Notes of Numerous Sports

NOTES OF NUMEROUS SPORTS. ‡ Three of Yale's freshmen crew are sick at present, and unable to row. ‡ Frank Ives won the short stop billiard championship from Eugene Carter on Thursday. ‡ It is quite likely that the Atlanta and Cornell University eights will meet on the water some time during the summer. ‡ Edward Hanlan is confident of being able to win the sculling championship again if rowed in America or England. He now weighs 195 pounds, more than he ever weighed before. ‡ Kemmic and Van Heest, of Minneapolis, and Bob Fitzsimmons are to go to the coast under the management of Billy Daly. It is the intention to put Van Heest against Willis, and Kemmic against Moher or Carroll. ‡ John Lee, of Boston, claims to be the champion Chinese boxer and wrestler. He made his first appearance at the Ajax Club recently, and gave a good account of himself. He is 25 years old and weighs 113 pounds. ‡ Jake Carter, the well-known colored middleweight, will be tendered a testimonial benefit at the Philadelphia Athletic Club rooms on Monday night. A good programme has been arranged, and all the prominent local boxers will appear. ‡ Senor Molines, of the Havana Chess Club, has written to Steinitz proposing the arrangement of a match between him and Tschigorin, to be played under the auspices of the club. The stakes to be $2,000 a side, the player scoring the first ten games to be declared the victor. Steinitz has accepted the terms. ‡ The weekly entertainment of the Southwark Athletic Club will take place to-night at the club rooms, Christian below Eighth street. The wind-up will be between Fred Woods and Jim McCabe. The final bout for the gold medal in the amateur competition will be between Dan McConnell and Jack Brady. ‡ The impending battle between Jemmy Carney, of Birmingham, and Dick Burge, of Newcastle, for £1,000 and the lightweight championship of England, is creating great interest in Manchester, Birmingham and up in the Beach country. 'Squire Abington is backing Carney, while Burge is backed by a well-known patron of the prize ring in Newcastle. Carney is now the favorite, owing to his superb condition. Verrall is so confident he will defeat Gibbons, the American, that he has made another match with Alf. Suffolk.