The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-01
in SPORTING CIRCLES.
The Great Water Polo Game for the
Championship Tomorrow Night.
BASEBALL MEETING TONIGHT.
Barney Hubbard and Ryan to Spar Mt
Pswtucket-Bob Fitzsimmons Wants
to Box ut the Metropoie Club-O'Con-
nor Issues q Challence.

In the tank Of the Metropole Club. to-
morrow night. the greatest battle In the
water that has ever taken place in this
country will be fought. 1t will be a battle
royal in every sense OF the word, and
before the winner is decided several gal
Ions Of water will have been swallowed by
the players on both sides. 1t will be a
game for blood" for the championship
of America, and neither side will give up
the fight so long As there is breath and
and strength in their bodies to swim aud
throughout with no clinging onto the
sides, and whatever wrestling Is done will
have to be done by the swimmers in water
eight feet deep. 1t will be the last game
Of the season here and will in all proba-
bility eclipse anything in this line that
has ever been seen in this city.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
baseball club will be held at the Nara
gansett Hotel this evening when the sit
uation will be discussed and an organize
tion perfected. There is still a little stock
TO be disposed of which will probably be
taken up by the present stockholders If
nobody else wants it.
III duQltlOu W LILO SlA-TOuuu kO Dt-
tween Maffett Flaherty aud Giblin at
Pawtucket on the 9th, Prof. Walker has
secured Barney Hubbard Inc j. Ryan,
both Of Boston, who will appear in a
special bout. 1t is safe to assert that this
will be no tapping match as Barney Hub
kind Of n game. He goes in for keeps"
Eddie Burke and Jerry Sullivan are
both training hard for their ten-round go
at the Metropole Club on Monday night
when Jim Corbett will make his initial
bow to a Providence audience and in his
four-round o with Jimmy Daley will
give Rhode Islanders a chance to get a line
on the man who is to fight the great John
l.. for the worlds championship II $45,-
There is a possibility that Bob Fitzsim-
mons, the conqueror of Dempsey and
Maher and the middleweight champion
of the world, with his much advertised
trainer aud financial handler, James
Fleming Carroll. may be seen in this city
ere long. Carroll telegraphed to Man a
ger Smith of the Metropole Club yester-
day for a date, and the latter is consider
ing the advisability of giving him a
chance to appear in Providence and the
people a chance to get a line on the IA
nous middleweight.
Apropos OF fitz, MS manager, Jimmy
Carroll. has posted a forfeit of 81, 900 for a
fight with Jim Hall at 15S pounds for
sf9,009 n side. Hail wilt make a match il
Fitz will agree to weigh 162 pounds, but
cannot get off the other four pounds and
be in any kind of shape.
William O'Connor of Toronto, Canada,
the single scull champion oarsman of
America, has challenged the winner of the
Sullivan and Stansbury race, either in
England or America, for 5000. O'Connor
agrees to row either Sullivan, LcLean, or
Stansbury three miles, with a turn or
straight away, OF any suitable course in
America hat may be agreed upon, or over
the Times championship course in Eng
land.
There is n letter at the NEWS efice for
Billy Reardon, the amateur bantam
weight.
The Boston Athletic Association will
soon lose one of its most valuable athletes.
Joe Fnneran, the great runner and hurd-
Ter, intends r%esigning from the amateur
ranks. His object for SO doing is to be-
come an Instructor of physical culture.
Finneran has been a prominent figure in
amateur athletics in Boston for a number
of years. +. w. A