead oi bemmg reasonanle and uselul, are olten simply absurd, Our horses are denounced common looking, without beauty and style. Now, @ man’s opimion of beauty and siyle depends upon what he nas been accustomed to see. ‘Thus, | show the visiting Cockuey such trotters as De ter, Judge Fulierton, & nm their grand action, and ne forthwith waxes eloquent over the bigh steppers he has seen in the parks and drives aoout London, being all the time unaware that tais high stepping is the most forces, the most useless, the most unnatural action that a.horse have. it is no more like the true action of tne good, safe horse than writhings oi a contortionist resemble the tree, ed, strong and agile man, Stranger, the plainest looking bo:se you saw at Jerome Park won the Betmont Stakes, and he was the knglisn coit saxon. He is no beauty, but a good, true runner, honest and game to make avail of his guts ior wear and tear, We freely admit that there 18 some difference in the | type of English and American thoroughbred horses. easily recognized than described, and is concrary to what we might @ priori lave inferred. The average American thoroughbred is neither so tail nor so weedy and slim as he of England and France. But the ver the worlu, approach each other josely in torn sented his boeom Jor the gold medal. Mr, J, andin nineteen cases out ol twenty these goo: ‘Tasker scored 34 feet 1 Inch and took second prize, Oues, Whether English, lrish, French or American, a silver meual; while the third—also a silver , Show more of the power and bone ot the stout old | who got rid ol the shot to the extent of 32 feet. | The “Three-Legged Kace,” distance 100 yards, Five pair of | Of the most famous strains of Engiish thorough: strapped together by the inner leg:, stood | breds have been lar srom that type which is called They were | Messrs. M. kK. Moore and J. Downie, NY.CO." K. ren and J. McMil- | Once off they ran | out Touchstone | neatly combined skill with’ humor. | athietes, | anxiously awaiting the word “Go!” | Mueller and F, Schmidt, | Austin. A. Reed and B. Greig, lan, N.Y.I.V., and M. Dave. with commendavie rapidity, considering the ham- NY.T.V.; M YMGa. | lowed hotly by Messrs. Moore and Downie. | ceived sliver medals. The others came in finely, | came in the easiest of winners in 26}, seconds, medal. sition, and no one was distanced, The Evening Performance. | The athletic games im the evening began with | “throwing the heavy hammer’’ (sixteen pounds). | be the match being won by Mr. Rennie (as usual), Who tossed the hammer | There were seven competitor | 90 feet and 4 inches. He took the gold medal. Mr. awarded the second prize, @ silver medal, the third prize—a silver medal—was given to Mr. J. McMillan for @ throw of 79 feet 6 incnes. For the wrestling bout, to see which there seemed to be a wrestless desire on the part of the audience, Mr. Harry Howard, of Glen Cove, and Mr. F. Steinbacn, of the New York Turn Verein, stepped into tne arena, Mr. Howard is an Englishman, and sustamed fully the reputation his country enjoys tor producing rough ana tumble athieves. It was a “catch as you can” match and was warmly comtested, the prize, a sil- | yer medal, being awarded to Mr. Howard ior two | fair falls, after tour struggles, one foul and one “tie | tall” being called by the umpire. Then came the feature of the eventng—the “pro. fessional One mule walk,” lor which there were | four entries, but only two starters, viz.:—Mr, | Edward Mullen, who lately walked at the Riding Academy, in Sixth avenue, and Mr. James | A Adams. The course was eigiit | times around the track. At the tap | Of the bell Adains burst away, and, afier a moment Of appreciable pause, Mullen toilowed. He caught his opponent when half way roand and passeu the | this out making he put On trae racing the whole face one continued spurt, Mullen scored his first half mute in 3m, 61s.; Adams, in 4m. 16s, Some ill feeling demonstrated itself in the audience towards Adams, who was jeered for bis soortcomings. On the fith round he halted and would have given up the race, Save that the audience laughed