The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-29
IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
Big Events of this Week at New
Orleans and New Bedford.
fITZSIM M 0NS AND MAHER.
The Largest Purses Yet offered Tor One
Athletic Meeting Up $4,000 to be
Given-sport at the Metropole Club
General Athletic Notes.

There are three events on the sporting
slate which will interest us this week.
Two of those events will interest the
whole country and the third will be
OF interest TO New Englanders only. First
of all comes the glove contest at New
! Orleans tonight between Tommy Ryan of
Chicago and Danny Needham of st. Paul,
for the welter-weight championship of
country. This will be for purse of
/ 50 900 and a side stake of 5000 a side.
The battle will be fought at the Metro
! politan club. OF the two men kyan has
] an unbroken record, while Needham
/ has two defeats against his name. One of
! these was administered by Billy Meyer
and the other by Ryan in battle which
! lasted twelve rounds, when Needham was
| out of condition and dropped from sheer
| exhaustion. lie has never been satisfied
! that he was defeated fairly and will be
| gfA9n n chance tonight to prove it.
! Next in order, but in Importance, the
! one great contest OF the season, barring
perhaps the Slavin-Jackson fight. comes
! the battle between Bob Eitzsimmons and
! Peter Maher. the Irish heavyweight. In
many respects. "Wednesday night in New
| Orleans will be the greatest night in
| pugilistic history the country has ever
| known, and the Olympic Club will go on
| record rs being the first club TO give away
| the biggest purses for one nights sport.
| Besides the Bob Fitzsimmons-Maher tight
for purse of $4,000 there will also be
| two siX-round battles for 81, 900 each be-
| tween Joe Choyinski. the Californian
| heavyweight and Charley Mitchell, the
Englishman, and Paddy Slavn and Alex
| Greggains, the San Francisco middle
weight This will make an aggregate of
$50, 600 in purses which the club will give
away on that night.
On Thursday night comes the event
which will directly interest us here in
Rhode Island inasmuch as n Providence
boy is one of the principals. The event IN
question is the contest at the New Bed
ford Athletic Club between Jimmy Muir
ray of this city and Billy Frazier of Som
erville, Both will be inside the ight-
weight limit, 133 pounds, and great bat
tie is expected. 1 have so far failed TO
find anybody hereabouts who does not be-
lieve that Jimmy will win. One thing is
certain, that il Murray loses, which /
do not think he will. he cannot lay his
defeat to a lack of training, for there
never was "A harder worker than Murray
has been during his training for this fight.
There will be plenty of money there on
Thursday night To back Jimmy's end of IL
and he will not lack friends at the
ring-side either if those who have already
signiiied their intention of witnessing the
battle keep their word.
The ten-round fight on the same night
and in the same ring between young Bro
derrick of this city and Downey of New
Bedford also promises TO be "corker."
There will be some great boxing and
lively sport in the gymnasium of the
Metropole Club next Wednesday evening,
when the monthly athletic meeting of the
club is held. An especially attractive
program has been arranged for this event
and the members and their friends will be
amply repaid for attending The main
feature of the evenings entertainment
will be a ten-rouud contest between Mar
tin Marion and Doc" Reynolds, three
rounds between Jimmy Scully and Tom
Finnerty, four rounds between Billy Rear
don and young Gleason, four rounds be-
tween Gordon and Barnett, and four
rounds between Johnny Moran and Tom
Boyle. This makes program that is
hard TO beat and Will be an entertainment
well worth taking In.
There is talk at the Metropole club of
challenging Co. ID, First Light Infantry
for tug-of-war contest, best two and
three falls. If the Infantry boys accept
an effort will be made to have the event
come off Wednesday evening, March
when wrestling bouts and other athletic
contests will be arranged.
The Rhode Island Yacht Club will hold
its annual election at the Narragansett
Hotel tonight, when the list of officers
headed by Commander Austin which was
received last week will be voted upon.
Robby Burns, the featherweight of this
city, and Marcellus Baker, the old-time
boxer of Boston, have been matched to
spar ten rounds for the Metropole Club
r.NfN
the same evening there will be three or
four special four-round bouts between lo-
cal boxers for handsome trophies
Capt. c. O. Swans tug-of war team has
challenged the team of the carriers of the
post office of this city. The prize will lie
"A handsome one, also there Will be an oys-
ter supper
There is some chance of New England
League being formed again. Tom lowell
will attend the meeting of magnates in
New York today with a view TO protect
ing the minor leagues in the national
agreement.
The final races for the worlds skating
championship took place yesterday
at ChriStiana between Smart and
Hagen. The latter won both the half-milc
and the two-mile contest Both skaters
made better time IN The two-mile than IN
the half-mile race. Hagens time for the
two miles was 5m. i3 i-5s, and Smart's
5m. 80 3-5s
John L. Sullivan has evidently made
money i'm the theatrical business in this
country lie has just bought u new house
i'm Boston. +. w. A.
A Book ON the Tarifs.
The American Protective Tariff League
have Just issued "a new campaign text
book for lst1 IL Is entitled American