Show AMONG THE SPORTS amateur athletes have begun the season of 1892 1 I 1 1 MAKING MUSCLE OUT OF or DOORS cross cro country stunning doating nicy bley cling tiling Ila dball and bishing in it aull I 1 ull swing ii Is going on among col cot lege time times alieux Ali eul now that spring baa has come athletes have joyfully forsaken the gymnasium and arme enory ry tracks for tho the more healthful and enjoyable open air sports the football has been stowed away and the baseball brought out cross country runners are I 1 currying scurrying across the fallow and plowed fields oarsmen oarsman and cyclists are welcoming wel comin the one flue weather like the flowers of spring and rod the disciples of dzaak walton hare have already made sad havoc among the speckled trout cross country running Is at the moment the most popular branch of athletics and the paper chasers early did everything to got into condition for the national cross country champion sip of april SO 30 thoe those two great performers W U D day who p 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 it z ill 1 4 1 i 1 11 I 1 TAKING TUB THE TALK TALE snell SHELL FROM WINTER QUARTERS won the championship in 18 1889 00 and E M C carter winner in IW IW 1686 1887 and ism 1883 were among the earliest ent entries ries already two other cross country handi handicaps calin I 1 have been decided under the auspices of I 1 the prospect harriers barriers Harri ers and the columbia athletic club the latter was a very successful cessa at meet over ninety men competing W D day started from scratch and made the fastest time sam ls over the course x which alch was about five fire miles at the colleges the greatest activity prevails and the candidates for the intercollegiate games which this year will be held on rn manhattan field are hard at work at harvard trainer J lathrop as its usual has a large number of men in training and expects to have his charges in good condition by may 7 when the harvard athletic association gives its open games at princeton eton a 1 new clubhouse has just been completed and the men naw now have every facility to aist them in their training in spite of the abonce of L carry carey jack mcmasters has bag A fine team and is confident of making a good showing on may 14 when the princeton and columbia C games take place among those who will wear the orange and black are T II 11 turner J S roddy P Vre il 11 1 ramsdall aud 0 II 11 swain columbia Is exceptionally strung this year and should come near securing tho the sprints sprinta with the help of 11 II T hauling harding the loss of poor herbert mapes will lx bo alx very severely felt in the hurdles which this year arc tire very open the intercollegiate games s between harvard and yale take place on the same day as the columbia princeton games the yale tea team in which numbers twenty tw enty one under the captaincy of W B NV wright right commences to train on april 7 11 L I 1 williams the great hurdler has been graduated but as J P I 1 leo has albo left harvard honors are calyin easy in this department an athletic carnival Is to take place at philadelphia may 16 and IS 18 which it is expected will surpass everything of the kind evir ever evi r held athletic games baseball I 1 lt boxing and wrestling are to bo be included in the pro gramme teams will bo be invited to compete from the english public schools and universities as well as from the colleges of this country the carnival is to be given under the auspices of the athletic club of the schuylkill navy another event of great importance la is the field day of the western glate association which will be held at champaign ills may 13 the college 0 E crews have forsaken the tank and are now practicing on the rivers bob cook will 4 coach yale which has some very likely new material wherewith to turn out a crew columbia If harvard arvard cornell and the university of pennsylvania have all started work princeton will this season take up I 1 rowing and should it prove a success the faculty will maintain a varsity cr crew b hereafter I 1 the manhattan athletic club will jhb year pay great attention to aquatics and expects to be well represented on the water v ater kills hills ward nvard who formerly coached pennsylvania will look after the cherry diamond oarsman oarsmen oars men of the colleges harvard and princeton appear to have the best prospects in baseball the first named has n pit cherof great promise in highlands who Is a powerful man with a very speedy delivery owing to the fact ho lie is left handed ho he is particularly enabled to watch the runner on the initial bag the fine weather which came in with april has been greatly appreciated by the cy cyclists lists and road runs are now the proper thing C most afoot of the metropolitan clubs formerly opened the reason april 8 9 the ordinary is now quite superseded bythe by the safety and it Is eldom that one meets a rider of the high wheel nowadays from the present outlook the season of IW 1 promises to be a great one in the annals of amateur