him into a renewal. Mullen had evidently made up his mind to catcn | tremendous cheering, when Adams had walked SiX and three quarters around the track, Spurting ahead, he passed the stand a victor, scoring his mile in 7m. 688, He walked with a quick, nervous step, head high in the air and arms close to his sides, The prize was a stiver medal and @ purse of $26, THE PRODUOE EXOHANGE. At a special Meeting of the Produce Exchange Managers yesterday the new bylaw in reference to settlements between members who fail to meet contracts was adopted; also a bylaw changing the hour of the annual election. Meetings are called for Thursday and Friday of this week to discuss the oe to lose the Haghabge dally at one R ¢ medal—was handed to Mr. Freaerick Steinbach, pret peculiarities of the race. Messrs. Greig and | SO was Lancrcost. Alice Hawthorn was no beauty, Reed breasted the judges’ line first, and were fol- | though, upon the whole, the best ware that ever | Allre- | Started in England, sir Tatiou s | fluisning in a heap upon the sawdust just beyond | Fisherman was quaint and angatoly, pay ugly, He | Yeceived a gold medal, which makes the seventh with which bia bosom and pride are ornamented. | nothing to say to him. Mr. U, Carmichael was second, and took a silver ‘The rest were bunched in @ good third po- David Deans, of Astoria, scored 85 feet and was while judges’ stand several yards ahead of him. from | speed, | his opponent the second time, which he did amid | | English racers than do the tall, sleek and siim | horses to which we think cursory observation in | England is mainly confined. {t happens tuat some handsome, and fiat many o! the very best indt- vidual performers have been plain looking. comes John Scott with a bute hack,” said the nublemen when the tramer brought for the St. Leger. Hark- away was a ‘ong, coarse looking horse, kes was coarse, | with a great Vulgar head and lop ears like @ mul: une lsciln,§ | compared to the handsome produce of Orlando, ‘The last race was once around the track (220 &c., to whom he “gave tons of weight and hun- | yards), and had nearly a dozen starters. Mr. A, dreds ol beatings.’”’ If @ man nas neither seen nor Rennie ran away from the others at the jump, and | heard of the great tribes of plain but iast and stout* English ho:ses—the Blacklocks, the Mel- bournes, the Beadsmans, &.—we shall have “L decline to argue the Eastern question with you,” said the statesman to the man who had never heard of tne Dar- danelles. But enough of this. in the Jersey Derby we shall see Saxon run | again. It is likely enough that he will be beaten, for in the Belivont it was a very close thing with four of them, and many think the 1ormer won, wuse he was waited with fill within less than a furiong of home. A desperate race may be pre- | dicted. In the Hopeful Stakes We shall see a One lot of youngsters. For tne Cup, with other good | horses, we may look for Tom bowling and Prea ness. The former ia a grand jooking horse, and seems to be right up t the piten of condition. bye deem him invincible over the two miles and a halt; but in Preakness we liave a horse ot great speed and power. He is the Lanercast 01 America. He came out at three years old, and this 1s his jourth year upon the tarf, Of all his successes his races at Jerome Park last month were, periiaps, the most brilliant, Carrying 121 pounds he beat Springbok and others two miles with ease, In another handicap he carried 125 pounds, and beat afield of horses with case, giving some of thom fifty pounds, There will be vo lack of fine horses at this meeting. Among them we shall bave Lyt- tleton again, a very tast, true runner, once the | henchman of Longieilow, and partly sacrifices | Some think, to clear the way for him. “But the real lover of the tari, considering the great requisites | of game and und ple bottom as Well as specd, | will not cease to remember with unbounded admi- | ration and regret the heroes of 1872 and Mon- archist and Trae Blue—even woen the victors of this season, amid the shouts of applauding thou- sands, go sweeping past the