The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-03

had TO find relief i'm clinching, az when
time he did some efiecting work on MON
treal's' wind. IL was four rounds oi NOT
work. The crowd wanted anot her TO lnd,
but the referee said mo" and II wen
Jimmy Scu,ly of Woonsocket anu rom
Finnerty of River Point gave three
round exhibition set-to, which kept both
hustling from start To finish, and when IL
was over both were winded. Scully an
nounced that he was willing to meet any
1i0pound man for any kind of purse
Tne wind-up was a six round 90 between
Martin Manion of River Point and 'Cliif"
Gordon Of this city. Doc" Reynolds was
10 have gone against Manlon, but he
''flunked out" aud Gordon volunteered TO
take his place. OF course Manlon was the
cleverer of the two but in Gordon he met
a still man, who could punch hard ana
keep cool. They mixed IL up lively Tor the
six rounds and both received applause for
their clever work.
This evening will be "fencers' night" at
the Metropole Club, when Prof. Nestor
Iemaire. fencing instructor TO that club,
and the Hope Fencers' Club Will give an
exhibition such as has rarely been Wit
messed in this city. All the local expon-
ents OF the gentlemanly art VIII be there
besides many out-of-town fencers ana
altogether they will give an evenings en-
tertainment which viii be well worth see
gentlemen. The program is as follows;
Grand double salute between veteran Ma
poleon Servatius and Nestor Lemaire,
Maitre-d' 'Armes of the Metropole Athletic
Association; grand military foil drlil by
M. Lemaire and pupils: foil contest be-
tween "A. q. Packard, amateur champion
OF East Providence, and Charles Levesque;
foil contest between W. Stafford, amateur
champion of Rhode Island, and A lex.
Read; graceful grand salute and scien-
tiic fencing contest between two female
experts; j. Castaldi of New York ana
Nestor Lemaire of the HOPE Fencers Club
will give an exhibition in foil, followed
by "a contest with Sicilian knife and dag
ger, stock and dagger, foil against dagger,
ending by single dagger; blindfolded Toll
contest between two experts; broadsword
military drill and salute by NJ. Lemalre
and pupils; broadsword contest between
Alex. Read and Charles Levesque; Arab
ian cutlass and dagger, between NJ. Lee
maire and w. SAT- ord: broadsword contest
between NM. Castaldi, royal cane drill by
Nj. Lemaire and pupils, royal cane com
bat by eight pupils against the two IN
structors. quarter staff drill and contest
by MN. Lemaire, Castaldi and pupils.
Tonight comes the fight between
Jimmy Murray OF this city and Billy
Frazier of Somerville at the New Bed
ford Athletic club The winner will re-
ceive $500 and the loser 500. / predict
that Murray will get the long end of it.
but there is no telling how the wind will
blow when two men get in o ring. Muir
ray will go to New Bedford. fit to fight
for his life and if Frazier is in equally
good condition they will make n stubborn
battl lie. 1t will be their first appearance
in the ring in several years and each will
do his best to settle the question
of supremacy which was left in
doubt when their battle several years ago
ended in draw. Both nave had lots of
experience since then, but during the
same time old Father Time has been get
ting in his work, so that il Will be hard to
say until we see them work, whether or
not they are any better, all things con-
sidered than when they met before. n
good sized delegation will go down to New
Bedford on the 3 O'Clock train this after
noon 10 cheer the Providence boy Oh to
victory and bet their money -ett him.
Patsy Broderick OF this city who is to
meet young Downing in ten round go in
| the same ring is in splendid shape and
| ought to give a good account of himself.
Everything looks bright for the Eastern
| League, and the indications are that
| Providence will be right in the swim. The
| dispatches which come from the baseball
| convention in New York city speak favor
| ably of the situation, and it is just about
| a settled thing that Providence will be In
! the Eastern League. All that is necessary
| is for few more lovers of the game To
citne to the front and help the cause
along.
| received letter from Walter Burn
ham this morning in which be states that
a meeting of the Eastern League is called
at Rochester for Wednesday the sth. lie
also states that he will arrive in Provi-
| dence tomorrow noon and remain until
Saturday evening and continue the work
OF soliciting stock subscriptions.