Show istia 1 jaff amment ident of the lf I 1 club STANDARD special S f F chronicle service I 1 nsw naw YORK march 12 jo je a axe S cox formerly auditor of the pacific mail fail steamship in sin francisco but of lafe late years a member of the banking firm of john T davisa cc orthis of this city was defeated for pres president idem of the new york club last evening by walter 0 schuyler cox ha has h id office for one year and vas was put for wa ward rd as representative of the millionaire element in the club which favored the social side rather than the athletic the chief man in support of schuyler was ben X DAvish ivis broker roker late amateur champion featherweight 0 of athe the united states the fight was wag the most intense ever held antho in the club carriages by the score were busy all tj alie I 1 evening carrying lazy or busy members to the polls polio coxs friends had bad boasted that they had wealth on their side and would win the opposition sit bior had younger blood and more aggressive gres sive spirits schuyler huyler Bc long been identified with the athletic interests of 0 the new york athletic dab club and a great deal of its prestige is s due to his untiring ener eneany he le is prominently ident identified ifie n with ith t the g 1 seventh I 1 regiment and has hai a been president of its athletic association the tile s success a of its teams is largely due ta to h him and d bis his management of athletic meetings can cannot be excelled ha is one 0 of the most prominent members of the nassau boat club and is a patron of all manly sports about thirty seven years of f age and independently rich at cox X is is popular with the social element in the club and while be is not exactly unpopular w with ith the athletic contingent still they beleve bel eve that a man should have a practical knowledge of and a love for athletic matters tobe to be of the club with the manhattan athletic club pushing them closely for the athletic superiority th they feel a el that a master hand should 9 be IL at t the helm there was a lepor report current last evening evenin 9 that had hall Sel schuyler luvier not been elected several hundred li undred of the prominent active members would resign and join the Ilan hattan athletic club in a body |