post. | PUGILISM. | —e---- | The Coming Prize Fight Between S« Jollyer d Billy Edwards. | (From the Cincinnati Enquirer, June 29.) Mr. Samuel Collyer, who has been for eight years the champion light weight of America, arrived | here last night and will go at once to traming quarters at Latonia Springs, Kentucky. He ts | Matched to fight Billy Kdawards on the 6th of | August next, “within 100 miles of Detrott,” tor | $1,000 @ side and the championship of the light | Weights, The tirst deposits have been made, and the last one, of $500, wili be on the 20th day ot July, at the ofice of the New York Clipper, The conditions 01 the Ms are that Collyer makes a present o! $500 to Edwards for the privilege o1 ight- Ing at his own weight, or, in other words, giving him the odds in money. The champion's fighting under 182 to retain the belt), but in two previous fights with Edwards traincd down to the latter’s weight, 124—once at Cherry Point, Va., and once at Mystic Island, New York Harbor—and was worsted. In these contests, however, the cham- plonship was barred. Subsequently he fought ss wards in the latter’s barroom, “off the reei’—that is, without any preparation on either side—and walpped him in half an hour, Mr. Collyer, who ougds in sixteen regular contests, ly A heayy ‘he caber was tossed—and this feat de- | Staten Island; on over the silversand beneath the | No more the yellow tides of the shaliow, | New YCRK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, ecient © nec er RS Re je and honor to the upuolders of the | aiurday next, July | 2 eatab- | second. ‘nese may | 2 who saw the late races at | the | set inches 162 Irish a resid had his Ba: poy grevted by boul many of the later mode! on the waters ¢ ‘was given tout nothing W it, there Were noled nal the following :— SECOND CLASS SLOOPS—-OPEN BI Leigth. eine. Feet, Owner. ‘night femptar 09......Commodor: Keyport TR i Bickers An.je £. i eee ton, SLOOPS—OPEN BOATS, Irene - ©. Phe Luc T Matte ; dock and z fy ninth, when ; Brauerd, siand ng a trike st New Yu Annie Phuadei pus dna vs i Gypnic. 216206552 John Vail ben aps The course sor the second class stoops was from AV. P0.4 were a stakeboat of ihe “Idle Hour,” at Greenville, leaving it on tue West, to and around the be on Komer shoals, rounding tt to the wes south, thence back to stakeboat, passing it to the west, making a distance of about twenty miles, te course lor tue tird and Lourth class Was irom the same starting point to ail around tne buoy oi Ropbin’s Reel, passing it co ‘he souta and east, thence to and around buoy olf Sand Island, passius a it to the east and north, back to stakeboat, passing | Totals... 2 it to the west. his Course to be sailed twice, | pnp lets Od Oth. Sth, th making about a dis.ance 0: filteen miles. | Chicago Gisnts.. 0 0 Or Pte The jwiges were Messrs, Stephen Qualt, John | Mutuais 2 0 Bei ®. fi Ward and J, b, Haight. The first gun, to prepar od—One by Was fired at 1th, 10nt; tue second gun, ior th by error nis-Chicago 5; Ma start ol the second ciass boats, 11a. 15m; f ng third gun, tor the third class to be away, Conire-Uar Mabean: of theililiadelphia 20m., and’ tne fourth gan, for the “ite ue pete oa Scamper after theit jarger sister 22m. | [he Tournament at Brantford, Ontario. ‘They passed the imagioarly Jine as illows:— SECOND CLAS! | BRANTFORD, June 30, 1874. HM. Name. He M.S. " 2 bi t ament close 7 Q ie tehas eee HM. S| The base bail tournament closed to-day with a nob % mateb between the Ked Stockings, of Boston, the THIRD CLASS. Bian & champions of the United States, and the Maple é li ga ga) Lea Club, of Gvelph, the champions of the Do: miunon. ihe Red Stockings won. Score, 26 to 6. Name, - rey The Yales Badly Beaten by Professionals | Gypae Hartrorp, Conn., Jane 30, 1874, ve ae In a game of base ball played here to-day best, all over | “Here | r THE RAC The wind at the start was light from the north- West and the tive on the last of the ebb. All t between the Hartiord Professional and tho Yale University Clubs, the former were Victorious by a yachts stood over to the Staten {sland shore, the score of 7 to & Keyport, of the larger boats, with ucr gaff topsa'l ose Set, leading, the Knight Templar second, also witn The Princetons Beat the Harvards. gait topsati, and the Anna &. usieru, depending on Boston, June 30, 1874 b aud mainsail alone. In the run to the Narioas i ag 4 ones te tad At base ball here to-day the Princeton Clad the speed of tne Keyport, which is a new boat just from the hands of Foss, the builder in the Jersey gated @ victory over the Harvard Club by a score town of that name, and who was sailing her, 01 1) to 11. began to be apparent, as she increased the dis tance between her and the Templar very percepwi- Base Ball Notes. bly, and, when lost to sigut o: the juages, It was ev The Atlantics play the Philadelphias on tue dent she must be the wianing boat under ordinary circumstances of chance, In the two boats of the third cias® there was mucil rivalry, tnasmuch as the owners of each think well of their respective merits, and hence the Iriends of the [rene were highly eiated when she maintained the lead reach ing out to Robins’ Reef waicn she started with. ‘The smaller crait crossed the ime at short inter- vals, there beimg but two minutes duference ve. tween the first and last, and, laying tuetr course the same as those of the third class, did their nest each to push out of the ruck and work up to the leading crait. Much the same as they left tue atarung point the boats of the third and fourth eifeses rounded the first buoy, the Lrene leading the Lucie and the Edna the cat-rigged. Soon aiter Union Grounds this afternoon, To-morrow the Mutuais und conclusions. A PHYSICIAN ASSASSIVAT Philadelphias try The Danger of Taking Board with a od Looking Widow with a Jealo: on. {From the Vicksburg (Miss.) Heral.] From passengers by the steamer Belle Lee we gather the jollowing particulars of the recent hom- paw the one? the ee — died iawn icide at Skipwith’s Landing, seventy-five miles and he racers seemed to stand &till, eX- ove ef anal . Hohings! st bis cept tue Irene and. Lacie, waich drew ong | eve. this city, by which Dr, Robinson lost bis irom the fleet and made good teadway for te ile. It appears that the Doctor, a man of flity or buoy on the tail of Sana Island—a shoal running fiity-five years of age, had peen bourding with out from Bedloe’s Isiand—and turning this mark the Irene was about three miputes ahead of her competitor, with the smaller boats ali becalmed, or nearly 80, under the Lorg Island shore. Kound: ing the upper buoy the wind shiited more to the itimacy be. bb's rs of Mrs. Rabb, a widow, and a suspecte tween them aroused the resentment of Mrs. I son, & young man of eighteen ur twenty ye northward, but was stll very ght, and the racing | *€e; and he ordered the plysiviay fo ebiime Tis crait were compelled to beat back to the home Pisce Of resilience, teat. pr. Robinson Te stakeboat, It was not long heiore the third elias MIC UBC OF Certain Threat Or nd remained boats approached this point, and In creditap le | ee ee a ee ee dats whon he returned to time, considering the light air, (hey TOUUded this ee eee et yi ae ee taiter comfiued. to his poli for the first time as follows :— T by kickness, and. did not sur out of his room ae aes aM 8.) until ‘soon alter nightiaii on ‘tuesday, when he Irene . : B < pane. +f | stepped ovt into the Sara and walsed around the nie vat gL 1 15 corner of the bow A few moments aiter he de | round, deeming her chances hopeless, and the Sea Joy report, and he jell to te ground mortally Bird, Gypsie and Henry Jahne were not tim wounded, titeen or twenty buckshot hav The six bowts Whose turning 18 chronicled avove | jy" Vakcn ‘eect in” bis thiet aut, Abdomen went merrily aWay on their journey the second ome of them passing enirely through his time round, and it was not certain among the vet- dy, Another shot was fired 'mimediately ater weight is 132 (he is compelied to meet all aspirants | | ‘wu yachtsmen on shore Wuieh of the third class the first, but the hapless victim had already reeled compertors would oulinanwuvre other and | and satien to tue ground, and he shot lodged 1 Win, as the