The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-18
The Base Ball War Is Over, and a
Twelve-CIub League Organized.
BOSTON REDS COST SS7,5OO.
Peter Maher Defeats Jack Smith and
"Sailor" Brown-The Stewart-Landie
Match acknowledgements Athletic
Clubs Boxing Tourney Last Night
General Athletic Gossip.


thing off, and the sun shines to-day on a
land where there is only one big base ball
organization, and that one a twelve-club
league. The National League has carried
the day, but 1t cost them a barrel Of
money.
Everybody is satisfied that is, every
body except Columbus, Milwaukee, the
Chicago Association team and the gen.
eral run of players. The three clubs
named were given the cold freeze-out,
while TO the players this change means
lower salaries and more work for their
money. But the public is satisfied, and
that Is the main point TO be considered.
1t is better that IL should be as 1t is, for
II the war had continued TO be waoed as IL
ing what 1t would have ultimately re-
suited in-probably the ruination OF the
national game.
The magnates had great day of it at
indianapolis yesterday. The joint COM
mittee of the League and Association
came to terms with the Boston Associa-
tion Club, paying c. A. Prince $4,000, or
$4,000 less than he asked This settle the
12club scheme. The Association Will
disband and the new League organize
this morning.
Columbus and Chicago came to terms
with the committee, accepting big cut
in the figures they named TO get out.
Milwaukee could not settle on terms.
Charles Comisky has there to look out
for his Cincinnati club, and would like to
get Duffy and Morgan Murphy. Chicago
will leave no stone unturned to get back
Duffy and Farrell. Fred Pfeffer insists
that he will not go back to Anson' team;
1t looks now as If Boston would hold
on to Slivetts and Mccarthy The Wash
ington people feel sure of getting Danny
Richardson and others of the Athletics.
The league sat up all last night in ses-
sion with the conference joint committee
and heard the demands of Milwaukee,
Columbus and Chicago clubs.
At 12 o'clock both associations were
called into joint session by Won der Abe,
who gave out the bare fact that the joint
committee had unanimously agreed upon
a report, which will be presented to both
organizations. Included in this report is
a revised constitution of the league;
President Sode1. Of Boston, who has
read the new constitution, says that it
contains local option sentence as to Sun
day ball playing, and that those towns
which desire Sunday games can have
them. Such arrangements will be made
for them in the schedule He also says
that the uniform tariff of 80 cents is in
cluded, and the league will give protec-
tion to no club or its players which at
tempts to exist as part of any other league
in any one of the twelve league clubs.
The league proposes a double champion
ship season. The clubs will play until
the middle of the season. then they will
begin again and play the last half. The
club having the highest standing for the
two seasons takes the championship.
BY the terms of the new deal Columbus
and Milwaukee are frozen out Of the as
sociation. So is the Chicago club. Last
night representatives of these three clubs
Of Iat.. ,nI 80
citation, including Chicago, Milwaukee,
Columbus, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Kansas
City, Omaha and st. Paul
Fred Stewart and Charlie Laudie play
at the St. George Hotel tonight for 800
"A side and the door money. It is vir-
tually a match for the championship Of
New England, for there is little doubt
that the two men who hold the champion
ships of Rhode Island and Massachu-
setts respectively, are the best players in
the six states. Both men will have plenty
of supporters there, and the probability is
that one faction will go home "broke.
The articles of agreement calls for a con-
tinuous game of 200 balls. Louis Zim-
norman is to be referee.
Around the 14-foot ring in the Crescent
Club room 200 admirers of the manly art
were seated last night to witness several
OF the local exponents of the art put on
the mittens and try conclusions. The
bouts were all of friendly order, there
being no knockouts nor any very serious
attempts at one. The set-tos were rather
rugged at times, but there was nothing
which could be construed into anything
like ugliness. Taken as a whole it was a
good exhibition by clever boxers who un-
derstood IT, cir business. The affair was
larf 4 fhn ma afaas nnt nf AtnAx III
Billy Fay.
At Q o'clock Jack German crawled
through the ropes and gave the customary
warning to the crowd to keep quiet and
refrain from making any remarks to the
boxers. Then he announced young Reardon
and " Doc" Reynolds The former had
defeated the doctor" once but last night
he showed no disposition to gain second
victory and the pair made a very clever
and even bout of three rounds. which at
times was of very warm nature.
Next came Cassidy and McCarron, mid
dleweights. who entertained the audience
for three rounds with an exhibition of
give and take boxing in which both dis
played marked cleverness with their
hands.
Martin Manion and his brother put
them on next and both showed that they
knew thing or two about the game. IL
was not exactly an illustration of brother
would imagine that there was any rela-
tionship between them butthere was no
hard feelings in il; and they were simply
doing their best TO please the crowd.
Lynch and Nevels were then introduced
and gave the hottest exhibition OF the
evening. Nevels is of the hurricane
slasher order, but he found worthy OPP
ponent in Lynch, and when the former
attempted TO mix them up" the latter
met him every time. They made it inter
esting for the audience during the three
rounds and when they shook hands at the
finish were given hearty round Of APP
plause.
The wind-up Of the evening was between
Southwick aud Willard The first named
was little inclined To put il onto" Will
lard, and i'm the first two rounds the lat
ter let him have il pretty much his own
way, but in the last round Willard
thought IL had gone far enough and
stopped In short, aud Southwick was evil
dently pleased when the round was over.
To-day we shs1l know whether Jim Cor
bett ard Charlie Mitchell mean business
Mitchell is due in New York and Corbett
Is there waiting 20 arrange suitable terms
If Mitchell il sincere In what he has said
there should be no difficulty in arranging
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