The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-16

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Score-wales l, Eddy o, drawn2.
The match will be continued on Satur-
day, 2lst inst.
The Providence Cycling Club has taken
the initiative in the matter of securing or
building cycle race-track. A committee
has been appointed by that club and invi-
tations sent to the other city bicycle clubs
inviting them TO appoint similar commit
tees for the purpose OF conferring on this
matter. The other clubs invited include
the Metropole Athletic Association,
the Rhode Island Wheelman and the
Narragansetts. The committees of these
clubs will meet on the evening of the 2sth
at the Providence Cycling Clubs home,
No 600 High street where the matter will
be discussed in all its phases.
There is every reason to hope that this
movement will result in something more
than mere talk. Providence has long
been in need of n track where competi
tions could be held, and with such n
place, easy of access, cycling in Provi-
dence will take tremendous boom.
There are enough riders in the city to
start such a movement as is proposed and
there is no doubt but that they would re-
ceive substantial assistance from many
outside the clubs. In Springfield when
the bicycle club there wanted track the
business men of the city helped them to
get it, with the result that during the
season just past it has been the Mecca of
bicyclsts from all over the country.
There is no reason why Providence should
not be as well equipped in this line as
other cities with not half the inhabitants
and not one-quarter the numer of riders.
The adjourned meeting of the Rhode
Island Federation of Homing Pigeon
Flyers was held Saturday evening when a
constitution and bylaws was adopted and
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Thomas Key; Vice Presidents William
Goodby and Joseph Maxim; Correspond
ing and Race Secretary, Joseph O'Neill;
Financial and Recording Secretary, Geo.
Young; Treasurer, Thomas Davis The
organization adjourned to the call Of the
chair, after voting that the charter list
should remain open sixty-days.
There are two important events on the
slate for this week. First i'm order comes
Prof. Walkers athletic tournament at
Temperance Hall, Central Falls, on
Wednesday night. The program com.
prises dozen good events, each one Of
which will i'm all probability be whole
entertainment in itself. In addition TO the
club-swinging exhibition and wrestling
there will be several good set-tos with big
gloves between local eXponents of the art.
and the wind-up will he between John
GOrtlOck. kUOWn III lnt rug Us MOU-
treal," and Barney Hubbard of Boston
This, like the rest, will be of four rounds
duration, and during those fifteen min
utes the spectators will be treated TO an
exhibition OF cross-counters and upper
cuts which will be well worth taking in.
On the following night. Thursday, John
A. Sullivan and Eddie Conley will try
conclusions at the rooms OF the Rhode
Island Athletic club. IL will be the event
OF the season in that line hereabonts as
it will be an exhibition Of physical skill
and endurance between two of the clever
est boxers In the East. IL will be with
four-ounce gloves and the clubs man
agement announces that anybody attend
ing the contest with the expectation Of
seeing fight or "slugging match" will
be sorely disappointed, as IL will be the
fnrthercst from either Of such matches as
IL is possible 10 make n boxing bout for
scientific points. IL will be n contest Of
science, not Of bull dog brutality. The
men will be ia the finest possible shape.