The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-05
AMATEUR BOXING TOURNEY.
Walter Burnham Getting His $4,000
Stock Company Together.

Walter Burnham is in the city again
hustling among the baseball men and
doing what he can TO raise the IS 900 which
is necessary to put the club on solid
footing at the start. He is meeting with
good success and confidently expects that
by next Wednesday when the meeting of
the Eastern League is held in Rochester.
y. ", he can report that Providence
is all right and that the amount necessary
has been subscribed. Ii was the original
intention OF the Eastern League ma9nates
10 send committee here 10 look over the
field but il has now been pretty definitely
settled that Providence will be i'm the
Eastern League anyway and instead Of
sending the committee here the League
will accept Burnham's report as official
The lovers of baseball in the city are
coming TO the front in good style, and
Burnham thinks there will be no great
trouble in getting the necessary subscrip-
tions, although in some cases it is little
slow going.
The outlook for the Eastern League this
year is as bright as the noon-day sun. The
basis on which the league will be run will
ensure each club against heavy loss and
with the circuit at present mapped out
there is no reason why all the clubs should
not make money. The salary lists will be
be kept down TO rock-bottom figures and
at the same time there are plenty of good
players TO be had who are out Of Job
because of the union Of the two big
leagues OF last year.
There is no doubt but that Providence
will be in the swim, and that the Grays
will be fighting for supremacy on the
grounds that were built last year on Ade-
laide avenue.
The first annual amateur boxing tourna-
ment OF the Metropole Athletic Associa-
tiOn will be held in the clubs gymnasium
on the evening of March % There will
be seven classes and three special" bouts.
The classes are as follows: Bantam, los
pounds; featherweight, ll5: special. 125:
light, 1875; welter, AS; middle, 1853; heavy,
any weight. Two pounds will be allowed in
each class. There are many good amateur
boxers in this city and State who will
probably enter, besides those from visiting
clubs. The special" bouts will be be-
tween Boston boxers and Scott, Costigan
and Reardon. The entries close on the
18th, and the preliminary bouts will be held
on Saturday evening the 10Th. The finals
will be held on the following Tuesday
evening the odd. Amateurs desiring to
enter should send their names TO John III.
Smith. athletidmanager of the Metropole
Club on or before the 18th. An entrance
fee of 81 will be charged in each case as q
guarantee of good faith, which sum will
be returned in case the boxer puts in ap-
pearance. Handsome trophies will be given
TO the winner in each class and any boxer
who has never won prize of any kind
can enter.
The schedule of baseball games arranged
by Manager Il. w. Matteson Of the Brown
team is as follows: April 8, Boston League
at Boston; IL and l2, Boston League at
Providence on Lincoln Field; %, Harvard
at Worcester; %, Wesleyan at Providence;
80, New York University at Providence.
May 2, Yale at New Haven; Boston
University at Providence; Z, Philips And
over Academy at Andover; 10. Yale at
Providence; IS, Harvard at Cambridge.
81, Wesleyan at Middletown "a, Holy
Cross at Providence 2s, University Of
Michigan at Providence 80, Holy Cross at
Worcester.
June /, Tufts at Providence; 4, Lehigh
'dence; o Fordham at Providence Is,
Vermont University at Providence.
From May 9th to l4th the team will take
its usual trip. A third game with Har-
ward will be played at Providence, but as
yet the date has not been settled upon.
Seventy-five men witnessed dog fight
between Providence and Boston dogs in
North Smithfield yesterday. The Provi-
dence dog was killed. The police stopped
il.
IL is given out at the Merchants Club,
New Orleans, that Joe Choynski and Jim
Cornett- will fight for - rnlo side and
side purse of $4,000 within 60 days.
Col. John A. Cockerill of the New York
Advertiser has received letter from
Duncon B. Harrison offering fight be-
tween John l.. Sullivan and Charlie
Mitchell, or Frank T.. Slavin, for purse
Of $25, 600 and an outside bet of $4,000 the
last week in August or the first week in
September. +. w. A.