The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-31

A meeting Of the Governing Committee
of the Providence Athletic Club will be
held at the Calumet Club on Benefit street
this evening, when the report Of the com
mittee appointed to confer with the Indus
trial Trust Company relative TO quartets
will plobibly be made. n general meet
ing of the association:is to be held soon if
the committees report on the building is
favorable.
There have been interesting times lately
among those concerned with base ball in
New York city. The association people
have been Offering big money to First
Baseman Roger Conner and TO Second
Baseman Dan Richardson.
Richardson has been getting $500, and
he wants $500. He has been offered $500
and three-years' contract to go to the
Athletics of Philadelphia. Glasscock has
been getting $1,000, and Richardson feels
that he is just as valuable a player.
Connor also wants IA raise. The Athlet-
les will give him 5000. which would be a
good-sized increase over what he is getting.
IL would not be at all surprising If one or
both Of these players signed elsewhere
than with the New Yorks.
j. w. Spaulding, one of the stockholders
of the New York club says that he does
not see how the club can do any better in
the matter of salaries, as it did not make
any money last seasan. He hopes that
the players will stay, but II they can do
better-why, all right.
Pitcher Rusle has been offered big
money 10y the association, and has prom
ised 70 go to Chicago on candition that
Catcher Buckley goes also. Buckley has
promised to go TO that city, and this bat
tery has been practically secured. Rusle
received S3, 5000 last season, and he wants
$4,000.
Manager McGunnigle's engagement to
the Pittsburg Base Bail Club is hanging
by very, very brittle thread in fact
many people think that after to-day he will
he no longer manager of the CLUB. y. G..
Buckenberger Is now generally spoken OF
as manager OF the team next year. Buck
enberger is now in Pittsburg. If he is
secured, he will sign Swartwood ond Ray
mond. Buckenberger managed the Wheel
ing team when they Mon the pennant he
managed the Columbus team--they fin
ished second in the Association, and he
managed the Sioux City team this year.
The football game which was scheduled
for this afternoon at Boston between the
Boston Athletic Association and the
Brown University team was declared off
Yesterday The college team is badly
crippled and the manager telegraphed to
Boston that ii would be impossible to full
fill the engagement.
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The announcement that the Rhode Isl
land Athletic Club is trying To match
Austin Gibbons and Jack Falvey has set
the sports to talking and that class of
them who are authority on such matters
to thinking What show would Jack have
with the Paterson manyn is the question
There must be somebody who thinks he
would have show or they wouldn't be
willing To back him.
IL III. IA
As to Ealveys gameness there has never
been any question, but it is known among
his friends that he is weak inside some
where, and in "a long contest IL il uueS-
tion whether or not his mind and strength
would stand by him. In contest I,r
points Falvey would be head and shoulders
over Gibbons, for the latter is not a clever
man by any manner of means, and in "A
ten or fifteen round go Falvey's chances
would be of the best, but in "A finish CON
test its hard telling
Now that Sullivan Is home again the
sporting world will watch his movements :
with the keenest interest. What will he
dor He has promised 10 meet Slavin
now, but IL is vesy doubtful if he ever
consents To do IL in the old-fashioned
style. on the turf with natures weapons
He is the undoubted champion and
he has the right to name the
conditions under which he will en-
ter into n contest Those conditions will
probably be that it be for limited num-
ber of rounds, say ten or fifteen. with
gloves. Sullivan's last experience in a
bare knuckle fight taught him good
lesson, and he wants no more of il. Who
can blame himi Whatever the big
Fellows" faults may be IL must be ad =
mitted that he has done a. much. IL not
more, than any other man TO do away with
prize lighting on the turf and establish
the custom of settling questions of su-
premscy with boxing gloves. Before his
time all biz battles were settled on the
turf. Now fight of this kind is an ex-