straggle between them was very | Mut lwilen 10 Lhe Grom a ee a omg same pretty and exciting. Of the catrigged boats tue | y.4\, hour expired belo ny one discovered the Annie and Edna had the battle, but otherwise this condition or cae to bne rescue of Dr. Rovinson portion of the race lacked in ' ashore having a better time than on tie bay, After long delay and tl vation of the Lucie taking the I the memoers eir brethren singte inno of the Irene and when they did come they found bim tying on the ground bleeding and dying. He was conveyed mito the house and surgica, attendance snmmoned, but ms wounds were of sucli # character taal hu for a | While, approacaing | the buoy | OM man skill could avail mim nothing. » He lingered in bat : . me oi ah . great agony until the following morning when the sing it So soon as the latter squared away for | jigni of lie Went out, and lis Spirit was summoned home ag she bert her competitor badiy eating Up to Helore lus maker, When first taken teto ie house windward, the boats made the last turn in the | he was still conscious and remuned so. for following order:—irene, Lucie, Annie, Kdas, | some time after, He talked freely, but sometimes Zephyr and Nelite, the others not being timed. incoherently, frequently exclaiming, “if he had When the wind shifted to the southward it made | jyet me in open dayliit and killed me fairly tt the race between the second class yachts more CX- Would not have becn so bad, but to shoot me down citing, as the balance of their journey to the beacon | jike a dog, without a word,” omething to that was adead heat, but rounding that mark it Was | eyect. With sneh remarks he always coupled the fair homeward, ‘although it was bamiing throug tame of young Rabo, upon wiom he charged ihe the NerEons. Bho) Boypors Kepe ihe lead ait tae | murder, and stated that be (Rabb) vad been his Way around, and reacied home fully halt an hour | enemy and bad o(ten threatened his Itfe. An Delore the Knight Tempiar, which craft was Illy tempt was made to arrest Rabb, out tne yorus the same time im advance of the Annie FB, iho " i . " man had fled to Carolina Landing, @ short distance race ending with the jollowing resalt:— up the fiver, and, it was afterwards discovered, | SECOND CLASS. had taken passage on the steamer Genevieve, en fi fe Flapsed Corrected youte vo St. Louis. A brother of Dr. Robinson, who ame Start Finish. time, ime, ves at St. Joseph, La., waa telegraphed for, but Keyport BMS WM BMS WS | tho romaine were luterred betore his arrival, Koight' » i” Not med. Anne B 1118 45 Not timed. | “SETTLED” FOR THE DRINKS, 1 THIRD CLASS. 1 — suede, ~ UR a som $31 2 ster y afte chael ines ‘as f te sho 320m 32846 Yesterday afternoon Micha’ , bit Was in the WOURTH CLASS, saloon of Patrick Horgan, in Fortieth street, near Uw Svs 35615 | lev a Hines and Horgan were throw- tl va 30 419.90 } Eleventh avenue. e 12515 4045 YF ing dice tor driuxs, When @ dispute arose and Has 218 4 15” Horgan drew a pistol and shot the former im tho BS. Ao meg shoulder, ‘The wounded man was taken to the ry Jahn Ll 25 15 timed. hospital and Horgan was arrested by OiMicer Kelp, ural Crook. nwo hdrew. | OF the Twentieth precinct, He was beki oy Justice Murray to awuit the result of tue injuries he bad The yachts not timed by the judges conlt not af- fect thie ropult, ‘he Keypors Wiws the second lags | dicted, rvate I the sips work, who W Ce plet } aid in obtaining ptroller ScunoepEr the work as early save ine interest. Alderman Rores remarked that the right thing to do would be to let the private stockholders, Who commenced the work. direct it to its completion, He was sorry tue Mayor of New York is so thor- ovghly Opposed to the enterpri He believed tt e trom a little vanity, as Mr. Havemeyer had received a great deal of flattery during the clamor Y on this side of the river by those who enter- iuined personal leclings against the « rectorate, Alderman HOWELL—Ob, well, Mayor Havemeyer might die some (lay, Or he may be superseded in vice. In such an event the work could go on without his enmity, Alderman RicHarpson asked, If Brooklyn