sports A B GEORGE I 1 1 I the philadelphia turf club the dreams of philadelphia horsemen have at last been realized and the quaker city now possesses its long contemplated turf club a place where local tur fites may talk horse to their hearts c content 0 n t e it t and where visiting horsemen may bo be entertained in tit hospitable 1 IK style the I 1 new organization rec recently e antly into what nas was tho the old americus Amerl cus club house upon which w ana ex I 1 J I 1 for decorations and alterations W I 1 I 1 I 1 the president of the club I 1 it Is colonel isaac 1 I n H SHIELDS tELDa II 11 shields one of philadelphian Phila delphias well known horsemen the organization contemplates temp latva forming close relations with tho trotting track addwell and will probably eventually give stake races under the name mania of the philadelphia turf club stakes egypt nie ilig university 1 the biggest university in the world Is at cairo egypt a country which Is not mentioned I 1 at all in the statistics and it has him students they come from every 0 part of the mohammedan world and they study law history theology and other branches needed to confirm them in the faith of mohammed they the y sit on the floor door of an nn enormous court and study aloud and the western visitor who calls on them during study hours thinks that he haa has struck the original bite site of the tower et if babe babel and that the confused of tongue stopped talking yet new york press I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 TWO ON A WHEEL L clever cleve r arrangement by lavitich U alch may ulde Ill cycles many changes have come in the form forin md attachments of the bicycle since it lumped BO so suddenly into popularity a few rears ago it haa has dropped from high to ow jow and pneumatic tires are will on oil the tile iray way toward forcing the smaller solid rulers I 1 I 1 to take a back beat seat the latest nov olty is an attachment invented ayt by T II 11 me cenna kenna of newark NJ N J which enables a ather or big brother to take the little fel tow low of the family with him on his it consists I 1 of saddle chain and pedals I 1 Q A I 1 I 1 LEO OS ON TIIE THE which can bo be easily fastened in front of I 1 the he main rider on any diamond framed 1 1 nachine I a c hine lne and which not only allows the small boy to ride but lets him do his bhare toward propelling the bicycle the small rider haa has all the privileges of ils big companion iio ile can coast or be he ain mn pedal as lie pleases and ft a single molon of a lever convenient to his hand will w ill ingebr the attachment and let bis his pedals quiet most of the balancing la done by the adult and tho the child is in DO no danger dunger if f falling mr mckennas McK ennals SJ year old eon son leo ix o at af cr er whom the invention has been nal named lied ode OM miles milom with his father last sti bummer miner sometimes keeping his saddle for as much is la forty miles at a time ico leo Is the small st at bicycle rider in the world probably C A lloyde charles A boyle a plucky printer of pittsburg is at present engaged in the ar iunus task of pushing ft a bicycle aaros t incontinent ini from front al I 1 IN 1 M I to his home in ill the smoky city hii ills T 1 route Is by way of san franci before he reaches pittsburg lie expects exi I 1 I 1 to have cov ered ft a distance of miles on his I 1 wheel I 1 ia when boyle toys 1 I 11 I 1 reached san frim 1 cisco recently lie I 1 told interests inter estl g I 1 stories of his ad C A BOYLE ventures uth with in ili fians who chased him out of curiosity but did him no harm lie ile was lost for a lime time in the great american desert and suffered ull ered from hunger and thirst onedas one day be became BO so thirsty that he lie lagged flagged n train in the arizona desert and asked the astonished engineer tor for tt a drink SPORTING NOTES jim corbett says that bm brain work will boure largely in his attempt to whip john U I 1 sullivan he ile expects to win by generalship scientific boxing and hard fighting frank ivea ives the worlds champion b II li got hia hist first points on the balk line game from george F saon and ihen then perfected himself by watching jacob schaefer and by hard work with the cue dorotie Do the phenomenal young duffalo buffalo bic bicyclist Z clest will make a strong effort the somins a season to break a record or two ite ito ddn won wide ky y ua perform mcca inces last year CHECKERS AND CHESS checker problem no IM dy by J A mor lot aan on birck 5 7 21 aw 23 25 W R le N 19 ing sa KM 12 JA VS MW macj fa 19 is k mien G W i C ip X too 0 amit s 2 0 ir a H in P 0 a 19 0 M 01 fa I 1 8 t IN a white te a Z 0 9 11 1114 14 aj 23 white to play and win chess problem no 1 KU uy M 11 II cud diore mack black six pieces 11 fa V L ai 93 9 3 a 99 I 1 IN a a ili fal to i F vl j W lq 6 W 0 im MR ig P z I 1 0 ain 1 OW en 11 M 0 VA FM I 1 I 1 white nine pieces white to play and binate in two moves SOLUTIONS checker problem no iw white 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