The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-16
IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
Committees of the Two Big Base
ball Leagues Confer To-Day.
IT LOOKS LIKE PEACE.
Peter Jackson Signs Articles to Meet
slavin-Mike Kelly May BE Trans
ferred to New York-wstsr Polo mt
the Mstropoie Club Tonight.

To-day will, in all probability, settle the
fate of baseball. The question to be
decided is, "Shall it be a twelve-c!ub
league or continuation of the war;
Just at this moment it looks like the
former, but nobody can tell what the mag
mates of the two organizations will do
when they get together. Both sides want
the best end of it, and the only hope for
union of the two leagues is that they Will
consent to break even. A special dispatch
from indianapolis, where the consultation
Is TO be held, says:
Rumors of new baseball deals and COM
binations are plenty, while there were
few tangible developments yesterday. All
consummation of the leagues purpose,
big consolidation.
All the league presidents have arrived
and surprised the association men, VINO,
seemingly, were not aware OF the intention
Of holding ajoint meeting. The Assocla-
ment of Won der Abe, Won der Horst and
Elliott as committee to confer with
similar league committee.
President Williams of Chicago, with ten
representatives of the new club, strenu-
ously opposed the consolidation, as IT In
cNlldDly ultduJ tuc vi Ills
ization. In the meeting Williams found
himself in hopeless minority.
The entire proceeding was cut ana
dried, and the entire transaction is a sell
out by Won der Abe and Prince.
1t is said that Won der Abe has been
promised Sunday ball, and thus been won
| TO the league scheme.
The league presidents are unanimous
| for 12-club organization, and announce
a Willingness to treat on a fair basis with
clubs that are dropped under the new ar
rangement.
appointment of Brush, Robinson and
| Byrne to confer with the association COM
| mittee.
1t is automatically stated that the two
| committees are agreed upon the twelve
club circuit and that the only thing to be
sertled is the details. These include the
dropping of the association clubs OF Chi
cago, Columbus and Milwaukee, and the
consolidation of the clubs in Boston and
| Philadelphia.
Under this arrangement the new league
will comprise New York, Brooklyn, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Washington and Balti-
more in the East, and Chicago, Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Louisville, st. Louis and
| Pittsburg in the West.
The hitch may occur when the joint
committee for the league and the associa-
| tion come TO fix mp the Boston end. Mr..
Prince wants $50, 600 and the league thinks
| the figure high.
Peter Jackson, who is i'm Frisco, has re-
| ceived from the National Sporting Club
| of London, the articles of agreement for
| his contest with Frank Slavip, for which
| he has been patiently waiting for several
| weeks. Within few hours of the receipt
| Peter had affixed his signature under that
| of his coming opponent and forwarded
| them by mail to London. They agree to
| box twenty rounds with four ounce gloves
| at catch weight for purse of 800 di-
| vided as follows: Winner, s., $50; loser,
| s. 500. The contest is to take place at the
National Sporting club on Monday, May
80, 1892.
II is being commonly reported that
Mike Kelly will be transferred from the
Boston to the New York club. The
Gotham people are anxious to take up
Kelly's contract. AS they say, 1t will have
a tendency to increase the interest in the
sport. Kelly likes Boston, but he would
be satisfied to go to New York. He has
always been extremely popular with the
New York players and public. 1t would
make a great combination on the field
Ewing and Kelly. There would be lots OF
fun in the game for enthusiasts.
Capt. w. B. Money easily defeated Louis
Davenport, n noted shot of Brooklyn, in a
return match that was held yesterday on
the grounds OF the Carteret Gun club, Ber-
gen Point, y. j.
The score ut the close was 80 to so kills.
The condition of the match was 100 live
birds per man, thirty yards rise, fifty yards
boundary, Hurlingham rifles. The stakes
were $500 side.
There promises to be some good sport at
the Metropole club tonight when the two
polo teams come together for practice
game. One of the chief features of a
water polo game is that there is as much
IL not more fun in practice game than In
a regular match, and those who witness
the contest tonight may be sure of good
evenings entertainment. The Boston
team, which the Providence boys have de
feated every time they have met, have re-
organized and working hard in the tank,
and it is more than probable that games
will be arranged between them and the
Metropole to come off within month.
The Boston lovers of athletics were very
much pleased with the good showing
made by Fred Scott of the Metropole AT
the New England Association champion
ship tourney on Saturday, when the
Providence man won the heavyweight
trophy, and Mr. Cornish, athletic mana
ger of the Boston Athletic Club, has
written to Manager Smith of the Metro
pole asking him to enter Scott in another
national amateur tournament to be held
in Boston later in the year.
The quarterly meeting of the Rhode
Island division Of the L. A. w. will be
held in b. and T. hall on High street this
evening, when business OF Importance TO
all wheelmen in the State will be trans
acted.
Where the People Go
When they want Housefurnishings can he shown
by a visit TO CLEMENCE BROS. CO., eco Broad