The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-27
IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
President Whites Plan for Forming
an Eastern League.
The METROpOLE TONIGHT.

Arion's Brother Brings se5, ,OO0-suIiivan
VIII Defend the Title Against All
Comers-The Herreshof-s New Yacht
An Oner for Kerrigan and Kimmic.
President White of the Eastern league
is back in New York and is chock full of
some novel ideas concerning it. He i'm
sisty that there will DO an Eastern league,
although just what cities will comprise it
has not yet been definitely settled The
secretary will sign 90 players and they
will be divided into eight teams. Each
team will be designated by number and
representatives of the different cities will
draw lots. Each city will get the team which
bears the number Its representative draws.
This is to prevent jealousies and prevent
overstepping the salary limit. AS the sec
retary of the league will sign all the play
ers no city can possibly secure team
which shall call for salary of more than
5000 month or $4,000 for the season.
No club will be allowed TO release player
TO a major league unless the consent OF
all the clubs shall have been gained; and
no club shall be allowed TO sign a new
player except through the secretary. The
season will be made up of two champion
ship contests, the same as in the National
League.
The Herreshoffs are building 216 rater
on the model of the Dilemma, for III. Matt
land Kersey of New York, agent for the
White Star line II will be % feet on the
water line, and about 3s feet over ALL
The beam is feet, another draught 81
feet. There are no material differences
in the lines of this boat and the 21f rater
for the Scotch yachtman, now nearing
completion. She will be a racing boat
and will doubtless sail against the new
Gardner 25-footer. She will have a keel of
fobin bronze.
The regular Wednesday evening exhibit
tion at the Metropole Club tonight will
include several bouts with the gloves be-
tween members of the club, and one or
two wrestling matches.
Costigan and Reardon 90 to Boston to-
morrow night TO take part in the prelmi-
nary bouts of the Boston Athletic Clubs
boxing tournament. If they are success
ful in the trials they Will 20 down to the
Hub again Saturday night with Scott to
try their luck in the finals.
Anthony Greene of Sacramento, Cal, is
q
main of cocks witlSs.s. B. Suit of Balti-
more. In other words he wants the big
main when California and Maryland were
pitted against each other, fought over
again. On that occasion the Marylanders
managed to crawl out of il and have the
stake-money returned on technicalities,
and Greene wants to try it over again.
He has posted 800 with his challenge with
Richard II. Fox.
1t is fact not generally known that
halls the cocks representing California in
the last main were from Rhode Island
and are of the celebrated breed which
made the Connecticut sports go broke on
more than one occasion last winter.
In an interview with a reporter of the
Tacoma (Wash.) Globe, John L. Sullivan
declared that he would fight any man in
the world who aspired to championship
honors, provided the aspirant backed up
his challenge with money, TO show that
he means business. This means that the
big fellow will meet Maher, who already
has the biggist forfeit UPS, ,000--that was
ever placed with a challenge In his chal-
lenge on behalf of Maher, Billy Madden
says he will allow Sullivan TO name the
time and place, which means that
he is perfectly willing To wait until
until Sullivan completeshi his present theat-
rical engagement in June, and that the
star attraction will go TO the club offering
the largest purse. The Metropolitan club
of New Orleans has bid $4,000 and the
Olympic Club will doubtless raise that
ante, and it would not be strange if before
the clubs of the country are through bid
ding the purse should reach $50 600,
which, with the $4,000 stake a side. would
make battle for the championship and
$4,000 an unparalleled amount.
The great sale of trotters from the Palo
Alto farm of Senator Leland Stanford of
California began yesterday in the Ameri-
can Institute building, New York city,
with fully $500 people in attendance.
Price were not as high as last year. but
the sale was satisfactory, Baby Mckee,
the 2-year-old brother TO the great Arion,
2:10A, going TO Mr.. +. Il. Olcott of New
posed of for total of S5S,925, an average
Of 81 ,202 80 each.
Patsy Kerrigan, the Boston lightweight.
who has been doing most of his work in
the welter-weight class in the last
three years, has received an offer from the
Pacific club, San Francisco, 10 fight Char
ley Kimmic. He says he will accept If the
weight can be fixed at l40 pounds. Kim
mic is the man who defeated Jimmy
Scully of Woonsocket at the Twin City
club last April and in Kerrigan will find
the hardest man he has ever yet run up
against. Kerrigan and Tommy Needham
fought the longest battle, Queensbury
rules, on record at the California club, in
1889, which resulted in draw.
w. c. France & Son of Lexington KY,
has sold TO Edward Decerna, New YORK
city, the bay mare Nellie Wilkes, 2:isl$,
by Red Wilkes, dam Young Nellie by
Justan Morgan, for 5000 She is years
old
w. A. Hoagland of Auburn, y. Y, has
written accepting the challenge of Cham
pion Munroe OF England at heel and toe
pedestrianism. Munroe's offer is for
either 5O-mile, 24-hour or 4S-hour match
for $500 side.
Fred Pfeffer has not signed with Louis
vile after all, and the chances are that he
will be in the New York team next sea
son. The magnates think Pfeffer is worth
about $4,000 TO New York. But good