The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-14
IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
Providence and New Haven Not
Out of the Baseball Swim Yet.
BURNHAM HAS A NEW SCHEME.
PhiIadeIphia and Boston will Help Form
New L. sague-Reardon and Costigan
Getting too High Priced for Boxing
. rournaments-scot Wins Second Prize.

Tournaments-ScottW Wins Second Prlxs.
It now transpircs that Providence and
New Haven, although frozen out of the
Eastern League, may not be dead to base
! ball for the season Of 1892 after all. In
other words, that Burnham and shannon,
although given the throw-down by the
very men from whom they had promises
Of support, are not going TO quit by any
means. They are still brim full OF Tight,
the moro so because of the double cross
administered by their supposed friends,
| and if they do not succeed in placing these
! two cities in the Eastern or some other
! league then it will be because their hands
! have forgotten their cunning ana burn-
| ham and shannon have lost their hustllng
| abilities. We still have Philadelphia, the
strongest city in the Eastern League,
with u.s. and the magnates IN that
city declare that unless Providence
and New Haven are taken into the fold,
| they will withdraw and help start "a new
| League. There is but little Gime for the
Eastern League to deliberate on the situ-
| alton. Those behind it must either de-
eide in our favor right away or out go the
| Athletics of Philadelphia who will be the
nucleus of new and stronger League.
| Boston is known to be favorable TO sec
ond club in that city. These two big
| cities would make n solid foundation TO
start with, and with Providence and New
| Haven would make four solid cities. linen
| Newark is known 10 be hankering for the
game this year and Freeman the mil.
| lionaire of Lebanon is always ready, and
| more so than ever, now, because or the
| freeze out he got from the Eastern League.
! These six cities would make strong cir
| cult in themselves and If IL was deemed
! advisable TO add two more TO the list,
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| gladly come in.
Burnham is still moving and we may
expect TO hear something definite from
him within the next few days.
III there is one thing more than another
| in sports that will make a man break the
seventh commandment it is that class OF
! athletes known rs boxers There is moth
| ing in all the field of athletics that will
| cause man to have an enlargement OF
the head so quickly as for him 70 win
| contest with the gloves. Immediately, In
| his own estimation, he could fill Music
Hall to overflowing If it were announced
| that he was TO appear and don the gloves
! Then how his price swells! Ii he is worth
| s. for four-round set-to he wants SIS,
and if he is worth $40 he wants 500, and
so on in proportion. The same rule is ap-
! plicable to amateurs and professionals
| alike. There are a few exceptions, but
they are few and far between. A swclled
| headed boxer is the last person in the
world that you want TO meet, either In a
business or social way. lie never wants
to talk about anybody except himself,
nor of anything except his own ability.
| He can trim" anybody, let him tell IL,
but If you want him to demonstrate his
ability he Immediately wants you to
mortgage the City Hall and give him the
| proceeds.
There are boxers who will box and there
| are boxers who will not box, and the lat
| ter are much more numerous than the
! first class. A boxer, If he pretends TO be
one, should be willing to go against any
| man in his class for a short set-to, but
what should be and what is. are two very
different things. The knights of the pad
| ded mittens are so afraid that somebody
| will be able TO punch them little chat 1t
| is next TO impossible To get them into
| ring with wire cable, unless some novice
| il put up against them who will be sure
| to be mark" for them. IL Ehey are
| asked to 20 against good, or even an ay-
| erage man, they put their price so high
| that they know they will not be asked a
second time, and so while holding them
| selves up AS boxers, they really do moth
| ing TO merit the title.
In this connection the demands of Costi-
| gan and Reardon, the two amateurs of the
| Metropole Club, are amusing. When the
| amateur boxing tournament OF that CLUB
was first arranged, they, with Scott, were
prizes equal in value to those for which
they had competed at the Boston tourna-
ment. Scott, who is an athlete in every
sense Of the word, readily consented, but
the other pair took the breath clean out of
the managers of the tournament when
they demanded prizes worth 500 apiece.
The question very naturally follows,
where do they come in for a 800 prize in
three rounds. i can go and get men as
good as either of them to fight TO finish
for that amount OF money, as In TACT was
present at battle down the road last
winter when this same Reardon fought
over thirty rounds for something like S15
This is just an illustration of what one
victory will do for boxer. When they were
told that prize worth s25 was the most
they could expect for three rounds they
came down TO $50 and there they will
stick, for they will take the prize offered
or nothing. The management of the tour
nament feels confident that 1t will be "A
big success without them, and they can
take part or not. just AS they see lit.
Scott, who is twice the drawing card that
they are, will be there and will contest for
the prize offered by the club IL is such
''amachoors' as Costigan and Reardon
who have driven the New York and Man
haitian clubs to hiring professionals out
| right.
At meeting Of the Gladstone Club yes
| trophy worth 5000 for n contest between
Doe O'Connell and Jimmy Conley. The
reason that Jimmy Conley Is included in
| this offer instead of his brother Eddie is
! because the latter has trained three times
| i'm the last fourteen months and does not
care TO do any more training until fall at
| the earliest. This match, if consummated,
will probably be the attraction for April,
as the Falvey-F Frazier match has fallen
through. Frazier refusing TO meet Falvey
| at anything over l2s pounds. AS Frazier
| claims TO be the lightweight champion of
! New England he must forfeit that title to
| Falvey il he refuses TO meet all comers at
the lightweight limit, 1873 pounds.
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The following challenge explains itself !:
/ To the Sporfsns Editor Providcnee Netrs
! l. the undersigned, do hereby challenge
Seret c. Fletcher So a fencing contest for the
! championShip of the First Light Infantry,
/ Provhtencs. Will the above gentleman kindly
/ A. s..~N Il