The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-26
IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
Plenty Of Good Sparring at Dixon's
Benefit Last Night.
THE METROPOLIS AT HOME.
Mccarthy and Callahan Meet Tonight at
the Olympic Club for "a 80 go Purse
New Members for the Providence Ath-
letic Association.

tetlC AssOtidtlOns
George Dixon will reap rich harvest
from his benefit at Music Hall, Boston,
last night. 1t was one of the prettiest ex-
hibitions of the manly art that has ever
been seen in New England and there were
over 3O06 men there TO see the boxers per-
form. 1t was the first public professional
boxing exhibition that Boston has seen
in several years and there was nothing
about it which could possibly make the
aldermen of that city object To giving an
| other license for a similar event. l have
| seen "A good many boxing exhibitions, but
never one where there was so much good
| feeling manifested among the boxers. As
general thing professional boxers, when
| they get together, are always looking for
| the best end of it, There is something in
| the cheers of the audience that lends in
| spiration to their work and If they can
| put the other fellow TO sleep" il is so
much TO their credit, so they think.
| Not so last night. Everyone of the
| contests was an exhibition of the manly
art, pure and simple, with plenty of clever
ness and good stiff hitting without drop
of blood or single knock out That is a
remarkable record for an exhibition com
| prising sixteen set-tos.
Eugene Buckley was master OF ceremon-
| les and by way of starting the ball a roll
| ing, introduced Jim Corbett, the big Cali
| fornian, who told the vast throng that he
| intended sailing for Engl nd on MAY - To
witness the Slavin-Jackson fight; that he
should carrSsa barrel Of money with him
| and challenge the winner. He got hearty
| round of applause and then retired, and
| then the first pair of the evening was in
troduced. They were Dan Mckee, who
played baseball with the Clyde team last
summer and Jimm Hamm. Mckee is
better ball tosser than he Is a
boxer and during the the three
rounds that they exchanged courteses
HHmm made monkey OF Mckee. Then
| Butler of Boston, followed by Ed Binney
the colored middleweight and jim Tyfron
| who made n close set-to. Johnny Muir.
| ply and Denny Sullivan mixed il up thick
and Doc O'Connell and Jimmy Hurst
made the prettiest set-to of the evening.
| Billy Frazier who is to fight Jimmy Muir
ray in New Bedford March 3. kept Eddie
| Conley busy notwithstanding the fact
| that there was about twenty pounds diff
ference in weight. Barney Hubbard had
Dan McGiveren nearly out in the third
round and Jack Dennis and Charley
Lynch got at it but for three
rounds. Jimmey Comfy had Charley Davis
| going in the last round and Eli Hamilton
was at the mercy of Sun Ash during the
entire three rounds. Mat Flaherty came
within an ace Of putting Jack Giblin to
sleep, and Jim Godfrey had lots of fun
with Billy Butler. Jack McGee demon
strated TO the audience and Mike Dono-
van champion middleweight of Maine,
that the latter knew very little about the
game, and il was only through kindness
of heart that saved Mike from being sent
into Sunderland.
Then came the wind-up, between George
Dixon and Frank Mcguire. In the first
tour rounds Dixon tried to do very little,
but in the fifth he cut loose. Down went
Mcguire and the round ended When he
came up for the next round Mcguire was
still groggy and Dixon played with him,
hitting him when and where he pleased.
Joe Iannon, who was holding the watch,
cut the round short to save Mcguire, and
the big exhibition was thing OF the past.
The Metropole swimmers are back from
New York, slightly disfigured but still in
the game and full OF resolutions for the
future. Those resolutions are To wall off
the York Athletics when they come here
on Feb. 13, and do likewise with the Man
hattans a week later. OF the game with
the New York Athletics they have no eX-
cuse to make for their defeat, except that
the home team were all giants, but they
declare the tie with the Manhattans was
robbery. They made two goals but were
allowed only one, which tied the score.
here all the more interesting, and just
wait and see what will become of the Man
hattans.
The Providence sporting men who went
to New York TO witness the cooking
maine between Rhode Island and Boston
birds on Saturday night are congratulate
ing themselves on their good luck. The
Rhode Island birds had been kept over
from the big California Maryland main n
fortnight ago, and were not in condition.
The Providence contigent discovered this
fact just in time and refrained from bet
ting on some losers, hence their joy.
The membership of the Providence
Athletic Association is increasing Mt a
race-horsc gait Last evening the govern
ing committee voted in ffty-two new
members and transacted considerable
routine business. The plans for the new
building are completed
The fourth annual banquet OF the Rhode
Island Wheelmen will be held at Tilling-
hast's on Monday evening, Feb. TO-
Before this time tomorrow we will
know whether Cal Mccarthy is "a better
man than Tommy Callahan, or vice versa.
They meet tonight at the Olympic Club
in New Orleans for "a $500 purse. With
the betting portion of the fraternity odds
are on Mccarthy. and il is generally ex-
pected that he will win. Callahan Is cx-
pected 20 give him good argument, but
ne has never done anything To warrant
his beiug expected to win. OF the twenty
two fights which Callahan has won, he
has always been victor in less than seven
rounds This means that for few rounds
nc will keep Cal busy, but after that there