The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-31

iastic they are over the game, how much
better IL is for all concerned to have
n ball club in the city and how much
money could be made out of the invest
ment. but when you ask these same en-
thusia.ts TO put their names down on the
LIST and help the cause along, they are not
in It.; but will tell of some friend OF theirs
who is anxious 10 become a siockholder in
the company. and so it goes. They all
want TO sec a club in Providence but want
TO see somebody else put up the money for
il. There is yet over $1,000 to be sub
scribed, and unless this amount is raised
in quick order there will be no club Ia
Providence after all this work and trouble.
The Narragansett Athletic Club of
South Providence has secured its charter
and will Immediately go into athletics aud
sports OF all kinds. The initial entertain
ment will be given at the club house on
April Is, when there will be a ten-round
ego" between clever men and four-round
bouts between local boxers Of reputation.
1t now transpires that George Godfrey
and Joe Lannon are not matched to fight
at the Coney Island Athletic Club for a
$1,000 purse after all. Lannon has signed
articles but Godfrey has not. and as IL
takes two to make a match OF this kind. IL
can be safely asserted that they are not
HlhICutu. II saw ~ ltlttI ICSltIudN ITOIn
Capt. Cook of the Police Ne,os to the sec
rotary of the Gladstone, in which he fur
nished the above information and asked
If the Gladstone Club was willing to give
as much for them as the Coney Island
Club, as Godfrey preferred TO come to
Providence rather than go TO New York.
1t is pretty safe TO say that the Glad
stone will not give them $4,000. Godfrey
might be worth it up against a good man
like Choyinski, but where does Lannon
come in for n purse Of that siZe1 The last
time h. fought IL was with Jack Ashton
for a 81, 900. at which time he was defeated
and now he comes to the front again
puts up his hands at the Gladstone clu b
it will be against a better man than Ian
non.
There was Joy among the men who bet
their good money on the Gutenberg
horses yesterday. They were on the right
end OF IL to the tune of about $500 n
the pool room keepers were consequently
sad. There Is great rivalry between the
two pool rooms and the men who play the
horses are reapinQ the benefit. Coupe
tition makes the odds better and those
who follow the game are making hay
while the sun shines. The new place
Archie Stacher of Theatre Comique fame,
doesn't appear to have any more backing
than the law allows, or IL
it has, the requisite amount OF nerve
is lacking, for when Fred Horton
touched them up on the first race yester-
day to the June of $3.50, and then laid
down 500 on Maxim Filly for the next
race. They refused to take the bit and
would not let him 20 higher than $50.
They are perfectly willing to let a man
lose often on small lots, but when he has
something soft" and wants 10 get his
money back they put the screws down on
him and WON'T let him GO over a certain
figure. If they expect to make n success
OF their venture in this city they will find
out that the players have got 90 have a
chance at IL once in a while. IL they try
10 play the hog tho will get themselves
disliked. Il. w, \.