The evening world., 1890-03-03
BALL PLAYERS 90 SOUTH.
Brooklyn League and Players Teams
OF on Their PrattiCs Trips.
Coming Events of the Ring, Dia-
mond and Sporting Circles.

The members of the Brooklyn League
Baseball team who embark this afternoon
on the steamer Iroquo.s, are Cnruthers,
Terry, Hughes. Reynolds. Bushong,
Fouis, Pinkney, o'Briep, Smith, Clark
and Manager McGunniafe. Burns and
DAILY are at Hot Springs, Ark. and will
join tho team from there. Hub Collins
will join the others from his homo in
Louisville. Jack McMasters, the Clubs
trainer, will accompany the tenn.
President Byrne has provided the mem.
bers Of the team with. nobbv len,hern
satchels in which TO carry theiEuuitorms.
The patrons Of the Brooklyn League
Club will find many improvements for
their accommodation In the grounds ut
WASHINGTON Park. #-..N.
Tho brooklyn Plnycrs' Baseball team.
which leaves tor Jacks nyille today Ivy
the Ocean line, will play their first nrac.
tice game in Brooklyn Oh April 3. They
opou the League season April rs.
McGcnchv and Gus weighing are the
only members OF the BROOKLYN Players
team who will not embark on the Ohatta-
hoochoe this afternoon. Weyhing's
brother is so low with consumption that
his physician hns advised Gus not 10
leave.
L. +. Linton has been chosen ms dele
cate to represent the Brooklyn Players
Club Mt tho convention to he held at
Cleveland by the Players League
March II.
Director G. II. Wirth will so South
with the Brooklyn Players Club to attend
to the financial md business management
Of the trip.
At tho last meeting of the Brooklyn
PLAYERS Club Z. +. Linton and g. W.
Chauncey were appointed q committee tn
employ engineers and mechanics TO do
whatever work was necessary to put tho
new grounds in proper condition. Tho
week. probably Wednesday. The mr..
ranging of the diamond will follow.
Jack Quir1, the Scotch light weight,
and Fat Farley, of Brooklyn, are destined
to come together In the ring in he near
future. The match will be for $500
stakes and $500 purse and will be con-
tes,ed OF 1876 pounds.
John HERMAN and HAIRY htvere, the
amateurs, have arranged for q sparring
match. to take place about the middle Of
the month. 1t will be q ten-round affair
with big gloves for q prize.
The Harlem Regatta Association will
hold n meeting ut the Grand Union Hotel
this evening.
The ease with which George F. Slossou
defeated Jake Schaefer at C%hickering
Hall Saturday night was a big surprise to
the connoisseurs. Should Slosson down
the Wizard at the Chicago tour
next month. q private match
between the two men for very large stakes
will probably result. The luminosity
which the two experts entertain for each
other Is strong. although tacit. and
Schaeier feels keenIy cut MP by his defeat.
He vii! get his revenge. If possible.
Tickets will be sold for d for the great
cross-country. run. to be held March Is.
at Morris Park. This will include rail-
road fare to and from the Park and adj
mission TO the grand stand. There will
BIO about 300 competitors.
The event of to-night's athletic enter
tainment at Parepa Hall will he the meet
ing between Bantam Champion Tommy
Kelly and Hughey Boyle. who will box
four rounds. George Dixon. the colored
fe~ather-weight Of Boston, will spar four