should commit herself to the comojeton of the bridge and w York dectine to subseribe would not we have io pay the whole cos it was thought that niingeucy. Mayor Husrer said he was in favor of tne com- on ol the bridge, and beueved it was custom- ury for both srles of a river spanged, or (wo cities ridge, LO pay shares of the cost. tors Said it is the interest of the St its Integrity, and this work wou ct by keeping people from go- ing to New Jersey. Alderman RICHARDSON said there was @ (ceting » that if we comnilt ourselves to appropriating 10,000, We will have to bear the burden of the while cost. Mr. KINGSLEY said that provided the cities of Brooklyn and New York appropriated the amount called for i the act, the Mayor and Comptroller of N w York were bound to appoint a board 0° direct- ‘there was no danger of such ors. ‘The latter city, they had been apprised, would willingly subser Comptroll-r Green 1s in Javor of the city subscriping her share. It is somewhat uniortunate that Mr. Havemeyer and Mr. Green must unite in the appointment of directors, Aiderman ROWLEY said the directors would re- main in office uni the completion of the work, d he might smnggie in some enemies of the ige, Comptroller SCHROEDER said he woutd like to see ome practical assivance that New York will sab- scribe, be ore pledging Brooklyn, though he was in javor of the w rh Mayor HUNreR remarked that it was for the com- mittee to protect the interest of tie peovle in this matter, which 18 avery delicate satject. “Don’t jot us Be charged,” be said, “with going in where we can’t get out. Alderman HOWELL thought Brooklyn would do well to set the example by subscribing first. The depreciation im the value of real estate in ‘ooklyn, should we fail to Subscribe, Mr. Kingsley heved,’ would be mere than the cost of the He could not say toat they would get nee from New York during Mr. Havemey er's ministration, but they could afterwards do so, fet confident. STRANATAN there Was still $450,000 on band informed the committee that nd this had been kept because there’ was about 900 due on con acts for stone work shortly: On motion of the Chairman, Alderman Ptarr, the committee, Mayor Hunter and Comptroller Schroeder went into executive session, A POURTH WARD SLANDER tw Honor Vindicated and an In- jared Husband’s Wounds Salved with a $500 Plaster. wife’s honor and the right of A case involving. & ver husband to at least verbally vindicate it with out subjecting himself to humiliating personal vio- lence came up belore the Marine Court yesterday. © plaintiff was James Costelloe, a young mar- man, and a dry goods clerk. The de- fendant was Mr. Mulvihill, a grocery store keeper, of No. 19 Roosev street, a gen- tleman of weight im local polities and of a + 210 pounds aveirdupois, From the evi- dence It appeared that about @ month ago Mr. Mulvintil ajloat some reports damaging vo the fuir ame of Mrs, Costetioe. The husband of the slandered lady m her defamer in Moriarty's liquor store, No. 23 Mulberry street, a few das ago, and an altercation naturally sprang up 0 tiveen them. Mnivihill assaulted Costetloe, gave him a black eye, knocked him down, kicked tum and otherwise abused him. Mr. Costelioe brought smit for damages, whicn came off yesterday beiore # Sherif’s jury, and resuited in bis lawyers recov- ering Gamagos for him to the amount of $600, AN AGED OITIZEN KILLED. Was it Accident or Safcide t Beiperrort, Conn., Jane 80, 1874, As the Shore Line express, from Boston for New York, approached thé depot ten minutes late this evening, the locomotive struck and instantly killed Kaward Sparks, of Eaat Bridgeport. The accident took place in sight of more than 100 people standing on the platform, Their sensa- tious can readity be imagined. The unfortunate man Was ploked up and conveyed to the baggage room, Where the eXamination showed the skal to be penetrated in two places aud his body much mangied. aimed ty it ments that he deliberately threw nimseifin front of the engine, as if with intent to comuit suicide, some who saw Mr, Sparks’ move- | Deceased Was abDoUL SIXLY Fears O1 ARG