The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-08
In SPORTING CIRCLES.
Fitzsimmons Will Box DoIan at the
MetropoIe Tonight.
SULLIVAN AND HURST TO MEET.
Boston Defeats Yale by q Score of 3 to e
Austin Gibbons to Fight Abbott In
England-Prospects of q Great Year in
College Baseball Circles.
JLLTvAN AND HURST TO MEET.

There will be sport galore at the Metro
pole Club tonight. 1t will be lanky Bob
Fitzsimmons' first appearances on these
plantations, and all the sports will be
there to see him perform. In an exhibit
ton set-to Bob is nothing alarming. but
his go tonight will be ''for keeps" His
opponent on this occasion will be Jim
Dolan, the local heavyweight, who will
attempt to stand the Australian off for
three rounds. Jim is q good hard hitter,
but not much for science. and, above all
things, he is a boxer who will 20 against
anybody at any time. In this respect he
is a great relief over the usual run of local
fighters, who won put the gloves on un-
less they are sure that the other fellow
is a mark. Dolan don't draw the line on
anybody n the better the man the more
day night Dolan wanted to put the gloves
on with Corbett the worst way and was
sorely disappointed when the Californian
declined to box with anyone except his
partner, DAILY. Not that anybody would
imagine that Dolan would De in it with
Corbett when it came to boxing three or
four rounds, but it goes to show his
willingness when he offers to box men
like Corbett and Fitzsimmons. .Dolan is
a great favorite in Providence and his
friends will be there in good numbers to-
night to see how he behaves with the
champion middleweight of the world.
In addition to the Fitzsimmons-Dolan
Ego" there is another number on the pro-
gram which Is worth walking a mile or
two to witness. 1t is q six-round run-in
between John A. Sullivan the Californian
welter-weight and Jimmy Hurst of Bos-
ton. Here are two good men who make
it a rule never to play the stylish" in
the ring and i venture the prediction that
IL will be the prettiest n hottest six
rounds of boxing that we will have the
pleasure of witnessing In many weeks.
There will also be short bouts between
with wrestling.
Baseball has lost none of its popularity
In Boston, IL the game at the Huh yester-
day between the champions and the Yale
team is any criterion to go by. Six thou
put up a magnificent game and at the
finish lacked one run to make the score a
tie. Each scored two runs in the first in
mining and Boston got another in the
sixth. That was all the scoring that was
done during the game. Clarkson aud
teries for Boston. Bowers and jackson
for Yale.
The regular quarterly meeting Of the
N~arragansett Boat club will be held in
room Ii, N~arragansett Hotel next Tues
day evening. when business of import
ance will be transacted.
Austin Gibbons, the Paterson, N. j.,
lightweight has at last got a match. He
will meet Stanton Abbott of London for
1900 and a purse Of e., 600 at the National
Club, London. in October. Gibbons has
been trying hard to get another match
with Jack McAulife or Billy Meyer, but
has been unsuccessful. IL seems queer
that out Of so many lightweight fighters
in this country Gibbons should have to
cross the ocean to get u chance to fight.
will start for England accom- |
panied by his brother James, I'm August. |
Jim Gibbons will back him and take care !
of him.
How fighters boom in n very short space
OF time. i well remember, n everybody
else who was there, when this same Glib
bons fought Gushing In the skating rink
Mt Oakland Beach n year ago last Novem-
amounts TO nothing. Since then he has
been licked by Jack McAuliffe and has
defeated Andy Bowen, n now goes to
to tight for a purse aud stakes
aggregating 1900.
It has been many years since the colleges
have had such strong mines as they have
his season. Harvard, Yale and Prince
ton are exceptionally strong. The battle
Tor the championship will be a hard one.
To pick the winner would be hard. Har-
with n fine ontfeld, good batters
md such pitchers at Highland, Bates and
Ing a league team all IL can do TO defeat.