The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-23
Sport at tho MetropoIe in the Gym
and Tank Tonight.
C0RBETT AND MITCHELL SIGN.
They Will Box Six Scientific Rounds mt
Madison square Garden I'm Seven
Weeks Billy Meyer Defeats Jimmy
Carroll In Forty-six Rounds = The
Burns-Fitxpatrick Contest

sport Is promised. There will be a short
| entertainment in the gymnasium, In
which the sprinters and jumpers will have
an opportunity to try conclusions, ana
after that there will be some rafting fun
in the tank, where the boys who are in
| training for the game with the Man
hattan's next month will play another
| practice game. There is more good
material from which to pick team this
| year than ever before. and the team which
will be sent to New will be one which
will be credit to the club 1t is difficult
| to get a line on the Manhattan team and
draw any kind of a comparison between
them and the Metropolis for the
reason that they have never met. They
only comparison that can be made Is by
taking the Boston team as a third factor.
| The Manhattans defeated the Boston boys
without much trouble last year. The
| Providence boys also beat the team from
! the Hub, and consequently IL would seem
that the Manbattans and Metropolis
| ought to be pretty evenly matched. we
| will probably have an opportunity TO see
the MaIhattans in this city before the
winter is over, as they have promised re-
| turn game with the Metropolis. Water
| polo is coming to be one of the most popu-
lar of amateur winter sports, and 1T prom
ises to be still more popular before the
| present season is over.
|
Providence should do all in her power
| to encourage the amateur athletes. IL all
| means that the development of the young
man will be so much better in after years
than IL he did not mix up in athletics.
| Athletics can be abused-have been
abused and will continue TO be abused.
For instance, man may be engaged In
| honest work which pays him a good week
| ly salary. He will get the pugilistic crass,
and may win money prize. In nine cases
| out of ten that practically settles him SO
| far as work is concerned.
IL has been the ruin Of a great many
| men, and is apt TO be the ruin OF great
many more. In this connection, however,
| IL would seem from present appearances
| that professional athletics have had their
| day. The big purses of a few years ago
are not so plentiful nowadays. The pro-
| fessional athletes are themselves to blame
and nobody else. For good square sport
where " fakes" are an unknown quantity
the majority of people are now looking for
the amateurs to furnish.
Boxing appears to be spreading. All
| sorts and conditions of men seem TO be in
terested in the sport Now the bank
clerks or New York are to have tourna-
ment and the boys will contest for the
championship of the trade. All this means
training. The presidents of banks are In
for young men to train than to spend their
| time in saloons. 1t improves them men-
tally, morally and physically.
There was big jam at the Olympic
| Athletic Clubs room i'm New Orleans last
night to witness the glove contest between
BILLY" Myer, the 'Streator cyclone" and
Jimmy" Carroll for purse of 5000
$500 to the loser) Bob Fitzslmmons, the
champion middleweight, and John Griffin,
| the featherweight, seconded Carroll, while
| Myer was attended by his brother ED"
| and Link Pope. Both men weighed in
| under the limit. Carroll was below l39
pounds, and Myer less than 137 pounds.
For the first three rounds the men
merely worried each other At the fifth
round Carroll seemed TO have the best of
| il, though the bout up to this time time
was very tame. When the seventh round
was reached, the fighting became very
| heavy, both men striking hard. This sort
Of lively work continued up to the tenth
round, when il was 'anybody's fight"
| In the l4th round Myer let fly his right
and fioored Carroll, and then Billy be-
| gan his old tactics Of rushing. In the 18th
round Carroll knocked Myer against the
rushed at Carroll. Desultory sparring
was indulged in for the next four rounds
without any particular advantage to
either man.
In the 10Th round Myer was compare
lively fresh, while Carroll was visibly
| tiring
Meyer pushed matters and in the 42d
round Carroll was again knocked down.
Afterwards he was forced around the ring.
In the 43d Meyer was aggressive and
and Carroll received q heavy jab from the
| right on the jaw and was on the ground
| fully 20 seconds.
Meyer was declared winner amid great
cheering.
Jim Corbctt and Charley Mitchell, prob
ably the most scientific pair of heavy
weights alive, were matched yesterday.
! The arrangement was at the office OF the
New York clipper, and the agreement
signed reads:
| We the undersigned, ayrce to box scientifically
Garden, within seven weeks from date af signing.
| (Slgned) CHARLES W. TCHELL.
Witnesses: Fred Gallagher. for Mitchell; j. B. Nc
Cormick, for Cobsu.
The conference was marked by courtesy
and good nature on both sides unusual in
ordinary meetings of this character. Cor
! bett said "The only reason why / want
TO meet you, Mr.. Mitchell, is because you
are regarded as the most scientific man in
| England and | want to try myself with
| the most scientific man can find.p
fou have the reputation of being the
| cleverest big man i'm America" responded
Mitchell, "and / am taking chances in go
| ing up against you. You have several
advantages over me, among them height
ana reach. but ] think / possess others
which will stand them Off However, I'll
do the best | can, and / know you will"
Immediately after signing the Mitchell
| Corbett agreement, Slavin and Mitchell
repaired TO the Herald Office. where they
met Arthur Lumley, representing Charley
| johnson, John l.. Sullivan's backer.
Slavin and Lumley agreed TO meet at
the Herald Office next Tuesday, at noon,
and sign articles for fight TO a finish for
| $4,000 side, before the club offering the
! largest purse within fifteen weeks.
Each side will put up 800 forfeit. and
| the Herald will be final stakeholder.
The ten-round glove contest between
| Bobby Burns of this city and Jack Fitz-
| patrick at Montreal last night for 500
side and the gate receipts sayors very
strongly of fake" A dispatch from
| Montreal says: 1T was almost farce.