The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-22
Guinti Wins the Gold Medal at the
Fencing Tourney.
THE TWELVE CLUB LEAGUE.
Burns and Fitzpatrick To-Nisht-The Car
Sullivan Coming East This Week.
Mitchell. siavin and Corbett Talk
Business.


were treated to splendid exhibition OF
the gentlemanly art. Paul Castigloni
was director of the evenings entertain
men. Prof. Lewis, with three pupils, DE
Cristoporis, Melfe and Zampeni were the
first to appear, and gave very creditable
exhibition. Then came Prof. Lewis class,
which also did good work, and showed
what they have learned Of the art under
the tuition Of their competent instructor.
Profs. Lewis and Napoleone next gave a
them came the tourney for the gold medal.
Guinti and Melfe were the first TO appear
in this contest and the first named was the
BEST Battistini and Maionelle came next,
and the latter won. Packard and De
Cristoporis were then matched, ana rack
ard carried off the honors.
Then the winner of the several bouts
came together. Guinti beat Maronelll
and was then pitted against Packard. III
was stubborn contest and was nnally
won by Guinti by points TO A. The win,
ner was presented with the gold medal
after which the place was cleared Tor
dancing.
The contest between Bobby Burns and
Jack Fitzpatrick at Montreal tonight Is
exciting considerable interest in sporting
circles in this city. The majority OF those
who know anything about the game hope
and expect to see Bobby win again. III he
and will try to get in with some OF the
BOYS ur nearer the top notch. His ambi-
tion is to meet Cal Mccarthy again, but
the advice Of his friends is to keep, away
from Cal for awhile until he has demon
strated his superiority over some OF the
men Mccarthy has laid low.
. Now that the two big baseball organiza-
tions have Joined hands for better or
worse. and resolved themselves into Que
Joint league of twelve clubs, the question
naturally follows: "Will it be success"
So many elements enter into such an ar
rangement that only fair trial can
establish its practicsbility. The additional
four clubs naturally increase the NUMBER
clubs i'm league are divided into two
equal parts after the season is fairly under
way. In twelve-club league the tail end
division consists of six clubs.
Baseball managers agree that they
look for their profits from the
pionship. These being reduced in num-
ber a corresponding falling of in receipts
is to be expected.
In order to overcome the drawback as
far as possible it is proposed to divide the
playing year into two championship sea
sons. BY this means club which might
be handicapped early in the year and COM
pelled TO take low rank in the race could
begin afresh in the middle OF the season
with the chance of being among the lead
ers in the second race. This plan has it's
merits and demerits, and trial can only
prove whether or not it will be success.
Herrick and Whitehead's wrestling
match, which comes of in Woods Hall,
Olneyville, Christmas day, is causing con-
siderable comment in sporting circles.
The men being in excellent condition a
stubborn contest is expected. The third
deposit of ESQ side will be placed with
the final stakeholder, James Mitchell,
Dec. 90.
A dispatch from San Francisco says
"John l.. Sullivan will start for the East,
via Portland, Thursday"
I'VE have nothing to say about Slavin"
ther than that Sullivan will meet him
when his contract with this COM
pany is finished in June. Slsvin
knows John can't fight until then. Ac-
cording to kilograms, Slavin has come
hither In fine condition and wants Sulli-
van to fight inside of ten weeks. Why
Even il he could, we could not afford TO
break contracts we have signed with
northern theatrical managers. If Slavin
will wait until June he will find us ready
for him"
Johnny O'Brien, the Welsh champion,
defeated ALT Mitchell in seven rounds at
the National Sporting Club, London, last
night. - o,,
greatly for five rounds. Then Mitchell
was knocked down six times by right and
left-handers alternately, one left-hander
almost smashing Mitchell's nose.
The latter tried to prolong the fight by
clever ducking, but O,Brien waited pa
tiently until the seventh round, when he
landed his left on the jaw, knocking
Mitchell down and making him groggy.
He was on the floor nine seconds, and
when he arose he was hit on the Jaw,
which knocked him down and out
The fight was for purse OF 81 800 and
stake of 81, 500 side.
o'Brien is the pugilist who wants to
The latter has ignored him for some
time, but now he must accept the chal-
lenge or forfeit the middle-weight cham
piouship.
O'Brien's hackers are ready to match
him against Jim Hall or Bob Fitzsim-
mons for any amount. O'Brien Is a ter
rife puncher, but is not scientific.
What Mitchell, Slavin and Corbett are
talking about may be CLEANED from the
following dispatch from New York
William A. Brady, representing Pugilist
Jem Corbett, told Charlie Mitchell yester-
day that he wanted TO arrange match be-
tween his man and Mitchell, to take place
before the New Orleans Club, which had
offered a purse of $4,000. Mitchell re-
piled that he was ready to fight Corbett at
any time, but he thought that their would
be more money in match fought in the
East. He said he wanted TO fight In this
part of the country, 80 that his friends
could see IT, Brady agreed TO have Cor
bett meet Mitchell tomorrow.
Slavn told a reporter that the remark
alleged to have been made by John l.. Sui
livan, TO the effect that he (Slsvin) was
not anxious TO see Sullivan, was all rot.
He had not covered Sullivan's deposit be-
cause, when he put up the money, he
wanted to know something definite about
the arrangements. III Sullivan has con-
tracts in a theatrical way that preclude
the possibility OF his fighting for some
time, all well and good
Slsvin was asked il he was anxious TO
meet Maher, the Irish champion. To this
he replied "Why, Msher is Of no account.
He has built up a newspaper reputation
by knocking out couple OF blooming